Healthcare - The New American

Stay Healthy: Government Healthcare May Be Coming

Government-improved healthcare will mean ailing sickness care because socialized medicine can't compete with free-market alternatives. ...

Jane Orient, M.D. January 7, 2009

Bad Economics & Medicine

Steven J. DuBord December 23, 2008

ITEM: In an article entitled "5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System" in the Washington Post for November 23, 2008, Shannon Brownlee and...

Cancer Researchers Make Breakthrough

Denise Behreandt November 6, 2008

New research, published in the medical journal Nature, suggests that scientists have for the first time come to a better and more thorough...

Mental-health Parity’s Poison Pill

Steven J. DuBord October 28, 2008

ITEM: The New York Times for October 6 reported: "More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental...

Hawaiian Healthcare Holdup

Kurt Williamsen October 20, 2008

Seven months after instituting the only state child universal healthcare program in the country, Hawaii is dropping the plan. According to an AP...

Socialized Medicine Gets Court Approval in San Francisco

Denise Behreandt October 1, 2008

A federal appeals court recently upheld a San Francisco ruling requiring employers to either offer healthcare coverage to their employees or fund a...

Examining Healthcare

Dennis Behreandt September 2, 2008

Americans who want national healthcare should examine the results where it has already been tried. ...

Comparing Cures

August 25, 2008

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, has made available online a...

Bush Administration Rule Riles Abortion Advocates

August 25, 2008

The Bush administration plans to enforce a regulation that will prevent healthcare workers who object to abortion from being forced to perform abortion-related...

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Report Psychological Problems

Denise Behreandt May 10, 2008

A Rand Corporation report indicates that 18.5 percent of current and former U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recently surveyed reported symptoms of depression...

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Behavior Worth Medicating?

Gregory Hession September 17, 2007

Government and psychiatry join forces to make children take powerful drugs, even against their parents' wishes. ...

The New Healthcare System

Chris Bentley September 5, 2005

Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson, who served in the Bush administration’s first term, recently joined the board of directors...

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