Tag Archives: Single Payer
Five Years is No Big Deal
by G. Keith Smith, MD Today I anesthetized a Canadian woman who had waited two years to have a hip operation and had three more years of waiting to go. No one argued in Canada that she needed surgery, they …
Despite Failures, Single-Payer Health Care Won’t Die
Some liberal states think that single-payer health care is a good idea. They think they know what’s in the best interest of their citizens, as if the people can’t think for themselves and make their own decisions. It is widely known …
Doctors told to try and talk women into giving birth without having epidurals to save NHS money
In the single-payer British system, wait lists and rationing are a part of life. By having the government control your health care, you don’t get to choose which treatments and procedures you will receive, even if it will benefit your …
Nearly 1/3 Of Doctors Won’t See New Medicaid Patients
Nearly 1/3 of doctors say that they will not be taking on any more Medicaid patients, those that will be the influx brought on by Obamacare. Access to doctors will be hard to come by, as care will be rationed …
At the End of a Fish Weir Formed of Bad Precedents
People do not fully understand how the current laws and new regulations are chipping away at their freedom and liberty protected by the Constitution. This “net” has been slowly closing in on trapping citizens since the 1930s through bad court …
Obamacare will annihilate private medicine
Radical changes coming with Obamacare favor law makers and special interest groups i.e. insurance companies, while hurting everyone else. People may think that certain parts of the law are god, but they have no idea how expensive and burdensome these changes will …
MS procedure changes woman’s life
This is the story of a Canadian woman with MS whose life has greatly improved after receiving a special treatment of CCSVI, not offered in Canada. Because of the single payer system there, innovation and technology are not up to …
Orthopedics and the Vampire Economy
The numbers of uninsured Americans is not a crisis. The real crisis is the government’s intrusion in private business and the free market, over-taxing and over-regulating. Dr. Lee Hieb, Past-President of AAPS, has studied highly-regulated economies throughout history and gives …
Can Medicare become True Social Insurance?
Medicare was created to prevent bankruptcy in retirement, but over the decades it has become an entitlement program which increases people’s utilization of medical care. Insurance is not supposed to increase the consumption of goods or services. This is because …
GAO: States Need PPACA Medicaid Expansion Advice
States need to listen to good advice, not special interest advice. Expanding Medicaid is bad no matter how you look at it. Micheal Cannon of the Cato institute explains why Medicaid Expansion does not make sense. If any group is …
