Hello all. It’s been well over a month since I last blogged. A lot has happened that is preventing me from pontificating as much as I would like. First, I moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia. My doctorpricing.com partners (William Short , Craig [...]
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Update/The Dollar, Oil and Health Care
Posted in Communism/Socialism, health care, insurance, politics, tagged AmeriFlex, Bill Good, CDHC, Cherry Hill, consumer driven health care, Craig Clayton, Doctorpricing.com, election, FSA, government, health care, HRA, hsa, inflation, Kansas City, Missouri, New Jersey, oil, Philadelphia, presidential, Third Party Administrator, TPA, welfare state, William Short on June 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Welcome to Massachusetts, Coverage for All, Doctors for Few
Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, health care, insurance, law, markets, politics, research discussion, wealth, tagged doctor, hospital, legislation, politics, economics, New York Times, Medicaid, universal health care, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, primary care physician, Boston, health insurance, Katherine Atkinson, medical school, Patricia Sereno, American Academy of Family Physicians on April 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Actually, my title is a bit misleading. Not everyone has coverage…many people have not complied with the new law mandating coverage, and simply pay the fines. So the state still has many uninsured people, and now it has a rising shortage of primary care physicians.
Those of us who have taken a basic economics course saw [...]
The United States National Health Insurance Act (USNHI) - H.R. 676
Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, corporate practices, entrepreneurialism, health care, insurance, law, markets, medicare, misinformation/propaganda, politics, psychology, research discussion, wealth, tagged Africa, atomic bomb, ban, bankrupcy, black market, Britain, Canada, capitalism, China, Communism, congress, CT scan, diabetes, doctors, Dubai, England, entreprenuer, excise tax, food pyramid, GDP, health care, Health Maintenance Organization, HMO, HR 676, human rights, immigration, income tax, India, Israel, Japan, John Conyers, malpractice, Marxism, medicare, Mexico, Michael Moore, peso, physicians, primary care, Russia, Sicko, single-payer, Socialism, Stalin, Stalinism, U.S. Treasury, United Kingdom, United States National Health Insurance Act, universal health care, USNHI on April 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
On January 27, 2008, U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) introduced a new version of a previously unsuccessful bill before Congress that would turn America’s health care system into a socialized, not-for-profit, singer-payer system. Previous iterations of the bill had few co-sponsors (25 in 2003), and the current version (H.R. 676), has gained a modicum [...]
Health Care Costs Could End America
Posted in Communism/Socialism, health care, insurance, markets, medicare, politics, research discussion, tagged government, medicare, health care, economy, income tax, New York Times, transparency, Medicaid, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, medical care, preventative care, free market, Greece, Doctorpricing.com, Robert Pear, federal, Iraq War, defense spending, peace dividend, Soviet Union, Cold War, Congressional Budget Office, black hole on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Robert Pear’s New York Times article about Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s health care plans has an alarming statistic. Medicare and Medicaid, our two government-funded health programs, cost our country $627 billion last year - or 23% of all federal spending. Many people like to criticize the Iraq War for its cost - proclaiming that [...]
A Case Against Socialized Medicine: Part II
Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, health care, insurance, kidney transplant, law, markets, psychology, research discussion, wealth, tagged Alan Johnson, Avastin, breast cancer, cancer, capitalism, Debbie Hirst, Dialysis, Doctors for Reform, England, ethos, government, Great Britain, health care, healthcare, hearing aid, hemodialysis, justice, kidney transplant, liberal, Liberalism, MRI, N.H.S., National Health Service, New York Times, oncologist, oncology, orthopedic surgeon, pancreatic cancer, Parliament, Paul Charlson, pension, philosophical, philosophy, politics, principles, Sarah Lyall, selling your kidney, Socialism, socialized, Tarceva, taxes, UK, United Kingdom, Yorkshire on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A reader of mine left an interesting comment on my post about selling your kidney. Here is an excerpt:
“I am waiting for a kidney and have been dialysising for 2 [and a] half years on hemodialysis and 5 years on capd - a gentler type of dialysis… I am…using up resources and cos[t]ing a lot [...]
