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Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part V
Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the October 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) DO OTHER COUNTRIES THINK THEY HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER? Despite the official rhetoric, over the course of the past decade almost every European country with a national health care system has introduced market-oriented reforms […]
Congressional Reform Act of 2012
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this message to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. *Congressional […]
A Member of the European Parliament’s Warning to America
The perils of following us toward greater regulation, higher taxes and centralized power. By DANIEL HANNAN On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.” American conservatives have struggled to press […]
World Health Report 2000 was an intellectual fraud of historic consequence
The Worst Study Ever? | By Scott W. Atlas | Commentary Magazine | April 2011 A profoundly deceptive document that only marginally measured health-care performance at all. The World Health Organization’s World Health Report 2000, which ranked the health-care systems of nearly 200 nations, stands as one of the most influential social-science studies in history. […]
2012: The Make or Break for America
AGENDA GAMES: How Today’s High-Stakes Political Combat Works. By B. K. Eakman EPILOGUE: THE “IT” YEAR OF 2012 First, the “It” girl—a concept that means more than mere “perfection.” The “It” factor captures that certain “something” one can’t quite define, but that redirects the attention from anything else whenever “It” appears. Professional entertainers and those […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part I
In 2002 and 2003, we reviewed The Twenty Myths of health care reform. Now a decade later the authors have updated the book, renamed it, and added important 21st century data. Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick Published in cooperation with the National Center for Policy Analysis […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part II
In 2002 and 2003, we reviewed The Twenty Myths of health care reform. Now a decade later the authors have updated the book, renamed it, and added important 21st century data. Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the January 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) PROBLEM: THE DESIRE […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part III
In 2002 and 2003, we reviewed The Twenty Myths of health care reform. Now a decade later the authors have updated the book, renamed it, and added important 21st century data. Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the April 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) PROBLEM: WE HAVE […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part IV
Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the July 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) HAVE OTHER COUNTRIES FOUND THE ANSWER? American advocates of single-payer national health insurance propose to16 • Eliminate HMOs and most other forms of managed care • Have all health care financed by the government, […]