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Who are the Uninsured? October 16, 2003 Numbers Point to Problem Created When Legislation Driven by Headlines By Chris Patterson Another horrifying announcement from our newspapers a few weeks ago - millions of Americans are uninsured. It's so ofte...

Socialized Health-Care Nightmare Yuri Maltsev and Louise Omdahl Dr. Maltsev gained his insight as an adviser to the last Soviet government on issues of social policy, including health care, and as a patient in the system. He teaches at Carthage Colle...

Blame Congress for HMOs by Twila Brase Published in Ideas on Liberty by the Foundation for Economic Education February 2001 Only 27 years ago, congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed that American patients should gently but firmly be forced...

Liberals and disability rights: Why don't they 'get it'? By Mary Johnson During the debate over Terri Schiavo last fall, disability activists and scholars groused about both right-to-life and right-to-die advocates not understanding disability rights...

The return of Hillarycare This seems like an odd time for politicians to tout government-controlled health care. Less than a decade ago, the Clinton administration was shaken by the negative reaction to its "Hillarycare" proposal for a government me...

Fergus Fergus Fergus..... The law says that marriage is for heterosexuals. Yet, you and others would fight forever to have that changed because you claim that it is a moral imperative. Kit Kat

How can you murder a fetus? It isn't a baby. It is a mass of tissues. It is just a ball of cells. It has no human value to it. It is not murder. If it is murder when killed by a doctor shooting a gun, then it is murder by the doctor with the fo...

OK, I got one for ya... Let's consider this ethical dilemma, since Fergus commented on abortion again. A woman is 32 weeks pregnant. She has an abortion scheduled for today. On her drive to the abortion clinic, she is struck by a drunk driver and t...

If you look at the MDH website it will show the statistics about why our TB, and MDR-TB has risen. MN has a high Somali immigrant population. This population has a high rate of TB and multi-drug resistant TB. We treat our immigrants and our refuge...

America will have a difficult time coping, just as will NHS, Canada (SARS), and Australia. We would all have a very difficult time coping with pandemic flus. MDH holds pandemic influenza tabletops to practice, as we all expect another pandemic infl...

P.S. Fergus, TB programs at MDH are free. We treat free and we perform DOT, which is the WHO and CDC standard for drug resistant, multiple-drug resistant TB. So, I do not think you know enough about MDH's TB treatment programs. Drugs free, treatme...

Fergus, Fergus, Fergus.... I am not saying the US is perfect. We have our problems. Canada has problems. Australia has problems. The NHS has problems. For the most part, the complaints sound similar and then other complaints are different. The ...

So, for the record: If I have money and I go pay a doctor to kill the fetus inside of my uterus: The doctor is protected by law. He gets MONEY to rid my body of the fetus. However, if that SAME doctor shoots ME killing the baby in my uterus then...

Thought I'd put in my two cents here.... And, might I just say that I have never put anybody on ignore, as unless somebody was using profanity toward me, I would find that childish to ignore an opinion. Where oh where are the ultra-tolerant, mega-s...

The Libertarian Party's Legislative Program Health Care & Health Costs Twenty years ago, health care was a $42 billon per year industry. Today, health care costs Americans more than $2 billion per day, more than 14% of our Gross Domestic Product....

The Constitution says that we are to provide for the common defense: e.g. Military. The Constitution does not say that we are to provide free healthcare insurance to everybody. I do not know more than our founding fathers, and I do not think tha...

February, 2004 CEOs Deserve What They Make by Elan Journo As millions of Americans watch the New England Patriots take on the Carolina Panthers, every minute of the game will be scrutinized, from all angles and with action replays. But, amid the ch...

Actually, I think that the poll that I posted is very interesting. This site is I would have to guess, 75% or more liberal left dominated posters. I would have thought the poll would show that 90% of polled BB posters were pro-universal healthcare....

My comment was a reference to Canada.... so how do I comment? I don't know how to comment when what I type is taken out of context.

The Financial Times, Oct 27, 2003 MPs query Pounds 70m spent on structure and pay-offs NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. NICHOLAS TIMMINS The National Health Service has spent more than Pounds 70m on redundancy and restructuring in the past two years, the D...

So, the Peterson guy should not be convicted of TWO murders then, right? Laci is the ONLY HUMAN BEING that was murdered in your estimation? Cuz, Peterson killed his wife and that eight month old tissue in her uterus, or fetus, or cell ball..... or...

Fergus, So you would suggest spending BILLIONS of dollars to change to a system that you can not convince anybody of, with any significant statistics is any better than what we have, and may in fact be worse. You can find bad outcomes in the US. I...

Building a Culture of Character by Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., Don Eberly, Samuel Gregg, and Joseph Loconte Heritage Lecture #755 August 6, 2002 | | Character and the Destiny of Free Government Matthew Spalding The remarkable generation that built th...

Australia's Public Health Care System The following 'typical' patient case descriptions By your Senates OWN admission this is a TYPICAL patient case description: Joan's throat Joan, a nineteen year old young adult is suffering from a sore throat an...

My point with the post from your Senate (?), is that these are problems currently identified in your system in Australia. You guys haven't worked out all the problems. How long have you had socialized medicine? Why trade our problems, which do not...