Obama’s Lost Crusade to Win Friends

Has letting the Fonz be in charge helped America?  The short answer is “no;” the long answer is “no” with an exclamation point.  Under Barack Obama’s leadership, our popularity increases superficially as our standing plummets; that should trouble even those who think George W. Bush was a Richie, Mister C., or perhaps Potsie type.  Regrettably, [...]

Canadian Wendy Sullivan’s Health Care Nightmare, Part II

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
Behind closed doors Democratic leadership is strong arming Blue Dog Dems. I pray they hold fast to their principles but with someone like Nancy Pelosi (with eyeballs bugging) breathing down one’s neck, I know it’s tempting to give in, sign the confession and beg to be sent back to one’s cell. Oh, [...]

Canadian Wendy Sullivan’s Health Care Nightmare

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
Liberals love personal stories. On The Chosen One’s website readers can find sap story after sap story about health care woes. Visitors are encouraged to write in their own haunting tale to further the cause of Obamacare. While I don’t doubt that people need health care and certainly our system needs reform, [...]

A Closer Look at H.R. 3200

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
Have you looked at H.R. 3200 yet? The bill description reads: “To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.”
Obviously, it’s not going to provide affordable healthcare. We know the Congressional Budget Office released a report stating that this delightful, [...]

Medicare has lower “reported” costs. Truth or Fiction?

By: Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD
Are the administrative costs of single-payer health care systems less than current private insurance system in the United States?
One claim made by advocates of single-payer health care systems is that private insurance is less “efficient” because of high administrative costs incurred by having “multiple” insurance companies, and the costs of [...]

Canada Doesn’t Get It

By: Ellen Janoski

Barack Obama has scheduled a play date this month with Canada’s NDP (New Democratic Party) leader, Jack Layton. President Obama plans to sit down with Canada’s premier socialist “expert” on how to best nationalize our healthcare system.

Layton, who is known in his homeland for trying to imitate Obama’s feel good speeches, and Obama’s state-of-the-art suit ensembles, will now be urging Obama to imitate his party’s healthcare principles. Layton will spend three days this month bragging to Americans about Canada-Care, delivering speeches and meeting with Democrats.

When Brad Lavinge, the National Director of Canada’s NDP, was asked about the upcoming appointment, he stated, “We would go down there to not only defend Canada’s health-care system — but encourage them to adopt similar features.”

Lavinge went on to say, “”[Medicare] is one of the greatest connections we have to each other. Regardless of your economic status, if you get sick, you will get care.”

Lavinge is right of course. If Canadians get sick, they do get care. He just fails to mention how long it may take depending on your ailment.

According to a recent study published in Health Affairs it could take a Canadian cancer patient up to 3 months to receive treatment. It was found that you were most likely to wait more than 1 month for elective surgery, 6 days or longer to see a doctor when ill…the list goes on.

Bottom line: Other Countries Cut Out Services to Reach their Low Cost Status

By: Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD

Will a single payer health care system hold down the increasing cost of health care in the United States? President Obama and other proponents of this socialized form of health care argue that it will. Of course there are many ways to debate this question, but much objective evidence suggests that it will not. Let’s look at this from two perspectives. First, what does the comparative cost data between the United States and government controlled health care systems (such as Canada) tell us? Second, what are the financial implications of this “less expensive,” government controlled health care system for the American taxpayer?

Debunking the Myths about Health Care in America

By John H. Peloza M.D.
Special Book Review
In “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care. A Citizen’s Guide,” Ms. Sally C. Pipes surgically exposes the misleading arguments of those who support government run national health care. In a time when Americans seem to believe in the competence of government to solve the health care “crisis,” [...]

Health Care?

by  Paige Bennett
Health Care?
I am a baby boomer and only three years from being of Medicare age.  I have been very fortunate in that I have been very healthy so far. As I go into the so called golden years I know the odds of my continued good health are against me.  When I have [...]

The Reality Behind the “Right” to Healthcare

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By: Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD
“Access to comprehensive health care is a human right…”1
Health care is a human “right”! Virtually every government that has instituted a system of national health insurance has made this proclamation, but what exactly does that mean, and how many of those countries have actually [...]

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