Category: Slave Plantation Healthcare

The reality of socialism: Fidel Castro lived in constant luxury as his subjects starved

Socialist politicians promise equality and free stuff but deliver impoverishment and tyranny. Here is a New York Post article about the luxurious life of Cuban President Fidel Castro. Castro lived a life of absolute luxury. He had dozens of mistresses and kept a dozen private palaces for himself. He even had pet dolphins. Virtually anyone …

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New study shows that government control of hospitals produces fewer, more expensive health care options

For generations, our masters in government have imposed massive regulations and controls on the health care industry. Health care is probably the most regulated industry in America. Many States require that people desiring to build a hospital or clinic must first apply to government, and obtain a ‘certificate of need.’ Government then gets to be …

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Venezuela now has single-payer medicine–rationed by the military

Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on a hated enemy. All societies that embrace it inevitably become sick and weak. Just a generation ago, Venezuela was a thriving, dynamic society with a robust economy. Now, after 17 years of socialism, men die in the streets fighting over spare change. Women and children …

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Fifty-seven percent of doctors ran their own practices in 2000; that figure is down to 33% as of 2015.

The immense paperwork burdens, high malpractice premiums, and overregulation of medicine has driven most doctors to large, centralized institutions. See here.

“Affordable Care Act” incentivizes poverty

“If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it,” said President Obama. “Let me repeat that: If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it,” he said. This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released an analysis of the Obamacare insurance exchanges that indicates there will be five states …

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Overregulation will soon push thousands of doctors to abandon Medicare patients

If America’s health care industry were free, it would provide ever-higher quality medicine at steadily-decreasing cost. This is the pattern in most high tech industries where government control is limited. But since 1965, the U.S. government has been overregulating health care–driving costs higher and higher. Now, unless Congress approves some type of massive bailout, doctors …

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More Americans are fleeing America’s overregulation to purchase health care in Mexico

Astounding developments from America’s experiment with overregulating health care. Not long ago, Americans had access to the finest health care on earth. But prices have been increasing faster than inflation for years, as government regulation has increased demand artificially. Now a headline in the USA Today reads: “For Californians living near the border, Mexico offers …

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Government appears to be helping cover up the risks of donating kidneys

Interesting (and courageous) essay by medical student Michael Poulson in the Washington Post. At age 18, Poulson donated a kidney. Like almost everything in American life, organ donation is overregulated by the government. The government imposes a ‘list’ system and criminalizes any selling of organs or other profit-potential ventures which might unleash innovation. And, it …

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Minnesota medical insurance poised to skyrocket in cost

The “Affordable Care Act” was enacted by Congress in 2010 with claims that it would bring average savings of $2,500 per year per household. It has actually caused health care prices to explode faster than Medicare and Medicaid did. In Minnesota, average premium prices are set to increase by 50 % to 67% in 2017. …

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Obamacare is spiking health care costs by at least 10 % annually

As a candidate on the campaign trail in 2008, Obama once said: “If you’ve got health insurance, we’re going to help that employer save $2,500 per family per year. … Those savings are going to be passed along to the workers.” But the “Affordable Care Act” has actually spiked costs (just as did Medicare and …

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