Take a Stand for the Rights of Physicians by Richard E. Ralston (March 1, 2007) While Governor Schwarzenegger and California legislators are busy putting...
Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine Website: http://www.westandfirm.org/ Statement of Principles and Goals: We stand for Freedom and Individual Rights in...
All Power to the Post Office by Richard E. Ralston Summary: Putting us all in a government health care prison will not ensure better health care. Article: ...
Health Care's A Mess-- So What's the Solution? by Michael J. Hurd Consider the possibility that the market didn't fail us in medical care...but it was never...
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day by Michael Berliner "Independence is the foundation of America. Independence is what should be celebrated on...
Universal Health Care Freedom on the Fourth of July by Richard E. Ralston (July 2, 2007) "Universal Health Care" is the increasing drumbeat of advocates who ...
The Wisconsin Experiment with Socialized Medicine by John Stossel "...The fall of the Soviet Union deprived us of the biggest example of how socialism works....
Health Care: Government vs. Private by Walter Williams "Sometimes the advocates of socialized medicine claim that health care is too important to be left to...
Socialized Medicine, State by State "Every Democratic presidential candidate is proposing some kind of scheme to move America toward socialized medicine, and...
What Michael Moore Forgot to Tell You By Richard E. Ralston August 28, 2007 Michael Moore's comedy-drama Sicko presented a great deal of misinformation—too...
Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine. (FIRM) http://www.westandfirm.org/index.html Statement of Principles and Goals We stand for Freedom and Individual...
The Right Vision Of Health Care - Yaron Brook FORBES MAGAZINE With the primary season in full swing, the presidential candidates are fighting over what to do...
Moral Health Care vs. “Universal Health Care” - Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh "Although American scientists, doctors, and businessmen have produced the most...
Consumers for Health Care Choices http://www.chcchoices.org "CHCC is a 501(C)4 not-for-profit grass roots organization that represents the views of the health...
From Wikipedia: "...During the Pyrrhic War in 280 BC at Heaclea and in 279 BC in Asculum, the army of King Pyrrhus of Epirus suffered irreplaceable casualties...
Dr. Madianos makes some excellent points about the Pyrrhic victory in the recent Medicare tussle. In fact, all the political wrangling over Medicare is just a...
I was just alerted to this thought-provoking essay by Massachusetts attorney Paula Hall, directed towards American medical students, entitled "Please don't...
Making Money in Medicine Is Moral After the Massachusetts Public Health Council announced new rules that will allow CVS and other retailers to open in-store...
American Medical News content can now be discussed with your physician colleagues on Sermo, a _free_ doctors-only discussion board which currently has a...
The below letter was submitted to members of the Texas State and Harris County Medical Society on July 17,2008. Names have been removed in order to convert it...
Leftist Congressmen tried to stage a "town hall" style meeting in Houston last Friday in order to claim support for socialized medicine. Fortunately, blogger...
Medicare's "Free Market" Facade -Dr. Yaron Brook, http://www.americandaily.com/article/22680 " Some Republicans are bemoaning the passage of a new law they...
Reform health care - Paul Hsieh, M.D., Co-founder, Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine http://www.WeStandFirm.org Mandatory insurance does not solve our...
Concierge Medicine Government insurance programs such as Medicare devalue the services of primary care physicians relative to specialists, as many physicians...
Introducing Medpolitics.com A new web service is now available called "MedPolitics.com" http://medpolitics.com , a blogging site open to US physicians to opine...
A recent article in the American Medical News reports a planned massive expansion of the Medicare bureaucracy with the institution of a new layer of Medicare...
Dr.PH writes: I recently read the following e-mail about Medicare from a US medicalstudent, which I am quoting with his permission: "My grandparents just this...
A recent post on the online physician discussion board Sermo (www.sermo.com) asks: " Is universal healthcare and universal coverage the same thing or ...
From the CMS's own Feb 2008 press release: "Approximately 96 percent of the improper payments identified by the RACs in 2007 were overpayments collected from...
"How Not to Fight Against Socialized Medicine" Excerpt: "...Doctors are not the servants of their patients. No free man is a "servant" of those he deals with. ...