This day in Crankery, November 16th
Category: Health Care
So who here has actually read the health care bill?. I've been devoting a bit of time each week to...
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Mark Hoofnagle has a MD and PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia, and is now a general surgery resident. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.
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PalMD is a practicing internist in the Midwestern United States. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here.
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Welcome Back to Denialism Blog
Category: Birthers
Despite rumors to the contrary, I am not dead. Instead I've been working hard as a new surgical intern and sadly not finding the time to write for the denialism blog. However, now more than ever, it seems that we need to talk about the problem of denialism.
Posted by MarkH at 2:02 PM • 23 Comments •
The Obama Plan - Part I
Category: Health Care
We're starting to hear about how Obama intends to implement healthcare in this country. The letter published at whitehouse.gov, lays out some basic ideas, but it seems as though Obama is willing to have congress work out the specifics. Let's go through his recommendations and talk about the implications.
Posted by MarkH at 12:41 PM • 14 Comments •
What is the cause of excess costs in US healthcare?
Category: Health Care
The question has come up again and again in our discussions on health care in the US and around the world, why does it cost so much more in the US when we get so much less?
Posted by MarkH at 12:26 PM • 37 Comments •
What is health care like in France?
Category: Health Care
Here it comes. How dare I suggest the US could learn anything from France? By most assessments France provides the best health care in the world, with excellent life expectancy, low rates of health-care amenable disease, and again, despite providing excellent universal care, they spend less per capita than the US.
Posted by MarkH at 6:21 AM • 7 Comments •
What is healthcare like in Germany?
Category: Health Care
What better argument for universal health care can you make than that of Germany? By far one of the most successful systems, it has had some form of universal health care for almost 130 years, and is currently one of the most successful health care systems in the world.
Posted by MarkH at 6:36 AM • 17 Comments •
What is healthcare like in the Netherlands?
Category: Health Care
The Dutch really have it together on health care, they have a system that has been proposed as a model for the US to emulate. In stark contrast to many other European systems, it's actually based entirely on private insurers, rather than a single-payer or entirely national system. Yet the Dutch system is universal, has far superior rates of satisfaction with quality of care and access, and still costs a fraction of what we pay for health care per capita in the US. How is this possible?
Posted by MarkH at 6:20 AM • 37 Comments •
What's health care like in Australia?
Category: Health Care
To start off some balanced discussions of what universal health care looks like around the world, I thought I would begin with Australia, a system that we could learn a great deal from.
Posted by MarkH at 6:32 AM • 34 Comments •
Are Patients in Universal Healthcare Countries Less Satisfied?
Category: Health Care
A dishonest campaign has started against healthcare reform in this country and the first shot has come from Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), a group purporting to show that patients in universal health systems suffer from government interference in health care. But what do the data show?
Posted by MarkH at 7:00 AM • 66 Comments •
What should a national health care system look like?
Category: Health Care
We will of course hear a lot of chest thumping from the thick-browed morons about how the US is already perfect and can not learn anything from the rest of the world. We will hear how every other system in the world is imperfect, and that is why any reform is impossible. We will hear how this will lead to communism and socialism despite the fact that every other industrialized nation in the world has universal healthcare and amazingly they didn't all go commy. In short, we are about to hear a bunch of denialist garbage designed to delay, to obstruct, to block, and drag down any meaningful action in healthcare.
Posted by MarkH at 8:22 AM • 61 Comments •
