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When something goes wrong at the hospital
How is it possible to move past medical harm when every single aspect of life is impacted by it 2013 when absolutely everything a person believed about doctors, lawyers, oversight agencies, insurance companies is turned upside down and inside out? -Robin Karr, patient harm survivor A slip of the scalpel,…
Wisconsin Sen. Johnson: Obamacare will lead to ‘rationing’ and ‘lower-quality care’
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said on Monday that the Affordable Care Act — popularly known as “Obamacare” — will degrade health care services through “rationing.” I think it’s gonna explode the deficit,” Johnson said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “It’s gonna lead to rationing. It will lead to rationing, lower-quality care.”…
Thousands of Spanish medical workers protest budget cuts
Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers, many wearing white lab coats, demonstrated Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services. Several thousand people marched to Madrid’s central Plaza de Cibeles from 27 hospitals in the region, waving signs that read…
American’s number one medical fear: Losing health care access
Access to healthcare and its cost remain Americans’ top medical concerns, two years after President Barack Obama’s reforms were passed, a poll said Wednesday. Forty-two percent of those questioned in the Gallup poll said access or cost were the biggest problems the country faces in terms of health care. Obama’s…
Deadline extended for state decisions on health care exchanges
The Obama administration has extended the deadline for states to decide whether to set up health care exchanges in accordance with the Affordable Care Act one month, till Dec. 14, reported The Hill. Originally, that deadline was Friday, Nov. 16. However, states that decline to create such exchanges — likely…
Judge Upholds Contraception Mandate
On Friday, a Bush-appointed federal judge (the first Bush, not the second) ruled in favor of the HHS in a lawsuit over the contraception mandate. This isn’t too surprising; the challenges to the mandate are on really shaky grounds. But I was particularly tickled, because the judge defended the mandate…
Romney: Health care ‘through emergency rooms’ is sufficient
On a Sunday interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed that the poor already have health insurance because emergency rooms are obligated by law to treat anyone who comes in. “Does the government have a responsibility to provide health care to the 50 million Americans who don’t have…
Using the Fear of Rationing to Introduce Actual Rationing
I think it should be obvious why getting rid of Medicare and replacing it with coupons for old people to use to buy insurance is a bad idea, but in case it’s not, Paul Krugman has an explanation for you: Bear in mind that health expenses will still have to…
RNC gift bag book touts health care mandates ‘for everyone in the country’
A gift bag being handed out to delegates at this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa contains a little something the party thought it had sent down the memory hole a long time ago: Mitt Romney’s argument that Obama-style health care mandates would work “for everyone in the country.” It’s…
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Jonathan Rue: Thousands of veterans have problems going back to civilian life, but it will take more than money to fix the issues. Esquire magazine caused quite a stir on Monday when it published an extended interview with the US Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden. The shooter, his…
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