President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently asked, " how many czars can fit into the West...
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I was just looking through a memorandum released by Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The memo detailed some recent poll results and what he views as the findings. He also outlines a list of "realities" and "myths" behind some of the current administration's...
This week, the wacky government of Venezuela banned Coke Zero from being sold in the country. Citing harmful ingredients , it claimed to be protecting the health of its citizens, while the government purports to conduct an investigation into potentially dangerous ingredients in the soft drink. In reality...
When medical decisions happen, the two most important people involved are always the patient and the doctor, period. Proposed "public health insurance" and other socialized health care components take decisions out of the hands of patients too often, and just as often take decisions out of...
A recent column on CBC.ca written as an open letter to Americans provides somewhat of a defense of the Canadian health care system. Much of what writer Neil Macdonald says betrays the insidious ways in which being beholden to the government, such as with universal health care, leads to the loss of or...
In what will be good news for many proponents of a capitalist health care solution, President Obama announced today that a single payer health care system, like some of the socialist programs of Europe, is off the table. While this is good news, he also made it clear that he would push for the big government...