Health Care
Commentary
JAMA Wants to Restrict Competition for Pharma Dollars
Many elite, academic doctors would like to believe that they can create a world where human beings do not influence other human beings. This makes them ashamed of their profession’s relationship with research-based drug companies. They believe that any item or communication from a … more »»
Commentary
The “Congressional” Health Care Plan
With the highly publicized White House Forum on Health Reform now in the rearview mirror, President Obama has taken his show on the road. The administration is in the midst of holding five other such forums across the country. These gatherings are intended to set the stage for congressional action ...
Commentary
Leviathan’s Drug Problem: Federal Monopoly of Pharmaceutical Regulation and its Deadly Cost
A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies hundreds of thousands of Americans timely access to new medicines. Leviathan’ s Drug Problem: The Cost of the Federal Monopoly ...
Commentary
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report San Francisco (March 20, 2009) — A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies ...
Commentary
The Myth of the 46 Million
“Even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care right now,” President Obama said at this month’s White House health care summit, “all it takes is one stroke of bad luck — an accident or an illness, a divorce, a lost job — to become one ...
Commentary
When America becomes Obamaland
There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America: We won’t recognize our country when he’s finished. Perhaps the most prominent feature of Obamaland will be long lines, starting with the unemployment offices, thanks ...
Commentary
St. Patrick’s Day Health-Care News from Ireland
(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy’s Day: It’s the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network’s weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from Eire:
California
Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr. – Harbor Hospital Shows the Cost of Government Monopoly Health Care
Earlier this month, state and local officials announced an agreement to re-open the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2012. For four decades, Los Angeles’ most vulnerable, low-income patients suffered terribly because of the county’s management of this failed hospital, which finally closed ...
Business & Economics
Union Bosses, Corporate Lobbyists, and Maybe Even A Secretary of Health
Within three weeks of his inauguration, President Obama made a “down payment” on health reform that would put any used-car buyer to shame. Last month, we noted that President Obama had increased the fragmentation, bureaucracy, and cost of health care in at least three ways. Mr. Obama’s kids’ health program ...
Commentary
Bipartisan Ground Hard to Glimpse on Health Overhaul Legislation
Democrats and Republicans at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on Tuesday didn’t disagree with each other on everything. Several agreed on support for community health centers and the need to provide the public with more information about medical prices. But on most other issues raised at ...
JAMA Wants to Restrict Competition for Pharma Dollars
Many elite, academic doctors would like to believe that they can create a world where human beings do not influence other human beings. This makes them ashamed of their profession’s relationship with research-based drug companies. They believe that any item or communication from a … more »»
The “Congressional” Health Care Plan
With the highly publicized White House Forum on Health Reform now in the rearview mirror, President Obama has taken his show on the road. The administration is in the midst of holding five other such forums across the country. These gatherings are intended to set the stage for congressional action ...
Leviathan’s Drug Problem: Federal Monopoly of Pharmaceutical Regulation and its Deadly Cost
A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies hundreds of thousands of Americans timely access to new medicines. Leviathan’ s Drug Problem: The Cost of the Federal Monopoly ...
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report San Francisco (March 20, 2009) — A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies ...
The Myth of the 46 Million
“Even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care right now,” President Obama said at this month’s White House health care summit, “all it takes is one stroke of bad luck — an accident or an illness, a divorce, a lost job — to become one ...
When America becomes Obamaland
There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America: We won’t recognize our country when he’s finished. Perhaps the most prominent feature of Obamaland will be long lines, starting with the unemployment offices, thanks ...
St. Patrick’s Day Health-Care News from Ireland
(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy’s Day: It’s the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network’s weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from Eire:
Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr. – Harbor Hospital Shows the Cost of Government Monopoly Health Care
Earlier this month, state and local officials announced an agreement to re-open the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2012. For four decades, Los Angeles’ most vulnerable, low-income patients suffered terribly because of the county’s management of this failed hospital, which finally closed ...
Union Bosses, Corporate Lobbyists, and Maybe Even A Secretary of Health
Within three weeks of his inauguration, President Obama made a “down payment” on health reform that would put any used-car buyer to shame. Last month, we noted that President Obama had increased the fragmentation, bureaucracy, and cost of health care in at least three ways. Mr. Obama’s kids’ health program ...
Bipartisan Ground Hard to Glimpse on Health Overhaul Legislation
Democrats and Republicans at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on Tuesday didn’t disagree with each other on everything. Several agreed on support for community health centers and the need to provide the public with more information about medical prices. But on most other issues raised at ...
