The 4 deadly R's of Social-fascist health care reform
Ransom, Redistribution, Regulation and Rationing
Dear American citizens: Allow your country to remain a caring nation
Swiss Voters Deal a Blow to "Evidence based" Medicine
AT THE BEDSIDE OF HEALTHCARE
Published by the Liberal Institute in partnership with Medicine & Liberty, this work shows paths to move health care away from over regulation to responsibility and choice. A full page of Swiss financial daily l'AGEFI quotes a chapter of the book.
SAVE THE DATE
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) 75th Annual meeting, October 3-6, 2018 Indianapolis IN
PAST EVENTS
Med-Econ Socratic seminar 2017 organized in patnership with the Liberal Institute on June 9-10, 2017 at the Hostellerie Bon Rivage enabled a mutidiciplinary group of partticipants to discuss ethics and economics in modern health care.
Journée Libérale Romande, November 2016 Lausanne This one-day conference organized by the Liberales Institut and Medicine & Liberty, discussed different problems faced by present Swiss Health care.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) The 73rd annual meeting in september 2016 successfully voiced the legitimate concerns of private doctors determined to resist regulatory trends that threaten their mssion to treat patients to the best of their ability.
6th Annual PIMS Leaders Summit held in Berlin, Germany - February 10-11, 2016, brought together decision makers and thought leaders to share views on key issues related to Pharmaceutical and
Supply chain Innovation. Dr Alphonse Crespo spoke on the added values of
medical innovation.
Socratic seminar on Medicine & Economy held in Sierre, Switzerland - October 23-24, 2016 in partnership with the Liberal Institute inititated a fruitful multidisciplinary discussion on the intricate relationship beween the medical mission and economical frameworks. Read more in Francis Richard's account (in french) (Go to his blog)
Journée Libérale Romande November 2014 Lausanne Included a panel on Medicine & Liberalism directed by Dr Patrick Ruchat & Dr Alphonse Crespo
AIX-EN-PROVENCE , France, - 27-29 Juin 2014
11th European Resource Bank Meeting hosted by the Institute of Economic Studies included a french session on health care reform with panelists PIerre Bessard, Alphonse
Crespo, Kerry Halferty-Hardy and Michel Kelly-Gagnon.
CHARLESTON South Carolina September 4 - 6, 2014
AAPS 71st Annual Meeting The Association of Americsn Physicians and Surgeon's annual meeting brought together physicians at the front line of the battle to free American medicine from destruction by third parties.
BASEL Bs, Switzerland Congress center April 07-10,2014
LogiPharma 2014 - Life Sciences Supply Chain Conference - this meeting brought together over 400 life sciences supply chain executives. First day session featured a panel on customer centered innovation including Manel Luis, Roderick Beard, Francois Bisch, Alison Kirkpatrick, Johnathon Marshall and Alphonse Crespo
LAUSANNE Clinique Bois-Cerf Nov 5, 2013
Liberal Institute conference "Healthcare at a Crossroads: Liberty or Regulation" To feature: Cedric Bossart, Yves Seydoux and Alphonse Crespo.
DENVER Colorado - September 25-28, 2013
AAPS 70th Annual Meeting Summit to Save American Medicine
ZURICH - 31 May - 1 June 2012
Liberales Institut Symposium Health Care's dilema: Provision or Redistribution
BRUSSELS - 28 March 2012
Stockholm Network lunchtime event on A new vision for the future of healthcare - inclduded a panel of experts and innovators Read more
Now IN FRENCH
Published by Medicine & Liberty
Bartley Madden's "MORE CHOICES BETTER HEALTH: Free to choose experimetnal drugs"
WHY OBAMACARE IS WRONG FOR AMERICA
Authored by Grace Marie Turner & other prominent experts, a must-read for Americans who want to know what their bungled health care reform really has to offer.
FREE TO CHOOSE MEDICINE
Bartley Madden's brilliant Dual Tracking concept explained in his new book, opens a fast lane to therapeutic innovation that can prove crucial for individuals fighting life-threatening conditions. Dual tracking corrects lethal collateral efffects of bureaucratic regulation and replaces therapeutic choice in the hands of doctors and patients.
