Nurses for Reform Blog

This is a fascinating article written by someone who is not an expert in the healthcare debate, but someone who has experienced the pitfalls of the current US healthcare system and come to the conclusion that there must be a better way of healthcare delivery and funding.

It gives a comprehensive review of the history of US healthcare provision and funding and goes on to draw some interesting conclusions on how future healthcare funding could work for the benefit the consumer.

For those of you able to attend, the author is speaking on this subject at a CATO Institute event in Washington D.C. later this week.

I love this posting on Samizdata by my good friend Antoine Clarke:

Do check out the links; particularly the one to the excellent Daily Mail article pointing out that a million Americans took to the streets of DC in opposition to the socialism of Obamacare.

In this excellent article republished on the Centre for Public Medicine Website, Robert M. Goldberg discusses an event that he recently attended where the American public were protesting against President Obama’s healthcare reforms. 

One thing that is notable about the American public is that because they have never has to suffer the NHS nanny state model of socialised medicine, telling them what is good for them and what they can have, the Americans are well informed healthcare consumers.  They know better than most politicians that more government intervention in healthcare will lead to rationing, waiting lists and denial of treatments and care on ground of ‘cost-effectiveness’.

That is why so many of them marched on Washington DC this weekend to protest against the Obamacare health plans.

Any American thinking that Obamacare and more government intervention in healthcare is a good thing must read these articles carefully.  Over the past few days a plethora of stories have emerged demonstrating how the NHS is self destructing.

Evidence of  appalling care form nurses have been reported time and time again with little or no comment or apology from the government.  However, with NHS patients dying due to neglect and many more lives being put at risk by sub-standard care, the powers that be in the NHS seem to have other priorities. A leaflet on how nurses can prevent climate change!

This is a fantastic website by the Heritage Foundation.  It fully explains the issues surrounding the healthcare debate in the US, and is aware that although the Obamacare proposals are not what is required, US healthcare does need some major reform.

I urge you to take a look at this site to really get to grips with what is happening in the US.