I couldn’t have said it better myself. And despite the scatological language, he was actually making a useful point about using states as laboratories for health reform rather than imposing a solution from inside the Beltway: Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems. It’s good to allow them to work out their [...]
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 [...]
Since yesterday was Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, it seemed appropriate to re-post this 1960s audio of the Gipper warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote: One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as [...]
A consistent refrain from health care “reformersâ€? is that electronic health records will cure much of what ails our medical delivery system. Not only will EHR save money, they tell us, it will improve quality. Not so fast says the Archives of Internal Medicine: Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs … and better [...]
The President has repeatedly told us that ObamaCare would control costs and that we can keep our insurance plans if we like them. Well, Medicare’s Chief Actuary begs to differ. Richard Foster appeared at a House Budget Committee hearing earlier today and here are his answers to a couple of questions from California congressman Tom McClintock: McCLINTOCK: True or [...]
During the debate over his failed attempt to impose government-run health care on the country, Bill Clinton went out and pimped his plan. In this impromptu debate with Slick Willy, Herman Cain explains why HillaryCare and all such plans (including ObamaCare) are indeed job killers. Cain has, of course, started an exploratory committee to see [...]
The other day, I wrote about ObamaCare’s war on kids and seniors. Well, as the NYT reports, it’s even worse than we thought: In an unintended consequence of the new health care law, drug companies have begun notifying children’s hospitals around the country that they no longer qualify for large discounts on drugs used to [...]
By now, it’s obvious to the meanest intelligence that ObamaCare rips off seniors. Some of my posts on this subject can be found here, here and here. But, for most people, it’s less obvious that the new “reforms” will do considerable harm to children as well. Commenter “ECM” points out this in the WSJ: One of the largest [...]
After transforming his show into a campaign rally for the Democrats and the President yesterday, Jon Stewart pretended to press Obama about the various flaws in ObamaCare. He was, of course, setting Obama up for one of his trademark excuses: If the point, Jon, is that overnight we did not transform the healthcare system … Look: [...]
For an English translation of ObamaCare, I recommend NCPA’s pamphlet: What Does Health Reform Mean for You?  Among other things, it correctly points out that the costs of ”reform” will be disproportionately borne by Medicare patients (i.e. the elderly & disabled): More than half the cost of health reform will be paid for by $523 billion in reduced Medicare spending [...]
