Yet another Canadian politician has chosen the much-maligned U.S. health care system over the government-run health care of his own country. AP reports the following:
The premier of Canada’s east coast province is undergoing heart surgery in the United States this week because the treatment he is seeking was not available in his home province.
Hmm …. voting with his feet, […]
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CANADIAN PREMIER RUNS TO U.S. FOR HEART SURGERY
FRENCH HEALTH CARE? JE PENSE PAS.
Now that Obamacare is imploding, I guess we’re in for a fresh crop of articles and blog posts pimping “the best health care system in the world.” Here’s alleged libertarian Matt Welch on the system ranked “best” by the World Health Organization:
In France, you are covered, period. It doesn’t depend on your job, it doesn’t depend on a health maintenance organization, and it doesn’t […]
REAGAN TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT MEDICARE
An easy way to bring a self-satisfied smirk to the face of an Obamacare supporter is to mention Ronald Reagan’s early opposition to Medicare. It’s an article of faith among these people that history has proven the Gipper wrong when he objected to the program for the following reason:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way […]
THE FAILURES OF GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE
An illuminating video that should make the truth clear to the meanest intelligence:
[HT AmSpecBlog]
HEALTH REFORM: HERO OF CHAPPAQUIDDICK VS. TRICKY DICK
This is from 1971. You will note that the terms of the debate haven’t changed much. Oddly, most of the medical advances that we now take for granted materialized since these exchanges took place.
Meanwhile, we struggle to decide if Kennedy’s four decades of trying (unsuccessfully) to pass Medicare-for-All is sufficient atonement for the death of a single […]
OBAMA, STARK, KENNEDY & SINGLE-PAYER
The WSJ has a good op-ed on the effect a Democrat Congress will have on our new President. On health care, for example, Pete Stark will “encourage” him to abandon his “centrist” health care plan and go for single-payor.
The Chairman of a crucial House subcommittee dealing with health care doesn’t think Mr. Obama’s proposal to significantly federalize […]
KENNEDY’S HEALTH CARE BAIT & SWITCH
While Barack Obama runs for President on an ostensibly ”moderate” health care reform proposal, his accomplice Ted Kennedy is busy putting together the actual program they plan to shove down our throats:
From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with lobbyists and lawmakers from both parties to craft legislation that would greet the […]
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH REFORM IS DEAD
That’s the conclusion Steffie Woolhandler, Benjamin Day, and David Himmelstein have reached. Why? Because Romneycare expanded coverage to everyone while making no serious adjustments to the other dynamics that affect cost. The inevitable result was a fiscal runaway train:
In sum, neither government, nor employers, nor the uninsured themselves have pockets deep enough to sustain coverage expansion […]
MEDICARE-FOR-ALL: A PREVIEW
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, […]
CMS, NEVER EVENTS & COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
“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 […]
