Obamacare

    Illinois: Beloved Doctor Benched For Not Being Proficient with Electronic Medical Records System

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  October 26th at 04:57 PM  | 

    A popular, longtime Doctor from central Illinois has been sidelined by employer Springfield-based Memorial Health System because he has not become proficient with the electronic medical records system that they purchased and implemented. Patients are so incensed that they’ve started a Facebook page as well as a blog to rally to his defense. This situation brings into focus the problem of top-down medical solutions, calling | Read More »

    Healthcare: Let The States Decide

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  June 9th at 12:05 PM  | 

    The debate about healthcare coming from the Democrats is steeped in purposeful misdirection on one hand and a complete lack of any real knowledge about what Obamacare will even do on the other. It is also a major overreach on a federalism level which is why it is hard to understand why more people aren’t talking about the Healthcare Compact plan (healthcarecompact.org).14 states have already | Read More »

    FDA Set To Cut Off 17,000 Women Annually From Lifesaving Drug

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  December 8th at 08:50 PM  | 

    From the diaries by lexington_concord… Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to take up the case of Avastin, a cancer drug that successfully treats some 17,000 women annually. With a coming December 17 decision, the FDA seems poised to take this drug away from these patients quite despite the fact that their doctors find the drug effective. The most dangerous period of time | Read More »

    Feds Deciding When Healthcare Science Costs Too Much To Save Lives

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 11:01 AM  | 

    If anyone wants a current example of what is looming ahead for medical science at the hands of Obamacare, the Avastin controversy is a perfect one. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to de-list the cancer drug Avastin one reason being that it is a drug too expensive for government to fund. It is scary to think that the federal government can summarily dismiss | Read More »