Report Sees Flaws in Baucus Healthcare Bill
A Cure Worse Than the Disease: Obama Care Won’t Cut Costs, But May Cut Quality is the title of an October 22 report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The report...
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Florida Plans Plug Pulling, Death Panels, Healthcare Rationing
Public health officials in Florida are silently drawing up guidelines that call for “rationed” medical care, admission denials, and even withdrawing essential care from certain patients in the event of a...
Investigation: Swine Flu Numbers Inflated
Most people who were diagnosed with probable or presumed swine flu in the last few months likely did not actually have it, a CBS investigation published Wednesday revealed. ...
NY Judge Temporarily Stops Mandatory Shots
A justice for the New York Supreme Court in Albany issued a temporary reprieve late last week from mandatory H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccinations for healthcare workers, pending the result of...
Obama Attacks Healthcare Studies
President Obama used his weekly radio address this weekend to attack two health insurance industry-funded studies that concluded the President's healthcare proposal pending in Congress would increase overall medical costs for...
Swine Flu Seizures
Concern over the H1N1 swine flu has inundated the airwaves and the newspapers since active swine flu was first identified in Mexico in April. And though the panic has waned slightly...
Getting Your Health Insurance at the DMV
The Senate Finance Committee healthcare reform bill approved this week provides that Americans will be able to enroll in healthcare plans at their local Department of Motor Vehicles. ...
Senate Finance Committee Clears Healthcare Bill
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee voted to send a health care “reform” bill to the full Senate by a 14-9 vote October 13. President Obama said the vote was a “critical...
Swine Flu: The Risks and Efficacy of Vaccines
Death from the flu is often heartrending for those who have to watch: the victim, having been weakened from the flu virus, contracts pneumonia from bacteria or viruses that have taken...
Massachusetts House Approves Quarantine Bill
The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly late last week in favor of a draconian bill that purports to give public health and law-enforcement officials extraordinary authority during “public health emergencies”...
Insurance Industry Criticizes Healthcare Bill
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), an insurance industry trade group, released a report on October 11 that is critical of the Senate Finance Committee’s proposed healthcare legislation. ...
U.S. Health Officials Say H1N1 Worsening
U.S. health officials say that the H1N1 flu has killed 76 children and is getting worse, yet some cities that were hard hit by the swine flu in the spring are...
Health Freedom Attorney to File Lawsuit Against FDA Over Swine Flu Vaccine in New York
Health freedom attorney Jim Turner, of Citizens for Health, is filing a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., today, hoping to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. What prompted...
Obama Recruits Doctors for Reform Speech
President Barack Obama gathered doctors from all 50 states of the nation to fill the Rose Garden as he once again pushed his version of healthcare reform in an October 5...
Coalition Urges ObamaCare Support
The coalition Health Equity For All is launching a series of television commercials and print ads to promote Obama's healthcare reform. The ads appeal to minorities, linking the healthcare debate to...