Graham advises us that EMTALA “is a good law,” then gives us several reasons to regard it as an exceptionally bad piece of legislation:
The problem with EMTALA is that it provides too much potential for abuse … If you were to look online or eavesdrop in a doctor’s lounge, likely “abuse of medical resources by certain patients” […]
It would appear that a Kentucky dickhead congressman wants to outlaw anonymous posting:
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
Nope. He’s not kidding:
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
If our masters inside the Beltway […]
Government-run health care is a bad idea for many reasons, not the least of which is that government is just plain dumb. A useful case in point is Daylight Saving Time. Twice a year, at a signal from our masters in Washington, we all dutifully reset our clocks. Why? Because, in its wisdom, the government […]
Free market reform advocates object to single-payer health care for a variety of reasons, including our belief that such a system would involve government micromanagement of hospitals and doctors. As if to prove our point, Medicare is about to send out an army of auditors whose primary mission is to put the clinical and billing decisions of providers under the microscope:
‘What […]
Most single-payer advocates believe that our health care system would operate more efficiently if it were “managed” by our masters inside the Beltway. David Strom of the Minnesota Free Market Institute uses the following hypothetical scenario to show why they are wrong:
An economist examines consumers’ automobile purchases and comes to the conclusion that the market is completely out […]
I love the NHS. It is such a rich source of schadenfreude. Every day it provides fresh evidence that government-run health care stinks. Per Reuters:
A patient was told there was no reason why he couldn’t have surgery in a hospital, despite the smell caused by a dead rodent trapped in the building’s ceiling.
Yep. You read […]
Ron Paul has, at long last, decided to do the honorable thing: he’s going to stop stinking up the presidential race.
We are still in the early stages of bringing about the changes that this revolution is all about … Let us hope that we can one day look back and say that this campaign was […]
Forbes Magazine has published what may be the most one-sided health care article I’ve ever read. Its author, David Whelan, depicts your local community hospital as a kind of mini-Microsoft that uses underhanded tactics to squelch legitimate competition:
Over the past several years the hospital industry, through legally questionable bullying tactics and arduous lobbying, has all but stamped out expansion […]
Jonathan Cohn is more thoughtful than most journalists who write about health care (admittedly, not a high bar to get over), but his mistrust of the market usually leads him astray on the question of reform. Thus, when he pans John McCain’s proposals, it suggests that the Senator is on the right track:
The main thrust of [McCain’s] plan is to […]
Well, the usual suspects are all over John McCain because of his comments relating to vaccines and autism:
It’s indisputable that is on the rise among children,” Senator John McCain said while campaigning recently in Texas. “The question is, What’s causing it? And we go back and forth, and there’s strong evidence that indicates that it’s […]
