Friday, October 7, 2011

Dr. Lee Hieb Explains How Regulation Hurts Patients

The Black Ribbon Project has posted this video, "Dr. Lee Hieb explains how regulation hurts patients":



She makes a couple of critical points:
Government-run medicine necessarily sacrifices the individual to the collective.

It compels one person to pay for another's health care -- which is no longer charity but immoral once it bcomes compulsory.
Here's the short summary from AAPS:
Government over-regulation increases costs, decreases quality, and limits access to medical care says orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Lee Hieb. She is President of AAPS, http://aapsonline.org. In her talk at the Doctors Town Hall in Nashville on August 6, 2011, she gives real world examples from her experience as a physician running a private practice. Only true free market solutions will decrease costs, increase quality and improve access to care.