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Category Archives: Health Care
Bogus Civility
Finally someone said what I’ve been thinking about this constant call to civility: Have we transformed into so brittle a citizenry that we are unable to handle a raucous debate over the future of the country? If things were quiet, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Gov't Spending, Health Care, Race, Synova's Page, Uncategorized
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Jenny McCarthy Body Count?
though probably not the kind you were hoping for. I think the “Anti-Vaccine Body Count” version is the better one to use, but the Jenny McCarthy one will be used because it’s more sensational and attention grabbing, the same reasons … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Health Care, science
Tagged autism, psuedoscience, vaccines, woo
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The Cult of Nutritionism Suffers a Setback
(photo: gualtiero) In a fine blow to the pseudoscientific cult of nutritionism, an intensive study conducted by the National Institutes of Health applied the same laboratory standards to vitamin supplements as are routinely applied to pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, science
Tagged alternative medicine, cancer, conspiracy theories, counterknowledge, cult, Damian Thompson, disease, drugs, Edgar R. Miller, epidemiology, green tea, health, healthcare, heart disease, Johns Hopkins University, Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, medicine, modernity, National Institutes of Health, nineteenth century, Nutritionism, pharmaceuticals, placebo, pseudoscience, quackery, School of Medicine, science, snake oil sales, Technology, vitamin supplements
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A Gutter-al Scream
It’s almost as if the Dems can’t help but to resort to misogynistic antagonism in dealing with Gov. Sarah Palin. This comes courtesy of Alan Colmes, citing Rogers Cadenhead who questions Palin’s maternal abilities: One bit of weirdness associated with … Continue reading
Medifraud
Michael F. Cannon at Cato blogs about a NYTimes article on the rife fraud found and covered up at Medicare. A confidential draft of a federal inspector general’s report claimed that the behavior they found at the Medicare Administration was … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Health Care, Libertarianism
Tagged administration, AdvanceMed, California, Cato Institute, confidential, congress, crime, Democrat, federal spending, fraud, inspector general, Law, medicare, medifraud, Michael F. Cannon, New York Times, pete stark, road map, Ways and Means Committee
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With This Ring
What attracted you to your spouse? Was it his devilish sense of humor? Her warmth and abilities to be a fine mother? His strength and intelligence? Her beauty and sexiness? Today, we find couples tying the knot for another reason: … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Peg's Page
Tagged Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Bo McLain, Corey Marshall, Dena McLain, Health Care, health insurance, insurance, Kim Wetzel, marriage
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A Conservative Blueprint for Health Care?
Ryan Ellis, the Tax Policy Director at Americans for Tax Reform, presents 3 principles of conservative health care. Principle 1: Conservative health care reform should neither raise taxes nor increase the size of government. You’d think this would be a … Continue reading
Boundary Issues
Peg pointed me this way, and I really enjoyed nodding in agreement. Of course, I have long nodded in agreement with Megan. Especially on these: 2) Gay marriage. I’m basically pro, but I take the Burkean arguments seriously. 3) Immigration. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, Society
Tagged darfur, gay marriage, Health Care, immigration, Libertarianism, statism
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Hippocrates Unbound
The idea of state funded and administered universal health care is a bugbear of libertarians everywhere, and especially those who are subjected to such a system as a matter of course. Routinely held up as one of the worst of … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Dr. Helen Evans, leviathan, Libertarianism, NHS, political power, reform, universal health care
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Paralyzed Woman Sues Chiropractic for Half Billion
It seems a chiropractor in Canada was manipulating a patient’s neck and paralyzed her. Luckily she isn’t dead from a stroke. Sandy had been going to Stiles regularly for more than seven years, receiving adjustments to her back and neck … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Health Care
Tagged chiropractors, class action lawsuits, malpractic, psuedoscience
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And On This Topic -
John McCain gets my vote. What exactly is the problem with the American health-care system? The problem is not that Americans don’t have fine doctors, medical technology, and treatments. American medicine is the envy of the world. The problem is … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Health Care, Peg's Page
Tagged Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Health Care, John McCain
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Why White People Like Free Health Care
Yet another reason to read Steve Newton, you discover blogs with stuff like this on it: But the secret reason why all white people love socialized medicine is that they all love the idea of receiving health care without having … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Humor, Lance's Page
Tagged Health Care, Humor, socialized medicine, white people
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Surgery on the Middle Man
We all expect to eat – but we don’t get insurance to guarantee food. We all need various sorts of transportation. But, other than some insurance to cover the value of a valuable vehicle, we don’t need insurance to make … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health Care, Peg's Page
Tagged Health Care, insurance, Jonathan Kellerman
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The Sickening
A Cuban medical office with a sign reading “No prescriptions available.” Photo by: Dr. Darsi Ferrer [via The Real Cuba]. News of Fidel Castro’s retirement has elicited some interesting responses. Chris Bertram’s has to be one of the most arrogant … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Foreign affairs, Health Care, MichaelW's Page
Tagged apologists, communism, Cuba, Education, Fidel Castro, Health Care, Michael Moore, retires, socialism, The Real Cuba
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Better off Dead
Kim at Wizbang links to this story about eugenic thinking in Brittan. The comments came as the Lords debated an amendment, [...] that would have protected unborn disabled children from abortion after the 24 week gestational time limit. The amendment … Continue reading
Posted in Eugenics, Health Care, Law, Synova's Page
Tagged abortion, disabilities, Domestic Politics, Eugenics, reproduction
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Private health care comes to Sweden
Why? Because people are fed up with waiting for care and a health care bureaucracy with no incentive to improve: Waiting times for medical care in Sweden are the longest in Europe, according to the Health Consumer Powerhouse, which analyzes … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Lance's Page
