“Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the [British National Health Service], it was revealed yesterday,” according to Daniel Martin of The Daily Mail. These unnecessary or unnecessarily quick deaths had to do with patients being refused cancer medication for rare forms of cancer.
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Did the National Health Service Let 20,000 Brits Die?
under: Game Theory, Individual v. Collective, Live and Learn, Trust
Tags: Britain, cancer, costs, Daniel Martin, healthcare, healthcare reform, National Health Service, National Institute of Clinical Excellence, NHS, NICE, prices, prices vs. costs, Singapore, single-payer healthcare, The Daily Mail, Thomas Sowell
Paul Krugman: Public Plan will Kill Private Insurance
Paul Krugman lets us all know that the so called “public option” is a bridge to single-payer. Well, thanks for the honesty Paul:
Healthcare Reform: The Public Option or the Singapore Model
The key is that, unlike the United States, Singapore allows the market to work; Almost 70% of the medical expenditures are private. Singapore encourages their citizens to price shop and thereby push the price of healthcare down.
under: Deficits, Individual v. Collective, Obama Says, Taxes, Trust
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Democrats, free market healthcare, GE, healthcare, HMO's, Keith Olbermann, malpractice lawsuits, managed healthcare, Massachusetts health plan, Medicaid, Medicare, Medisave, monopoly, MSNBC, price competition, public option, Republicans, Ron Paul, Rowan Callick, Singapore, single-payer healthcare, universal healthcare
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