Archive for the 'Health Care' Category

Facts about epidemic funding in the U.S.

Michelle Malkin has caught on to the fact that the Left side of the blogosphere has a new meme:  they contend that, should there be a pandemic, it can be traced to the always evil GOP because Rove/Collins opposed flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill.
The only problem with this is that it’s a lie.  [...]

Government health care, the cure that kills?

UPDATE FROM PHYSICIAN WHO KNOWS: 

If anything, gubment healthcare will make this worse. It will encourage the masses to flock to the ER for trivial matters with the notion that, “my insurance will take care of it”. The idiots who are showing up in the ER over a hundred time per year will continue to do [...]

Patient safety is not a focus when the government calls the shots

For three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily:
Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital.
Hundreds of patients may have died after bosses at Staffordshire General focused [...]

Sneaky Socialized Medicine In Stimulus

If this isn’t enough to send you to Washington D.C. with pitchforks and torches, I don’t know what will. Chills ran up my spine when I read the following from an article on Bloomberg.com tonight;
 
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s
stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and [...]

Rationing Health Care for the Elderly?

New York Times Blog Discussion: How old is too old for lifesaving surgery?
Jane Gross writes in the NYT, “How old is too old for lifesaving surgery?” She quotes Dr. Daniel Callahan and provides “a provocative conversation about his long-standing — and controversial — support for rationing health care for the elderly.”
He views rationing as [...]

Testimony: Illegal Immigrant Health Care Costs

Stirring Testimony on How Illegal Immigration Affects One Florida Hospital
The Democrats are demanding government health care for everybody, probably including illegal aliens.  One reason health care is so costly, is because hospitals and doctors cannot afford to stay open after the enormous expenditures for illegal alien medical care.  Must see video, from South Florida Patriot [...]

Another National Health Care Disaster Rocks Great Britain

From the Careful What You Wish For Files: NHS dentistry shake-up fails as one million fewer get treatment
I heard on Dennis Prager today a call from a British man who pointed out that, in the 10 years of Tony Blair’s socialism, every major institution in Britain declined. And the more the government meddled, the [...]

World Health Organization: Threat of Heterosexual AIDS Pandemic Misdirected

That is misdirected, as in wrong. It also gets to the rub of critics that took exception with the education strategy by political organizations that tried to mainstream the aids threat instead of tackling the root causes of the disease front and center: gay sex and sharing of needles.
A quarter of a century after the [...]

Voting Democrat is Bad for Your Health

Everyone of the Democrats wants some kind of universal health care that is paid for by taxpayers. They want ever person in this country covered (citizen or not) and they want to ensure that the government has its grubby little hands in the mix from beginning to end. What they want is to be able [...]

National Health Care Crisis - Brit Patients Told to Treat Themselves

Britain’s ailing national health care system continues to try to heal itself, usually at patient’s expense. I don’t know about you, but this proposal doesn’t strike me as something that’s going to result in improved health care:
Millions of people with arthritis, asthma and even heart failure will be urged to treat themselves as part [...]