Sep 23
When the Berlin Wall came down, socialist East Germany was more polluted, poorer and sicker than West Germany. According to David Legates’ “The Experiment: Capitalism versus Socialism,” “State-guaranteed health care in the East did not translate into a healthier society. In 1990, life expectancy in the West was about 3½ years longer than in the …
Sep 20
Supporters of the “Affordable Care Act” said that the Act would save the average American family $2,500 per year. Instead the Act has increased health care costs by thousands of dollars per household. One-third of American counties now have only one health insurer. Insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Their reaction …
Sep 02
Government support and subsidies of health care increase demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise. Since the passage of Medicare in 1965, health care has risen in cost faster than inflation every single year. Meanwhile, less regulated hi-tec industries have produced LOWER prices for higher quality. Now there is word that Obamacare will cause …
Aug 30
Overregulation and criminalization of medicine is driving more and more Americans to steal prescribed medications from their pets. See here.
Aug 11
Ever since the passage of Medicare in 1965, health care costs have increased much faster than inflation. This is because Medicare increased demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise. Government trusters, in response, have looked for MORE GOVERNMENT to fix the problem. In 2009, the U.S. government enacted the “Affordable Care Act,” purportedly designed …
Aug 07
When Obamacare was pushed down American’s throats in 2009, the Act allowed states to opt out of “Medicaid Expansion.” Those state legislatures that did opt out were bullied and lied to about the costs. Within the states, loud movements of shrill government trusters arose who constantly accused any skeptical state legislator of being partisan or …
Aug 06
Interesting essay by L. Reichard White on Lewrockwell.com. It seems that police departments are increasingly using the admissions counters at clinics and hospitals as warrant/security/background check stations. When people enter government hospitals for “care,” they must first show ID, provide Social Security numbers and identify themselves. A front counter person punches the information into an …
Jul 29
Obamacare and Medicare were pushed with claims they would bring health insurance prices down for poor people. Yet health care costs have increased faster than inflation every year for 30 years. Now, just a couple years after the implementation of Obamacare, Montana’s major health insurers (who, ironically, lobbied heavily for the passage of Obamacare and …
Jun 15
Health care and higher education have much in common in modern America. Both are promoted as “rights” by government trusters. And government has promoted programs to “help” the poor obtain their products and services by subsidizing such goods with taxpayer inputs. Both industries have seen annual price increases higher than the rate of inflation for …
Jun 09
Socialism is something one should wish on an enemy; not on one’s own society. In only 15 years, Venezuelan officials transformed the rising nation into a third world sewer; using the miracle of socialism. Food shortage, lack of medicine, water so contaminated that Venezuelans suffer from skin rashes from bathing in it. Babies dying by …