A BRUNO LEONI PUBLICATION ON EUROPEAN HEALTH CARE
Edited by Gabriele Pelissero & Alberto Migardi
Co-authors Andreas Beivers, Alphonse Crespo, Alberto Mingardi, Günter Neubauer, Gabriele Pelissero e Valentin Petkantchin offer an update on health care reform in their respective countries.
ASSESSING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS
Professor Michael Schlander member of MedECON's Academic board is both an economist and a physician. He offers his unique expertise in this in-depth study on the scope and limits of health technology assessment as illustrated by UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
ECONOMICS MADE EASY
"Economics has little to do with money: it is above all about choices and their impact on society."
Professor Pierre Lemieux, MedEcon' Academic Board member, in his latest book "Comprendre l'Economie" (Understanding Economics) pubished by Les Belles-Lettres (Paris).
by Alphonse Crespo
BY BARRIGUE *
BUREAUCRAT IN ACTION
- First WE will choose your doctor! Once this is settled... WE will choose your illness!
* Source: Société Vaudoise de Médecine
From Stockholm Network Conference "
A Doctor's View on Prescripton
THE PROBLEMS WITH SOCIALIZED GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE
ON GOVERNMENT PHYSICIAN GATEKEEPERS
A FREE MARKET RESPONSE TO GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE
DONT LET WASHINGTON BUREAUCRATS TELL YOUR DOCTORS WHAT TO DO
From the Free Market Cure Series:
STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP A FREE MARKET ALTERNATIVE
by Scott Riccio, Bart Madden & Alphonse Crespo
WHY HEALTH CARE IS NOT A RIGHT
Watch the Video
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
DR RON PAUL ON US HEALTH REFORM
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
PETER PITTS INTERVIEWS DR. F. SARKOZY
on French Social Security Reform
Frederik Roeder is a German health economist. He studied hospital management, health economics and international business at the universities of Goettingen (Germany), Bayreuth (Germany), Maribor (Slovenia), and Tongji Shanghai (China). He has worked as a Visiting Professor for Health Economics at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and as a Visiting Professor for Healthcare Management and Economics at Ilia State University (Georgia). Fred Roeder is the Managing Director of Healthcare Solutions, a service focused on know-how transfer and policy advise for healthcare systems in transition.
Professor Michael Schlander MD, PhD, MBA is a health economist at the University of Heidelberg and a professor of health care and innovation management at the University of Applied Economic Sciences, Ludwigshafen. He is the founder and scientific director of the Institute for Innovation and Valuation in Health Care (Inno Val HC) a not for profit institute based in Eschborn, Germany. Professor Schlander who is also a physician has written ground-breaking studies on the role and limits of current evaluation methodology in adminstrative assessments of medical innovation.
Graduate in economics and in theology, Nicoleta is currently preparing a PhD at the Swiss Federal Polytechnicum (ETH) in Zurich. She has spoken and written on topics related to ethics, economy and theology in Switzerland, China, Denmark and others. She is the author of "St Jean Chrysostome et l'Homo Oeconomicus" a scholarly work that explores the theological roots of market ethics. She has joined Medicine & Liberty in 2009 as our research fellow in charge of Ethics in Economics.
Dr Francis Thevoz is a Cardiovascular surgeon by training. Past-president of the Société Vaudoise de Médecine he is also a former councilor of the City of Lausanne where he served as Director of finances. He is currently a member of the finance commision of the city's parliament. Francis will notably participate in the development of MedLib's, Privamed-Pro project.
Sophie Crespo MD, our special projects & editorial consultant based in Geneva, graduated from Basel University Medical School. She holds specialist titles in intern al medicine and anesthesiology.
Contact: sophiecrespomd@medlib.ch
Dr Fabienne Gay-Crosier, joined MedLib's Medical Advisory Council in 2014. She is past president of the professional policy commisssion at the Swiss Society of Clinical Allergology and Immunology and is a firm advocate of professional independence for physicians. Author of "Geneva's White Paper on Allergy" Fillon Impr. Oct. 2015.