Health Care Like the DMV - Update
Posted in Communism/Socialism, health care, insurance, tagged blood type, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, Christmas, Department of Motor Vehicles, DMV, government-based health care, health care, healthcare, Jackson County, Kansas City, loan, medical care, Missouri, single-payer, socialized medicine, taxes on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A while back I wrote a post entitled “Health Care Like the DMV” in which I chronicled my efforts to collect a tax refund from Jackson County, Missouri after they double billed me for my ‘07 property taxes and pulled the money out of my bank account.
I paid the taxes on November 21st of last [...]
Who Chooses Your Surgeon, You or Someone You’ve Never Met?
Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, health care, insurance, markets, medicare, misinformation/propaganda, politics, psychology, research discussion, wealth, tagged doctor, consumer, government, medicare, cancer, patient, health care, economics, philosophy, chronic disease, treatment, medical care, heart disease, preventative care, bureaucrat, liberal, conservative, Doctorpricing.com, incentives, Ezra Klein, The American Prospect, Peter Suderman, Doublethink, Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, Healthcare Economist, Jason Shafrin, United States of America, libertarian, heart attack, chemotherapy, trauma, coronary artery bypass, price transparency, life and death, moral agency, Kant, freedom on February 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Journalists Ezra Klein and Peter Suderman debate the government’s role in the future of U.S. Health Care (thank you Healthcare Economist). Whose argument carries more weight?
Klein’s main argument is decidedly anti-libertarian, which makes perfect sense because I don’t think he is a Libertarian. Klein’s conclusion is that it will take substantial government resources, research and [...]
Politics
Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, health care, insurance, medicare, politics, psychology, research discussion, wealth, tagged capitalism, coverage, Democrats, doctors, George Stephanopoulos, government, health care, health insurance, HealthPopuli Blog, Hillary Clinton, insurance, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, John McCain, Kevin Sack, mandate, medical care, medicare, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times, pandering, patients, physicians, political correctness, president, presidential, Republicans, Robert Laszewski, Socialism, tax system, The Health Care Blog, universal coverage on February 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
John McCain (re: health care in the USA):
“For all the grandiose promises made in this campaign, has any candidate spoken honestly to the American people about the government’s role and failings about individual responsibilities? Has any candidate told the truth about the future of Medicare? Its costs are growing astronomically faster than its financing, and [...]
9th Circuit Drives Small Business Owners out of San Francisco
Posted in Communism/Socialism, corporate practices, employee benefits, entrepreneurialism, insurance, law, tagged doctor, insurance, hsa, NY Times, health care, Socialism, New York Times, employee, welfare, Ninth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, San Francisco, CA, California, appeal, small business, health savings accounts, Healthy San Francisco, burden, Daniel Scherotter, Golden Gate Restaurant Association, GGRA.org, conflict of laws, Supreme Court, dicta, governments on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The title of this post is a prediction rather than a description. The New York Times reports that a three judge panel from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the city of San Francisco, CA a temporary reprieve from a lower court ruling that would’ve prevented the city from forcing small business owners [...]
A Case Against Universal Health Care
Posted in Communism/Socialism, health care, insurance, politics, psychology, tagged Africa, aged dependency ratio, America Alone, Australia, Canada, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, economics, Europe, France, GDP, Gerald Ford, government, Greece, health care, HIV, hospital, Islam, Islamic, liabilities, Mark Steyn, Muslim, national defense, pension, SARS, Secular Humanism, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Skynet, Socialism, Terminator, Toronto, tsunami, Uncle Sam, universal health care on January 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone,” an argument is made that big government makes its citizenry dependent and eventually helpless, in a manner of speaking. Gerald Ford had a famous quote which speaks to this: “a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” Many [...]
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