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HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

As a Nurse of over 20+ years I have been very disheartened as the Health Care Battle has dragged on all these Months. I have diligently blogged the Battle, researching and covering Statistics,Data, Interviewing Americans with Nightmare Health Stories, and (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Enigma4ever

Health

21 Jan. 2010 | | W.C. Varones

Health

Swine flu in France - an update.

A week of H1N1 in France - a cat with "swine flu", the number of deaths reaches 150 and the vaccination process is extended. It’s a slightly different take perhaps to begin with on the swine flu - or H1N1/influenza A as it’s more commonly (...)

17 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Health

The French do-it-yourself online swine flu test

So you’ve got a cough or maybe are running a temperature and you think you might be coming down with "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called in France). Well now (for those living here) there’s a simple (...)

9 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Micro-Managed Obamacare

Do you like the ability and freedom to call your doctor for an appointment and to see recommended specialists when needed? Do you enjoy the freedom to choose what medical services you want and don’t want, or wish to have a second opinion when you (...)

26 Nov. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Politics

The Senate HCR Bill Was released Online, Please Click the Title

(Sadly I could not open this file until 2AM, so I apologize the post on this Bill is late, but I will be working on it tomorrow). Up front it is looking better than expected. There is a Public Option, and even though the State OpOut Part is there, it is (...)

20 Nov. 2009 | | Enigma4ever

Health

Dancing Around the Cost Issue on Mammography

Did I say in yesterday’s post that the cost per saved life for giving routine annual mammograms to women under 50 was $3.8 million ? Multiply than by five, according to Dr. Richard Shannon of the University of Pennsylvania, who was one of the (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Merrill Goozner

Health

Another Breast-Cancer Bombshell Lands Amidst The Health-Care Reform Debate

Hard on the heels of a study revealing that the benefits of breast cancer screenings have been overstated and come with a the risk of overtreating small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly comes another earthquake : Most women should start (...)

18 nov. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Health

Give Me ObamaCare and Give Me Your So-Called "Death Panels." It’s Surely Better Than What We Have Now.

The conservative blog, mercatornet.com, invited yours truly to be part of a debate on health reform, the controversy over so called "death panels", and my views on the future of the American health care system. The piece written in opposition to (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Politics

Surprise : Democrat Health Care Bill Passed Last Night Doesn’t Index For Inflation

Why is that important ? Because it results in tax-bracket creep. Inflation is when, for various reason, the purchasing power of your money decreases. The amount of money you earn might stay the same, but the amount of stuff you can buy with that money (...)

9 nov. 2009 | | Rob Port

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Facts and Contents of Health Care Reform Bill Unveiled Today by Democrats

Bend over, America — you’re going to feel a little pressure. One thousand, nine hundred and ninety pages. 1,990. That’s the number of pages in H.R. 3962, the so-called Affordable Health Care for America Act unveiled by House Speaker (...)

30 oct. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Health

A Collision Of Scandals : Mammography Meets Head On With Health-Care Reform

Don’t get me wrong, breast cancer is a very real and too often fatal disease. The more we learn about it the more links to lifestyle, diet and such become apparent. And who doesn’t know women who have survived breast cancer, as well as (...)

22 oct. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Health

If smokes are bad, what about booze ?

“No, Jon, smoking is not the ‘big deal’ here,” said a Reader’s Write in response to my comment post in Smoking trucker story - still smokin’. I’d said, “That’s almost a side-issue. It’s mainly (...)

20 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Health

DHHS releases Report Showing How Insurance Companies have descriminated people with Pre-Existing Conditions

New Report Examines Insurance Company Practice of Denying Coverage To or Discriminating Against Americans Who Have Pre-Existing Medical Conditions ( Released August 11,2009) In a new report, “Coverage Denied: How the Current Health Insurance System (...)

