Tag: Government health care

  • Health care reform threatens anesthesiology, patients

    While doctors aren’t the only source of information we should use when considering health care reform, they are on the front lines of providing care, and so their insights are valuable. Recently, Ronald Dworkin contributed An Anesthesiologist’s Take on Health-Care Reform to the Wall Street Journal. He makes some good observations on doctors in general,…

  • Health Czar, interrupted

    The Sam Adams Alliance presents another humorous look at health care reform in American. The first, Health rations and you, was very popular on YouTube. Now: “After months of Americans happily sacrificing for the Health Administration Bureau, Health Czar O’Brien holds his first press conference, ready to answer the tough questions.”

  • Death goes to Washington

    Wichita activist Wendy Aylworth has taken her cause, Morticians for National Health Care to Washington. This group, a tongue-in-cheek preview of the future Wendy believes we face under ObamaCare, seeks to inject a little humor and satire into the debate over health care reform.

  • President Obama’s health care speech

    Speaking to a joint session of Congress and the American people, President Barack Obama laid out his latest vision for health care reform.

  • Government institutions not role model for health care

    One of the arguments used to promote more government involvement in the provision of health care is this: government already provides so many services, and government does it so well, that we ought to turn over medicine to it too.

  • Some without health insurance are eligible

    Last week we looked at U.S. Census data regarding the number of people in America without health insurance, and we saw that a large number of people are eligible for various free insurance programs, but haven’t applied. The number may be as high as 14 million. Today’s Wichita Eagle has a story that may illustrate…

  • Articles of Interest

    Kansas budget, expensive college, Kansas education funding, alternatives to ObamaCare.

  • Uninsured count needs explanation

    One of the problems in the health care debate today is lack of facts — at least facts that all sides of the debate can agree on. Without such agreement, without a basic set of facts and data to reason from, we’re not likely to make any progress. One example of a fact often used…

  • Swiss system could be best of the big-government reform alternatives

    At a recent forum on health care in Wichita, the system of health care in Switzerland was mentioned as a system that we could learn from.