Just a quick reminder… The We’re Done with Dodd Rally sponsored by by Connecticut Resistance is this Saturday, May 16th from 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. outside Senator Dodd’s Office at 30 Lewis Street, Hartford, CT 06405 Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Reform Senator Chris Dodd and Congresswoman Rosa Delaura will be holding a […]
Health Care
Barack Obama: U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
From Bloomberg News: May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries. “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. […]
Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom
Hackers apparently broke into Virginia’s Health Professions Database last week and stole data on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site’s homepage with ransom note demanding $10 million. Brian Krebs has the details: Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted […]
Healthcare Provisions of Stimulus Law Not Well Understood
CNSNews.com has two must read pieces on the stimulus laws healthcare provisions… The first deals with the plans National Medical Records System provisions: Stimulus Law Does Not Require All Americans to Enter Their Medical Records into National System, Dems Say By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer, CNSNews.com, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Two top House Democrats told […]
Stimulus Bill’s Healthcare Provisions Hazardous to Your Health
Buried in amongst all the questionable spending and policy provision of the democrats Stimulus plan is what amounts to a socialized medicine Trojan Horse. The bill calls for, among other things, the creation of a new government bureaucracy, called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. The goal of the new bureaucracy is to reduce […]
The Politics of Health care
One of the more important battles of the next few years is going to be health care reform. I’ve mentioned before I’m opposed to any kind of government run socialized health care system. I have relatives in Canada so my perspective on socialized medicine is a little more direct than most… Suffices to say be […]
Wall Street Journal: Almost Everyone Would Do Better Under the McCain Health Plan
Robert Carroll has a must read Op Ed on John McCain’s health care plan in today’s Wall Street Journal. Carroll does and excellent job of explaining what may be the single most misunderstood and misrepresented proposal of this election… The bottom line is most of us would do better under McCain’s health insurance tax credit. […]
Poll Question: Who Won The Final Presidential Debate?
[poll id=”9″] Overall I thought this was John McCain’s best debate. Unfortunately, I don’t think it was a game changer. In fact I think the plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, was the only real winner. A couple of quick points: 1) The Secret Service says they have yet to find anyone who can backup that Scranton ‘Kill […]
Health Care and the State of the Union
Here are two great columns from The Wall Street Journal. If you haven’t already read them you should. The first, The Republican Health-Care Surrender by Dick Armey details one of the biggest problems Republicans are facing… Their complete surrender on health care. I don’t want government run health care I have private health care insurance […]