A recent poll of Massachusetts residents found that 63% of respondents were in favor of the universal health care initiative started there 5 years ago. My son, Paul, cited these poll [...]
There's good news and bad news for cancer patients. New drugs more effective at targeting the deadliest forms of cancer are coming on-line. That's the good news. The bad news is [...]
As a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), adult children up to 26 years old can now be covered under their parents' health insurance policies. Is this a good thing? [...]
Rationing takes place when governments provide health care because everyone wants the best possible medical treatments, health care is expensive, and resources are inevitably limited. Because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) [...]
Other countries that provide health care for their citizens all use rationing of one sort or another to control costs. In the last 2 years, laws have been passed in this [...]
Do people have a right to Health Care? Responses to our informal poll on the subject ranged from "No one has a right to health care" to "It's a basic human [...]
Is there a right to health care? Those that argued for a single-payer option during last year's health care reform debates believe passionately that people do. Opponents of the proposed legislation [...]
According to the Congressional Budget Office's latest 10 year budget projection, the accumulated federal deficits in 10 years will total over $7 trillion dollars. Spending on health care alone will double [...]
People opposed to the Affordable Care Act have been heartened by recent events. Their hopes for a repeal of the health care reform bill were raised by the ruling in Florida [...]
Recent headlines call out: Health insurance rates soar in California, Blue Shield Refuses to Delay Rate Hikes, and CA Can't Block Staggering Health Insurance Rate Hikes. These came out in response [...]
