I think I’ll go into the pliers business and open up a franchise in Perfidious Albion. Soon everyone on that benighted isle will need a pair. The Daily Mail reports that half the country can’t find a dentist:
Half the population has received no dental care on the NHS in the last two years.
So, where do they go for dental care?
Thousands of […]
Well, sort of. She’s employed at University of Chicago Hospitals. But, as Mark Steyn points out, she’s not involved in patient care:
She’s a lawyer who was taken on by the hospitals in 2002 to run ‘programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority contracting.’
Oh dear. Anyone who has ever worked for a […]
“Cognitive dissonance” is defined as the “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.” If this concept has any validity at all, Shadowfax’s psychological landscape must have looked like a war zone after writing this post about the latest “never event” idiocy from CMS. The gist of the post is captured in the following passage:
CMS would have you believe that this is […]
A couple of weeks ago I noted that congressional Democrats were working on a plan to effectively kill health savings accounts. The WSJ reports that the plot continues apace:
This week, the House passed legislation that included a provision to require every HSA transaction be reviewed and verified as a legitimate medical expense … it adds a layer […]
I didn’t watch the recent Democrat debate. After a long day, I just couldn’t deal with Obama’s bromides and Clinton’s whoppers. There has, however, been so much bitching and whining from the Left about the event that I now regret my lack of intestinal fortitude. It must have been a pretty good show.
The outrage is ostensibly about the […]
One of the sawbones over at M.D.O.D. succinctly captures the true value of Paul Krugman’s health care commentary:
Paul Krugman is a regular editorial columnist: a Princeton professor of economics with a Yale undergraduate degree and a PhD from M.I.T. He often comments on health care issues, so I read his column. Then I take the paper and […]
The credibility of single-payer advocates depends largely on their ability to present the Canadian health care system—-the closest real-world example of the medical delivery model they promote—-as superior to the U.S. system. In order to achieve that goal, however, they need some way of discrediting the stories that constantly appear in the media about the poor quality and long waiting lists to which the […]
I don’t have an inner child. I have an inner libertarian. The other day, he announced that he has the cure for ER overcrowding. The ensuing discussion went like this:
Catron: A Cure? For ER overcrowding?
IL: Yep.
Catron: OK, I’ll bite.
IL: Is it not true that GruntDoc, Scalpel, Nurse K, Whitecoat, Shadowfax, and other medbloggers are always lamenting the large number of drug seekers that clog […]
“Sick Around the World” doesn’t air until tomorrow night, but the PBS trailer begins with a tendentious stat that has has been thoroughly discredited here and elsewhere:
The U.S. health care system ranks thirty-seventh in the world.
That the Frontline trailer opens with this bogus ranking does not bode well for the show’s objectivity. And it gets worse:
Sigh … If you actually watch […]
At the beginning of the year, I was worried that the electorate might be tricked into putting Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the White House. Now, I’m less concerned.
In addition to igniting a civil war among Democrats from which it will be difficult for the party to recover by November, both candidates have revealed themselves to be thoroughly obnoxious […]
