U.S. Seniors Opt for Mexican Healthcare
“Mexicare: $250 a year covers it all” declared the Arizona Republic website headline on August 29. The Mexican Social Security Institute, known as IMSS, provides healthcare with no limits and no...
Healthcare
Mass. Health Bill Would Allow Warrantless Arrests, Quarantines
A pandemic and disaster preparation bill (S. 2028) passed unanimously by the Massachusetts Senate earlier this year is receiving wide-spread criticism as citizens mobilize to oppose its passage in the commonwealth’s...
Will Healthcare Reform Fund Abortion, Deny Life-saving Treatment?
Despite President Obama's assurances that healthcare reform will neither pay for abortions nor "pull the plug on grandma," conservative and pro-life organizations are opposing what they say is a thinly disguised...
A Town Hall Meeting Stacked to the Left
“Open borders, open hearts show humanity, Workers from all walks of life enrich democracy,” the Raging Grannies, a group of older women who protest everything from war to immigration laws, sang...
ABC, NBC Refuse Anti-Obamacare Ad
The League of American Voters has sponsored a 33-second television commercial criticizing President Obama’s healthcare reform proposals, but ABC and NBC are refusing to run the ad in its current form,...
Should Republicans Save Medicare?
People used to say politics makes strange bedfellows. These days, calling any kind of bedfellows strange might qualify as a hate crime. It is probably safer to say that the political...
Lieberman Sees Recession Delaying Reform
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) thinks there is no reason to push healthcare reform through Congress in the midst of a recession, Fox News reported on August 23. ...
VA Wrongly Says Vets Have Fatal Disease
The Veterans Affairs Department has mistakenly told some veterans that they have ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, the Associated Press reported on August 24. This is no small misdiagnosis;...
Dire Swine Flu Warnings from White House
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a dire warning Monday about the spread of the swine flu virus later this year, titled "On US Preparations for 2009-H1N1...
Medicare Drug Costs Prompts Tax-increase Call
As Congress and the Obama administration prepare to collectivize the entire healthcare industry, America’s senior citizens are paying the cost for an earlier administration’s experiment in healthcare. ...
U.S. Life Expectancy Hits New High
In 2007, U.S. life expectancy reached an all-time high of 77.9 years, up from 77.7 in 2006. The National Center for Health Statistics compiled the data based on almost 90 percent...
AARP Members Leaving Over Health Reform
As many as 60,000 AARP members have left the group in protest over its stance on healthcare reform, CBS News reported on August 17. ...
Embryonic Stem-Cell Study Delayed
The first study of embryonic stem-cell therapy in human beings has been delayed by the Food and Drug Administration, Bloomberg News reported on August 18. ...
Obama preaches Healthcare Reform to Religious Leaders
After several decades of complaining about the influence of “Conservative Evangelicals” on the political process, the American Left has been stepping up its campaign in the last year to utilize its...
ObamaCare Shocker: Taxes to Go Up; Way Up
Taxes are going to go way up if the Congress passes the ObamaCare health care scheme proposed in H.R. 3200, entitled the Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Just as rationing...