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Guess what’s in the health bill Congress has been working on? Aside from terrible policies designed to put our nation on the path to single-payer government care that will bankrupt the country and harm the health of millions of Americans, I mean. The Boston Globe reports: Tucked within is a provision that could provide billions of dollars for
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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 couldn't find an NHS dentist' A former soldier
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Unemployment is at the highest it's been in decades, the American people are hurting. Here comes President Obama's stimulus package to the rescue . . . with a $4 million project to add a bike and pedestrian path to a bridge? You read that correct, the Kansas City Star reports this planned project was fast-tracked to take advantage of stimulus
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On the heels of Vice-President Joe Biden declaring "everyone guessed wrong" on "Meet the Press" on June 14, he is back with more fantastical claims about the stimulus that insult the intelligence of viewers, especially conservatives who have been sounding the alarm from the beginning. From the transcript of George Stephanopoulos'
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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 was due to have aorta-widening surgery on
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In May I blogged I see dead people...'s stimulus checks. It turns out that stimulus checks being sent to dead people wasn't a fluke mistake limited to the rushed stimulus bill, we've been sending Social Security checks to dead people for years. McClatchy reports on a recent federal audit of the problem: The Social Security Administration
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Kudos to Klein ABC News’ Rick Klein for doing his job by pointing out how the Obama Administration is " Moving the Stimulus Goalposts ." Klein writes: Today brings this explanation, from Christina Romer, the chairman of the president’s Council on Economic Advisers: Stimulus spending, Romer told the Financial Times , is “going
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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 and Emergency departments [Emergency Rooms in
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Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) is coming under scrutiny for an earmark request for an exclusive private club. The Seattle Times has the story: A $250,000 request to fund a "window repair and limestone sill replacement" at The Rainier Club — one of Seattle's premier private clubs, whose members include some of the city's most well
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See the blog post on the top 10 here and the full 100 report by Sen. Coburn here . A few more of my favorites: 12. South Dakota fish hatchery to spend half of a $20,000 grant on a freezer for fish sperm. Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery already has three cryo freezers for storing sperm from pallid sturgeon, but stimulus money has given it the to