When is rationing not rationing?

Healthcare Rationing George Orwell-Style

by yours truly on Townhall.com  9-4-11

When is rationing not rationing, a mandate not a mandate and price-fixing not price fixing?

When the government says so.

The Changing Character of Medicine: Are We Headed in the Right Direction?

A recent article in the New York Times relates how the shift from small business owner to employee affects a physician’s politics. But that is far from the most important change that will occur because of this shift. What we really need to pay attention to is how it will affect the practice of medicine itself.

Full post is up at PJ Media.

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Planned Parenthood Controversy: The Law vs. the Law

There's a very interesting discussion over at The Incidental Economist on what is actually at stake in the controversy over Planned Parenthood funding in Indiana.

Turns out that Medicaid patients were not getting abortions paid for by Medicaid. That is against Federal law.

What the Indiana law is attempting to do is prohibit Medicaid patients from receiving any type of care from a facility which performs abortions. But that prohibition also appears to be against Federal  law.

Read the rest over there:

Medicaid, Planned Parenthood and the law

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