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 [...]
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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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Posted in health care, insurance, tagged doctor, hospital, insurance, HMO, physician, blog, health care, Canada, specialist, Frasier Institute, diagnostic, primary care physician, cardiologist, waiting time, respiratory, UnitedHealthcare, UHC, pulmonologist, x-ray, PFT, EKG, diagnosis, surgical on January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my recent post “Let’s Pick on Canada Now,” I discussed the physician shortage in Canada and how it has affected wait times for specialist treatment — which edged up over 18 weeks last year.
Unfortunately (or fortunately for this blog), I was able to compare a personal experience in the U.S. with the statistics cited [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, health care, insurance, markets, misinformation/propaganda, politics, research discussion, tagged activism, blood clot, Canada, Canadian, CT, data, diagnostic, doctor, drugs, economics, embolism, famous, Frasier Institute, government, Harvard, health care, hosptial, medical, medicine, MRI, Nadeem Esmail, New England Journal of Medicine, non-partisan, patient, politics, pulmonary, rhetoric, single-payer, Socialism, Steffie Woolhandler, surgery, treatment on December 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In September 2003, Harvard Medical Professor Dr. Steffie Woolhandler had this to say in the New England Journal of Medicine: “A large sum might be saved in the United States if administrative costs could be trimmed by implementing a Canadian-style health care system.”
While I’m sure Dr. Woolhandler is a brilliant clinician and activist, I firmly [...]
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Posted in bioehtics, health care, kidney transplant, politics, tagged Al Gore, American Journal of Transplantation, Arthur Matas, Canada, congress, Dialysis, doctor, donor, Francis Delmonico, H. Barry Jacobs, health, health care, hospital, insurance, kidney, market, medication, medicine, National Kidney Foundation, obese, obesity, Pakistan, Philippines, recipient, renal, transplant, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Wall Street Journal, WSJ on November 13, 2007 | 22 Comments »
A Wall Street Journal article today discusses the crusade of Dr. Arthur Matas, a Canadian-born transplant surgeon who is arguing that people should be able to sell a kidney to someone who needs it, in a government-regulated market. The ethical implications of commoditising human organs are very complex, and there are arguments on both sides. [...]
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