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Patients’ Bill of Rights or The Trial Lawyers’ Bill of Delights

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The proposed Patients’ Bill of Rights is presently stalled in a congressional conference committee due to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Despite its appellation, a misnomer, this legislation has nothing remotely to do with extending basic traditional rights of citizenship to Americans or of providing protections against medical rationing to patients. It has […]

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Pain Control or State Control?

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You may have heard about the story of the psychiatrist who was prosecuted for murder because he prescribed pain medication for several patients who ultimately died. Nevertheless, you may not have thought about the implications of this news story or about how it may affect you and your loved ones. Yes, last year, Dr. Robert

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The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer

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I was recently asked to review The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor for Ideas on Liberty. What follows here is a more extended critique of this scholarly but deeply disturbing book. Proctor, a professor of history of science at Penn State, thoroughly documents and describes in a good light what he calls

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Book Review: The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor

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The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor is a deeply disturbing book for it describes in a good light what the author calls “the lesser-known ‘flipside’ of fascism-the side that gave us struggles against smoking, campaigns for cleaner food and water, for exercise and preventive medicine.” The Nazi “accomplishments” include the establishment of

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Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government by Theda Skocpol

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Boomerang by Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard University, is subtitled, “Clinton’s Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics.” And indeed, this book is about politics, not about the reality of what went on in those crucial years. One comes out with the impression that the book

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Code Blue: Health Care in Crisis by Edward R. Annis

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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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Patients’ Bill of Rights or The Trial Lawyers’ Bill of Delights

Pain Control or State Control?

The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer

Book Review: The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor

Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government by Theda Skocpol

Code Blue: Health Care in Crisis by Edward R. Annis

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