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 medical. Show all posts
214,000+ Doctors Opting Out Of Obamacare Exchanges
by Barbara Boland. Over 214,000 doctors won't participate in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) analysis of a new survey by Medical Group Management Association shows. That number of 214,524, estimated by American Action Forum, is through May 2014, but appears to be growing due to plans that force doctors to take on ... MORE
Should NFL Players Be Allowed To Treat Pain With Pot?
Moralists clash with medicine. While Colorado is the first state to fully legalize marijuana, Denver Broncos players are banned from using the drug. However, as CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports, a former NFL player said the hits he took on the field made him, and others like him, turn to pot. "Pain is constant when you play ... MORE
Angela Graham-West: Political Correctness And Ebola
Political correctness brings Ebola to America. Wednesday night, "CNN Tonight" guests Ben Ferguson and Van Jones both agreed on some things: that in light of the Ebola case in Dallas Texas, a travel ban is not called for, that Obama wasn't responsible for the person getting the virus, and that people are “overreacting”. Van Jones then went on ... MORE
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Paul Hsieh: Gun Violence Is Not A 'Public Health' Issue
Which of these things is not like the other? 1 Measles, 2 influenza, 3 tuberculosis, 4 murder. If you picked #4, “murder,” you’re right. The first three are medical diseases. In contrast “murder” is not a medical problem, although it is a tragic cause of death. But in recent years, anti-gun organizations (and some physicians) are seeking ... 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
Study Finds Uninsured Get Better Care Than Insured
Why insurance seems to insure inferior care. According to a recent study, severely injured patients are less likely to be transferred to a trauma center if they have health insurance. Researchers from the Stanford University of Medicine found that patients with insurance are less likely to get the best care than those who do not have ... MORE
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Sorry, Liberals: Obamacare Won’t Lead to Single Payer
by Peter Suderman. If you spend any significant amount of time talking to conservative activists who oppose Obamacare, you’ll eventually hear some variant on the theory that Obamacare was never meant to work. Instead, it was meant to destroy the existing health care system, and in the process pave the way for liberals to step in with the ... MORE
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ObamaCare Means Deep Cuts In Home Health For Seniors
by Andrew Mangione. As if ObamaCare’s botched website, coverage cancellations, and higher costs were not bad enough, the Obama Administration has quietly dealt yet another blow – this time striking millions of the nation’s most vulnerable seniors. Specifically, the Obama Administration has decided to deeply cut funding for the ... MORE
No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under ObamaCare
by Scott Gottlieb. The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to do with the higher out of pocket costs patients will face. The second issue ... MORE
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ObamaCare,
painkillers,
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The More Doctors Know, The More They Dislike Obamacare
by Mark J. Perry. Some pretty devastatingly negative results about Obamacare from a
November 8-12 survey of 3,072 practicing physicians in all 50 states,
and reported this week by the Atlanta Business Chronicle: 1. Most physicians didn’t like Obamacare when Congress passed the health-care reform law in 2010. Fifty-nine percent of ... MORE
ObamaCare Leaves Docs On The Hook For Deadbeats
More incentives not to be a doctor. Tucked inside nearly 11,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act is a little-known provision that doles out three months of free health care to individuals who choose to default on their premiums. People who receive the federal subsidy to be part of Obamacare will be allowed to incur a three-month ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: An Old 'New' Program
Anything to expand government power. Like so many things that seem new, ObamaCare is in many ways old wine in new bottles. For example, when confronted with the fact that millions of Americans stand to lose their existing medical insurance, as a result of ObamaCare, defenders of ObamaCare say that this is true only when those ... MORE
Alyene Senger: ObamaCare's Impact On Doctors
More regulation, oversight and patients. No class of American professionals will be more negatively impacted
by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly
referred to as Obamacare, than physicians. Third-party payment arrangements are already compromising the
independence and integrity of the medical ... MORE
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