Dr D'Amato Sizonenko is a geneticist specialized in rare diseases. She is presently Coordinator for Switzerland of Orphanet, an international database of information on rare diseases and orphan drugs for all publics, designed to contribute to the improvement of the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases.
Martin Krause is the diirector of the Centro de Investigations de instituciones y Mercados de Argentina: professor of Economics at the University of Buenos Aires.
Philip Stevens, Director of Policy at International Policy Network, London is the author of numerous health policy publications, including Fighting the diseases of Poverty (2007), Free trade for better health (2006) and The 10/90 Gap and the diseases of poverty (2004). He has also held research positions at the Adam Smith Institute and Reform in London and holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University.
After graduating in Biology at UPenn in Philadelphia, Ms Shahnaz Radjy was active in humanitarian action in Bolivian hospitals, and founded an A-TIC internet venture in Bolivia. She has also organized events for the International Labor Organization in Geneva and worked for the Davos World Economic Forum. Shahnaz is now based in NY and works as senior communications specialist for Vitality.
Bartley Madden is an independent researcher who has developed "Dual Tracking": a fast lane for access to experimetal medicines, that also introduces an open database on new therapies. Bart Maddens concept is supported by Vernon Smith, Nobel prize in economics 2002 and by other reputed US economists. He has authored a monograph: "Dual Tracking, More Choices Better Health" edited by the Heartland Institute, Chicago.
Graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéerale de Lausanne (EPFL). Information and technology specialist, owner at Amadeus IT solutions. Swiss representative fo the International Society for Individual Liberty ISIL.
Contact: smetzeler@medlib.ch
Executive Director of the Institut Constant de Rebecque, Lausanne, and President of the Liberales Institut, Zurich
President of the Swiss Society for the Independence of medicine and editor in chief of « Der Arzt und sein Patient / Le Médecin et son Patient » Journal. Author of "Serons nous tous euthanasiés?" Ed.Cabedita (2015).
Professor of economics at the University of Québec in Outaouais. Author of "Le Droit de porter des armes"(1993), "Comprendre l'économie (2008) and other works such as "Public Health Insurance under a Non Benevolent State". Editor of Liberty in Canada online tribune.
Georges Lane is a Professor of economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine where he teaches insurance economics.
Philip Stevens, Director of Policy
Philip is the author of numerous health policy publications, including Fighting the diseases of Poverty (2007), Free trade for better health (2006) and The 10/90 Gap and the diseases of poverty (2004). His writings on health policy have appeared in a wide range of international newspapers. Philip has also held research positions at the Adam Smith Institute and Reform in London, and spent several years as a management consultant. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University.
Swiss ENT surgeon and medical philosopher. One of the founding members of IATROS, a world organization of private and independent physicians. Writes regularly on medical ethics and other issues in various medical journals and in his blog.
Ernest unfortunately passed away on March 11th, 2015 and wil be deeply regretted by all those who knew him. The founding principles of Medicine and Liberty were strongly influenced by his profound understanding of the medical mission and his uncompromising attachment to Hippocratic ethics.
Professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid. Founder of Medicina en Libertad (MedLib.es) and of Madrid's Instituto Juan de Mariana.
Gabriel is president of Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala and member of the presidential board of the prestigious Mont Pelerin Society
Professor of economics at the University of Geneva. President of Institut Constant de Rebecque, Lausanne. Member of Geneva Parlliament. Past president of the Mont Pelerin Society.
A practicing Opthalmologist in Lausanne. Active in Swiss medical professional politics he is a staunch defender of medical autonomy. He is on the editorial board of the Swiss medical journal "Arzt un Patient" (Physician and Patient)
Alphonse Crespo founder and executive director of Medicine and Liberty. Swiss orthopedic surgeon, author of Esculape Foudroyé (Les Belles Lettres 1991), ISBN 2-251-39008-1 and of numerous essays and articles such as Black Market Medicine an Ethical alternative to State Control, Outlawing Medicine or The End of Welfare and its effect on the Poor. President of the Cercle de philosophie politique Benjamin Constant at the Institut Libéral a Swiss think tank founded in 1979. Also conducts Med-Consilium a Swiss accident insurance consulting & assessment independent service.
