Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
C-SPAN Challenges Congress to Open Health Care Talks to TV Coverage
From FOX News
The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves.
C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open “all important ...Read more.
About Those “Death Panels”
From The Freeman
It seems inevitable that the government will grab the remains of “private” medical care, so I will look at our medical futures. One development will be the implementation of the infamous “death panels” that socialists swear are a figment of the imaginations of paranoid persons like Sarah Palin.
For example, I received emails from ...Read more.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients
This is just the beginning. More and more clinics, large and small, will drop more Medicare patients.
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From Bloomberg News
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying ...Read more.
Health Care Myth: Government Slows Cost Growth
By John Stossel
Listening to Obama, you’d think that governments are good at reducing costs under control. He says:
The plan I’m announcing tonight would… slow the growth of health care costs for our families.
– Obama, September 10, Health Care Speech to Congress.
But health care costs have been rising just as fast in countries with government-run health ...Read more.
“Death Panel” Loophole Found in Senate Bill
From Yahoo News
WASHINGTON – A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates.
The legislation that originally passed the Senate health committee last summer would have banned such limits, but a tweak ...Read more.
US Government Policy: If it Ain’t Broke, Fix it Until it Is
From Liberty For All
Governments run up the cost of essential goods and services, by making them so called “rights” or entitlements. When something is “free,” people overuse it. When it is paid for by other people aka third parties or insurance, the people using the goods and services don’t care what they are charged because ...Read more.
The Only Cure for America’s Health-Care Illness
From FFF
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The core problem in the health-care debate is that most everyone just assumes the existence of Medicare and Medicaid and medical licensure. Then, they come up with some sort of reform plan that works around these socialist and interventionist programs.
That’s ridiculous, because Medicare and Medicaid and occupational licensure are the heart ...Read more.
Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low
From Rasmussen Reports
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.
Half the survey was conducted ...Read more.
Report: Insurance Regulation in the United States and the European Union
From The Independent Institute
In this discussion of regulatory frameworks, the authors investigate the similarities and differences between insurance legislation on either side of the Atlantic. They discuss the developmental history of state and federal regulation in the United States and European Union and present policy recommendations for reform in the US based on their analysis ...Read more.
Health Care Bill Expected to Die in Senate
From AZCentral.com
WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to ...Read more.
