Health care
Watching the watchers
Government ‘regulation' is no magic bullet.
Ever notice how, whenever Nevada government lays yet another egg, the "solution" that politicians and bureaucrats prescribe always turns out to be yet more government?
On the road to health-care Hell
Blame government, not free markets, for the mess.
That American health care's problems are systemic is an argument we often hear from advocates of socialized medicine. But the rarely admitted reality is that we already have socialized medicine. And it is that system that is increasingly devolving into – and subjecting us to – bureaucratically indifferent, incompetent and callous Soviet-style medicine.
Repeat offenders
Genuine reform is needed to end corruption at UMC.
The feeling of being in a time loop is something Southern Nevadans are becoming familiar with. They experience it anew every time the latest management debacle at the University Medical Center pops up in the news.
Morally hazardous
Why social or medical ‘insurance’ from government will never be a square deal
Television police dramas rely all the time on the concept of “moral hazard.”
A restaurant burns down, or a corpse turns up, and one of the first things detectives do is track down the insurance company.
'Disciplining' Canadian pharmacists - from Nevada
'You can't be everywhere,' notes a Health Canada spokesman.
Are Nevada politicians who’ve been pushing schemes to reimport drugs from Canada putting at risk the very seniors they say they’re out to help?
First, Do No Harm:
Why American Health Care Policy is Failing, and How to Fix It
The current U.S. health care system evolved out of attempts to pander to certain constituencies and to mimic policies of other countries - without understanding those policies' weaknesses.
The Final Straw
A family kneels weeping by the lifeless body of their newborn child on the side of the road to St. George, Utah.
Solving Nevada’s Medical Malpractice Crisis
In their frantic attempt to put an end to Nevada’s malpractice insurance crisis, our state politicians are looking for solutions in all the wrong places.
What Does ‘Tort Reform’ Mean?
Our healthcare crisis here in Nevada is getting worse. For the last several months we have heard many prescriptions for a solution. Doctors and insurers want reform of tort (personal injury) law, but lawyers don’t. Recently, several patients expressed confusion as to what tort reform really is. So the following is intended to help explain.
Litigation As a Means of Extortion
In 20 years, Vegas has driven away three major insurance companies
I had a conversation the other day with a personal-injury attorney. He’d come by to drop off a malpractice claim against one of the doctors who is insured through my office
