Ebola Nurse a Criminal?
by Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus, went for a bike ride on Thursday, …
Category: Medicine
Cardiologists Foresee Their Profession Ending Under DemCare
USA Today reports that cardiologists, one of, if not the, most elite of surgical specialties, have filed suit against Kathleen Sebelius and the Health and …
Taxing Cadillac Health Plans un-American
MIT professor Jonathan Gruber says that a plan to tax so-called “Cadillac” health care plans isn’t a tax at all. But what else could it …
Democratic Grinches Ruin Medical Care System on Christmas Eve
In a straight party-line vote, Democrats in the U.S. Senate today passed a health care system reform bill through their side of Congress, despite the …
On the Potential Passing of Byrd, DemCare
Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias charges that Republicans are “hoping that they can stall long enough for Robert Byrd to die” in order to derail Democrats’ …
Government Medicine Ethics
Sarah Palin is making waves by saying that the Democrats’ mega-healthcare plan – which seems likely to pass the House at any moment – will …
Democrats Making Health Care Worse
Paul Krugman wonders how health care will work after the Democrats’ proposed reforms pass through Congress. That question may be premature, although it’s a good …
The Health Care Debate We’re Not Having
We are not having the health care debate that we should be having. The first question should be, “Should the government offer any sort of health care benefit?”, not “What kind of health care program should we implement, how much should it cost, and who will it cover?” These are interesting questions; however, until the former is answered, resoundingly, as an affirmative they are also irrelevant.
Liberals’ Single-Payer System to Get Floor Vote
Probably tired of the shrill voices in his ear, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has evidently given in to liberal Democrats such …
Demanding Health Care as a Right is Wrong
Even the debate over health care is not immune from commentators whose caustic, even violent rhetoric would be more at home at a third-world pit fight than in a democratic society. Witness one Dr. Kirk James Murphy. But is health care really a fundamental right?