Update by Jeff: Perhaps this comment will shine a bit more light on the import of this issue. WHO SHOULD HAVE CONTROL over your medical care: your family doctor, or a bureaucrat you’ve never met whose sole job is to look out for the government’s financial bottom-line? That question, which is the subject of today’s AOL Hot Seat poll, is being debated in court right | Read More »
Over 11,000 veterans who received routine colonoscopies at three VA health centers are being warned to get blood tests for HIV, hepatitis, and other malignant viral infections in the wake of revelations that government-employed clinic staffers frequently neglected to sterilize the equipment between procedures. Patients at the Veterans Affairs health centers in question — 3,260 in Miami (FL), 1,800 in Augusta (GA), and 6,400 in | Read More »
In 2006, Governor Mitt Romney (R), working with a Democratic state legislature, passed and signed the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation aimed at ensuring that every citizen of the Bay State possessed health insurance, while simultaneously lowering the cost of health coverage and improving access to quality care. Unfortunately, the program in practice has been a colossal failure, expanding state | Read More »
It’s no secret to anybody who’s been paying attention to budget numbers that the United States, with a current GDP of just under $14 trillion, is $52 trillion in the hole in one specific area: Medicare and Social Security payments owed to those who have already prequalified by paying into the system. “Think about that: Unless you accept government-run health care, you have to forfeit | Read More »
At a meeting with veterans’ groups on Capitol Hill, Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) said: President Obama listened to the genuine concerns expressed by the veteran service organizations regarding the option of billing service-connected injuries to veterans’ insurance companies Based on the respect President Obama has for veterans and the principle concerns of our veteran leaders, the president made the decision that combat wounds should not be | Read More »
Update 3/31/09 by Jeff: Ho, hum, it appears Gov. Sebelius is yet another Obama nominee with a tax problem. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat), fresh off a losing battle against the GOP-led state legislature to solve the state budget crisis by incurring more debt while keeping expenditures exorbitant, has been selected by President Obama to head up the department of Health and Human Services. Given | Read More »
In his non-State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama claimed that health care “is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds,” and that, “in the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages.” Further, he claimed that “one million more Americans…lost their health insurance” in “each” of the eight years of the Bush administration. Each | Read More »
The National Organization for Women has long had a low threshold for support of candidates for office and position. The criteria they use to judge worth generally consist of two requirements (1) Be Female (apparently 21st century androgeny and transgendered-rights haven’t yet caught on in this corner of Leftopia), and (2) Be Liberal. Luckily enough for Democrat Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, she meets both of | Read More »
Congress is currently debating legislation that would force Americans to pay billions of dollars to take an unpopular taxpayer-funded program for poor children and expand it so that non-poor, non-children will be granted access to benefits. The program is the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a taxpayer-funded health coverage program that provides federal dollars to states in an effort to give children in working | Read More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which officially exists, in large part, to “protect the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices,” has been the object of a great deal of criticism over the years from medical patients, drug and biomedical device developers, pharmaceutical companies, and analysts who view the looming shadow | Read More »
After being sent home over Thanksgiving to revise their pitches for a multi-billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded “bridge loan” to keep them a float through the end of the year, Michigan’s “Big Three” automakers returned to Capitol Hill this week to renew their respective cases. The retooled bailout plan included requests from automotive manufacturers that Congress pass legislation requiring every individual to purchase a vehicle (whether or not | Read More »
John Goodman, head of the National Center for Policy Analysis, breaks down Obama HHS Secretary Tom Daschle’s philosophy on health care reform, as expressed in his book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis, thusly: The main ideas: Medicaid expansion, Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) for everyone who wants to enroll, Medicare for the nonelderly as a FEHBP option, a play-or-pay | Read More »
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