Someone with some sense...who won't be listened to...

Health care costs: no, not insurers' fault either

News flash: health care costs so much because we consume so much, not because evil insurers are price-gouging

So am I...

Protect them from themselves?

"But I'm persistently disturbed by the notion that most of our fellow citizens are intellectual children who need to be forced to do what is good for them even at massive cost to their liberty, and ours."

The Times tells us how nobody was paying enough attention

Disintegration of a Mother’s Life Was Long Hidden in Plain Sight

"Last Sunday, Ms. Brewer dialed 911 to report that she had drowned the children one by one in the bathtub in their small, neatly kept apartment here. Ms. Brewer said she first had subdued the oldest, 6-year-old Jewell Ward, by stabbing her repeatedly with a knife. Ms. Brewer then threw herself from the second-floor bedroom window."

In a tight-knit community where a dozen churches and scores of family members were within walking distance, where individual social workers and case workers were known on the street by sight, the social safety net in all its guises seemed to have been as much at a loss as Ms. Brewer herself was in those solitary walks with the empty stroller.

Among the factors contributing to the failure of government to protect Ms. Brewer’s three children, officials said last week, were privacy regulations. Police, mental health, child protection and Family Court officials all had case files on the family, Dr. Curtis said, yet none was in communication with workers in the other agencies — a problem officials said they would try to remedy.

You don't say....

The Perils of Socialized Healthcare

The British and Massachusetts healthcare systems are failing, argues Tom Blumer. “If we ever see a nationwide state-run healthcare system in the U.S., the mainstream media will have played a large role in its arrival by ignoring its myriad failures, both overseas and at home.”

More here...

What's the problem?

'We hold in our hands the solution to the global tobacco epidemic that threatens the lives of 1 billion men, women and children during this century,' WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in an introduction to the report."

Seems to me we'll have a much bigger problem if we save the poor schmucks.....

A great model for our health care system...

Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors:

"Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
# Have your say: Should lifestyle play a role in deciding who gets NHS treatment?

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.

Smoker - Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors
£1.7 billion is spent treating diseases caused by smoking, such as lung cancer and emphysema

Fertility treatment and 'social' abortions are also on the list of procedures that many doctors say should not be funded by the state."

Oops.....