Tag Archives: government medicine
Public health care has no claim to moral superiority
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/22/lorne-gunter-public-health-care-has-no-claim-to-moral-superiority Lorne Gunter: Public health care has no claim to moral superiority Lorne Gunter, National Post Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 Please tell me how this is better than two-tiered American health care? Monday, the Ontario provincial government decided to cover the …
Cancer Screening Budget Cuts May Prove Deadly for Some Women
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/20/cancer-screening-budget-cuts_n_1284880.html Low-income women are being hurt by having important preventative tests cut to make way for Obamacare’s unnecessary demands, such as for employer insurance to cover all birth control prescriptions. Cancer Screening Budget Cuts May Prove Deadly for Some Women Lanajh Jones, …
PPACA-Based Age Rating Pinch Could Leave a Million More Uninsured
http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/13/ppaca-based-age-rating-pinch-could-leave-a-million?utm_source=HCRW&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=LifeHealthPro_eNLs PPACA-Based Age Rating Pinch Could Leave a Million More Uninsured By Allison Bell February 13, 2012 (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Whatever states do about health insurance prices for older and younger adults, one thing remains certain: it will …
Ontario’s health care system needs more than Band-Aid solutions
I can never understand how anyone can believe that having the government make it illegal to obtain medical care is a good thing. Whenever you put a politician in charge of picking winners and losers, there will be a lot …
Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-looks-to-change-the-rules-for-those-with-rare-conditions/article1939555/ Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions lisa priest From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 8:01PM EST The operation was so risky and rare even the best neurosurgeons in the patient’s …
Prediction: Canadians flock to private health care
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/66237–prediction-canadians-flock-to-private-health-care Canada sees the mounting cost of covering an aging population and admits they cannot afford projected expenses. They are allowing citizens to buy private insurance to cover the crippled government system. Canadians already come to the U.S. to get …
Canadian Skier’s Hospital Bill Puts American Costs in Spotlight
This is indeed a very tragic story. Sadly, the practice of billing out “chargemaster rates” to one group of people to subsidize other contracts which hospitals voluntarily enter in to is discriminatory, and punishes one class of people to help …
Health service delisting coming, Ontario minister says
When government takes the role of regulating our health, they eventually start running out of our money. Then they start to ration. Using control or people’s health to stay in power represents a low point in politics. Many Canadians seeking …
Obamacare prescription: ‘Emergency health army’
I don’t understand why we need a new para-military organization, but it’s in the bill. Funding a “Health Army”, will do nothing to make healthcare more affordable, and it is yet another example of why MediBid by applying economic principles …
Two patients fighting C. difficile die in C.B. | The Chronicle Herald
When one entity (government) is the same entity that funds, regulates, and overseas hospitals, there exists a possibility for a conflict of interest, which can lead to needless deaths. Two patients fighting C. difficile die in C.B. | The Chronicle …
