An ailing hip caused Canadian Raghav Shetty so much pain that he could barely walk. Instead of being one of 25,000 patients in Calgary waiting up to two years for surgery or a scan, Shetty traveled to India, his native ... READ MORE
A British government report is questioning the quality of caredementia patients receive in hospitals run by the British government-run health system. Among other things, the report says such patients often are not properly fed. E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe ... READ MORE
"They say there's no such thing as free health care, and now me and Grandpa, we believe." This video is a couple of months old, but it's pretty funny, as warnings about the death-dealing potential of government-run health care go ... READ MORE
An illuminating short video about the perils of government-run health care brought to you by The Independence Institute. Email it to a liberal today. E-mail any comments to the National Center for Public Policy Research at [email protected]ionalcenter.org. Subscribe to this ... READ MORE
In reference to terrorists living among us (not that he phrased it that way), President Obama said today during his weekly address, "Our government must be able to act swiftly and surely when it has threatening information." Notice he didn't ... READ MORE
Despite her 18 years of service to Britain's government-run health system, Sylvie Webb had to fight her employer for sight-saving drugs. An employee of Britain's government-run National Health Service was denied medication that could save her from going blind in ... READ MORE
Summary: The British National Health Service refused to provide the advanced cancer drug Avastin to Colette Mills, who was willing to pay for it herself. Mills was told that if she paid for the drug the NHS didn't cover because ... READ MORE
Summary: Instead of whisking a 69-year-old Japanese bicyclist who collided with a motorcycle to the emergency room, paramedics called 14 hospitals trying to find a facility that at last accepted the critically-injured man. The hospital at which he was taken ... READ MORE
"Long waits and shortages result from government control of the health sector. There are only so many hospitals, only so many doctors. When government promises that everyone will be treated (ostensibly) gratis, it does not simultaneously conjure more doctors into ... READ MORE
By David Almasi: Project 21 member and National Center board member Horace Cooper has been scheduled to discuss how the dynamic of race relations is changed by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency on C-Span's "Washington Journal" program Friday morning.You ... READ MORE
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