Monthly Archives January 2009

NHS SELLING ORGANS TO RICH FOREIGNERS

Whenever you need an example of how bad socialized medicine can be, the clowns who run Britain’s health care system are always ready to oblige. This time, NHS apparatchiks have decided to auction off desperately needed organs while British transplant patients die on the waiting list: Organs from British NHS donors are being given to [...]

IF YOU THINK HEALTH CARE IS EXPENSIVE NOW, WAIT TILL IT’S FREE

Many advocates of “universal” health care tell us that the best way to fix American health care is to expand Medicare to cover everyone. They ignore the fact that the program is already fiscally unsustainable, even if its scope remains static. George Will explains why: When Medicare was created in 1965, America’s median age was 28.4; now [...]