Category: Health

Stethoscope Socialism, by Deroy Murdock

Stethoscope Socialism, by Deroy Murdock

New Visions Commentary /
A national health-care system may be the Holy Grail of American liberalism. If only the government managed medicine, the argument goes, costs could be restrained, quality assured and access extended from the poshest beach house to the humblest shotgun shack ...
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Medicare for All? No Thanks, Part V

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More of the "Medicare for All?" debate between our David Hogberg and Joshua Holland of AlterNet. From David Hogberg: Here are various odds and ends, in no particular order: UK Still a Strawman?: I've exchanged a few emails with Joshua ...
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Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality No Way to Compare Health Systems

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More of the "Medicare for All?" debate between our David Hogberg and Joshua Holland of AlterNet. From David Hogberg: Here are various odds and ends, in no particular order: UK Still a Strawman?: I've exchanged a few emails with Joshua ...
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Study Challenges Widely Cited Measures Used to Compare Health Care Systems

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Washington, D.C. - The two most commonly cited measures of a health care system are misleading, concludes a new policy analysis paper from the National Center for Public Policy Research.  "When comparing health care systems across the world, pundits and ...
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The National Center for Public Policy Research Announces Staff Addition to Augment Work on Health Care and Social Security Policy

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research is pleased to announce the addition of David Hogberg, Ph.D. to its health care and retirement security policy staff. Dr. Hogberg is joining The National Center for Public Policy Research ...
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Don’t Fall Prey to Propaganda: Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality are Unreliable Measures for Comparing the U.S. Health Care System to Others

National Policy Analysis #547 /
How does the United States health care system fare when compared to the rest of the industrialized world?  This is an important question.  Accurately measuring our health care system relative to those of other nations can yield insight into the ...
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Whole Foods Founder: Freedom Movement Needs to “Re-Brand” Itself

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Inspired by a daughter who is a serious fruit-and-vegetable lover, over the last year or so I've been shopping semi-regularly at Whole Foods, but I always figured I was probably one of the few non-lefties there. Guess not, as a ...
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Abortion, Birth Control Biases Exposed by Proponents’ Original Intentions, by Bob Parks

New Visions Commentary /
Because so many things seem to get lost among the political minutia when laws and policies are created, it's wise to look back to find the "original intent" that began the process. When it comes to the original intent of ...
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Social Security Reform Critics Often Close Eyes to System’s Problems

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A typical e-mail of those I received from those who were critics after my March 22 post about the March 16 Social Security vote in the U.S. Senate: About 80% of the American public trusts the views of the AARP, ...
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Uninsured Americans: How Many, and How Do We Help?

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Matt at the Center for Faith in Politics blog disagrees with me on health care issues I raised when criticizing a New Republic editorial that makes this claim: Government isn't the best way to provide all Americans with health security ...
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