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With the public option losing momentum, it seems like the Obama White House is now facing some increased scrutiny of its health care promises. For instance, President Obama has often told crowds in the past that if people like their curren insurance plan, they can keep it even if liberal health care...
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It has now been 190 days since the stimulus bill was passed. Back in February, President Obama spoke before Congress and stated , "the recovery plan and the financial stability plan are the immediate steps we're taking to revive our economy in the short-term ." Today, Vice President Biden...
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Filed under: stimulus package, deficits, universal health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, Freedom, government option, federal government, health care benefits, health care reform, health care debate
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I know that in the United States our medical and dental are usually separate but the situation in Great Britain demonstrates how government intrusion into health care often leads to unintended consequences which disrupt and harm patients. Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers 'because he...
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In recent days, many liberals have have had their fingers on the health care public option trigger and they are ready to attack those who question the controversial idea. Many conservatives have faced such criticism before but this week, one of the highest profile members of the Obama administration...
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President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently asked, " how many czars can fit into the West...
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Filed under: health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, regulation, government, Heritage Foundation, transparency, Freedom, insurance, government option, federal government, Obama promises, czar, state rights
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Yesterday, in his weekly address, President Obama called on Americans to "summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago". This is one time when I can get behind President Obama's sentiments - although he may not like my reasons for it. What...
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Filed under: wasteful spending, cap and trade, capitalism, stimulus package, government spending, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, cap and tax, government option, federal government, founding fathers
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Before examining how socialized health care affects other conditions, I wanted to follow up on last week's cancer focus with two more cancer horror story articles from the United Kingdom. UK Telegraph: Patients with suspected cancer forced to wait so NHS targets can be hit People arriving at Accident...
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This week, the wacky government of Venezuela banned Coke Zero from being sold in the country. Citing harmful ingredients , it claimed to be protecting the health of its citizens, while the government purports to conduct an investigation into potentially dangerous ingredients in the soft drink. In reality...
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Included in the stimulus bill is more than $1 billion for research into the “comparative effectiveness” of health treatments. This could easily lead to a national board that rations which procedures or drugs will be allowed based on cost-effectiveness. Great Britain already has such a system...
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When medical decisions happen, the two most important people involved are always the patient and the doctor, period. Proposed "public health insurance" and other socialized health care components take decisions out of the hands of patients too often, and just as often take decisions out of...
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A recent column on CBC.ca written as an open letter to Americans provides somewhat of a defense of the Canadian health care system. Much of what writer Neil Macdonald says betrays the insidious ways in which being beholden to the government, such as with universal health care, leads to the loss of or...
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President Obama said on Thursday that the time is now or never for health reform, which means it is also the time for conservative alternatives to Obamacare. Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Director for Americans for Tax Reform , writes on Red State that the current solution proposed by Congressional Republicans...
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The battle over health care reform is really starting to ramp up and one British doctor is sounding the alarm about President Obama's plan for "comparative effectiveness research." Oncologist Karol Sikora recently submitted an op-ed to the Manchester Union-Leader with the dire warning that...
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Late last year , New York Governor David Paterson proposed a 15% "obesity tax" on non-diet soda to help close the state budget gap. The idea was so unpopular, Paterson had to axe the idea in March. Despite the warning, Democrats in congress, determined to find a way to pay for Barack Obama's...
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"An unrivaled set of abstractions and posturing," is how a Boston University Professor of Health Policy described the announcement that health companies (insurers, providers and drug companies) have promised to enact $2 trillion in cost-cutting measures over the next 10 years. This ceremonial...