UPDATE:
NEJM has bowdlerized this story. This morning, the link below went directly to data from the survey. Now it takes you to a page about physician recruitment, the second paragraph of which provides a link to The Medicus Firm, which apparently conducted the survey in December.
As Paul Hsieh noted last night, NEJM is “hardly a right-wing rag.” An understatement if ever there […]
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NEJM SURVEY: 46% OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS SAY OBAMACARE WILL FORCE THEM OUT OF MEDICINE
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL VOICE OF THE 2009 REFORM DEBATE: SARAH PALIN
It should have been easy for POTUS to dominate the debate, but Barack “just give me something to sign” Obama spent most of the year voting “present” while congressional Democrats peddled their votes to the highest bidder.
And there was ample opportunity for the Republicans to make an impact by coming out early with a serious proposal for free-market reform, but they spent most of […]
DEATH PANELS? PALIN HAS AN APP FOR THAT
Sarah Palin has weighed in on the the midnight mischief the Dems were up to last week, and she correctly points out that the allegedly non-existent death panel is still in their “reform” bill under a new alias—-Independent Payment Advisory Board:
Senator Jim DeMint spotted one shocking revelation regarding the section in the [Senate] bill describing … a […]
NOT RATIONING MAMMOS, EH?
As Dr. Marcy Zwelling points out in this video, the Senate health “reform” bill will destroy much of your autonomy as a patient. And, no matter how many whoppers the Democrats tell, she’s right. John Goodman points to a good example of how untrustworthy the Dems are on this point:
Ever since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force called for fewer […]
RATIONING AND DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
I just read a post at Kevin, MD by an “anonymous NICU nurse” suffering from a syndrome that occasionally appears in clinical types, an acute combination of naïveté and delusions of grandeur. The subject was the recent experience of Sarah Capewell:
Sarah Capewell gave birth to a baby son when she was 21 weeks and 5 days into […]
SARAH BARRACUDA’S FULL COURT PRESS
Sarah Palin has become the only GOP voice to which anyone really listens on health care reform. Why? Because, while the rest of the Republicans try to limit their losses, Palin is actually trying to win the game.
While defanged conservatives like Newt Gingrich cozy up with creeps like Al Sharption, Sarah ignores the personal fouls to which she […]
OF DEATH PANELS AND STRAW MEN
One of the reasons our progressive friends are losing the “death panel” debate involves their refusal to face the issue honestly. Their arguments read like chapters in a text on logical fallacies. An illustrative example can be found in this post by Conor Clarke:
It seems to me that if you’re going to make the unintended consequences argument in […]
DEATH ADVOCACY BY THE VA HEALTH SYSTEM
We are told, by advocates of health care “reform,” that objections to government-initiated end-of-life counseling are irrational and even cruel. What, then, are we to make of “Your Life, Your Choices”?
“Your Life, Your Choices,” as Jim Towey explains in the WSJ, is the name of a booklet created for the VA health system. And it suggests that the slippery slope argument isn’t […]
DEATH OF “DEATH PANELS” GREATLY EXAGGERATED
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the American Spectator in which I described QALY:
If you are under the impression that it is impossible to calculate the value of a human life, you are obviously not a progressive policy expert or health care bureaucrat. This calculation, so elusive for philosophers and sages throughout […]
PALIN IS RIGHT ABOUT DEATH PANELS
You can always tell when a high-profile conservative has made a logically irrefutable statement about health care reform—-the nutroots go even crazier than usual (no mean feat).
That’s what happened when former Alaska governor Sarah Palin had the temerity to point out the blindingly obvious truth about what she accurately described as “death panels”:
The Democrats promise […]
