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One of the big topics in the health care debate this weekend was Sarah Palin's statement calling ObamaCare "evil" and suggesting it would create "death panels" that could deny care to elderly Americans. There seems to be a lot of confusion over this statement and whether the bill...
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08-09-2009
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Filed under: health care, universal health care, government option, health care reform, health care debate, government intrusion, government expansion, ObamaCare, government interference, death panel, comparative effectiveness, socialized health cared medicine
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For Rep. Anh Cao (R-La.), his vote against Democrats' health care bill may just be "the death of [his] political career." Rep. Cao represents an overwhelmingly Democratic district in New Orleans. Cao is one of seven Republicans whom Democrats have chosen to pursue strongly, hoping to convince...
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08-04-2009
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Filed under: house, health care, universal health care, socialized health care, insurance, Democrats, health care reform, speaking truth to power, health care debate, public option, read the bill, government intrusion
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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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07-26-2009
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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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Unlike our President and many of our representatives in Congress, I've tried to read the 1000+ page health care bill a few times this week. As a lawyer, I'm used to dealing with tedious and confusing legal jargon, yet this monolithic bill is still too hard for me to understand. It proposes drastic...
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07-22-2009
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Filed under: free market, stimulus package, stimulus, universal health care, Heritage Foundation, insurance, economics, federal government, health care benefits, health care tax, "the demands of this moment", health care reform, deadlines
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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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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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07-07-2009
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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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07-05-2009
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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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As you celebrate our independence from England this weekend, also celebrate our independence from England's health care system. Here's a run down of recent socialized health care horror stories from the UK: Girl, 3, has heart operation cancelled three times because of bed shortage ... Ella Cotterell...
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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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With Obamacare increasingly becoming the focus in Washington, it is important to highlight the horrors of government-run universal health care in other countries so it can be stopped here. Here's are two recent stories on how government health care affects cancer treatment: UK: The cancer divide...
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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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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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John C. Goodman has an excellent piece in the May 25, 2009 issue of National Review magazine refuting many of the myths of U.S. health care compared to Western socialized health care. It turns out that people who utilize U.S. health care are better off in almost every category. Better science and health...