Health Care Rights, and Wrongs

As Speaker Nancy Pelosi promoted passage of Sunday’s health care reform bill, she invoked Catholic support. However, those who assert the right to health care and seek greater responsibility for government as the means to that end, are simply wrong.… Read More

Patients’ Choice Act — A Better Prescription

In late May, Senators Tom Coburn and Richard Burr, and Representatives Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes, all Republicans, offered a new prescription for health care reform that is a vast improvement over what we’ve seen previously from Washington. The “Patients’… Read More

A Second Opinion on Employer Responsibility for Heath Care

As President-elect Obama prepares to take office, the nation’s health care crisis looms ever larger. One popular health care reform proposal, for which Obama has expressed support, is expanded employer responsibility for employee and family medical care.
But this prescription… Read More

“If You Are Really Sick, Call 911″

Why do many doctors’ offices have answering machines with this initial response? Price controls. Why does it take so long to get an appointment, if one is even available? Price controls. What will happen if our next president, in the… Read More

What’s Wacko about Sicko

Michael Moore wants socialized medicine in the United States. It would, as his film Sicko suggests, give us a system that better delivers health care to those who need it. Although Moore effectively documents some deficiencies in American health care,… Read More

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