{"id":880,"date":"2007-08-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2007-08-21T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","slug":"costly-affordable-health-care-the-washington-times-americas-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Costly ‘affordable’ health care\u00a0—\u00a0The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Costly ‘affordable’ health care — The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“John Stossel is right.”<\/p>\n

When an editorial starts out like this, and it’s from the Rev. Moon’s Times<\/strong>, you know<\/strong> it’s going to be dead on true, don’t you?<\/em>
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Healthcare policy by anecdote- isn’t that what Michael Moore is accused of all of the time?<\/em>
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UPDATE: I contacted an ICU director in Brussels regarding this article. His response: <\/p>\n

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This is simply wrong – and worrisome if published in the Washington Times
(hopefully not the Washington Post)!<\/p>\n

As stated, we have here one of the best health care systems in the world.
Much better than socialistic systems like in the UK or in Scandinavia or even
the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Maybe his grandfather became deaf because of an aminoside administration, but
the antibiotic choice was not restricted by costs ! <\/p>\n

Maybe it is a case of malpractice – I do not know, these can happen anywhere
– but it is not related to a limitation in health care costs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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