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fessor ian gilmore is a mouthpiece for the government it is worth pointing out that nowhere in the telegraph article is this information pointed out now me i d say that taking the word of a man who is the chair of an organisation the members of which include the formerly named uk alliance for the suppression of the traffic in all intoxicating liquors without mentioning this little nugget of information or massive fucking conflict of interest is the act of a deeply stupid tit head biased cub reporter so perhaps gilmore is not exceding his remit if we consider that his job is not a doctor or surgeon instead his job is to continue to get money taken from tax payers under threat of punishment to feather the nests of members of his groups and the legislators and civil servants that implement the policies he and his dream up he is perfectly within his remit if his job title is government shill posted by richard at 12 04 pm 1 comments drug decriminalisation is working in portugal opponents and the un admit it in light of the fact that nigel meek and the society for individual freedom are planning to publish my most recent blog post on drugs in their journal the individual perhaps this could be considered a follow up in this country if the number of deaths and cases of hiv linked to drug abuse rose health workers in the ruling class politicians and all sorts of legal types would clamour for a tightening up of the laws inevitably taking the form of greater penalties for possession since it is easier to get arrest figures that way and the public would lap it up not in portugal following an increase in drug related deaths and hiv contractions the portuguese government decided that the appropriate response was decriminalisation in the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of hiv linked to drug abuse the portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin cocaine marijuana lsd and other illicit street drugs the theory focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections note decriminalisation not legalisation of course now instead of being put into prison addicts are going to treatment centers and they re learning how to control their drug usage or getting off drugs entirely report author glenn greenwald a former new york state constitutional litigator said during a press briefing at cato last week under the portuguese plan penalties for people caught dealing and trafficking drugs are unchanged dealers are still jailed and subjected to fines depending on the crime but people caught using or possessing small amounts defined as the amount needed for 10 days of personal use are brought before what s known as a dissuasion commission an administrative body created by the 2001 law each three person commission includes at least one lawyer or judge and one health care or social services worker the panel has the option of recommending treatment a small fine or no sanction drug legalization removes all criminal penalties for producing selling and using drugs no country has tried it in contrast decriminalization as practiced in portugal eliminates jail time for drug users but maintains criminal penalties for dealers of course something closer to legalisation is what my previous blog post called for since it was principally about getting the provision of drugs out of the hands of gangs by letting normal businesses sell it legally however the results in portugal are still heartening five years later the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually and the number of new hiv cases caused by using dirty needles to inject heroin cocaine and other illegal substances plummeted from nearly 1 400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006 according to a report released recently by the cato institute a washington d c libertarian think tank of course libertarians are bound to want to say that decriminalisation has had positive results so maybe a reader would suspect the authors of this report of bias however even skeptics seem positive about what has happened or not happened in portugal peter reuter a criminologist at the university of maryland college park says he s skeptical decriminalization was the sole reason drug use slid in portugal noting that another factor especially among teens was a global decline in marijuana use by the same token he notes that critics were wrong in their warnings that decriminalizing drugs would make lisbon a drug mecca drug decriminalization did reach its primary goal in portugal of reducing the health consequences of drug use he says and did not lead to lisbon becoming a drug tourist destination of course while spain and italy have also decriminalized personal use of drugs and mexico s president has proposed doing the same some people remain unable to learn lessons walter kemp a spokesperson for the united nations office on drugs and crime says decriminalization in portugal appears to be working he adds that his office is putting more emphasis on improving health outcomes such as reducing needle borne infections but that it does not explicitly support decriminalization because it smacks of legalization a spokesperson for the white house s office of national drug control policy declined to comment citing the pending senate confirmation of the office s new director former seattle police chief gil kerlikowske the u s drug enforcement administration dea and the u s department of state s bureau of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs also declined to comment on the report failing to explicitly support decriminalisation does not mean that many in that un office may support it anyway of course but the lack of any comment at all from the relevant us bodies and apparently those in the uk seems like somebody burying their head in the sand in a determined effort to ignore anything that may harm their own mindset posted by richard at 11 43 am 2 comments tuesday december 08 2009 some informative films on us healthcare and statist versus free market alternatives misdiagnosing the problems and the myths of america s uninsured would obamacare kill medical innovation as health care reform inches closer to reality a massively important question becomes even more pressing will obamacare kill the sorts of medical innovation that makes the united states the leader in bringing new treatments technology and procedures to market america is the only industrialized nation that doesn t have a national health plan says rep charlie rangel d n y former gov howard dean d vt and countless others who want the united states government to guarantee health coverage to all protesters at a recent rally in downtown los angeles demanded universal coverage they told reason tv that america is a cruel land where profits come before people it s disgusting said one woman there should be no profits in health care what about those who argue that profits drive medical innovation i think that s kind of sick declared another protester who wants the u s to be more like canada where government policy keeps drug prices and drug company profits lower than in america many regard the profit motive as cruel but might it actually produce compassionate results after all america has generated vastly more medical innovations than other nations included in the long list is the innovation that saved the life of dave christensen construction supervisor husband and father