I have occasionally used the sad stories of Jack Rosser and Albert Baxter, both of whom were denied cancer drugs by Britain’s socialized medical system, to illustrate the cruel and arbitrary rationing methods utilized by all government-run health care systems.
For those of you who think that such horrors could never be inflicted on Americans, that all that stuff […]
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BEGINS RATIONING CANCER DRUGS
VIDEO: DR. KRAUTHAMMER OFFERS TO WRITE VALIUM PRESCRIPTION FOR OBAMA
The President became so temperamental during a Tuesday meeting with GOP Senators about health care and a variety of other issues that Pat Roberts (R-Kan) suggested that Obama needs to be on medication:
The more he talked, the more he got upset … He needs to take a valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans and just […]
WHY IS ANDREW SULLIVAN ALIVE?
Wait a bit … it’s not what you think. This is actually about free-market health care and how Andrew Sullivan is, in many ways, a poster child for our “money-driven” medical system.
Although a confirmed Obot who nurses a morbid antipathy for Sarah Palin (see this post about Levi Johnston), he has also written eloquently about the virtues of U.S. health care:
I was told in 1993 that […]
FDA APPROVES DESPONDEX
Finally, a cure. Think of all the Monday mornings that will be a little easier to endure now that there is help for these people:
[HT GruntDoc]
DEMS SPEND WILDLY, WON’T PAY FOR MEDS
I have written before about the deplorable NHS policy of restricting access to life-saving medications. Anyone doubting that the “reformers” who now control D.C. have the same thing in mind for us should read this WSJ piece:
In Britain, a government agency evaluates new medical products for their “cost effectiveness” before citizens can get access to them … […]
U.S. HEALTH SPENDING SLOWS … WHY?
One of the pretexts that single-payer advocates use to justify their push for government-run health care is cost. This is presumably why they have been so quiet about recent reports showing that health care inflation is slowing. As the Health Affairs Blog puts it:
National health care spending grew at its lowest rate in nearly a decade in 2007.
And what […]
MCCAIN, OBAMA AND DRUG REIMPORTATION
As I have pointed out before, the one health care position John McCain and Barack Obama have in common is their wrong-headed support of prescription drug reimportation. It appears, however, that both candidates may be waking up:
Barack Obama and John McCain are reviewing their support for allowing individuals to import cheaper prescription drugs in light of tainted medicines and […]
FIVE HEALTH CARE MYTHS
The advocates of government-run health care supplement their thin repertoire of legitimate arguments with a series of canards that they hope will be accepted as facts. Sally Pipes debunks five of these myths in The Washington Times:
I. 47 million Americans do not have insurance.
The [Census] Bureau counts anyone who went without insurance for any part of […]
THE FREE MARKET TRIUMPHS YET AGAIN
The WSJ Health Blog notes that Wal-Mart has saved its customers more than $1 billion with its $4 generics program:
Wal-Mart’s doing a bit of chest thumping this morning, claiming that its $4 generics program has saved consumers $1 billion — $1,032,573,012.61 as of March 10, to be precise.
These savings were brought about not by government cost […]
OBAMA AND MCCAIN ON DRUGS
Yesterday, I noted that Barack Obama and John McCain are both right on health insurance mandates. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about their positions on drug reimportation. Both are for it—which means they are for importing the price controls of Canada and other countries.
As I discuss here, drug reimportation would stifle innovation while producing insignificant reductions in pharmaceutical spending. […]
