healthcare on Townhall

• Which Government Spend the Most Per Capita on Government Healthcare: France, Italy, the United States, Sweden, Canada, Greece, or the United Kingdom? Sun Feb 24
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Thanks to government programs and backdoor intervention through the tax code, the United States healthcare system is nowhere close to a free market. ... more
• Some People Just Deserve "Free" Healthcare Sun Feb 17
  John Ransom
  If you are going to accuse someone of being a pompous demagogue, and "ignoring the main body of intellectual knowledge," you really ought to at least know how to spell “demagog” correctly. ... more
• Riddle Me This Obama: If Healthcare Costs are Our Problem, What Was Obamacare About? Thu Feb 14
  John Ransom
  Two years ago we were told and sold that Obamacare, the keystone legislative effort of Obama’s first two years, would solve our problems when it comes to out-of-control government spending. Imagine how upsetting it might be now to discover that the White House thinks that government spending isn’t out control, but that we have a HUGE problem with healthcare spending. Of all things. ... more
• Obama defends healthcare programs in inaugural speech Mon Jan 21
  Reuters News
• Remembering Obama’s Inaugural Promises Mon Jan 21
  Dan Holler
  Four years ago, President Barack Obama told a captive nation that change would come. Change did indeed come to America, but not the change many people envisioned. ... more
• Obama's Health Care Problem Sat Jan 19
  John C. Goodman
  President Obama made a remarkable statement to John Boehner in the middle of their negotiations leading up to the fiscal cliff. "We don't have a spending problem," the president said. We have "a health care problem." ... more
• When Government Offers to Help, It Often Makes a Mess Mon Dec 31
  Michael Barone
  There's a natural human impulse to help people who need a hand. In the political world, that often translates to an impulse to have government help people who need a hand. Who wants to argue with that? ... more
• Judge allows NY Archdiocese lawsuit over healthcare law Wed Dec 5
  Reuters News
• Is Healthcare A Right? Tue Dec 4
  Armstrong Williams
  Often when someone nears the end of life, they begin to contemplate their lives and recognize that of all the things they've accumulated, all the accolades that have been bestowed upon them, nothing is as valuable as life itself: there is nothing that should be protected more than life itself. ... more
• The Sadistic Brutality of England’s Government-Run Healthcare Sun Dec 2
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  I read a story about the death panels in the United Kingdom that left me discombobulated. I can’t even begin to describe how I feel. And here are some of the horrifying details. Read at your own risk. ... more
• What Medicare Needs is a Consumer-Driven Market Wed Nov 28
  Jeff Jacoby
  Neurologists are about to feel the sting of the Affordable Care Act. Beginning Jan. 1, Medicare will be paying them less for electrodiagnostic procedures used in identifying and treating a wide range of nerve and muscle disorders. Reimbursement rates for some tests will be slashed by more than 50 percent, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates that payments to neurologists overall will shrink by 7 percent next year. ... more
• Cantor: If President is Serious About Negotiations, He Ought to Put Obamacare on the Table' Mon Nov 26
  America
  The House Majority Leader offers solutions to avoiding the fiscal cliff. ... more
• U.S. releases new healthcare reform rules on insurance coverage Tue Nov 20
  Reuters News
• Obama win clears healthcare reform hurdle, challenges remain Wed Nov 7
  Reuters News
• Last Chance For America to Decide About Healthcare Tue Nov 6
  Hal Scherz
  The Democrats and their media allies want you to believe that this issue is behind us. Fortunately it is not, and we do have a choice. ... more
• White House won't oppose new challenge to 2010 healthcare law Wed Oct 31
  Reuters News
• Analysis: Employees to face healthcare sticker shock Sun Oct 28
  Reuters News
• You Are What Barack Says Mon Oct 22
  Dan Holler
  Remember the old saying “you are what you eat?” Well, in President Obama’s America, you are what the federal government says you are. ... more
• Wanna Die? Try Government-Run Healthcare in the United Kingdom Sun Oct 21
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Regardless of how much I grouse about the damage government causes in the United States, I can say with considerable confidence that the government-run system in the United Kingdom has even larger problems. ... more
• Chicago's Cook County wants tax on bullets to pay for healthcare Thu Oct 18
  Reuters News
• Cuckoo Medicine Wed Oct 17
  Robert E. Freer
  In a free market, if a patient does not receive proper service from an insurance company or the doctor, the patient has other choices. In government-controlled medical and insurance industries, choice is removed. We have just one government enforcing a one-size-fits-all national standard. In effect, quality declines, choices decrease, costs increase, and the entire economy is saddled by astronomical and rapidly increasing debt. ... more
• Another British Healthcare Horror Story: UK Death Panels Tue Oct 16
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Defenders of government-run healthcare assert that there won’t be any rationing, denial of care, or requirements for euthanasia. That’s technically true, but the Obamacare death panel will be determining what’s an acceptable treatment and what’s the government-approved payment schedule. ... more
• Medicaid Plan Shows that Obama’s an Enemy of the Poor Wed Oct 10
  Peter Ferrara
  As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no obligations expected, versus the right supporting no safety net at all, let private charity handle it, and if some of the poor have to starve, and some of the sick suffer or die without health care, because private charity is inadequate, so be it. ... more
• Obama, Romney debate sheds little light on healthcare issues Thu Oct 4
  Reuters News
• Future U.S. healthcare customers to challenge insurers: report Tue Oct 2
  Reuters News
• Analysis: Romney would send consumers healthcare bill, with benefits Tue Oct 2
  Reuters News

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