Graham Collections

They did it, they jammed through by hook or by crook the worst piece of legislation of my lifetime. The US economy may never be the same and elections in this country will degenerate further into the kind of silliness we see in Europe. For some they will be glad that the era of Big [...]

This article summarizes well why the whole Healthcare debate is problematic:
“The most childish of all the things being said in the august setting of a joint session of Congress last week was that millions of people can be added to the government’s health insurance plan without increasing the federal deficit at all.
If the President of [...]

Report on a new study that claims to show that government health plans underpay Drs and hospitals to a large degree. (Here is link to actual study)The hidden tax to pay for the uninsured now includes another hidden tax to cover government funded care. The problem is that government intervention skews the playing field, and [...]

We are starting to see some of the details in the so-called stimulus bill which are aimed at healthcare.
In this article by Betsy McCaughey is the following quote:
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records [...]

From John Hinderacker at Powerline. The best point is here:
“Experts who are highly paid to invest money, and whose careers depend on being right, fell for Madoff, to the tune of something like $50 billion. Which is why I am extremely skeptical of the idea that we need more government regulation to avert such losses [...]

When it comes to debates on Healthcare policy it seems to come down to who is offering more benefits to whom. The reality is that we need to challenge many of the assumptions about healthcare as a service verus healthcare as a right, about who pays and when and what responsibilities the consumer has.
This article [...]

I have written before about healthcare coverage, and asked the question, why should it be the governments role to make sure everyone has health insurance? Sally pipes wrote an article which gives perspective to the accepted estimate of the number of unisured persons in the United States.
“The Census Bureau doesn’t tell us that 45.7 million people [...]

I have never been for an increase in socialized medicine. An increase, because socialized medicine is already here in many ways. One of the things that socialized medicine gives you is top-down decision making as to what is covered and what is not. There is no freedom of choice. Another problem is that entitlement leads to [...]

While I have not yet written about what I believe about Healthcare reform, I have read a very interesting post on comparing Obama and McCain on said reform. It gives a concise comparison between the two without arguing for one or the other. It is worth a read for anyone interested in the Healthcare industry.
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Being woken at 2 AM by someone whose child was having trouble breathing set me to thinking as I tried to go back to sleep. The ability to get into another sleep cycle quickly is one learned through all the years as a physician being awakened to someone else’s need. As I lay in my [...]