Amy Ridenour has posted an absolutely hilarious video that brilliantly captures the essential stupidity of financing SCHIP with a cigarette tax. Do not watch this while drinking coffee, beer or any other liquid you don’t want to spit on your monitor.
Europeans often moralize about the American reluctance to join the “civilized world” by implementing “universal” health care. A typical example of this condescending attitude can be found in the comment stream of this post at OVER!MY!MED!BODY!, where a Danish student offers the following:
Today there’s not a single country in Europe that doesn’t have publicly sponsored […]
One of the many disreputable tactics used by the advocates of SCHIP expansion has been to accuse their opponents of waging “a war on children.” But Mark Steyn points out that genuine concern for ”the children” would manifest itself as follows:
Try not to make the same mistake as most of the rest of the Western world and avoid bequeathing the next generation a system of […]
Can anyone imagine an American with a burst appendix going through this kind of ordeal?
Thursday Oct. 11, 11 p.m. — Dany Bureau starts to feel pains in his stomach. He goes to sleep thinking he just has a stomach ache.
Friday Oct. 12, 3 p.m. – Mr. Bureau and his mother go to the Wakefield hospital. […]
Despite the popularity of conspiracy theories involving “big pharma” and “the health care industrial complex,” the causes of health care inflation are actually pretty mundane. The Committee for Economic Development, a DC think tank, has produced a report that does a good job of boiling them down:
First, there is cost-unconscious demand … we have created […]
The House of Representatives has failed to override Bush’s veto of the fraudulent SCHIP bill. AP reports that the pro-override forces fell more than a dozen votes short:
The 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds that majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law over Bush’s objections.
Now, maybe Nancy Pelosi and her […]
The National Post reports that Canada’s vaunted single-payer health care system is producing longer wait times than ever before:
Canadians waited longer than they have in more a decade for non-emergency surgery this year, despite a multi-billion-dollar effort by governments to speed up medical care …
And just how bad is it?
The average wait between being referred […]
Not satisfied with promulgating pseudo-scientific BS about global climate change, Al Gore is now bloviating about health care. Kevin,MD expresses considerable disappointment with the former veep’s position, at the center of which is the idiotic notion that health care is a “right”:
I strongly support universal, single payer, government-provided or government-funded health care … I think […]
Despite attempts by the establishment media to convince us that the public is solidly behind Congress in the SCHIP debate, a new Gallup poll shows this to be nonsense. USA Today puts it as follows:
52% agree with Bush that most benefits should go to children in families earning less than 200% of the federal poverty […]
As the father of two daughters, I have been watching the antics on Capitol Hill with increasing disgust. The only people more contemptible than the politicians who exploit kids like Graeme Frost and Bethany Wilkerson are the parents who allow it.
WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!??
I would no more allow my kids to be used this […]
