Monthly Archives April 2008

THE CHURCH OF WARMISM & PUBLIC HEALTH

As I have pointed out before, a number of analysts have shown that net health effect of global warming is likely to be positive. However, like most religious sects, the Chuch of Warmism is impervious to objective data. Thus, we have hysterical nonsense such as this from USA Today:

From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes […]

MOST DOCTORS FAVOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE?

Another day, another phony survey. Most doctors favor socialized medicine according to a report from Reuters:
Of more than 2,000 doctors surveyed, 59 percent said they support legislation to establish a national health insurance program.
Seem counterintuitive? It should. The lead author of this “survey” is Aaron E. Carroll, a single-payer zealot on the Board of the activist group “Physicians […]

SCHIP: NJ PROVES BUSH WAS RIGHT

During last year’s debate over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, President Bush was routinely excoriated in the media for saying that many states had diverted SCHIP funds from poor kids to children and adults from families with incomes exceeding $80,000. He was right, of course, as AP reports:
People earning as much as $295,000 are enrolled in a state health care […]