Reputed paediatrician practicing in Lausanne. He was one of the founders of Switzerland's Patient and Physician Union active in the defense of patient and phyisician rights and liberties.
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October 3-6 2018
Save the date for AAPS's 75th anniversary meeting in Indianapolis. Registration open at www.aapsonline.org
June 10, 2017
This Med-Econ socratic seminar was organized in patnership with the Liberal Institute on June 9-10, 2017 at the Hostellerie Bon Rivage, La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland). It enabled a multidisciplinary group of participants from various backgrounds (physicians, academics & other professionals) to discuss ethics and economics in modern healthcare.
October 23-24.2015
This socratic seminar organized by MedLib at the Chateau Mercier, Sierre in partnership with the Liberal institute, brought together a multidisicplinary and multigenerational group of 18 participants for a rich discussion of issues linked to liberty, economics and the medical mission. Francis Richard's blog wonderfully describes the event.
April 18, 2015
European Students for Liberty held their 2015 annual conference in Berlin. "Opening Boarders" was the main theme of discussion. No better and inspiring venue for such a topic than post-1989 Berlin! The event counted Tom Palmer, Pierre Bessard, Frederic Jollien, Christian Michel and many other illustrious freedom speakers and was thoroughly enjoyed by all those present.
HEALTH IN MOTION
Heartland Insistute's June 2018 Polciy Brief, offers readers an update on the impementation in Japan of Bart Madden's Free To Choose Medicine concept, a model for America and at the core of a campaign to reform the FDA.
Bart Madden aptly puts forward his Free to Choose Medicine & Right to Try concept in an enlightening presentation that thoughfully summarizes novative proposals designed to open patient accesss to innovation in respect of their fundamental rights.
Melinda Woofter president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) reminds physicians of their essential mission and aptly singles out destructive facets of big brother governement regulation that threaten it.
Read the article in AAPSonline
Criminalizing Health Care, Old Scapegoats and New Targets
How regulation treats health care professionals and Pharmaceutical industries as criminals until proved innocent.
September 28, 2014 : Swiss citizens say NO to public health insurance
62% of Swiss voters reject the socialist proposal for a state public health insurance system. Given the powerful public media campaign against private insurers the relatively high proportion of "neinsagers" came as a surprise.
ARCHIVES
Switzerland has slashed 20% of its hospitals in the past 10 years to cut costs. Not good enough, claims Thomas Zeltner chief of Federal Public Health Office who wants to shut down 100 out of 320 remaining hospitals: He indicates that Swiss patients must be prepared to travel further for care. Read the Newsfeed
Swiss National Council votes (113 in favor, 56 against) to double patient co-payments for specialized care, in an attempt to control the soaring costs of mandatory health insurance. A proposed increase of the current 2 billion federal subsidiy designed to bring down health insurance premiums of lower income groups insurance was rejected (105 against, 64 in favor). Read the newsfeed
A Sante Suisse study indicates that four out of five Swiss worry about high health insurance premiums. A majority also questions madatory insurance and call for greater flexibility in madates (i.e. a return to volontary health insurance!). Read the newsfeed
- Couchepin: I give up! - Physicians demonstrators: Not us!
By Barrigue: Source SVM
Over 2000 doctors demonstrate in Lausanne & Geneva to protest against federal cost-containment measures that threaten medical practice.
NOW A CLASSIC
How Greek mythology helps us understand crisis in modern health care.
Multicast produced by MedLib and AAPS, voices opinions of doctors from US, Switzerland and Germany, on role of Government in healthcare.
Cross-country physician survey conducted for MedLib by Consensus Research covering US, Switzerland, Germany & Singapore, on the impact of health care environments on professional autonomy and mission.
