Health Care Archives — News From London, Ontario, And Beyond

Markets vs. Socialism: Why South Korean Healthcare Is Outperforming Italy with COVID-19

March 26, 2020 – Matthew Tanous …… The Italians could learn some lessons about healthcare from the South Koreans, who still maintain a robust private market in health insurance. Although the Koreans have relatively ample resources for COVID-19 patients, Italy’s state-dominated system is quickly running out of options. Continue reading →

Socialism Always Fails

February 12, 2020 – William L. Anderson …… To a socialist socialism is a moral imperative, and the only thing holding back the implementation of this system in the US has been the failure of socialists to present a plausible alternative — something that socialists claim now is being done. Continue reading →

What Year Did Healthcare Become a “Right”?

February 11, 2020 – J. Kyle DeVries …… Was healthcare a natural right two hundred years ago? If so, how is it that this “right” to eighteenth-century medicine morphed into a right to MRIs and chemotherapy? Do rights change with technology? That’s not how rights work. Continue reading →

In Healthcare, a Little Bit of Market Freedom Goes a Long Way

January 2, 2020 – Andrew Moran …… Clearly marked prices on private-sector cash-payment surgeries are a great thing. In fact, the competition of for-profit surgery centers drives down prices at more “traditional” (i.e., highly bureaucratized) hospitals. Continue reading →

Medicare Hypocrisy for All

December 30, 2019 – Gary M. Galles …… Medicare is not even close to sustainable in its present form, much less to be leveraged to cover the entire population. Continue reading →

Medicare and Medicaid Destroyed Healthcare

December 17, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Medicare and Medicaid ended up destroying the finest healthcare system in history, and the healthcare crisis has become a permanent part of American life. Continue reading →

Health Care Delayed Is Health Care Denied

November 27, 2019 – Jen Maffessanti …… Nationalizing health care into a single-payer format is popular, but how does it work in practice? Continue reading →

The False Promise of Canada’s Health Care System

September 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… In Canada, it is estimated that between 25,456 and 63,090 Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times for health care between 1993 and 2009, despite the government’s promise to make sure that people would have access to health care “when it was needed.” Continue reading →

Walmart’s Healthcare Experiment Has Begun, It May Be A Game Changer

September 17, 2019 – Gary North …… Here we see two rival strategies to marketing healthcare services. The status quo is based on insurance payments and price secrecy. Walmart’s strategy is based on price competition. Continue reading →

Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice

August 15, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites. Continue reading →