Posts Tagged ‘health care’

Water in California is as valuable as gold. Since there isn’t enough to go around, it has been rationed and supplied only to those whom the government believes need it the most. Unfortunately, the people who live in California’s San Joaquin Valley have had their water turned off in order to protect a tiny [...]

Ace of Spades posted some alarming news. Nancy Pelosi says that the Democrats are going to use the Slaughter Rule to pass the Senate ObamaCare bill and the vote is set for next week.
In case you’re unfamiliar, the Slaughter Rule is named after Louise “she wore her dead sister’s dentures” Slaughter and it works [...]

President Obama’s health care reforms have already undermined one doctor/patient relationship. Barabara Gabriel who is expecting her first baby was a patient at The Woman’s Group, a Tampa obstetrics and gynecology office where she had been seeing Dr. Madalyn Bulter, one of the office’s founders. Dr. Butler does not like President Obama’s health care reforms, [...]

If you didn’t get the chance to see today’s health care summit and want a flavor of what it was like, I recommend this video of Paul Ryan dismantling Obama’s and the Democrats’ health care bill. Rep. Paul Ryan probably knows more about the Democrats’ health care bill than anyone, and his knowledge is on [...]

It’s interesting that when Canada’s leaders need serious health care they come to America:
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams will be sidelined from three to 12 weeks because of heart surgery he’ll undergo at an undisclosed location in the United States, says acting premier Kathy Dunderdale.
I saw this article at Don Surber’s place, and he [...]

As everyone knows, California is in a financial crisis to beat all crises and is looking for every way possible to cut costs. The most recent cost cutting measure it has taken is its implementation of the US Preventative Services Task Force’s mammogram recommendation (via Hot Air):
The eligibility age for state-subsidized breast cancer screening [...]

Yesterday Carly Fiorina did the GOP’s Saturday address.  She chose as her topic Obama’s attempts to take over the health care system and the new recommendations regarding mammograms. As a breast cancer survivor, she’s got a lot of credibility and delivers a powerful message that should make Obama and Democrats nervous:

The House passed – although barely – a massive $1.8 trillion health care bill that would put the health care of millions of Americans who are currently in private insurance plans in the hands of the US government. Democrats like to complain about how awful it is to have to deal with an insurance company, [...]

John Ensign received the confirmation in writing. From the Politico:
This doesn’t happen often enough.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor [...]

This is probably what they’d say about health care:

Hat tip: The Anchoress