after being diagnosed with cancer christensen was lucky enough to be given a then experimental drug that probably wouldn t have been developed or brought to market in any other country in the world if america follows the lead of the rest of the world and clamps down on profits in health care who will make tomorrow s wonder drugs drug companies that take big risks may make big profits says reason tv s nick gillespie who hosts the video but i say good for them if they re saving lives i hope they make a killing uninsured in america uninsured in america examines the conventional wisdom that 45 million americans cannot get health insurance and consequently do not have access to health care how to fix america s health insurance crisis get some reason tv s nick gillespie isn t making a run for the white house but he knows how to get coverage to at least half of the 45 million americans who need it and while barack obama and john mccain argue about who s got the best health care plan each ignores the simplest solution call it the gillespie plan if you want health insurance get some of people currently classified as uninsured a conservative estimate says about 45 percent of them would be able to get health insurance right now if they wanted it says economist glen whitman that estimate comes from a study headed by a johns hopkins university researcher which separates those who could get insurance into one of two categories those who earn enough money to buy it and those who qualify for existing government programs so how about some real straight talk for a change if we separate those who can t get coverage from those who can we can focus more on helping the needy so if you can get coverage says gillespie don t wait for washington go on out and get some statist alternatives in other countries canada the lemon the lemon demonstrates how single payer health care systems have a lot in common with the failed economic systems of soviet era eastern europe a short course in brain surgery a short course in brain surgery highlights the plight of an ontario man with a cancerous brain tumor who crossed the border to the u s to get the medical care that is rationed in his home country two women two women serves as a cautionary lesson about a politicized health care system where politicians and bureaucrats determine medical priorities a true tale of canadian health care why some canadians need to go to the u s for sugery many advocates of health care reform are admirers of canada s state run no opt out single payer system indeed in 2003 president barack obama voiced enthusiasm for such a health care program proponents of canadian style health care should meet cheryl baxter a canadian citizen who waited years for hip replacement surgery only to be told that her operation would not happen any time soon instead of waiting baxter did what an increasing number of canadians are doing she flew to a clinic in the united states paid out of pocket and had a life altering surgery in a matter of weeks rather than years baxter s experience doesn t just throw damning light on canadian health care the sort of clinic she went to in oklahoma suggests a different way of delivering health care in the united states too a simple fee for service model in which providers openly advertise their prices service and reputation rather than a frustrating complicated mess of intermediaries such as employers and insurance companies u s health care reformers should think about bringing medicine into line with the same dynamics that help deliver great service at great prices throughout most other parts of the economy while canadian health care is certainly cheaper than its u s counterpart health care spending in canada is about 10 percent of gdp versus 16 percent in the united states it is not necessarily better or more equitable as a recent national bureau of economic research comparison concluded americans are more likely to report that they are fully satisfied with the health services they have received and to rank the quality of care as excellent not only do americans have far greater access to basic diagnostic tools ranging from mammograms to ct scans the researchers found the health income gradient is actually more prominent in canada than in the u s that is wealthy canadians receive far better care compared to low income canadians than rich americans versus poor americans a true tale of canadian health care was produced by dan hayes and peter suderman interviews were filmed by alex manning and the segment is hosted and scripted by nick gillespie approximately 5 11 minutes the united kingdom operation health freedom daniel hannan obamacare a red ink train wreck the real cost of government run health care this cf p foundation video explains why healthcare proposals in washington will result in bloated government and higher deficits this mini documentary exposes the pervasive inaccuracy of congressional forecasts and succinctly lists 12 reasons why obamacare will be a budget buster for more information www freedomandprosperity org the real problems and the free market alternative how american healthcare killed my father american health care kills and it s because markets for health care services are grossly distorted that s the assessment of businessman david goldhill whose father died of a hospital acquired infection goldhill wrote up what he discovered subsequently in an article for the atlantic monthly entitled how american health care killed my father one of the key problems in american health care he says is that the consumer of health care services or products is rarely paying directly don t copy europe s mistakes less government is the right way to fix healthcare in this cf p foundation video eline van den broek explains that government interference is driving up healthcare costs in america and warns that european style health reform will make the situation even worse based on what has happened in europe she explains that universal health coverage is not the same as universal healthcare that insurance mandates mean more government control and that price controls simply do not work more information www freedomandprosperity org operation health freedom judge napolitano how to fix health care lasik surgery for the medical debate make no mistake about it health care reform is coming but what s the best way to fix our health care system which is an inefficient complicated mess of private actors third party payers public subsidies and innumerable state and federal regulations should we place our faith in the government or in the free market obamacare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government more subsidies more regulations a law mandating individuals buy health insurance coverage and of course more taxes to pay for it all the alternative is to base reforms on what works in the other five sixths of the u s economy where choice and competition increase quality and drive down prices over time can a market based health care system work we can begin to answer this question by looking at lasik a medical procedure that s not covered by health insurance and has gotten better and cheaper over time how to fix health care proposes three simple reforms that will put us on a path to a health care system that s better more affordable and more accessible and get this these market based reforms can be implemented without creating new government programs or raising taxes john mackey...