What's New: 1998
- December 21, 1998
- Are
You Ready for the Year 2000? - You've probably
heard a lot about the Year 2000 computer problem,
commonly referred to as the Y2K problem. . . Whether
you're an optimistic or a doomsayer, there are some
common sense steps everyone should take regarding
health care information.
- December 14, 1998
- Institute
for Health Freedom Joins Legal Brief in Fight for
Seniors' Health Freedom. - If, as the Supreme
Court held in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department
of Health, a person has a constitutionally protected
right to refuse unwanted lifesaving medical treatment
in order to die, then surely there exists an equal
or even greater constitutional right to obtain wanted
medical treatment in order to remain healthy and alive.
- November 21, 1998
- Protecting
Americans' Medical Privacy: Why Congress Must Act
or Be Acted Upon - Hundreds of individuals and
organizations have access to your medical records
now, whether you know it or not. The Congressional
Research Service reports that according to one 1996
estimate, during the course of a hospital stay, as
many as 400 people may see at least part of a patient's
medical record.
- November 9, 1998
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Should senior citizens be able to contract privately
for Medicare services? Hear both sides of the
argument from speakers at a recent Cato Policy Forum.
Note: This is a link to an audio message.
- October 27, 1998
- ACLU
Joins Fight for Seniors' Health Freedom "A former
associate justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota
was refused a tetanus injection at an emergency room
during treatment for a severe laceration. The emergency
room personnel explained that Medicare might deem
the injection unnecessary and would then refuse reimbursement.
When Justice Loevinger offered to pay for the injection
with his own funds, he was informed that under Medicare,
the hospital could not allow him to make personal
payment for treatment."
- October 20, 1998
- The
Battle with the FDA For Patients' Rights: Will it
Ever End? - The FDA exercises extraordinary power
in life-and-death decisions for terminally ill patients,
though many believe such decisions belong solely in
the hands of individuals--not a federal regulatory
agency.
- October 13, 1998
- The
Medicare Commission Says It Wants Your Input...But
Does it, Really? - Did anyone ever ask you whether
we should use scarce Medicare dollars to
pay for the training of doctors instead of, say,
covering prescription drugs? Probably not. That's
because Medicare decisions are usually made by large
lobbying groups that have vested financial and political
interests in the program.
- October 7, 1998
- Invasion
of Medical Privacy - Several bills, approved and
signed, contain pieces of an emerging system that
will require every American to carry a photo ID that
would include personal history stored on a magnetic
strip or computer chip.
- September 11, 1998
- Senate
Amendment to Stop National Healthcare ID Proposal
- "A plan to assign every American a lifetime health-care
ID number, similar to a Social Security number, could
face new limits under a measure headed for Senate
debate. A provision introduced Thursday [September
3] by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, would prohibit
the Health and Human Services Department from going
forward with the plan until Congress approves its
specifics."
- September 10, 1998
- Tobacco
Deal is Not About Reducing Teen Smoking Most politicians
seem more interested in raising "new" money by passing
new tobacco laws, rather than stopping teenage smoking
by enforcing existing laws.
- August 12, 1998
- Are
Children Adequately Protected In Biomedical Research
Trials? Some advocacy groups are comparing the
child-fenfluramine experiment to the government-funded
Tuskegee trials of the 1940s, where blacks were intentionally
denied treatment for veneral disease.
- August 12, 1998
- Institute
for Health Freedom Sponsors A Health Policy Forum
at the National Press Club
- July 15, 1998
- More
Science, Less Spin A frequently heard criticism
is that the aging NIH system is infested with scientific
conservatism and that grant applicants prudently hold
back novel proposals that might raise doubts among
the scientifically orthodox. (Link to a Washington
Post article)
- June 24, 1998
- Are
American Children Being Lured Into Socialized Medicine?
There are serious efforts underway to expand government
health care for children. And most Americans know
nothing about it. Fewer than one-third of Americans
report hearing about a new federal program that could
lay the ground work for nationalizing children's health
care, restrict health care choices, infringe on parental
rights and threaten medical privacy. Executive
Summary.
- June 12, 1998
- Why
Doctor Opted Out of Medicare
- May 27, 1998
- Federal
Judge Rules: No Constitutional Right
- Medicare
"Scare" Campaign
- May 12, 1998
- Let
Freedom Ring: Genetic Testing Unconstitutional
- April 9, 1998
- New
Medicare Law Discriminates Against Certain Providers
- March 20, 1998
- Medicare
Limits Senior Liberty
- February 23, 1998
- Patient
Access to Alternative Treatments: Beyond the FDA:
Testimony from congressional hearings on access to
alternative medical treatments.
- January 21, 1998
- Health Freedom
of Choice Index goes online! Take this quiz and
find out where you stand on the road to health freedom.
- January 20, 1998
- Kidcare:
Socialized Medicine Through Government Schools
- Medicare's
Origin: The Economics and Politics of Dependency
- Software
Pirates Congress never gave the FDA power to control
medical practice. But the agency seized it anyway
- by regulating software and computers.
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