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Health care bill pushes limits of constitutionality0
- July 5, 2011
Dave Kopel writes: “When the [health care bill] was moving through Congress, there was a lot of bluster from proponents of the law, who insisted that there were absolutely no potential constitutional problems. Most famously, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scoffed “Are you serious?” to a journalist’s question about the law’s constitutionality. As it turns out, there are a lot of serious questions.”
READ MOREAvastin & FDA: There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient0
- June 29, 2011
Last year, the FDA began the process of revoking Avastin’s approval for breast cancer. … What is the logic of keeping terminally ill patients from potential treatments? Can’t they at least go down fighting?
READ MOREWhat’s wrong with “evidence based medicine”?0
- June 28, 2011
John Goodman lists the problems with “evidence based medicine.” Think of it this way: What if there were a rule that says you can’t do anything during the week unless it is on the calendar by Sunday. Call this “calendar-based scheduling.” Instead of being an aide, the calendar would quickly become an oppressive barrier to your freedom of action.
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Hickenlooper’s veto of SB 11-213 insults low-income parents0
- June 27, 2011
Published in the Boulder Daily Camera: Maintaining current Child Health Plan fees would not only be an injustice to taxpayers, but also an insult to eligible parents. The fees imply that parents value enjoying life’s amenities more than their own children’s health.
READ MOREThe FDA, Avastin, and death panels0
- June 24, 2011
“The FDA, stuck in its 1960s Thalidomide glory days mindset, denies Americans access to life-saving drugs. …[D]espite its intentions, [the FDA] drives up the costs of medicines & often dries up the supply chain altogether. America is currently facing a shortage of about 246 drugs – a record high.” – Milton Wolf, MD
READ MOREAccountable Care Organizations: Soviet-style command & control medicine that strangles innovation & quality0
- June 22, 2011
Accountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.”
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