Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts

Have Prescription Drug Abuse Regulations Gone Too Far?

by CJ Arlotta, Forbes.     Policy of more pain, less drugs questioned. Many health care professionals are concerned with the growing usage of opioids among the general public, but does this mean the answer to the problem is tightening regulations on physicians prescribing controlled substances?   “I think what we have seen with regulations in this  ... MORE

Michelle Malkin: Obamacare's Annus Horribilis

There's no candy coating the truth:       Obamacare has had a very terrible, horrible, crappy, none-too-happy year. What it really means is that the victims of Obamacare — taxpayers, health care consumers, health care providers, employers and employees — have had a hellish, nightmarish 2014. Let's start with premiums. President Candy   ... MORE

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      ... MORE

Our 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      ... MORE

Rep. 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,  ... MORE

Country 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  ... MORE

America'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  ... MORE

It'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     ... MORE

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ObamaCare 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

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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