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"PARADISE ISLAND"   FRED THOMPSON
What is it that leads people to value theoretically "free" health care, even when it's lousy or nonexistent, over a free society that actually delivers health care?

'SICKO': HEAVILY DOCTORED   KURT LODER
Moore is a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film.

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM SUFFERS FROM MONOPOLY   MICHAEL CAMPBELL
It's tragically dangerous in Afghanistan, but it may be more dangerous to have to wait for cancer treatment, cardiac surgery, or an organ transplant in the Great White North.

ONE-SIZE MEDICINE DOES NOT FIT ALL   PETER PITTS
If only these lawmakers looked to the countries that have already gone down this road, where the consequences have been disastrous.

WHAT MICHAEL MOORE FORGOT TO TELL YOU   RICHARD E. RALSTON
Britain has had to import more than 20,000 physicians in the last three years because so few of the British want to enter or stay in the profession after sixty years of experience with the NHS.

CURING WALTER REED SYNDROME   MICHAEL F. CANNON
At the VHA, Newsweek found "a grim portrait of an overloaded bureaucracy cluttered with red tape; veterans having to wait weeks or months for mental-health care and other appointments; and families sliding into debt as VA case managers study disability claims over many months."

BE A WINNER IN THE POSTCODE LOTTERY OF LIFE   TELEGRAPH
The problem with the postcode lottery is not that health spending decisions are taken locally. It is the fact that nobody knows who is making these decisions, why they are making them and on whose behalf they think they are acting.

BRITAIN'S THE WORST FOR DEATHS FROM STROKES   NIGEL HAWKES
More die and more are left disabled, even though Britain spends as much as, if not more than, other countries on stroke care.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE   GRACE-MARIE TURNER
"Access to a waiting list is not access to health care."

HOW MUCH IS A YEAR OF YOUR LIFE WORTH?   PETER PITTS
How do these panels perform that grim calculation? Through something called a "quality of life-year" (QALY), which represents the estimated dollar value of an additional year of healthy life.

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