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  1. Health Care Reform

Looking for Some Health Care Heroes

by Pete Spiliakos

Market-oriented health care reform needs political entrepreneurs who will mobilize those millions of Americans who don’t have lobbyists but who would benefit from more secure and cheaper health care. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2017

Health Care Rationing is Like a High School Clique

by Wesley J. Smith

Investor’s Business Daily has a powerful editorial deconstruction of health care rationing, using the dysfunctional Oregon Medicaid system as its archetype.  From the editorial:Advocates of a nationalized single-payer arrangement, typically found on the political left, don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2009

Should The Government Give a Tax Credit for Preparing an Advance Directive?

by Wesley J. Smith

Legislation has been introduced that would give a tax credit for 30% of legal costs incurred, maximum $500, for the legal expenses incurred in filling out an advance health care directive (HR 2705). The hope, I am sure, is that people will eschew extensive efforts to save themselves, and . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2009

Health Care Reform: Turning Physicians Into Drone Bureaucrats?

by Wesley J. Smith

The New England Journal of Medicine, in addition to publishing important scientific and medical reports, is highly political.  It supports assisted suicide, for example, and even respectfully published the Groningen Protocol—the Dutch check list to determine which babies can be murdered . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009
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