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Category Archives: Health Care
Gates Foundation charity exits health care, pharma stocks
Wall Street Journal – Gates Foundation Sells Off Most Health-Care, Pharmaceutical Holdings: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private philanthropy fund, sold off almost all of its pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health-care investments in the quarter ended June … Continue reading
Memo: Obama made backroom deal with pharma companies
Via Ace of Spades, Huffington Post – Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma: The memo, which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist was prepared by a person directly involved in the negotiations, lists … Continue reading
Obama delegate lies, claims to be physician at town hall meeting
Roxana Mayer identified herself as a “pediatric primary care physician” at a Houston town hall meeting on government healthcare and that’s how the press reported it. She now admits she is not and never has been a doctor. Instead, she … Continue reading
So many lies about town hall debates on Obamacare
Turns out it’s the paid astroturfers for Obamacare and others of their ilk who are drowning out town hall debates . Go figure.
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Marko on government health care
“A mandatory public health care system is a universal adapter for unlimited Nanny State legislation, because there’s very little personal behavior that wouldn’t impact public health care costs in some way.” – Marko Kloos
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Eat the rich!
Washington Times – Congress in Fantasyland: The Congressional Budget Office projects a total additional deficit of approximately $4.9 trillion dollars during President Obama’s first term (2009-2012). Currently, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay 40 percent of the tax, or … Continue reading
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“Cash for Clunkers” suspended
This post has been updated with additional information. The government has suspended the Cash for Clunkers program. Officially, the program had run through 20% of its four month budget in just one week, but car dealers expressed concern that the … Continue reading
10 million Americans, not 47 million, chronically uninsured
From Bala Ambati via Megan McArdle: On the 47 million people without health insurance point, that too is a statistic where there is less than meets the eye. First, health insurance does not equal health care (there are not just … Continue reading
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Lessons learned from TennCare
RealClearPolitics – Lessons For Health Care Reform: “Free” Care Is Expensive: No matter how forthright the Administration’s cost estimates are; no model accounts for the rational decisions that push people to over-utilize the “free care” a public option offers. TennCare’s … Continue reading
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CBO estimate of ObamaCare 2x expensive as generally reported
A trillion dollars over 10 years? Nope. Actually, it’s really a cool trillion over five years. Eyeball the graph Philip Klein posted this afternoon and admire the left’s sleight of hand. They’re using a 10-year timeline to create the illusion … Continue reading
French “universal” health care only covers 75% of doctors
Denis Boyles at the Corner: A couple of things you can learn if you’re in France: First, the meaning of “universal.” It doesn’t mean what you think if you’re a poor person in France, where “universal” health care is arguably … Continue reading
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Are Medicare cuts being subsidized by private health care?
Reason – ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for Socialized Medicine: Medicare hasn’t controlled costs by discovering some wonder drug to deliver new efficiencies that the private sector doesn’t have. In fact, the Government Accountability Office lists Medicare as a “high-risk” … Continue reading
Did Obama’s stimulus plan destroy the chances for his healthcare plan?
Obama’s health care plan faces rising cost estimates and declining support. Public anxiety about red ink — muted during this winter’s debate over an economic stimulus package — has come roaring back, with a Gallup Poll showing deficits and spending … Continue reading
Candidate Obama vs. President Obama on healthcare
National Review – What Obama Used to Think of Medicare Cuts: “Now, first of all, we found out that Senator McCain wants to pay for his plan by taxing your health care benefits for the first time in history. Just … Continue reading
Social Security and Medicare: outlook worsens by the day
AP – Social Security and Medicare finances worsen: The Congressional Budget Office recently projected that Social Security will collect just $3 billion more in 2010 than it will pay out in benefits. A year ago, the CBO had projected that … Continue reading
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Walgreens offers free health consultations to recently unemployed
Retail clinic offers free care to recently unemployed: The Walgreen Co. and its subsidiary Take Care Health Systems are offering free care at all 342 Take Care Clinics through the end of the year for patients who have lost their … Continue reading
De-pression eyeglasses and contact lenses
Reuters – Wal-Mart cuts prices on contacts, kids’ eyeglasses: The world’s biggest retailer said on Thursday that it had teamed with 1-800 CONTACTS to reduce the price of a yearly supply of contact lenses by 12 percent to 50 percent. … Continue reading
Veterans angry about Obama’s insurance proposal (UPDATED)
Obama wants private insurance companies to cover service-related injuries for military veterans. The American Legion is strongly opposed to the plan: Commander Rehbein reiterated points made last week in testimony to both House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees. It was … Continue reading
Healthcare as a right?
Professor Bainbridge via Instapundit: k Progress is blasting Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) for saying that health care is a privilege rather than a right. The privilege/right dichotomy is certainly inept politics, but its also inapt legally and constitutionally. The real … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Health Care, Political Survival Kit
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Get tax-related medical expense report from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee
One of my co-workers showed me this. It’s a printable, itemized report of your medical, dental, and prescription claims, showing what BC/BS paid and what you paid. The amount you paid may be deductible on your taxes, assuming your total … Continue reading
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