The CDC’s report on ER overcrowding is out, and the news isn’t good. ED visits are up 20 percent over the last ten years and the number of EDs actually available to treat these patients has dropped by 9% during the same period. What could be causing this? GruntDoc has a nice, succinct theory:
If you […]
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 […]
An integral part of Hillary Clinton’s health care plan is a national mandate requiring health care providers to implement Electronic Medical Records. This sounds reasonable enough. Many Republicans are on the same page. Even Newt Gingrich supports the idea.
However, as Peter Barry Chowka points out in Part II of his American Thinker examination of “progressive” […]
Kevin, MD links to a post at DB’s Medical Rants that epitomizes the unintended (and often bizarre) consequences that inevitably attend federal meddling in health care. The post recounts an incident in which fear of transgressing against HIPAA outweighed any sense of responsibility to the public:
My most recent [horror story] involved a patient who came […]
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No matter how much evidence piles up showing that big government social programs are wasteful, inefficient, and costly, the “progressive community” is unable to extricate itself from its long-standing love affair with statism. Thus, imposing socialized medicine on the American public is its highest domestic priority.
CNS reports that this subject is on the minds and […]
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 […]
Over the weekend, the citizens of Motor City heard the distant rumble of a ravenous dragon tramping toward their city. Clinton, speaking to a UAW meeting on Saturday, announced that she has a ‘win-win’ proposal for the U.S. auto industry:
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday offered a double-barreled campaign message for the struggling U.S. auto […]
For most of human history, our injudicious utterances were recorded only in the memories of those unfortunate enough to be within earshot when we decided to start talking. Since the advent of the internet, however, our dumbest effusions are permanently preserved for the perusal of anyone sufficiently masochistic to read them. The unpleasant consequences of […]
Michael Moore’s prominence in the health care reform debate is symptomatic of a diseased public discourse. And, make no mistake about it, the pathology is spreading. As David Hogberg notes, it has moved beyond entertainment venues like Oprah to the California legislature. Yes, that’s what I said, the outsize auteur is actually going to testify […]
