Tag Archives: healthcare rationing
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, …
What should I know about seeking medical care?
Many Canadians on a surgical waiting list are faced with leaving the country to get timely medical care. However, they need to exercise caution. Many medical tourism brokers work only with overseas facilities. Many of these facilities are first rate …
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 …
Why Health Care in Not a "Right"
In all sectors of the economy outside of health care, consumers restrain their purchases based on price and value forcing providers to drop costs and raise quality. This does not happen with health care. With first dollar payment, whether by an insurance company or the government, the patient perceives costs as zero.
Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients
“If a private insurer does it, it’s immoral; if a public insurer does it, it’s an unfortunate budget issue.”
House to vote on Medicare rate cuts (Doctors' salary cut)
House to vote on Medicare rate cuts By CNN Wire staffNovember 29, 2010: 9:23 AM ET RALPH’S NOTE: This scheduled 23% cut of doctors’ reimbursement rates is the reason that obamacare is said to only cost $940 billion dollars. If …
America votes! The Tribe has Spoken! #Healthcare
Yesterday’s decisive victory was clearly against Washington’s arrogance and intrusion into America’s hospital gown. Americans do not want politicians holding stethoscopes, they want their own doctor. The problem with healthcare in America was NOT that people excersized their choice to …
Wrong Way to Reform the Malpractice System
So what does your doctor do about this promising new treatment?
He doesn’t tell you about it.
Killing Marcus Welby How ObamaCare stifles private practices
Killing Marcus Welby How ObamaCare stifles private practices By SCOTT GOTTLIEB Last Updated: 5:19 AM, October 18, 2010 Posted: 10:18 PM, October 17, 2010 Comments: 10 More Print If ObamaCare really called for the creation of “death panels,” the first …
Canadian Physician Warns, “Obamacare Rationing Inevitable”
Lee Kurisko, MD is a Canadian physician specializing in Diagnostic Imaging and Fellowship trained in Neuroradiology. He is former Medical Director of Diagnostic Imaging for Thunder Bay Regional Hospital in Thunder Bay, Canada. A former believer in the superiority of government delivered healthcare, he no longer holds this view and is an advocate of free markets in health care.
