I have been fearful that John McCain’s occasional use of phrases like “safe importation of drugs” meant that he was eventually going to endorse the re-importing of pharmaceuticals from Canada. Alas, AP has confirmed my fears:
Republican presidential contender John McCain on Saturday said he wants to again allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada […]
The CBO has just released a report on health care spending which projects that excess cost growth (the percentage by which health care spending will exceed GDP growth) will consume unsustainable percentages of our national income during the coming decades.
However, The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending ignores important data to reach this conclusion. Excess […]
If you are one of those people who still don’t get that governments do a poor job of allocating health care resources, this article from the Evening Standard ought to knock the scales off your eyes:
Women are being given controversial “virginity repair” operations on the NHS, it emerged last night … Taxpayers funded 24 hymen […]
The Gallup organization has just released a poll that suggests Americans are not thrilled with the performance of Congress. Here’s Gallup’s description of the survey:
The latest Gallup Panel survey, conducted Oct. 25-28, 2007, asked Americans to say whether they are “pleased,” “neutral,” “disappointed,” or “angry” about the way the Democrats in Congress have been dealing […]
Anyone still naïve enough to believe that the SCHIP legislation being pushed by congressional Democrats is about children should read this in the NYT:
Eight senators told Democratic leaders this week that they could not support any bill if their states lost money for the coverage of parents.
Never mind that SCHIP is supposed to be a […]
One the weirdest delusions nursed by advocates of “universal coverage” is their belief that a state decree requiring everyone to buy insurance will solve the uninsured problem. Like so many ideologically-driven fantasies, this delusion has not been treated well by the world of objective fact.
Exhibit A in the case against mandated universal coverage is the […]
Many observers are confused by an apparent change of heart on the part of the insurance industry regarding Hillary Clinton. Why, they wonder, is “big insurance” contributing so heavily to a left-leaning politician for whom they once harbored such antipathy?
Kevin, MD links to a post by Dr. Rich, who theorizes that the insurance industry is […]
A new study has identified yet another problem with state and federal laws requiring people to carry health insurance. Not only do such mandates encroach on our basic liberties while failing to achieve their ostensible goal of providing for universal coverage, they increase unemployment:
Laws that require employers to provide health insurance to employees will cause […]
Advocates of government-run health care routinely accuse those who disagree with them of “defending the status quo.” Ramesh Ponnuru exposes the irony of that charge in Time:
Most Americans of working age get their health insurance through their employers. The Democrats running for President want to keep it that way. The Republicans don’t … They want […]
Even the LA Times is getting heartburn over Hillary Clinton’s’s refusal to release records and memoranda relating to her health care task force:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presents herself as the candidate best able to give the nation better healthcare at lower prices, thanks in part to the searing experience she gained in trying to overhaul […]
