You might want to remember that he voted against a big health care program for women. Under President Bush, states have the option of extending SCHIP to unborn children — which automatically qualifies pregnant women for coverage during their pregnancy. Obama voted against an amendment that would have written explicit language into the SCHIP statute [...]
Seven things to think about before supporting national health care
There is no problem with uninsured.
The neediest already have programs available to them.
Healthcare is something to be purchased by the individual not the government.
Nationalized healthcare creates problems for the countries that have implemented it.
Nationalized healthcare robs you of choice.
Nationalized healthcare transfers power from the individual to [...]
The food police say Americans are getting fatter. There are those who say many Americans don’t get adequate health care.
U.S. Records Drastic Decline in Death Rate
In what appears to be an amazing success for American medicine, preliminary government figures released Wednesday showed that the annual number of deaths in the U.S. dropped by [...]
I’ve always been against treating kids with Ritalin. Here’s one more reason to be against it.
FDA: 51 attention drug patients died
Deaths of 51 U.S. patients who took widely prescribed drugs to treat attention deficit disorder prompted regulators to start watching for heart attacks, high blood pressure and other problems in 2004, a report [...]
In response to a Canadian readers question, I’ve written this post about the Libertarian view on health care.
There are three over-riding principles that govern our views:
Health care is not a "right." No one is entitled to health care. Like every other consumer product, you should pay for it yourself.
Government has no business being [...]
