Left-leaning policy wonks, Democrat politicians, and the establishment media have tried to create the impression that only government intervention can resolve the “crisis” of American health care. However, as David Hogberg points out, they have ignored some interesting and significant free market innovations:
As of late, there are some very hopeful developments, ones that move our […]
I just stumbled across this excellent post about “CastroCare.” It’s author does a great job of summarizing the questions that should be asked of anyone still clueless enough to think Cuban health care is “free”:
Would you trade your right to sue a doctor for free healthcare?
Would you take a 96% pay cut in order to […]
It looks like ABC is the only representative of the establishment media with the testículos to expose Michael Moore as a fraud and to tell the truth about Cuban health care.
In a 20/20 segment, John Stossel debunks the absurd claims made by the porcine provocateur about Castrocare. For example, on Moore’s claim that the CIA verifies his life […]
Back on August 2, Ron Paul made a floor speech in the House of Representatives about the Comprehensive Health Care Act. My first thought on reading the text was, “This contains some sensible elements. The good doctor must be back on his meds.”
Then it struck me how similar it was to the health care strategy […]
Having already exposed as inaccurate many of the claims being made for French health care, I was not surprised by this piece about a French researcher who offers a dire prognosis for the vaunted Gallic system.
It’s true we really have good access, but what if the system is not sustainable anymore? … It’s going to break. […]
The Toronto Star reports that two patients have had enough of the vaunted Canadian health care system:
Two Ontario patients who had brain tumours removed in the United States because they say they couldn’t get quick treatment here are suing the provincial government over what they claim are unjustly long wait times for medical care.
And, contrary […]
Much of the commentary on John Edwards’ recent pronouncements concerning mandatory doctor visits has been derisively flippant. And it is indeed difficult to take this guy’s brayings seriously.
However, Edwards’ comments tell us something very important about the politicians who advocate “universal” health care. They view “the health care crisis” as a golden opportunity to dramatically expand […]
Not satisfied with crushing consumer choice by forcing everyone to buy health insurance, John Edwards is now advocating mandatory visits to the doctor:
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says his universal health care proposal would require Americans to go to the doctor for preventive care . . .
The justification for such unprecedented government intrusion into your life […]
Canada, we are constantly being told by single-payer advocates, is a model social democracy with a medical delivery system that we should envy. Oddly, the people who make such claims never want to answer a question that Bill Steigerwald reiterates in a recent column:
If Canada’s national health care system is so dang wonderful, why are so many Canadians […]
One of the most disgraceful features of the congressional initiative to expand SCHIP involves the plan to pay for it by taxing the poor. The architects of this strategy have consistently denied that their proposed tobacco tax will have this effect, but a new study shows they shouldn’t be trusted. Its lead author puts it as follows:
Further tax hikes [on tobacco] […]
