SocietyCommentary
We’re Heading Into the Organ-Harvesting Stage of Assisted Suicide
The assisted suicide policy has always rested on a slippery slope. Western societies are now fully in the organ harvesting stage on the road to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Improving Child Health: Government-Run Health Care Is No Remedy
President Donald Trump told our new Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “go wild” on health. Backing up Kennedy,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Why Is American Health Care So Bad?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. How did American health care get so bad?… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
America’s Bipartisan Spending Suicide Pact
The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics. Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being secretly recorded by a… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Government Control: Biden’s Rx for Prescription Drugs Is Bad Medicine
The Biden administration has outlined a detailed prescription for even greater government control over Americans’ medications. President Joe Biden unveiled the broad outlines in his… Read More
The Royal Baby and Class-Based Health Care
On Monday, Duchess Kate gave birth to royal baby Prince George in a private suite in the posh Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital for… Read More
United Nations Defends North Korean Health Care System
North Korea came under criticism from Amnesty International last week for the dismal state of the country’s health care system. While North Korea (the Democratic… Read More
Morning Bell: The Rationer-in-Chief
When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to… Read More
Video: Undercover in Canadian Health Care
This Pajamas TV video is on the longer side, but it’s a must-see for those following the health care debate. Watch as Steven Crowder goes… Read More
Obama Walks Back Promise On Keeping Your Private Insurance
Less than 24 hours after Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner questioned the veracity of President Obama’s persistent claim that, under his health care proposals, “if… Read More
The Crushing Costs of Addressing the Crushing Cost of Health Care
President Obama vows to “address the crushing cost of health care” by, among other things, “invest[ing] in electronic health records and new technology that will… Read More
There’s Socialized Medicine Buried in Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan
Dr. Steven West, president of the Florida Medical Association, notes that the economic stimulus bill contains a down payment on President Barack Obama’s plans for… Read More
Medicaid Surprises in Stimulus
The Senateneeds to take its time with Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan. There are jut too many permanent government expansions tucked away inside this bill,… Read More
Morning Bell: The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan
Last Friday we warned you about some family planning provisions tucked away in the House stimulus bill. Some conservative lawmakers then took up the issue… Read More
The Magical Properties of Socialized Medicine
Blogging for the AFL-CIO, Mike Hall extols the benefits of socialized medicine, including: (1) lower heath care costs, and (2) higher health care costs. Here’s… Read More
Medicare’s Low Administrative Costs Strike Again
As we’ve documented before, one of the major selling points liberals deploy when arguing for socialized medicine is how much government run health care will… Read More
The Greatest Trick the Socialists Ever Pulled
Attempting to answer whether or not “Barack Obama supports Socialized Medicine?” CATO’s Michael Cannon writes: Socialized medicine exists to the extent that government controls medical… Read More
Morning Bell: They Left Out the Socialized Medicine Part
The Washington Post has a lengthy front-page story today on Barack Obama’s health care plan, which the newspaper admits contains “profound — and controversial —… Read More
A First Step Toward Socialized Medicine?
Heritage Foundation Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Stuart Butler, Ph.D., will be at kaisernetwork.org today at 1:30 p.m. answering questions about the… Read More