Tagged Health Care, Lars Ohly, state run health care, Sweden, Swedish left party
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Look Who Pays For Mitt-Care
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney oversaw the implementation of state-wide universal health care, something that he touts as a major accomplishment on his campaign website. In fact, after signing the legislation into law, Romney penned a an Op-Ed for … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Health Care, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Economics, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, taxation, universal health care, Wisconsin
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Hanging Out in the TMC
Yeah, that’s me after a few too many cocktails in the hotel lounge. As Lance related, I’m in Houston in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) visiting my father who recently had an internal defibrillator put on his heart. The surgery … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Lee's Page, Travel
Tagged allergist, Ballardian, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub Hospital, boutique, Cayman, Christian Louboutin, clinics, doctors, European, filipina, Health Care, hospitals, Houston, JG Ballard, John P. McGovern, Manolo Blahnik, MD Anderson Cancer Center, medical, Methodist Hospital, nurses, Porsche, Prada, receptioniss, research, Saudi, Super-Cannes, Technology, Texas, Texas Children's Hospital, Texas Medical Center, wives
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Take Two
Earlier in the day, you might have been wondering how much of your assets might melt away, as markets around the world gyrated with perceived increasingly negative news. Later, on political blogs everywhere, reports that Fred Thompson was ending a … Continue reading
Posted in Election 2008, Health Care, Media, Society
Tagged addiction, Blogs, bridge, drugs, election, Fred Thompson, Heath Ledger, overdose, political, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani, tragedy
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Bloomberg Busted
From the “Holier Than Thou” department comes this interesting photo taken by Larry Fink for Wired Magazine. (link to larger photo) What’s that he’s reaching for with his right hand? Why, it’s a Cheez-ItTM! After gaining national media attention for … Continue reading
A New Nigerian Shakedown
(photo: Jonathan Boeke) The latest 419 scams aren’t the only nuisances for American businesses emerging out of Nigeria this year. Using the vast archive of documents made public during the 1990s epidemic of class action lawsuits against tobacco companies, Nigeria … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Health Care, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, cigarettes, Health Care, individual rights, judicial corruption, Law, lawsuits, Nigeria, smoking, tobacco
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Talent, Economics 101 and Health Care
Personally I find this observation from a paper by Mark Ramseyer unsurprising to say the least: The Japanese national health insurance provides universal coverage. Necessarily, this entails a subsidy that dramatically raises the demand for medical services. In the face … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health Care, Lance's Page
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Whither The Middle Class?
Hillary and Obama agree on taxing Americans more, they just can’t agree on whether it’s the “middle” or “upper” class that they’re prepared to squeeze for votes (HT: Paul Caron): Class, always an awkward topic in the United States, made … Continue reading
Health Care Innovation: Updated
The meme that our private sector, especially our pharmaceutical and medical device companies, has nothing to do with our success as a health care innovator is unfortunately widespread: The great breakthroughs in the history of medicine, from the development of … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Health Care, Lance's Page
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Veterans as victims
They have to be, so CBS tries to do the numbers. Like most of us however, when numbers fit you take them at face value: But a five-month CBS News investigation discovered data that shows a startling rate of suicide, … Continue reading
Oh, To Be a Fat Cat
The New York Times has a nice piece on the latest health research on the impact of weight on health. Of course, like most nutrition and weight related research we should approach it with some caution as John Tierney has … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health Care, Lance's Page, social science, Society
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The cost of not paying
Wilson Mixon notices a rather predictable, but nevertheless ironic aspect data on the cost of health care: Russ Roberts provides a snapshot of how much third-party payments have grown since 1960. My computations below are from the table from which … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health Care, Lance's Page
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Mankiw Responds
Greg Mankiw responds to questions about his views on health care following his piece on the misuse of statistics in the health care debate: Q: There has been a lot of blogosphere commentary on your piece. Are you going to … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Health Care, Lance's Page
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Enough Already
A couple of days ago I linked to McQ and Mark Steyn on the state of knowledge about the “poor family” whose child was used by Senate Democrats in their push to expand the SCHIP program. Here is why: The … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, Media, regulation
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The Clown Show
I was going to bring you up to speed on the ridiculous response the Democrats gave to President Bush’s veto of the expansion of SCHIP and the mainstream media’s clownish and credulous layers of fact checkers, but here are a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Lance's Page
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“Universal” Health Care Failing in Japan
Some interesting observations about universal health care in Japan. I suppose limiting the amount of care the government provides for is one way to hold down health care costs, but I doubt that is what people have in mind when … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Economics, Health Care, Keith's Page
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Canadian MP comes to US for treatment-Update x2
Why? This chart might give a clue: Seems that not only is the US the best place to be treated for cancer, Canada isn’t even in the top 20. The difference is also startlingly large. Say Anything has more. Update: … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Health Care, Lance's Page
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Wisconsin’s Experiment
Via McQ (who had posted on the topic previously), I see that Wisconsin is planning to introduce universal statewide health care at an initially estimated cost of about $15.2 Billion per year: Democrats who run the Wisconsin Senate have dropped … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Health Care, MichaelW's Page
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