Posts tagged 'health care rationing'

Anyone paying any attention (in the voting public, that would be no one except for me and a few others) will soon see unmistkable proof that the Democrats running Congress (and our nation, for better or worse--mostly the latter) are planning to ration health care with a vengeance (except for themselves, of course). The proof will come when a bill introduced by Republicans called PATIENTS gets ...

The British organization going by the acronym of NICE is anything but when it comes to its role in policing health care in the United Kingdom. It routinely denies the use of drugs that the United States and European nations rely on to prolong and save lives from chronic diseases such as cancer. NICE stands for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Britain's model for what Obama and c...

Can do the impossible, that is, which to prescribe which medicines and medical procedures are both most efficacious and most cost-effective. So far, I can find little proof of AHRQ's accomplishing anything near this goal on the site of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ is in the news since it just got a whole new set of fangs in the Obama stimulus plan (aka the Tom Daschle s...