Category: Health

Back when Obama was trying to convince Congress to destroy America’s health care system in the name of expanding government and giving Democrats more power, their tune has changed quite a bit: President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Medicare, is a strong supporter of the government-run […]

Bureauweenies don’t always have the sharpest wits, but there’s no doubting their cleverness when it comes to “spreading the wealth around” from our pockets into their coffers. Here‘s a new revenue-generating scheme from Australia: Up to 50,000 people face a fine of $110 a day if they refuse to divulge information on their health and […]

Want to see what America’s future looks like if they : keep pursuing big government, high taxes, and reckless spending? Just look to Greece. Want to see what the future of America’s medical care will look like if Obamacare isn’t repealed? Look to Texas: Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by […]

Happy Friday! Here’s an interesting story from yesterday that I just never got around to The great mystery surrounding the historic health care bill is how the corporations that provide coverage for most Americans — coverage they know and prize — will react to the new law’s radically different regime of subsidies, penalties, and taxes. […]

Today in this country, there are more than 200,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. Many of these people will wait for years, bed ridden, ill, and a significant percentage of them will die without ever receiving the organ they needed to lead a normal life. There is no practical reason that this problem still […]

A glimpse of the future of pharmacology, now that the Flower Power generation at the helm of the federal government has seized control of the healthcare system: Scientists are taking a new look at hallucinogens, which became taboo among regulators after enthusiasts like Timothy Leary promoted them in the 1960s with the slogan “Turn on, […]

Oh, wait, excuse, did I say “Insurance Company?” Sorry, my bad, should probably have more coffee A Hollywood woman who was dropped from Medicaid coverage while needing a bone marrow transplant is finally getting the coverage and treatment she needs to stay alive. Diana Smith is battling a rare form of Leukemia and needs the […]

David Leonhardt of the New York Times discovered in a recent column that health care is not a free and unlimited good.:  Some way or another, a certain amount of demand will not be met.:  People cannot get all that they want because it is a scarce good and is restrained by the same laws […]