Health care: Maine moves toward freedom, Vermont toward single-payer authoritarianism

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, June 2, 2011

Maine adopts free-market reforms (though they conflict with federal health control bill), while Vermont goes single payer.

NHS in England fails to meet “even the most basic standards of care”

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, June 1, 2011

“The National Health Service is today condemned over its inhumane treatment of elderly patients in an official report that finds hospitals are failing to meet “even the most basic standards of care” for the over-65s” – Telegraph

Three Town Hall Conversations on Health Reform

by T.L. James | 11:30 pm, August 10, 2009

Pretty typical of the discussions at Ed Perlmutter’s health reform town hall in Brighton on Saturday.

“Senator Who?” Michael Bennett Gets the Code Pink Treatment on Single Payer Socialized Medicine

by T.L. James | 11:08 am, July 3, 2009

Last night in Denver, Colorado’s appointed Senator Michael “Senator Who?” Bennett attended (briefly and at the last minute) a “townhall forum” on “comprehensive healthcare reform” put on by the self-parodyingly-named Metro Organization of People.  As with all such townhalls, this one was strictly formatted and the questions for Back-and-Forth Bennett were given to him in [...]

Five More Reasons to Oppose Obama’s “Single-Payer” Collectivized Healthcare

by T.L. James | 1:25 am, June 12, 2009

Forget the statistics and the care-and-share rhetoric coming from the Obama team, urging you to support “single-payer” health insurance (aka socialized medicine, aka collectivized health care) — here are a few simple, obvious reasons why you should not want it: The Incompetence of Large Organizations “That government governs best which governs least.” As anyone who has served in [...]

“Little Ditty ’bout Dan & Diane – 2 Dems play to the heart, man” Sorry, D&D, but Healthcare is NOT a “Right”

by The Peripatetic Pundit | 2:13 pm, April 10, 2009

Well, you have to give the Democrats plaudits for consistency in their talking points. In separate appearances this week, both freshly appointed Rep. Daniel (“I’m not a carpetbagging limousine liberal”) Kagan, D-Cherry Hills Village, and Congresswoman-for-Life Diana DeGette, D-Denver (1st Congressional District) made nearly-identical statements while advocating for universal-coverage government-run health care: “I think it [...]

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