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, 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, corporate practices, employee benefits, health care, insurance, kidney transplant, law, misinformation/propaganda, politics, tagged hospital, insurance, government, politics, blog, Wall Street Journal, WSJ, health care, John Edwards, Socialism, presidential, election, CIGNA, Medicaid, socialized medicine, capitalism, Senator John Edwards, New Hampshire, primaries, doctors, liver transplant, attorney, plaintiff, irony, Nataline Sarkisyan, jury, rationale on January 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Wall Street Journal chronicles John Edward’s attempt to tug at New Hampshire’s heart strings by telling a misleading version of the story of the death of a 17-year old leukemia patient and Cigna Corp., the insurance company that delayed coverage on her liver transplant.
Edwards, a former trial attorney, is the most extreme of capitalists, [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, corporate practices, entrepreneurialism, health care, law, markets, misinformation/propaganda, politics, psychology, tagged Adam Smith, American, American Idiot, Arab, Arabic, Bill Gross, blow, Bush Administration, capitalism, cocaine, Communism, congress, David R. Henderson, Democrats, doctor, Dubai, economist, ego, Enron, false idol, free market, George Bush, globalization, government, Green Day, guilt, health care, hedge fund, Hillary Clinton, Hoover Institute, hosptial, innovation, IRS, jealously, Liar's Poker, Libertarians, Lindsay Lohan, markets, Michael Lewis, New York Times, nurse, NYTimes.com, paternalism, Peter Goodman, PIMCO, politicians, politics, regulation, Republicans, Sarbanes-Oxley, Socialism, Stanford, tax, tongue-in-cheek, trader, Trojan Horse, Vicadin, welfare, William Gross, Worldcom on January 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Peter Goodman of the New York Times writes an interesting retrospective of free markets entitled “The Free Market: A False Idol After All?“ The article’s basic conclusion is that unfettered free markets (unhampered by regulation)…systems merely based upon ideology, cannot stand without some basic rules of government. And I don’t disagree. In the short run, [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, health care, insurance, law, medicare, politics, tagged Bexxar, Biogen, bureaucracy, cancer, capitalism, congress, doctor, drug, GlaxoSmithKline, government, health care, hospital, income tax, insurance, medicare, medicine, New York Times, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, radioimmunotherapies, reimbursement, Socialism, The Fair Tax, treatment, Zevalin on December 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Just about anyone who doesn’t work directly for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and has experience in health care, could not argue that Medicare’s reimbursement formularies adequately reimburse hospitals and doctors - AND keep a straight face. Medicare reimbursement, the bane of many hospitals’ existence, began, like many government programs, with a [...]
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