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Why Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Health Care Access 0
- March 20, 2012
Medicaid notoriously underpays doctors, so Medicaid patients have trouble accessing them. When Medicaid eligibility expands, many newly eligible people drop “private” health plans to enroll. Continue reading →
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Sickest Canadians Face the Highest Barriers to Care 0
- January 9, 2012
CTV of Canada reports: “Canadians with chronic conditions are frequent users of the health-care system, but a new report shows many experience considerable difficulty getting the medical treatment they need.” Continue reading →
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Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders 0
- November 2, 2011
“Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals making secret use of “do not resuscitate” orders, an investigation has found” – Telegraph UK. Continue reading →
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Canada: the soul-destroying search for a family doctor 0
- August 26, 2011
Journalist Gloria Galloway relates her exhausting search for a family doctor in Ottawa, Canada. Colorado also has a shortage of primary care docs. Will the woes of Canadian patients come to Colorado?
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England’s NHS ‘creaking at the seams’ as waiting lists rise 0
- July 21, 2011
The Telegraph (UK) reminds us that single-payer “universal” health care is really universal misery: “A senior doctors’ leader has warned that the NHS is “creaking at the seams” as official figures showed almost a third more patients are waiting too long to be treated in hospital.”
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Stuck with Medicaid “coverage” but no health care? Can’t sue that state 0
- June 8, 2011
“Most of the “newly covered” [Medicaid] patients won’t be able to find doctors … willing to treat them. … Those “newly covered” people will also have to abandon some of their legal rights.”
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