Category: Health
Socialized Medicine by Stealth: Panel Calls SCHIP Expansion ‘Bad for Kids, Families, and Taxpayers’
The Senate Finance Committee moved this week to expand the role of government in our health care system by expanding SCHIP (the program that gives government health care to children in families with too much money to qualify them for ...
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Emergency Room Care Quality Harmed by 1986 Federal Law
John S. O'Shea, M.D. of the Heritage Foundation has a new paper on emergency health care access for low-income individuals that explains how a federal law adopted in 1986 is "a major barrier to timely and appropriate emergency medical care" ...
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“Sicko” Presents False View of Cuba’s Health System, by Ryan Balis
Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore claims his latest documentary, "Sicko," will "rip the band-aid off America's health care industry,"1 which Moore sees as wrongfully dominated by private drug companies and profit-seeking HMOs. In part of "Sicko," released June 29, Moore takes ...
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Anti-DDT Policies Are Deadly for Africa, by Thompson Ayodele and Adegoke Anthony
Anti-DDT Policies Are Deadly for Africa by Thompson Ayodele (bio) and Adegoke Anthony Last year, one of our colleagues, his wife and their two children were diagnosed with malaria. In an instant, their lives were turned upside down. All other ...
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Health Care Rationing, Government-Style
Writing on his excellent personal blog, David Hogberg compares the myths promoted by advocates of government health care systems with the realities in nations that have such systems, noting that a half million Britons have now been told they will ...
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Sweden’s Single-Payer Health System Provides a Warning to Other Nations
Sweden is a country of about 9.1 million people on the Scandinavian Peninsula of Northern Europe. Geographically, it is slightly larger than California. It is by any measure a first world country, with a labor force working primarily in industry ...
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60 Minutes Does Health Care II
The National Center for Public Policy Research's health care senior policy analyst, David Hogberg, contacted the CBS television show "60 Minutes" five times last week -- by telephone, fax and e-mail -- to warn the show's producers that a report ...
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60 Minutes Misleads Viewers About the Price of Prescription Drugs Paid By Medicare
Washington, D.C. - On April 1, 2007, the CBS News program 60 Minutes broadcast a segment on prescription drug prices that relied heavily on a flawed report written by a group with a clear political motive. Producers of the program ...
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Mental Health Parity Act Shifts Practice of Imposing Mandates from the States to the Federal Level; Likely to Raise Insurance Premiums, by David Hogberg, Ph.D. and Paul Gessing
Outside of the Iraq War, the debate over health care reform is one of the most contentious issues in politics today. With ongoing debate in Washington and a flurry of activity in the states, the need to make health care ...
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The Teachers’ Lesson: How To Scam Social Security
How would you like to work for just one day and earn thousands of dollars for it afterwards? Perhaps that sounds like an infomercial on cable TV at three in the morning. Or maybe it sounds like another FOX TV ...
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