Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Health
Tweet It was only last week that I wrote about the fact that the AARP’s weird support for Obama Care, a plan that is likely to ration care its members, might be connected to the fact that at least one branch of its management, the magazine editorship, is to the left of Left. I think [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Health, Taxes
Tweet In just three paragraphs, Charles Krauthammar explains all of the problems with the health care reform the President so desperately wants passed by August: President Obama premised the need for reform on the claim that medical costs are destroying the economy. True. But now we learn — surprise! — that universal coverage increases costs. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Health
Tweet Michelle Malkin puts it together: the administration’s insistence that blind-folded science (untouched by greed or human feeling) will ensure the proper treatments in all situations plus the person who is the President’s voice for those “scientific” treatments. If you recall Zombie’s expose about the new science czar, John Holdren, you’ll realize that the person [...]
Bookworm on Jul 21 2009 | Filed under: Euthanasia, Medicine
Tweet Don Parker nails both the costs and hypocrisy behind the mandate in the new health care bill that seniors be gently steered towards a cheap death. UPDATE: Thanks to Old Flyer for reminding me of this, which fits in so perfectly with the new plan: UPDATE II: A story from my dad’s old joke [...]
Bookworm on Jul 15 2009 | Filed under: Communism, Health
Tweet Tom Elia links to an utterly fatuous statement from a 25 year old Obama supporter (who nevertheless gets a bully pulpit in a WaPo blog), saying that killing the profit motive will have no effect whatsoever on pharmaceutical innovation. In the face of such stupidity, I have to drag out my family history once [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2009 | Filed under: Health
Tweet Steve Crowder looks at the Canadian health care system. Some of his experiences are similar to those in any busy city emergency room, such as a long, long wait for a low level problem. Others, most notably statements by nurses, make your eyes bug: Three years to get an appointment with a personal physician? [...]
Bookworm on Jul 12 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet Those who are pushing for universal health care here in America might want to take just a second to contemplate what Britain’s National Health Service (“NHS”) is doing in the area of teen sex. Because Britain has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, which no doubt is quite costly to the NHS, you [...]
Bookworm on Jul 08 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Health, Taxes
Tweet In his most recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains in great detail how Barack Obama told quite obvious lies about the stimulus numbers, only to pretend now that he didn’t really mean what he said. (That’s the lying pattern I’ve told you about.) The American people were good and fooled. [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2009 | Filed under: Medicine
Tweet Okay, it’s actually called the Kennedy bill, but it’s the realization of Obama’s insistence on the federal government forcing and funding mandatory health insurance. Keith Hennessey, in addition to giving links for you to read the bill yourself, explains the substantive parts of the bill, as well as the probable practical and economic effects [...]
Bookworm on Apr 05 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Health, Medicine
Tweet When I was growing up, my father was a teacher with a lousy salary and lousy benefits. The only good thing he had was his dental plan. It was a wonderful dental plan. Provided that we got our teeth cleaned and checked twice a year, it would pay the total cost of any dental [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Europe, Health, Medicine
Tweet For three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily: Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital. Hundreds of patients may have died after bosses at [...]
Bookworm on Oct 28 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Doctors don’t make decisions. The government does. (And yes, I acknowledge that this could have happened here with an HMO, but this story represents what’s in store if the whole country becomes one giant HMO.)
Bookworm on Sep 25 2008 | Filed under: Euthanasia, Morality, Uplifting stories
Tweet In the wake of Sarah Palin’s appearance on the national political scene, some Obama supporters made some pretty deranged statements about the Palin family decision to go ahead with a pregnancy when they knew that the baby would have Down Syndrome. There was a lot of eugenics-type talk about the social utility of handicapped [...]
Bookworm on Feb 26 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Media matters
Tweet Here it is, my first day back from a long-ish vacation, and I’m not finding any blogging inspiration in today’s news. Instead, it’s exactly the same stuff that was in the news when I left: unrest in Pakistan; Hillary’s free-fall; alleged campaign shenanigans from the Hillary camp aimed at the Obama camp; Obama’s problem [...]
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