See John Goodman’s presentation at the Consumer-Centric Healthcare Congress
A look beyond the numbers, a Harvard economist explains what those numbers really mean
A recent emigre from Canada explains why he feels the US should not adopt socialized medicine.
A French health experts details the French health care system's failures, and recommends France look to the U.S. health care system for answers.
Canadian couple cross the border to a Montana hospital for the birth of their rare, identical quadruplets. At least five other Candian women have given birth at the American hospital this year.
Woman dies in emergency waiting room; A nurse said her condition wasn't as critical as other patients who were waiting for treatment, so the woman was told to wait in a chair.
Hospital crisis claims at least two lives; One of the patients died in a hallway at V.G.H., waiting to get into the emergency room for treatment. The other patient did get into emergency, but it was too late.
Ontario emergency room waits fatal, health officials say
A senior who died after waiting hours for care at the Saint John Regional Hospital in 2005
In Britain, the National Health Service of East Suffolk recently decided not to fund joint replacements in obese people. The consultants behind the decision readily admit that financial pressure was a significant factor.
Some doctors admitted that they lied to patients that no treatments were available rather than say that the NHS could not afford them.
Michael Moore’s envies Canada's public health care system, where government pays for your essential medical needs. But Canadians often find they have free access... to a long wait.
Older women are less likely to receive breast cancer treatment compared to younger women
25,000 deaths a year could be prevented if we matched Europe's best hospital treatment, reports health editor.
The Lemon demonstrates how single-payer health care systems have a lot in common with the failed economic systems of Soviet-era eastern Europe.
When told he must wait nearly 4 months before his cancerous brain tumor can be removed, a Canadian man decides to go to the U.S. for treatment. Just another deadly example of the rationing that literally kills patients is portrayed in A Short Course in Brain Surgery.
One man is granted a sex change while a woman waits nearly three years for bladder surgery. Just one example of how rationing and social connections have massive implications in medical treatment in Canada in Two Women.
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