Canada’s Globe writes:
More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past year – in what a doctors’ group attributes to the lack of a national birthing plan.
The problem has peaked, with British Columbia and Ontario each sending a record number of women to U.S. neonatal […]
Archive for the 'HealthCare' Category
May9th2008
Mar6th2008
The New York Times writes about a cancer patient in the British Health Care System:
Debbie Hirst’s…breast cancer had metastasized, and the health service would not provide her with Avastin, a drug that is widely used in the United States and Europe to keep such cancers at bay. So, with her oncologist’s support, she decided last […]
Feb14th2008
“The main constraint on prices in Europe is that the buyers have monopsony power. Changing what America pays will not alter the demand side of the equation. European governments might realizing that they have been free riding on our drug payments, and decide to raise the prices that they pay in order to support more […]
Feb7th2008
The Growing Cost Of Government Healthcare
Published by in Economics, General and HealthCare. 5 CommentsAs given by the CBO, here and here.
No, this does not include the added costs of our current presidential candidates healthcare promises, this is the cost before those are added.
It reminds me of this challenge from economist Arnold Kling, “Many on the Left argue that other countries have better health care systems with more government […]
Jan15th2008
“Medicare is a different story. Health-care costs now consume about 16 percent of GDP, but projections by the Department of Health and Human Services suggest that by 2016, that will have risen to almost 20 percent. Wise speculates that closing the Medicare budgetary gap would require a tax increase of something on the order of […]
Dec14th2007
“By the end of 2007, the nation’s health care bill was some $2 trillion a year, or 16% of the U.S. economy. Government is already paying 47% of it. All of the major party presidential candidates of both parties are proposing, in one way or another, that government assume more of the burden. Leading Democrats […]
Oct29th2007
First we look at the sad state of Canada’s health care system:
1. A typical Canadian seeking surgery had to wait 18.3 weeks in 2007 between referral from a general practitioner and treatment (averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed), reaching an all-time record high, up from 17.8 weeks in 2006.
Which bares a striking […]
Sep18th2007
For those of you that missed it, ABC’s 20/20 did a special on health care and addressed many of the biased claims in Michael Moore’s Sicko movie. If you missed the show not to worry, youtube has it all recorded in a six part series. Be sure not to miss this. Click below.
Part 1
Part 2
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Sep14th2007
An excerpt from ABC’s 20/20 interview with Michael Moore:
Go here for the video.
Sep14th2007
The Other Side To Michael Moore’s Sicko
Published by in Economics, General and HealthCare. 6 Comments For those of you interested in the health care debate and those of you who watched Michael Moore’s sicko I strongly encourage you to watch ABC’s 20/20 special later today. It directly addresses the health care issue and gives the other side to many of Michael Moore’s claims.
See here for more details.
Aug27th2007
“Why do people think that a single-payer system would be any better than Medicare or Medicaid? The way things work now, Medicare gets the gold (more political clout in the over-65 population) and Medicaid gets the shaft (absolutely no political clout in that population)”. –Medpundit
Aug6th2007
“Do we want the government employees who run the troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be in charge of our entire health care system? Or, would you like the people who deliver our mail to also deliver health care services? How would you like the people who run the motor vehicles department, the government […]
Mar28th2007
Abolishing the Middlemen Won’t Make Health Care a Free Lunch
Published by in Economics, Europe, General and HealthCare. 0 CommentsWriting in the New York Times, economist Tyler Cowen compares healthcare in the United States with that of Europe:
Economic Scene
Abolishing the Middlemen Won’t Make Health Care a Free Lunch
By TYLER COWEN
Published: March 22, 2007
Proponents of single-payer national health insurance note that private health insurance has overhead costs of 10 to 25 percent of expenditures. Medicare, […]
Jan19th2007
“Two major arguments are offered for introducing socialized medicine in the United States: first, that medical costs are beyond the means of most Americans; second, that socialization will somehow reduce costs. The second can be dismissed out of hand — at least until someone can find some example of an activity that is conducted more […]
Jan6th2007
“If you think health care is expensive now, just wait till you see what it costs when it’s free”. –P.J. O’Rourke
Dec7th2006
Would Hillary Make A Good President?
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, HealthCare and ModernPolitics. 13 CommentsHere is what an economist wrote of her:
My two cents’ worth–and I think it is the two cents’ worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994–is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest […]
