In today’s American Spectator I discuss the latest ghoul our President has dug up and set loose on the hapless electorate. Obama has nominated Henry J. Aaron to Chair this influential body, and that is not good news:
We already have a staunch rationing advocate, Donald Berwick, running the government health care program for the elderly. Now the […]
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RATIONING ADVOCATE TO HEAD THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD
BRITAIN’S NHS KILLS AGAIN WITH BOGUS ‘DO NOT RESUSCITATE’ ORDER
Last month we learned that Britain’s National Health Service was routinely killing elderly patients by making inappropriate use of “do not resuscitateâ€? orders. If you thought that scandal put a stop to the practice, think again:
A Mum died gasping for breath in hospital after she was WRONGLY given a ‘do not resuscitate’ tag. The frantic […]
SECRET USE OF DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDERS IN BRITAIN’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
In Monday’s American Spectator, I wrote about the new regulation requiring insurance companies to report your health information so HHS can develop a list of “50 to 100 medical conditions to identify high cost individuals.” If you want to know where this sort of thing is headed, I recommend this article in The Telegraph:
Elderly patients are being […]
VIDEO: MILTON FRIEDMAN ON THE PERILS OF GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH CARE
This brilliant man explained more than three decades ago why government involvement in medicine always results in lower quality care and more restricted access. He uses Britain’s government-run system, which is (I’ll remind you again) the favorite health care system of Obama’s Medicare czar Donald Berwick, as an example of what inevitably happens when a government bureaucracy gets […]
THE NHS AT 63: SORRY CARE FOR ALL
Actually, it didn’t start off as awful as it is today. When the British government took over, it inherited some capital assets that allowed it to maintain a reasonable level of quality for a while.
But it eventually ran into the same financial issues that afflict all government-run medical systems. Now, it is essentially a third-world health care system, […]
DONALD BERWICK’S FAVORITE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM KILLS AGAIN
Britain’s deadly system of socialized medicine, the NHS, has claimed yet another victim. But this time the tragedy is mixed with irony. The patient was a former NHS director:
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation—at her own hospital. Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a […]
RATIONING UPDATE: BRITAIN’S NHS DENIES CANCER SURGERY DUE TO AGEISM
As I have often pointed out, the favorite health care system of our CMS adminsitrator is Britain’s NHS. Dr. Donald Berwick, quite literally, loves that third-world socialized medical system—and now he is in charge of ours.  So, you may be interested in knowing what the NHS has been up to lately:
Thousands of older cancer patients are being […]
YOUR FUTURE UNDER GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE, PATIENT NEGLECT AT BRITAIN’S NHS
Want to know your value as a patient in a government-run health care system? Take a look at this report on how elderly patients are treated in Britain’s NHS. Here’s what being transferred from one NHS facility to another is like:
[The patient]Â arrived at the care home strapped to a stretcher, soaked with urine, dressed in […]
UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ILLUSTRATES THE PROBLEM WITH “FREE” HEALTH CARE
Here’s what you can expect in the brave new health care world Donald Berwick, Obama’s new CMS administrator, has planned for you. The NHS, which Berwick “loves,” is running out of money (as will Medicare in the not-too-distant future) and the average Brit will pay a heavy price for depending on the nanny state for health care:
NHS bosses have drawn […]
DR. BERWICK’S FAVORITE HEALTH SYSTEM
There are, of course, all kinds of reasons to be concerned about Obama’s newly installed CMS administrator, not least his notion of what a successful health care system looks like.
Berwick has, for example, made no secret of his great admiration for Great Britain’s NHS, and this should scare the daylights out of you. Here’s the latest on that “success” […]