August 24, 2009
Posted in Healthcare tagged Capitalism, Free Market, Health Care, Public Option, Socialized Medicine, Universal Health Care at 2:18 pm by Arlanjio
Mort Kondracke. “Obama, Congress: Take A Look at the Swiss Answer to Health Care.” RealClearPolitics. July 23, 2009. <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/23/_obama_congress_take_a_look_at_the_swiss_answer_to_health_care_97590.html>.
A consumer-driven health care system actually exists in Switzerland, which could be a model for the United States, but the administration and Congressional Democrats haven’t looked at it.
Switzerland has an individual mandate requiring everyone to be covered by private insurance. There is no employer-provided or government-managed coverage, and poor people are subsidized to help them buy insurance.
Switzerland has health care outcomes comparable to the most affluent U.S. states, while its health costs per capita are 40 percent lower than in the U.S.
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August 14, 2009
Posted in Healthcare tagged Capitalism, Government, Health Care, Public Option, Socialized Medicine, Universal Health Care at 12:42 am by Arlanjio
In my previous article, I argued that the American health care system is not so “broken” that it provides sub-standard care. In fact, it often provides superior care, especially in difficult cases [1]. Nevertheless, health care in America is expensive, and reform is indeed necessary. In order to heal the wounds of the system, however, we must first identify the problems and then treat them accordingly. It is naïve to believe that a complete transformation will necessarily bring about improvement, especially when similar systems after which the transformation is modeled have failed everywhere tried [1,2,3].
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August 4, 2009
Posted in Healthcare tagged Canada, Economy, Health Care, Obama, President, Public Option, Rationing, Shortages, Universal Health Care at 1:11 pm by Arlanjio
Is it broken?
So much for a “broken” health care system, Americans enjoy much higher cancer survival rates and better access to certain treatment than people who receive free health care in Europe and Canada [1,2]. And these are merely a few benefits we often take for granted. The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) lists quite a few more in a recent report [1].
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