Bookworm on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Health, Medicine
Britain’s ailing national health care system continues to try to heal itself, usually at patient’s expense. I don’t know about you, but this proposal doesn’t strike me as something that’s going to result in improved health care:
Millions of people with arthritis, asthma and even heart failure will be urged to treat themselves as part [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: England, Health
I won’t quibble with the need to distribute health care more evenly across America. I will fight, though, against putting health care in the government’s hands. Think of the DMV, think of airport security, think of the IRS, think of any interaction you’ve had with a government entity that has no competition, and tell me [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2007 | Filed under: Medicine
When it comes to managed health care, the law of unintended consequences just keeps rolling along. The news out of England today tells the story of a woman who has been barred from New Zealand, where her husband has already moved, because she is “too fat.” Apparently in the conflict between politically correct [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, San Francisco
I grew up in San Francisco, and always found the intersection at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard frustrating and nerve wracking. Sloat runs east/west and 19th Avenue runs north/south. If you’re heading south on 19th Avenue, and want to make a left turn onto Sloat (heading east), there is a left turn signal. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Health
I won’t add anything here, since I think you can draw your own conclusions:
Record numbers of Britons are flying abroad for medical treatment to escape NHS waiting lists and the rising threat of hospital superbugs.
More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year, a figure that is forecast to rise
Thousands of “health tourists” are [...]
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