Department of Public Safety: A National Model for Healthcare?

By G. Keith Smith, M.D.

The video featured on the AAPS channel at YouTube examines the concept of the free market’s necessary link to high quality medical care. (Screen snip from video)As ObamaCare becomes ever more unpopular, the single payer idea keeps coming up. So let’s consider what a single-payer system would look like. There are so many places to look it’s a little confusing. Here’s a partial list.

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Maher cites flawed healthcare study during chat with Reason’s Gillespie

Comic/pundit Bill Maher (left) yammers about government healthcare with an actor. Not shown: Reason's Nick Gillespie who did his best to inject logic into nonsense.Nick Gillespie, online editor for Libertarian-leaning Reason magazine, did a guest stint on Bill Maher’s comedy show on Friday.

Gillespie attempted to talk about single payer healthcare with Maher and select wealthy guests like media mogul Mort Zuckerman and comic/pundit Rachel Maddow.

Maher, a fan of ObamaCare and big government in general, cited a figure from a report whose editor considered it flawed.

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Health insurance facts you may have missed, from CBO and Census

[Photo Washington by Kay B. Day/copyright 2008-09]Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-declared “democratic socialist”, was on C-SPAN Tuesday morning, pushing government insurance. Sanders, according to his US Senate website, wants “a single-payer, state-administered system.” Few Americans (and probably even fewer legislators) are aware of some facts in reports from the US Census and the Congressional Budget Office. In the interest of clarity on a top issue in President Barack Obama’s campaign promise chest, here are a few facts and figures about the government's latest grab for the health insurance market in America.

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