This is the story of a liberal Catholic priest who gets mugged with reality when he finds out he’s actually a Holocaust orphan survivor. Suddenly, his life is turned upside down, but supported by a coterie of old and new friends, he learns the fundamentals of the Jewish faith. He goes on a soul searching […]
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This is a great book. It shows how American medicine is being socialized to the detriment of patients. On managed competition/care, the author observes, “Government cannot preserve high quality health care, prompt service, and freedom of choice without allowing health care providers the freedom to meet demand; Government cannot reduce the regulatory burden…government cannot apply
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Something is rotten in Washington’s corridors of power. And we aren’t talking about lying about sultry sex (and alleged private matters that may or may not be high crimes and misdemeanors), but corruption in the highest circles of our government — the Departments of Navy, Justice, Defense, Commerce, culminating with bribery and potential treason involving
Although I agree with your editorial on unionization, I must ask why are physicians really forming unions? Why are editors of medical journals, such as the Annals of Internal Medicine (April 20, 1999), calling again for “universal coverage” and “health care as a right?” They are already anticipating the collapse of the “managed care free
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Great Britain, which gave birth to the great political philosophy of classic liberalism and to America, the flowering of Western civilization, is in moral decline. Not content with holding General Augusto Pinochet hostage, Britain now holds her own citizens hostage like an authoritarian nation that distrusts its own citizens with firearms. Since 1996 when a
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In a recent editorial, Frank Davidoff, M.D., Editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM) and Robert D. Reinecke, M.D. of the Jefferson Medical College have called for a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to establish universal health care as a right.(1) It was trumpeted in a “Dear Health Care Colleague” letter by Ira
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