To video presentation of preliminary results:
AAPS Conference 2010 (Speaker Dr Alphonse Crespo/You-Tube)
To media summaries:
US - Singapore - German/Swiss
ECONOMICS OF medical choice
Experimental economics opens new pathways for patient empowerment and medical innovation. In an exclusive dialogue with Dr. Alphonse Crespo, Professor VERNON SMITH, Nobel laureate in economics explains how,
Source: Courrier du Médecin Vaudois
The Body Language of Assisted Suicide
Another thoughtful Alert and Oriented piece by Michel Accad MD tackles the moral and ethical dilemna tied to assisted suicide.
Free Markets and the birth of the Mayo Clinic
The success story of William W. Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic, highlighted by Michel Accad MD demonstrates the power of laissez-faire in health care.
Back in the USSR: a Sour Recipe for Lithuanian Healthcare
Lithuania's newly appointed healthcare minister Vytenis Andriukaitis recently advanced that the USSR had offered one of the best health care models in the world. He mentioned the United Kingdom's NHS as his other icon. Lithuania's minister either suffers from a short memory, from a short sight... or was (hopefully) misquoted.
AMA Votes against Patients and Physicians
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently voted to reaffirm support of compulsory health insurance. Medical corporate lobbies generally end up bowing to power, even if this means betraying the legitimate interests of front-line working doctors and of suffering patients. The AMA does no better in this respect, than many of its European equivalents.
"From Adam Smith to Karl Marx... and Back"
A timely reappraisal of the contribution of Rousseau, Necker, Mme de Stael, Constant and Sismondi to modern political thought. This paper describes how these pivotal figures can teach us how to move from social-democratic quagmires to a free society.
French version & edited English original essay now downloadable in E-book format
Swiss medical students yearn to treat patients not paper
Three powerful clips from SwiMSA their association, call for a moratorium on DRG's
Government Goliaths against WikiLeak's David
WikiLeaks unveils only marginal and anecdotic aspects of political hypocrisy. Yet this proves sufficient to unleash the wrath of government Goliaths peeved by Julian Assange's quixotic challenge.
Hippocrates acknowledged the contractual nature of patient-physician relationship and laid down basic rules to keep the economical interface of medical service within an ethical framework. Hippocratic precepts leave little room for third parties. Third-party-free practices as promoted by AAPS signal a revival of Hippocratic entrepreneurship.
Singapore's Health Savings Accounts Model Intrigues Swiss Media
The Courrier du Medecin Vaudois a Swiss medical journal, published a special feature on Health Savings Accounts (HSA's) including articles from Guillaume Vuillemey, Georges Lane and Alphonse Crespo. Proposals to look at Singapore's Medisave success story were relayed by journals such as Le Temps and the Swiss Radio Journal
Envy, demagogy, Obamacare and the destruction of wealth
Bludgeoning wealth is a seasoned tool of demagogic reform. Envy always finds a constituency that enables irresponsible political leaders – such as those that strive to confiscate American health care... and more – to tax their way to their misdeeds. Wealth, however can unfortunately only be confiscated once. Once wasted by government and its bureaucracies it can't be confiscated again.
The Voice of Doctors - Medical Independence in America.
The eloquent voice of physicians that truly care for their patients at last heard loud and clear.
Watch the latest video released by Medicine & Liberty & AAPS
Kill Altruism in the Name of Morality
Obama
equates compulsory health insurance with "a core ethical and moral
obligation". Compelling citizen A to pay provider B for care of patient
C is not the same thing as “looking out for one another.” The moral
premise that claims to drive Obamacare is tainted by coercion. Public welfare and its clones kill altruism and charity whenever and wherever they are instituted. (Read more)
Spin and Tax, Tax and Spin: The Treacherous Trail to the Bismarckian States of America
America's spin doctor in chief demonstrated - in a forceful attempt to impose his views on health care - how deep the gulf can be, that separates political rhetoric from reason. His eloquence however was not sufficient to blur hard facts. Forcing Bismarckian iron social security blueprints into the American way of life will come with more taxes.
