Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus, went for a bike ride on Thursday, defying Maine’s order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage. Hickox has flaunted her defiance of the governor by…
Category: Health
A Young Doctor’s View on The Healthcare Crisis
Dr. Starner Jones’ short letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a “Culture Crisis” instead of a “Health Care Crisis”. It’s worth a quick read. — Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive Shiny…
U.S. Meat Widely Contaminated with Staph
A new study of the public meat supply indicates half of all meat purchased at common stores is contaminated with Staph and other bacteria. A study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute, found that Staphylococcus aureus – a bacteria that causes most staph infections including skin infections, pneumonia and blood poisoning – are present in…
TSA Scanner Risks
Review of TSA X-ray backscatter scanner safety issues: http://bit.ly/fkIWES. Bottom line is that real risks exist.
A Known Fact About Government-run Healthcare: It Lowers Quality
Writing about Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi’s miraculous recovery since being released from a Scottish prison, Abe Greenwald notes: Take a look at cancer-survival rates under the British medical system we’re now tenaciously emulating in the U.S. From the Concord study published in 2008 in Lancet Oncology: The five-year survival rate for breast cancer in the…
DemCare’s True Costs Already Showing
American companies have responded to the Democrats’ new health care entitlement the only way they can – by anticipating how much it’s going to cost them to implement: On top of AT&T’s $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million;…
DemCare Will Raise Costs and Lower Quality for Those Who Pay
Does anybody believe the Democrats’ numbers saying their health plan, such as it is, will be a budgetary gain? The idea is ludicrous, as is the notion that quality of service will improve. Working Americans from the middle class will pay more and get less. William Gale, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and…
DemCare Passes House, Unfortunately
Once again Democrats have voted to take money from people like me – who work for a living and vote for non-Democrats – and give it to their constituents as payola for their votes. This is what liberal politics is all about, using other people’s money against them by creating welfare programs that in turn…
DemCare Set to Pass? Get Involved and Don’t Let That Happen!
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives seem to think they have the votes to ram a tweaked version of the Senate plan through, perhaps even today. That makes this afternoon perhaps the last opportunity for sanity to assert itself in the health care field for a generation. The latest poll numbers show that more…
The Un-American Shame of DemCare
President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed of their un-American behavior on any number of levels, from their flagrant disregard for the wishes of the American people – a majority of whom want nothing more at this moment than for the Democrats’ relentless pressure to pass DemCare to stop…