Graham advises us that EMTALA “is a good law,” then gives us several reasons to regard it as an exceptionally bad piece of legislation:
The problem with EMTALA is that it provides too much potential for abuse … If you were to look online or eavesdrop in a doctor’s lounge, likely “abuse of medical resources by certain patients” […]
Well, the usual suspects are all over John McCain because of his comments relating to vaccines and autism:
It’s indisputable that is on the rise among children,” Senator John McCain said while campaigning recently in Texas. “The question is, What’s causing it? And we go back and forth, and there’s strong evidence that indicates that it’s […]
As I mentioned a few days ago, the advocates of government-run health care love to quote World Health Organization statistics. They are particularly fond of referencing “World Health Report 2000,” which purports to rank the health care systems of 191 nations.
Glen Whitman of the Cato Institute has written an excellent analysis of the methods used by the WHO to produce that report, […]
The elderly bobby-soxer of TAP, as Mark Steyn aptly describes Ezra Klein, inadvertantly exposes the essential paternalism that animates the single-payer project:
Liberal solutions don’t try and force the individual into a governing role he or she is not equipped to assume.
In other words, the hoi polloi are simply too stupid to make their own health care decisions, so their betters in […]
This isn’t about health care, but I couldn’t resist a brief post about the consternation with which the “progressive” blogosphere has responded to Bill Kristol’s addition to the NYT stable of columnists. Here’s a typical example:
One of the world’s most prestigious news outlets has apparently given this thug space on the most valuable media real estate in existence.
This is what it means […]
Today I’m starting an intermittent series in which I intend to highlight particularly sanctimonious blog posts and essays about health care—the kind of moralizing that evokes images of the Church Lady leaning over her desk and asking, “Could it be (fill in appropriate Lefty demon)?”
Today’s church lady is Maggie Mahar, whose latest post about the WellCare investigation […]
Advocates of government-run health care routinely accuse those who disagree with them of “defending the status quo.” Ramesh Ponnuru exposes the irony of that charge in Time:
Most Americans of working age get their health insurance through their employers. The Democrats running for President want to keep it that way. The Republicans don’t … They want […]
A couple of days ago, I wondered how much time it would take for the usual suspects to start using the WellCare investigation as a general indictment of “the health care industrial complex.”
Well, it turns out that they’re going for a “twofer” on this one. Wellcare, it seems, is not merely another blood-sucking insurance company. […]
We are constantly being told by the advocates of socialized medicine that the quality of American health care is bad and getting worse. Well, as usual, the facts are not their friends. A new AHRQ study shows significant improvement in hospital mortality rates:
Between 1994 and 2004, risk-adjusted impatient mortality rates for six selected diagnoses and […]
Al Gore’s Nobel Prize reminded me of something that I’ve been meaning to blog about for some time: the health care implications of global warming. This subject has, in recent years, been getting more and more attention in some precincts of the medical community. Per the Washington Post:
Spurred by what they see as an increasing […]
