Budget, Taxation & Economy
Where Government Bureaucracy Goes, Administrative Bloat Follows
Three charts show how bad administrative bloat gets when government bureaucracy takes over.
National Health Service
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Long wait times. Running out of money. Strained by flu season. Otherwise Brits love their nationalized healthcare
I had to read this Washington Post wire service article (via the Sunday Greensboro News & Record) twice to make sure it wasn’t satire or sarcasm. The N&R headline reads……
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An international consensus … on health care
Scott Atlas discusses in the Hoover Institution’s Defining Ideas journal an aspect of health care that’s clear to almost anyone willing to judge facts objectively. These [Veterans Affairs] scandals serve…
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Waiting for hospital treatment
This morning, I had one of those moments where you suddenly feel like you’ve slipped back to some other place or time. I was reading the tragic story of Donald…
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Goldberg wonders when insurers will fight back
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column ponders the predicament of insurers who have been forced to cope with the well-documented downside of Obamacare’s implementation. [I]t’s hard not to wonder how much more…
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Williamson explains why health care should cost more
What? Shouldn’t health care cost less? Isn’t that the chief focus of the whole national debate over Obamacare and its alternatives? Kevin D. Williamson explains for National Review Online readers…
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A conflict of visions
The King’s Speech Somehow I missed the policy implications in The King’s Speech until seeing the movie this past weekend. A newspaper of the time called Lionel Logue "the quack…
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Britain’s NHS helping people die earlier
That’s what the article in the Telegraph says. Of course, the Beloved Leader’s plan won’t allow such things to happen here.
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Paul Krugman is omniscient!
In his latest column, Paul Krugman informs the country that the stories about bad health care in Britain are false. When you think about that for a moment, you realize…
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Jon and Kate on government health care
The health care debate jumped the shark a couple weeks ago when Liza Mundy wrote in the Washington Post that requiring insurance policies to cover in vitro fertilization might have…
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Breast cancer in Britain
The New York Times (you read that right) has a story about the UK’s National Health Service that should raise alarms for anyone concerned about the ability of people to…
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More than just bad policy
Politicians who yearn for taxpayer-financed universal health insurance might have second thoughts, if they comprehend the message in John O’Sullivan’s latest article for the print version of National Review. In…