A hollow commitment to our nation's warriors. Veterans Affairs records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal the startling fact that more than 500 vets have died in VA hospitals due to mistakes since 2010. Delayed treatment for cancer patients due to a failure to diagnose the disease and a failure to screen properly for suicide are ... MORE
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Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Rick Moran: In The Past Four Years, More Than 500 Vets Have Died In VA Hospitals Because Of Mistakes Or Delays
A hollow commitment to our nation's warriors. Veterans Affairs records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal the startling fact that more than 500 vets have died in VA hospitals due to mistakes since 2010. Delayed treatment for cancer patients due to a failure to diagnose the disease and a failure to screen properly for suicide are ... MOREOur Fear Of Opioids Leaves The World In Pain
by Helen Redmond. Healthcare now dictated by DEA. Ever broken a bone? Recovered from a major surgery? Do you live with chronic pain?
If so, you understand on a visceral level that access to opioids like
morphine to manage pain is critical. Opioids are necessary to perform
surgery, make recovery from traumatic injuries possible, and can grant ... MORERep. Mark Meadows: ObamaCare's Christmas Surprise
If you like your health plan, too bad. If you like your health care plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has a Christmas surprise for you! When will this new present arrive? December 25th. In an ongoing effort to keep Obamacare numbers elevated, CMS has embarked on the next step of its government takeover of ... MORE
Seth Mandel: What Jonathan Gruber Didn’t Say
Hired solely to mislead the people. Despite the unmasking of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber as a dishonest advisor hired by the Obama administration to mislead the public about the law, far too many commentators have still let Gruber set the terms of the debate about the lies used to pass ObamaCare. For example, an actual discussion ... MORE
Will The Supreme Court Redeem Itself On ObamaCare?
by Damon Root. ObamaCare goes back on trial. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to rule on the Obamacare case King v. Burwell, which asks whether the text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act forbids the granting of tax credits to individuals who purchased insurance on health care exchanges operated by the federal government. ... MORE
ObamaCare Premiums To Rise By Average Of 7.5 Percent
by Elise Viebeck. The high cost of the Affordable Care Act. Premiums on ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges will rise by an average of 7.5 percent next year, according to a new analysis. Data compiled by the Health Research Institute (HRI) at PricewaterhouseCoopers found modest changes in premiums for 27 states and the District of Columbia, ... MORECountry Moves Toward GOP On Every Significant Issue
New AP poll reveals verdict on hope and change. Although you wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage, or even the AP's own write-up of the poll (which gives new meaning to the phrase "buried lead"), a new Associated Press-GfK poll offers nothing but harrowing news for Democrats and the media who love them. Buried in the "pox ... MOREAmerica's Unsustainable Long-Term Debt Trajectory
by Peter Suderman. In
the past year or so, the White House has become increasingly
aggressive in touting President Obama’s achievements in reducing
the deficit. The deficit has been “cut by more than half since
2009,” a 2013
blog post by the White House Office of Management and Budget
declared, pointing to the shrinking of ... MOREIt's Good To Be a Terrorist, Not So Good To Be a Veteran
by Steve Forbes. Government's healthcare priorities. The roughly 150 jihadists at Gitmo have approximately 100 doctors, nurses and health care personnel assigned to them to handle their post-traumatic stress or anything else that ails them, with zero wait time. If Thomas Francis Breen, a 71-year-old Navy veteran who died of bladder cancer ... MOREObamaCare Sends Patients Flocking To Emergency Rooms
by Laura Ungar. It wasn't supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect in January, Norton Hospital has seen its packed emergency room become even more crowded, with about 100 more patients a month. That 12 percent spike in the number of patients — many of whom aren't actually facing true emergencies — is ... MORE
Study Finds E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit Better Than Patches
by Brian Stallard. No wonder big tobacco wants them banned. New evidence has surfaced that suggests using electronic cigarettes
may actually help tobacco smokers kick their harmful habit. However,
past studies have shown just the opposite, meaning that the consensus is
still unclear even as the facts are finally coming in. A study recently ... MORE
Employers Prepare To Dump Workers Into ObamaCare
by Ed Morrissey. Who didn’t see this coming? According to Kaiser Health News, employers are increasingly looking at the benefits of getting out of the health-insurance delivery process. Fueling this interest are ObamaCare-related spikes in health-insurance premiums, plus the opportunity to fix costs and reduce vulnerabilities presented ... MORE
Scott Johnson: The Courts Will Not Save Us
Just another branch of the federal government. George Will seems to me the preeminent political columnist of our era, with the possible exception of Charles Krauthammer. Will and Krauthammer are in a league of their own. Both are conservatives, of course, and you have to wonder who the liberals can put up against them. Tom ... MORE
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