Sovietizing US Health Care: Here comes the time of "official truths" and unofficial censure
Once upon a time there was Pravda. Today "official truths" elbow their way in more covert fashion as the recent muzzling of a League of American Voters' ad opposing Obamacare demonstrates.
Spin doctors might save Obamacare. They will not save patients!
An armada of spin doctors has been called at the bedside of Obamacare. Their mission is simple: to save Obama's pet project from the growing tide of grass root objections that rise from all corners: taxpayers, physicians, seniors.
Can common sense defeat health care demagogy? US polls tend to prove so!
Polls show that Americans begin to see through the demagogic smoke that obscures the bottom line of current road maps for health reform. Swiss citizens demonstrated the same wisdom when 71% (!!!) of them told their politicians that they did not need a single payer (i.e. a single decider) to manage their health care. This was not a poll but a referendum vote, March 11th 2007
Obama officials want their health taxes
Health care taxes not only bring more pork to politicians, they also mean veterinarian care for humans... When we're old and ailing, officials will decide whether we get treatment or a mercy shot!
Obamacare puts Obamacracy at test
Complex and cautious democratic processes aimed at consensus, such as those of Switzerland do not always yield expected results (particularly in health care). However, they protect citizens from the mischiefs of demagogy and limit ruinous tributes to special interest groups.
5 F's you will not find in Government Run healthcare
Americans have started reading the small print of socialized health reforms pushed by president Obama and do not like what they see. Five major freedoms lost in Congressional reform schemes have already been identified.
The Toxic T's that take you to Nobamacare
Taxes, Taxes,Taxes and...more Taxes
Small businesses & families will soon feel the pinch of Obamacare(-less) super Health TAXES
Obama's Pied Piper Rush to Rationed Health care
Obama wants new health care laws voted by October. Two declared objectives: cutting health costs and “taking care of the uninsured”. The true name of the game is to increase the power of insurers at the expense of patients, doctors and health industries. (Read more)
Before inviting Government into health care: Don't forget you'll be a patient one day!
Americans must look at European and Canadian government-run health care before allowing legislators to force them into Obamacare's demagogic health trap.
Swiss Doctor Associations Bow to Mandatory Insurance Predators
After calling for “pencil strikes” to protest against lab test rationing, Swiss doctor associations now lamely ask physicians to get back to the paperwork… despite the fact that federal health authorities regally ignored their demands.
The 4 Insidious I's of Government Run Health Insurance
Irresponsibility (of consumers), Inflation (in the health care sector), Interference (of buraucrats), Indifference (of providers)
Obama's Doctor's Diagnosis of ObamaCare... and the Neurosurgeons
Obama's former doctor, David Scheiner suggests his illustrious patient has been misled into promoting health reforms cut off from the realities of patient suffering. Dr Scheiners' cures however, will not help neurologic patients...
The 4 deadly R's of Social-fascist health care reform
Ransom, Redistribution, Regulation and Rationing
Dear American citizens: Allow your country to remain a caring nation
Swiss Voters Deal a Blow to "Evidence based" Medicine
NEW RELEASE
From New Media UFM
Poder y democracia segun Bertrand de Jouvenel - Universidad Francisco Marroquin
PRESENTACION de Alphonse Crespo (in Spanish)
From New Media UFM
Regulaciones y progreso de la medicina - Universidad Francisco Marroquin
ENTREVISTA con Alphonse Crespo (in Spanish)
From You Tube
INTERVIEW featuring Bart Madden and Jim Doti president of Chapman University shows how dual tracking can save lives.
From You Tube
PRESENTATION of preliminary results of multi-national physician autonomy study by Dr Alphonse Crespo at 2010 AAPS Conference in Salt Lake City
Medical Freedom Report (Podcast)
A series of interviews with professionals determined to keep freedom alive in American medicine.
Swiss med students yearn to treat patients not paper
Swiss medical students have identified the rationing and bureaucratic paperwork that loom behind DRG's (Diagnostic Related Groups). They prove it in 3 powerful video clips.
Merryl Mathews at AAPS on defunding and repeal of Obamacare