A variety of Democrats and advocacy groups have been telling us for years that “Medicare-for-All” is the cure for what ails U.S. health care. Well, Congress has just demonstrated why that’s such a dumb idea. Donald Johnson over at The Health Care Blog spells it out:
Under a “universal health insurance system,” which is advocated by the Democrats, […]
“Cognitive dissonance” is defined as the “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.” If this concept has any validity at all, Shadowfax’s psychological landscape must have looked like a war zone after writing this post about the latest “never event” idiocy from CMS. The gist of the post is captured in the following passage:
CMS would have you believe that this is […]
Another day, another phony survey. Most doctors favor socialized medicine according to a report from Reuters:
Of more than 2,000 doctors surveyed, 59 percent said they support legislation to establish a national health insurance program.
Seem counterintuitive? It should. The lead author of this “survey” is Aaron E. Carroll, a single-payer zealot on the Board of the activist group “Physicians […]
Single-payer health care will perform better than our evil profit-driven system, right? Tell that to this patient:
In Canada’s biggest city, a young woman in need of fairly basic care at her local hospital does not receive it, and she spirals into a depressing medical morass. Even her father-in-law, a successful dentist, finds himself unable to negotiate […]
Single-payer activists tell us that Medicare-for-All would be nothing like socialized medicine because health care providers would not be directly owned and operated by our masters in D.C. In the real world, however, the golden rule (He who has the gold, rules.) applies to health care just as it does to everything else.
If government bureaucrats control who gets paid […]
Graham wraps up his ”Health Care’s Broke” series by advocating a fix: implement single-payer. In support of this proposition, he avers that single-payer would provide “direction” to the system. Here is how he puts it:
Pick almost any issue I’ve mentioned–or haven’t–that concerns you, and ask yourself if you think it’ll go anywhere without some sort of organized […]
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Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and Dr. Quentin Young, of PNHP , debate the question on NPR’s “Justice Talking.”
Roberts, who also blogs at Cafe Hayek, is far more convincing in my not so humble opinion. But don’t take my word for it, go here and listen for yourself.
Most single-payer advocates believe that our health care system would operate more efficiently if it were “managed” by our masters inside the Beltway. David Strom of the Minnesota Free Market Institute uses the following hypothetical scenario to show why they are wrong:
An economist examines consumers’ automobile purchases and comes to the conclusion that the market is completely out […]
Single-payer advocates cite recent wait time increases in U.S. emergency rooms as yet another reason to embrace government-run health care. Like most of their arguments, this one ignores some very inconvenient facts. It does not explain, for example, why Britain and Canada have serious wait time issues despite their government-controlled systems.
The reality, of course, is that countries with socialized medicine tend to have […]
Many single-payer advocates got the vapors when Rudy Giuliani quipped, ”If we ever got Hillarycare in this country, Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.” Well, this Globe & Mail article suggests he was on to something:
More than 150 critically ill Canadians – many with life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages – have been rushed to the United States […]
