I am about as against a public option for health care as can be. The only thing worse would be a full-blown single-payer system like they have in Canada, England, and elsewhere.
A friend of mine, who has a relative living in England, says the NHS is wonderful and works great. Yeah. Then I come across [...]
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Well, this certainly doesn’t instill confidence, does it?
Posted in Health Care on 10.19.2009 | Leave a Comment »
He calls ‘em like he sees ‘em
Posted in Economy, Freedom, Government, Health Care on 09.15.2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Hume with a few realities which most people are overlooking:
- Yes, Obama does want to socialize risk.
- Yes, it will cost more.
- No, we do not have a free market in health care. Medicine is socialized between the ages of 0 and 18, and 65+, and for many of the poor. Private insurance is [...]
Somebody gets it
Posted in Government, Health Care, Politics on 09.15.2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Goldhill understands, far better that most of the folks in Congress, the actual problem with our health-care system:
All of the actors in health care—from doctors to insurers to pharmaceutical companies—work in a heavily regulated, massively subsidized industry full of structural distortions. They all want to serve patients well. But they also all behave rationally [...]
Good add
Posted in Catholicism, Health Care on 09.10.2009 | Leave a Comment »
The American Life League ran the following add in the Washington Times yesterday:
Rights at the expense of duty
Posted in Health Care, Politics on 07.02.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jacob Hornberger points out that no one has a right to health care:
… If I have a right to something, then doesn’t that mean that you have a correlative duty to provide it? If you’re a doctor, then it means that you are required to serve my needs, like it or not.
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Now, the proponent of [...]
Demagogue or Child?
Posted in Government, Health Care on 06.30.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Richman gets it.
Obama the Health-Care Reformer Should Grow Up
He wants a “public option.” That’s a euphemism for a government-run health-insurance program that is to provide a competitive alternative to private, for-profit insurance. This rationale is misleading because there is already competition among insurers — and there would be far more if state governments did [...]
Ron Paul on health care
Posted in Government, Health Care on 06.04.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Paul’s recent “Texas Straight Talk” column is entitled Fight Government Encroachment into Healthcare!:
Aside from those concerns, the government’s ability to protect medical records is highly questionable. After all, we are all familiar with cases where third parties obtained access to electronic veteran, tax, and other records because of errors made by federal bureaucrats. [...]
