Republicans think they are so clever, having rammed through a massive expansion of the welfare state by giving drug benefits to the elderly. They co-opted the AARP — long considered to be in the pocket of the Democrats — and left the Democrats with no real...
Healthcare
The Medicare Frame-Up: Republican “Free Market” Medicare Bill is Closet Socialism
After battling for months over two allegedly opposite versions of the bill to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, members of the House and Senate announced Saturday they had reached an agreement. House Republicans managed to include in the bill a provision to...
Why Medicare Expansion is Wrong
Adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, as Congress is poised to do, is merely more socialism — it will neither help seniors nor is its passage likely to gain their votes.
The Republican’s Medicare Tyranny
The Medicare II bill (my name for it) that Congress is about to pass is an unmitigated disaster. The bill contains provisions for the largest expansion of socialized health care in this nation’s history. It essentially nationalizes prescription drugs for the...
The New Medicare Program: A Prescription for Disaster
At a cost of $400 billion over 10 years, Congressional Republicans have agreed in Conference Committee–with the enthusiastic encouragement of a Republican President–to the greatest expansion of government in two generations. This new Medicare program can...
Free-Lunch Medicine
It is always fascinating to see elementary economics make front-page news. It was front-page news in the Wall Street Journal of November 12th that there are long waiting times for seeing medical specialists in Canada and in other countries with government-controlled...
Kill Bill – To Expand Medicare
From time to time, Congress passes, and the President signs a bill, that forever changes every American’s life. The Medicare prescription drug coverage bill — which President Bush has vowed to sign — is such an event; if passed, this expansion of...
Health By Government: Even Worse than Death and Taxes
It is insulting enough when the government celebrates your death by taxing away your wealth or your business. Much more damaging are the taxes on the money you need to stay alive. Medicare legislation now pending before a conference committee in Washington would...
A Leap Toward Socialized Medicine — By One Vote
Last Thursday night, Congress approved President Bush’s expansion of Medicare by one vote. Once Bush signs the bill, every American over age 65 will lose the freedom to choose, pay for and control drug treatments. The proposal, set to start in three years, is a...
Bush’s Medicare Plan is Hillary Clinton’s Triumph
This week, at President Bush’s urging, the GOP-controlled Congress is likely to approve a bill that severely restricts seniors’ freedom of choice in health care. When Congress passes the Medicare bill — which Bush has promised to sign — every...
FDA Stamp of Approval: Prozac for Kids
The FDA has okayed Prozac for kids 8-years-old and up. While some physicians have prescribed to kids for years, this puts the stamp of approval on a practice that is still highly controversial due to a lack of studies. The drug’s maker, Eli Lilly, has agreed to...
Medicare Can’t Be Reformed
In the January 6th, 2003 Wall Street Journal editorial it is stated: “Adding a drug benefit [to Medicare] makes sense, but only if it is added as part of reform that introduces market incentives and competition to Medicare.” Wrong. Adding a drug benefit to...
Bad Medicine
The one monumental fact that is being ignored in all the political schemes to bring down the cost of pharmaceutical drugs is that it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop one successful new medicine. No matter how cleverly the politicians try to shift those...
Death by the FDA
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories has developed an injectable antibiotic called Tigecycline. It can be used to treat resistant pathogens — bacteria that are immune to standard antibiotics. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has changed the rules for...
Doctors Without Principles
The AIDS activists have based their campaign on a socialist agenda that is focused on bashing the drugs industry.
“Universal” Health Insurance Will Only Enlarge the Medicare Problem
Simple is usually better, right? So it’s not surprising to hear some members of Congress agreeing with syndicated columnist Molly Ivins on how to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance. “The answer is universal health insurance, a...
The FDA vs. Red Cross: Federal Vampire Hunters Living in Soviet-style Utopia
The Food and Drug Administration is currently spending its resources hunting the American Red Cross, a charitable non-profit organization that is responsible for many health advancements in America, by attempting to find ways in which the Red Cross has violated the...
Socialized Medicine in 10 Easy Steps
Republicans have never been big fans of reforming the health insurance system, nor have many of them ever taken the time to learn much about it. Of course, that won’t be a surprise to anyone who has watched Republicans pass one bad piece of health care...
The “Patient Bill of Rights” is Political Window Dressing
As a health care provider, here is my proposal for a patient bill of rights: 1. The right to enter voluntary, contractual relationships with doctors — without paternalistic interference on the part of federal and state governments. For example: laws mandating...
Mandating Vaccines: Government Practicing Medicine Without a License?
Mandates have a profound effect on medical practice. The relationship of patient and physician is shattered: in administering the vaccine, the physician is serving as the agent of the state.
The Medicare Bureaucracy is a Frankenstein Monster That is Destroying American Medicine
The complex system for Medicare reimbursement for physicians is based on over 7,000 medical treatment codes. You know we’re in big trouble in medicine today when there’s a code not only for flatulence, but one for the guy standing downwind as well....
Fascist Medicine: Why the Health Care System We Have Now is Worse Than Socialism
What we have in the United States today, in health care and other fields as well, is government largely running the show while we all pretend that it’s capitalism causing the problems.
Will A Right To Prescription Drugs Kill Both The Sick And the Healthy?
Al Gore promised to provide prescription drugs “coverage for all” American senior citizens if elected president. Democrats applauded, and Republicans timidly committed to a plan that makes “coverage … available for all seniors.” What would...
Is a “Right to Prescription Drugs” Good Medicine?
Al Gore promised to provide prescription drugs “coverage for all” American senior citizens if elected president. Republicans, afraid of not jumping on the bandwagon and missing out on the next elections, joined the Democrats, and committed to a plan that...
Demonizing Private Doctors to Advance Socialism in Medicine
Last December [1999], the National Academy of Sciences has called for the establishment of a federal “Center for Patient Safety,” operating under the auspices of Public Health Service at a projected annual cost of $100 million. The...
Gore’s Prescription Plan Is Unjust and Unhealthy
Al Gore’s vow to “take on” the prescription drug industry will continue the decades-long hobbling of the American health care industry, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.
“Humanitarian” Food and Medicine Bill for Cuba is Anything but Pro-Human
Fidel Castro’s use of food and medicine as weapons of control over the Cuban population is a tactic as old as the Revolution itself.
The Sanctity of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
The doctor-patient relationship is not merely eroding, it is dying.
Government Controlled Medicine: The Destruction of the Physician-Patient Relationship (Part 2)
One of the most tragic effects of state controlled health care is the phenomenomen of “brain drain.” No young bright individual, no dedicated physician who has spent years mercilessly studying and mastering his art wishes to be a slave to the government....
Government Controlled Medicine: The Destruction of the Physician-Patient Relationship (Part 1)
Approximately 2500 years ago Hippocrates, a physician-philosopher and genius from Greek antiquity, put into motion one of man’s greatest and noblest achievements-Western Medicine. The inheritors of Hippocrates’ rational Art-the physicians of today-are...
The Myth of Patient Safety
By demonizing the good name of health care professionals with unanswerable charges, the NAS is blaming alleged problems of the current system on a free market and commercial interests, and advancing the cause of a centralized, socialist health care system.
Health Care Quality Under Siege
AFCM’s advertisements and brochure begin with the phrase, “The crisis in American health care is not one of quality.” If a recent New York Times article (10/19) is true, this will soon change. “In a break from three decades of Medicare policy, the Clinton...
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