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Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor

Sedalia, Colorado
Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (FIRM) promotes the philosophy of individual rights,... Full Bio
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Teresi: Free Market Best For Health Insurance Reform by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The October 7, 2009 Colorado Springs Gazette has published an excellent OpEd by Amanda Teresi entitled, " Return to free market best hope for health insurance reform". Here's ... Read on »
WSJ: The Lesson of State Health-Care Reforms by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the October 6, 2009 Wall Street Journal, Peter Suderman reviews " The Lesson of State Health-Care Reforms". Let's go through the list of states that attempted Obama-like p ... Read on »
John Lewis At National Press Club by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Professor John David Lewis, PhD, of Duke University gave the following talk at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on September 19, 2009 during a public briefing on the ... Read on »
Positive Report on Retail Health Clinics by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The September 30, 2009 Denver Post has a positive story on retail health clinics. One excerpt from " Coloradans shop for health care in retail-store clinics": National resear ... Read on »
The Canadian "Private Option" by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Ari Armstrong alerted me to two recent stories about the "private option" in Canadian health care: " In Canada, a move toward a private healthcare option" By Kim Murphy, Los ... Read on »
Swiss Hit -- Or Miss? by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As more American realize that they don't want to duplicate either the Canadian or British health care systems, proponents of "universal health care" have been casting about fo ... Read on »
Armstrong: Pay your own doctors by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The October 1, 2009 Colorado Daily has published Ari Armstrong's latest OpEd, " Pay Your Own Doctor". Here's an excerpt: While Barack Obama pretends that insurance companies ... Read on »
Hsieh OpEd in Denver Post: "The Real Stakes" by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The October 1, 2009 Denver Post has published my health care OpEd, " The Real Stakes". Here's the opening: During President Obama's recent speech to Congress, he stated that ... Read on »
Hsieh CSM OpEd - "Health Care in MA: Warning for America" by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The September 30, 2009 Christian Science Monitor has published my latest OpEd, " Health Care in Massachusetts: A Warning for America". Here is the introduction: In his recent ... Read on »
Pipes On BaucusCare by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The September 25, 2009 SF Examiner published the following OpEd by Sally Pipes, " Baucus' unhealthy plan will not reform anything". She makes several good points. Here's one ... Read on »
States Fighting Back Against Mandatory Insurance by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The September 28, 2009 New York Times reported on a growing movement in some state legislatures to oppose a key provision in the proposed Obama/Baucus health care plan, namely ... Read on »
Gorman: Lack of Insurance and Statistical Trickery by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Independence Institute health care analyst Linda Gorman debunks the myth the Americans are dying due to lack of insurance. Here's an excerpt from her post, " Death by lack of ... Read on »
Health 'Reform' Is Income Redistribution by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The September 29, 2009 Wall Street Journal carries an OpEd by Michael Leavitt, Al Hubbard and Keith Hennessey which observes that " Health 'Reform' Is Income Redistribution". ... Read on »
Doctors Vs. Bureaucrats by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Who really makes the decisions in nationalized health systems -- doctors or bureaucrats? The AAPS tells the answer here. Read on »
Turner and Armstrong On Insurance by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Two quick links highlighting aspects of the mandatory insurance debate. In the September 25, 2009 DC Examiner, Grace-Marie Turner warns that " Compulsory insurance has conseq ... Read on »
Dr. Kelley's Prescription by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the September 25, 2009 Denver Post, Dr. Richard Kelley offers some good ideas for genuine free-market health care reforms. His piece is entitled " Let's Be Reasonable", an ... Read on »
Video: First, Do No Harm by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The short video, " First, Do No Harm", succinctly shows the problems of government-run health care in other countries. (Via HealthcareBS.) Read on »
Ramirez Cartoon by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Today's Cartoon: " Government Can Fix Health Care". (Via Gus Van Horn.) Read on »
Bad Goals, Bad Solutions by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Jared Rhoads of the Lucidicus Project cuts through the double-speak of the Obama Administration's proposed health care goals. His essay, " Bad Goals, Bad Solutions" discusses ... Read on »
FIRM Articles And Editorials by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Now that the health care issue is front-and-center on the political radar, our web designer Tod has added four new pages to the FIRM website which include a compilation (with ... Read on »