Obamacare’s Rationing by Another Name: The Independent Payment Advisory Board
How the Independent Payment Advisory Board gives sweeping powers to an unelected and unconstitutional board of bureaucrats. Continue reading
Get Ready For Obamacare’s Medical Rationing
ObamaCare supporters are now waging a high-profile public relations campaign to make medical rationing palatable to the general public. Continue reading
Government Control of Medicine Necessitates Rationing
“When government provides “free” (or subsidized) health services, politicians and bureaucrats necessarily decide how that spending will be allocated.” Continue reading
In Top Journal, Obamacare Boosters Push ‘Global Spending Target’
The proposed cap on private medical spending would also prevent Americans from spending their health care dollars as they wished. Obamacare 2.0 would mean unprecedented government control over our health care — and our lives. Continue reading
Government-run medicine threatens your medical privacy, leads to rationing
A band of government agencies threatens your medical privacy and doctors’ freedom to practice according to their best judgement. Continue reading
Is President Obama’s Prostate Gland More Important Than Yours?
When President Obama had his routine physical last year, he enjoyed the freedom to consult with his doctors, weigh the pros and cons of PSA testing, and decide for himself what was in his best medical interest. But under ObamaCare, the President will not allow you that same freedom. Instead, the federal government will decide for you. Continue reading
ObamaCare: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now
The Obama administration can’t fix the actual substance of [its] health plan. Hence, their strategy is to obfuscate its problems with deceptive language and hope that voters don’t catch on. Continue reading
Big Brother Is Watching Your Doctor
Government CER (Comparative Effectiveness Research) sounds like a progressive solution, but it is actually a frightening move that puts government detailers between patients and doctors and favors one-size-fits-none cost cutting over continued medical progres Continue reading
Medicare price controls and rationing
On Stossel, Peter Suderman and Scott Gottlieb discuss how to fix Medicare. Gottlieb discusses Medicare’s price controls such that physicians get paid the same regardless of their quality, and that insurers mimic the system. He says government authorities will tighten control over doctors, control what care they can provide. Suderman discusses the point of his article, Medicare Whac-A-Mole Why health care price controls always fail. Continue reading
Screening for Terrorists vs. Screening for Cancer
Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress” while simultaneously telling patients, “Don’t undergo cancer screening because it might lead to further bodily invasion and emotional distress.” Continue reading
How Obamacare will decrease health care access for the poor
“ObamaCare, by lowering the money price of care for almost everybody while doing nothing to change supply, will intensify non-price rationing and may actually make access to care more difficult for those with the least financial resources.” – John Goodman Continue reading
Government Price Controls Produce Cancer Drug Shortage – Who Would Have Guessed?
The federal government has created a cancer drug shortage. How? Because of what are essentially government prices controls on generic cancer drugs.
