Healthcare
Professor Stephen Mathis has come across my post responding to his op-ed, and he comments, in part: I think the ultimate problem with devaluing people or their organs is problematic precisely because it makes them vulnerable to more powerful folks. But I do disagree that disallowing a price tag on organs makes them worthless: I…
Just a minor observation based on the story in ProJo about Tamiflu, which states: A recent check of prescribing data from pharmacies around the state found that 15 percent of Tamiflu prescriptions were filled five days after they were written. That means a lot of wasted Tamiflu, says Health Director David R. Gifford –– because…
Congressional United Church Pastor Eugene Dyszlewski took to the Projo letters section, on Sunday, to attack Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin for his criticism of supposedly Roman Catholic Congressman Patrick Kennedy, who had attacked the Catholic Bishops for continuing to oppose abortion funding within healthcare legislation. Writes Dyszlewski: The congressman poses a legitimate question about…
Hurrah to the Projo editorial board, for recognizing that governmental regulations can artificially increase the price of health insurance in non-rational ways…We noticed the other week, for instance, that an insurance policy in Maryland has a premium half the size, and with better coverage, than a similar policy sold by Blue Cross and Blue Shield…
Wheaton College Philosophy Professor Stephen Mathis questions “how appropriate it is to address health concerns using a for-profit model”: Consider that we have numerous treatments for erectile dysfunction, while drug companies have resisted putting resources into finding a cure for malaria, a disease most prevalent in poorer countries. Professor Mathis might profit from a viewing…
I referenced a 60 Minutes report on Medicare fraud earlier this week. Mark Hemingway adds some additional context: Medicare fraud amounts to $60 billion dollars a year. That is one heck of a lot of money. In fact, Medicare loses seven times as much money in fraud every year than the combined profits of the…
Proponents of the “public option” like to point to MediCare. It ain’t the panacea they say, as 60 Minutes reported: President Obama says rising costs are driving huge federal budget deficits that imperil our future, and that there is enough waste and fraud in the system to pay for health care reform if it was…
Something’s been gnawing at me since Andrew posted video of Congressman Patrick Kennedy proving once again why we should all hope his handlers keep him well away from any real power, and it took a revistation of Ed Achorn’s concern about the Obama administration’s jihad against Fox News to jar the pest loose. Here’s Achorn:…
Firefighter and EMT Michael Morse, as he works to get his body back into occupational shape, reflects on the future of healthcare in a system that calls a city ambulance rather than permitting patients to take their cars to another building in the same medical campus: … The medical community is as clueless as the…
Put assisted suicide on the long list of issues that ought to be left to the states, but that I’d oppose in my own. In the name of civil liberties that conflict with the (until recently) long-standing moral consensus of our culture, we’re building a giant trap that will at some point close on us…