rationing health care

Thank U.S. medical care for extending Steve Jobs’ life 0
- October 20, 2011
Had Jobs been under the care of the British National Health Service (NHS) or the Canadian Medicare system, he almost certainly would have died two years earlier. That would have been a major loss for the world, by anyone’s reckoning. Continue reading →
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How Obamacare will decrease health care access for the poor 0
- September 19, 2011
“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 →
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How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing 0
- November 29, 2010
The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice.
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Donald Berwick won’t answer critics 0
- October 1, 2010
Via Human Events, Donald Berwick, head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “won’t, engage critics, grant interviews, or testify before Congress about his views on health-care rationing.”
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The FDA, Avastin, and your life 0
- September 2, 2010
Paul Hsieh, MD of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine writes: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of taking the highly unusual step of “decertifying” the cancer drug Avastin that it had previously approved. In addition to sparking concerns that this is another step towards medical rationing, the FDA’s proposal will […]
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Medicare head Donald Berwick: rationing for thee, not for me 0
- July 21, 2010
David Catron points out more ruling class elitism from Medicare & Medicaid head Donald Berwick:
Berwick praised the heavy-handed rationing methods of Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and said, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care; the decision is whether we will ration with our […]
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