Great Britain’s socialized medical system rations care by restricting patient access to providers and state-of-the-art treatment. The NHS uses a variety of tactics to accomplish this, including the refusal to pay for some highly effective cancer drugs.
Some NHS patients have responded to this egregious policy by offering to pay for the needed drugs out of their own pockets. Incredibly, the NHS won’t allow […]
Did you think you were safe from the whims of CMS apparatchiks simply because you’re not a geezer yet? Think again.
Because Medicare bureaucrats have, in their infinite wisdom, decreed a reimbursement rate that barely covers half the cost of certain cancer drugs, many private patients will probably be denied life-saving treatment:
New Medicare rules for this class of radioimmunotherapy cancer drugs may bar thousands of lymphoma patients from […]
We are often told by the advocates of government-run health care that a single-payer system would be innocuous because our masters inside the beltway would not actually own hospitals or employ clinicians. Well, the WSJ Health Blog demonstrates the vacuity of that assertion by explaining the latest P4P proposal from the single-payer system known as […]
There has been a good deal of happy talk from the bird cage liners about Medicare’s new rule on medical errors. Unfortunately, the media (and even some health care bloggers who should know better) have it wrong.
Like most bureaucratic brainstorms, this latest CMS decree will almost certainly do more damage than good. Dr. RW has […]
It is common for advocates of government-run health care to quote WHO statistics in order to document the alleged inferiority of American health care. A perennial favorite purports to show that the U.S. barely edges out Cuba in some categories.
I have pointed out before that the WHO makes no attempt to verify the health care […]
The National Review of Medicine highlights the economic illiteracy that permeates Canada’s health care bureaucracy. Last year, the provincial government of New Brunswick decided that physicians with full practices needed an incentive to take on new patients. However, like all bureaucrats trying to outsmart the market, they implemented a program whose unintended consequences outweighed any […]
The geniuses who run Great Britain’s system of socialized medicine have proposed using NHS resources to buy iPods and television sets for crackheads, according to the TimesOnline:
Drug addicts are to be offered gift vouchers and prizes on the National Health Service under plans by the government’s medicine watchdog to encourage them to stay clean.
Considering that […]
A new study shows that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), in addition to being a huge financial burden on hospitals and physicians, has dramatically increased wait times in America’s emergency rooms:
EMTALA is another example of federal legislation that hurts the very people that it was meant to protect: low-income patients in […]
A standard feature of government-run health care is the dilatory adoption of new medicines and technologies. In Great Britain, for example, patients often have to go outside the NHS to access cutting edge treatments.
Sadly, as the NYT reports, the segment of American health care controlled by Washington suffers from the same bureaucratic inertia. The procedure discussed in the […]
According to Senator Tom Coburn, the CDC is a textbook example of a government health bureaucracy that has grown larger and larger while becoming less and less effective. Per the Washington Times:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wastes millions of dollars on “failed prevention efforts, international junkets and lavish facilities,” a Republican senator says in […]
