ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Socialized Medicine
- The Society for The Education of Physicians & Patients
Source: SEPP
Country: United States
- “The Mission of the Society for the Education of Physicians and Patients is to promote the education of patients and health care professionals in order to facilitate unencumbered participation in a health care system that respects and nurtures patients and physicians’ freedoms, rights, and responsibilities. The Society focuses on the responsibility of the physician as patient advocate and promotes quality medical care by supporting policies that encourage freedom, choice, enhancement of the patient/physician relationship, and fiscal responsibility.”
- Health Care
Source: J. Will Pierce
Author: John Enright
Country: United States
E-mail: jenright@home.interaccess.com
- A satiric poem.
- Government Malpractice
Source: White Knight Publishing
Author: Robert Klassen
Country: United States
E-mail: rklassen@nugvdigm.com
- An essay examining American socialized medicine by a health-care worker with thirty-five years in the business. (1993)
- The Political Fallacy that Medical Care is a Right
Source: AAPS / New England Journal of Medicine
Author: Robert Sade, M.D.
Country: United States
- When the state seeks to advance man's non-existent "right" to health care, it stomps on the wills of everyone involved. (1971)
- We CAN Have Affordable Health Care
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Jarrett Wollstein
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- This short ISIL pamphlet gives four reasons why health care is too expensive, explains the failure of "universal coverage," and offers a solution for fixing our health care system.
- What You Need to Know About Title 18 (Medicare)
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.
Country: United States
- This guide for patients explains how Medicare affects freedom of choice, confidentiality, and the doctor-patient relationship. (9/17/99)
- Interview with J. Bruce Henriksen, MD: The past is prologue
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.
Country: United States
- The King-Anderson Bill, a 1962 precursor to Medicare, was defeated largely because of organized refusal to participate -- a movement sparked by Dr. Henriksen. (1965)
- U.S. spending on prescription drugs
Source: NCPA
Author: Bruce Bartlett
Country: United States
- Despite complaints about prescription drug costs, most countries spend a larger chunk of their GDPs and total health budgets on medicine than does the U.S. Worse, foreign price controls have strangled the introduction of new drugs. (9/5/00)
- Why price controls on prescription drugs would harm seniors
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Author: James Frogue
Country: United States
- Price controls do not work. In fact, they invariably worsen the very problems they are designed to solve. ... [With prescription drugs] the tacit assumption is that government price controls would lower drug prices without increasing the cost of prescription drugs for senior citizens and others. That assumption is wrong. (5/4/99)
- Price controls are a prescription for disaster
Source: AEI/Wall Street Journal
Author: John E. Calfee
Country: United States
- Administration proposals to fix drug prices for the elderly threaten to cut off the flow of medical innovation. (7/22/99)
- Risky medicine for the Internet
Source: Institute for Health Freedom
Author: Edward Hudgins
Country: United States
- The Clinton administration's assault on online pharmacies is an attempt to prop up a stumbling regulatory regime and to stifle competition. (2/00)
- Adverse reaction: Why the United States should not adopt price controls for prescription drugs
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Laura Dykes
Country: United States
- "In many nations ... government price controls are limiting
consumer access to prescription medicines and leading to higher health-care spending. But if some lawmakers have their way, the United States will follow this regulatory path by setting prices for prescription drugs." (8/30/00)
- Physicians propose socialized healthcare
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- The American Academy of Family Physicians says that personal choice in healthcare runs contrary to the "universal good" so it wants to require "that certain individuals be constrained to behave in ways that did not necessarily meet their own narrow individual health or economic interests." (01/19/01)
- Patients' Bill of Rights threatens health care
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- "According to an actuarial analysis by the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) the bill would substantially increase the number of Americans without health insurance." (07/20/01)
- Fewer uninsured than previously estimated
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Based on information from the latest national head count, the Census Bureau has recalculated its estimate of the uninsured and lowered its count from 42.6 million to 39.3 million -- a difference of 3.3 million people. (08/09/01)
- Medicare myths and facts
Source: AAPS
Author: Lawrence R. Huntoon
Country: United States
- Huntoon outlines 12 major myths about Medicare, including: "Without Medicare, most seniors wouldn't have medical care," "Seniors were in poorer health before Medicare" and "Beneficiaries are just getting back what they have paid in." A revealing overview of the nation's socialized medical system for seniors. (08/02)
- Medicare taxes may soar
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- "According to economist Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, the government will have to raise taxes significantly and borrow beyond its means to deal with the retirement of 77 million Baby Boomers over the next decades." (04/16/02)
- Toward socialized medicine: A historic chronology
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Edward R. Annis
Country: United States
- Interesting overview of the history and passage of the Medicare bill in the U.S. by a past AMA president. (winter 2002)
- Senate and House drug prescription bill overview
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Comparisons of the House and Senate prescription bills.
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