14 Oct. 2009 | | Enigma4ever

Health

Innovative idea on health care worker vaccination

A Catholic hospital system in Arkansas seems to have come up with an innovative solution to encouraging health care workers be vaccinated while allowing them the autonomy to make their own decision. When we last brought up this question one of our (...)

9 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Politics

Democrats Considering Health Care Bill With Public Option That Would Allow States To Opt Out

The first time this compromise was brought up the bill would have allowed states to opt-in to a public option. Now, to please liberal Democrats, that’s been re-arranged so that states would be participating in the public option until they opt out. (...)

8 oct. 2009 | | Rob Port

Health

Slapping Docs’ Hands for Not Washing Them

That’s the recommendation from the master of medical checklists Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University and Robert Wachter of University of California at San Francisco, says the WSJ Health Blog. Lack of accountability is the reason why a whole (...)

6 oct. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Politics

No Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE !

Florida Congressman Grayson has been mentioned on this blog before. His questioning of the Federal Reserve fantastic. But just when you think there’s a guy in Congress who might actually "get it", he goes and pulls something like this : (...)

1er oct. 2009 | | W.C. Varones

Comment

If We Could Make Just One Fix to Health Care, This Should Be It

The best solution for increasing competition in the health insurance industry—to allow insurance companies to sell policies to any resident in any state— is one to which the federal government holds the key. Not only would this reduce costs by (...)

1er oct. 2009 | | Frank Staheli

Health

Public health surveillance : America the backward

A good story by the AP’s Lauran Neergaard yesterday highlighted the need for better public health surveillance and the efforts being made to improve it so as to keep track of possible rare side effects from the swine flu vaccine. This is an issue (...)

29 sep. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Media

Is the Miami Herald Useless ?

It looks like a good article - Hialeah and Weston : A tale of two cities, one health crisis but don’t look too carefully. The key facts reported appear in paragraphs four and five (after a back-in lead humanizing the statistics) : More than half (...)

28 sep. 2009 | | Michael Froomkin

Health

Repair Stem Cell Treatments in Portugal and China A Boon To Spinal Cord Injury Patient

Kit Bond, a spinal cord injury patient, is reporting that multiple stem cell treatments in Portugal and China have improved his quality of life and that is the reason he continues to go to receive Repair Stem Cells (aka Adult Stem Cells). Bond, who (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Comment

Five Shows, Zero ’Bump’

Wrong, Mr. President. The health care reform bill clearly says "tax" when you clearly say otherwise. I’d call you a liar, but that would make me a racist. Five. Five Sunday talk shows. And not to mention the friendly confines of the (...)

22 sep. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

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Health Care - What Are You NOT Hearing?

The lawyers and legal minds holding the joystick of politics in America’s White House and Congress, are afraid to make a move. The administration and legislature are staying away from confronting their friends, and former classmates, in the legal (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

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Obamacare Goes Postal - Shoot Me Now, Please !

Going over Barack Hussein Obama’s “speech” dubbed Town Hall Meeting with nine questions from a packed house of Obama supporters we’re reminded of Obama’s Post Office comparison and his so-called healthcare proposal that he (...)

14 aoû. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

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A Stranger in a Strange Land

A conservative visits Rep. Joe Sestak’s health care town hall meeting in downtown Philadelphia. The first thing I saw, from a few blocks down Broad Street, was a news van and others like it. I could see a tangled mess of people and a few signs, but (...)

13 aoû. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Health

Blog driftwood from the beach

The Reveres are at the beach. It’s not our natural habitat, but the generic Mrs. R. loves the beach so here we are. We often write in the morning (after emerging from our small flat in Hilbert space) but today we were otherwise occupied and then (...)

13 aoû. 2009 | | Effect Measure

International

Expatriate Health Care in Morocco

People thinking of moving abroad and becoming an expatriate in Morocco have been warned that the country is more expensive due to its popularity with tourists, according to Expatriate Health Care, a website dedicated to selling health insurance. Jane (...)

12 aoû. 2009 | | The View From Fez

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