Health
Thousands of patient health records ended up in a pile at public dump in Massachusetts
Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public dump.
Read the whole story at Boston.com
Obama’s Own HHS Says Health Care Bill Will Cost More Than Projected (Government has no good track record)
President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up.
Economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department concluded in a report issued Thursday that the health care remake will achieve Obama’s aim of […]
Med Schools Can’t Keep Up (# of Insured Expands, Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years)
The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.
Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in […]
Florida doctor tells Obama supporters to go elsewhere for medical care
A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.”
“I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican […]
NY Daily News:President Obama starts a revolution: He chose health care over the theater of politics (unblievable)
The Democrats had to do it alone. On a number of occasions, President Obama asked for reform ideas from the Republicans. But their idea of reform was no compromise, no fresh thoughts, no backing away from protecting the health care industry to which they had sold their souls during the presidency of George W. Bush.
As […]
Bart Stupak meets his match (Dr. Dan Benishek)
Meet the doctor who symbolizes the nationwide rebellion against Obamacare.
His name is Dan Benishek. He’s a 57-year-old surgeon from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and he’s never held political office at any level. He announced on March 15 that he was running as a Republican for Michigan’s First Congressional District - that’s Bart Stupak’s district, in case […]
Health care law too costly, most say (Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the health care overhaul signed into law last week costs too much)
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the health care overhaul signed into law last week costs too much and expands the government’s role in health care too far, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, underscoring an uphill selling job ahead for President Obama and congressional Democrats.
Those surveyed are inclined to fear that the massive legislation will increase […]
Andrew Napolitano: Supreme Court to Strike Down Obamacare
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV’s Ashley Martella, judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano says the president’s healthcare reforms amount to “commandeering” the state legislatures for federal purposes, which the Supreme Court has forbidden as unconstitutional.
“That’s called commandeering the legislature,” he says. “That’s the Congress taking away the discretion of the legislature with respect to regulation, and […]
Hospitals Under the Knife : New York City System Aims to Cut 2,600 More Jobs as State Funding Drops
The nation’s largest public hospital system plans to slash its work force—including doctors and nurses—by about 10% over two years as government aid drops and …
No hospital system in the country is exempt from the crushing economics facing the health-care industry,” said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg…
Officials in New York City have told hospital employees’ […]
If this is true about the health care bill, then we are all doomed (Wake up from sleep America)
HB3200 highlighted pages most egregious
Please read this…….. especially the reference to pages 58 & 59
JUDGE KITHIL wrote:
“I have reviewed selected sections of the bill, and find
it unbelievable that our Congress, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could come up with a bill loaded with so many wrong-headed elements.”
“Both Republicans and Democrats are equally responsible
for the financial […]