The Downside of a ‘Public Option’: Oregon’s Physician-Assisted Suicide Promotion and Overall Rationing of Care

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 24th at 04:35 PM  | 

If you haven’t, read Erick’s post about an Oregon public health plan (“public option”) administrator responding to a cancer patient’s request for subsidized chemotherapy with a denial of treatment but an offer to fund a physician-assisted suicide. Now, know this: over the course of this decade, the state of Oregon has put in place a formal procedure for rationing care to patients whose health coverage | Read More »

New Hampshire Democrat: ‘My Constituents Would Love to Wait in Line for Medical Care’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 02:03 PM  | 

The wonderfully indicting video of New Hampshire Democrat Carol Shea-Porter is below, courtesy of NowHampshire: She says: “I just wanted to make a couple of comments and say I heard one of my colleagues say ‘waiting in line’ — that people would be ‘waiting in line for medical care,’ and I would like to say that many of my constituents would love to wait in | Read More »

Bad Care After Good: Obama Seeks to Trade the U.S.’s Health Care Problems for Britain’s Health Care Catastrophe

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 21st at 03:02 PM  | 

A series of recent polls showing that his health care proposal has fallen out of favor with a plurality of the American people, and that a majority are no longer predisposed to support a “universal” health care plan as they were before finding out that such a sweeping program would cost them money, has caused President Barack Obama to shift the focus of his health | Read More »

Who Should Have the Final Say About Your Medical Care: Your Doctor, or Government Bureaucrats?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 17th at 11:59 PM  | 

Update by Jeff: Perhaps this comment will shine a bit more light on the import of this issue. WHO SHOULD HAVE CONTROL over your medical care: your family doctor, or a bureaucrat you’ve never met whose sole job is to look out for the government’s financial bottom-line? That question, which is the subject of today’s AOL Hot Seat poll, is being debated in court right | Read More »