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Entries Tagged as 'Socialized Medicine'
On the Supposed "Illogic" of Opposing the "Public Option"
June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Libertarianism · Socialized Medicine
Socialized Medicine Denialism and Steve Jobs' Liver Transplant
June 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Economics is the ___ science?
Tags: Socialized Medicine
"Too Much is Never Enough" Quote of the Day
March 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
"I can't take advantage of it now which I think is totally unfair…"
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Socialized Medicine · Taxation & Fiscal Policy
On Government Intervention for the Octo-Bimbo
February 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments
It has become increasingly clear, both in text and image, that Nadya Suleman, the controversial single mother, too "disabled" to work but not too disabled to bang out 14 children via artificial means, is simply mentally incompetent.
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Children v. Parents; Homeschooling · Law · Socialized Medicine
From the Archives: Behold American "Poverty"
February 5th, 2009 · Comments Off
The Prime Taboo of Politics is that no middle class entitlement must ever be allowed to hint of being the dole.
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Fiscal Federalism · Socialized Medicine
How the Other 2.9% Lives
December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Richard Swier, a retired military physician, has a modest proposal to help alleviate the health care finance crisis:
Reduce and eliminate health disparities? How about we eliminate gay, lesbian and bisexual behavior? Perhaps the Department of Health, Governor and Legislature should create strategies to reduce the number of gays, lesbians and bisexuals. That would solve this [...]
Tags: Gay Rights and Issues · Socialized Medicine
Health Care and Inauguration Tickets
November 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
What do they have in common?
That's right — Both are scarce goods and must therefore be rationed:
With about 55,000 requests for fewer than 400 tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin's staff says he has no choice but to dispense them in a random drawing. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, a fellow Maryland [...]
Tags: Capitalism · Socialized Medicine · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Socialized Medicine: A Quick "Kennedy is an Ass" Note
November 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Can't quite fit this on Twitter:
I'm sure opponents will dust off the same old slogans they have used to try to block every major advance in health care. They will call it "socialized medicine" and a "government takeover," just as they did when they opposed Medicare and the children's health program — and they are [...]
Tags: Socialized Medicine
Lies, Damned Lies, and Nursing Homes
September 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I was all set to cite this New York Times article on violation rates in nursing homes simply in a "Questions" entry: Shouldn't a supposed "right to health care" include a right to violation-free nursing home care? Etc.
But I'm changing tack after having read the whole piece:
More than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited [...]
Tags: Socialized Medicine
Socialized Medicine: How the NHS Rations Health Care
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
To review: Health care, however defined, is a scarce good like any other good or service. And like any other scarce good or service, it must be rationed. The only question is how it will be rationed — by private market forces (perhaps bounded by a minimal, humane social safety net for the truly incompetent) [...]
Tags: Foreign Affairs · Socialized Medicine



















