Feb 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – The Affordable Care Act sets up a new arena of whistleblower protections for employees who complain that their company-provided health insurance doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. On Friday, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an interim final rule in the Federal Register that establishes procedures and ...
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Feb 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Forbes: Though Democrats denied it during the 2012 campaign, Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion in order to partially fund $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. A big chunk of those Medicare cuts came from the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program. Cleverly, the Obama administration postponed the Medicare Advantage cuts until ...
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Feb 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citing financial concerns, the Obama administration has begun quietly winding down one of the earliest programs created by the president's health care overhaul, a plan that helps people with medical problems who can't get private insurance. In an afternoon teleconference with state counterparts, administration officials said Friday the Pre-Existing Condition ...
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Feb 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Daily Caller: Even though federal law largely bars illegal immigrants from obtaining Medicaid coverage, the program annually pays out more than $2 billion in free emergency coverage that mostly goes to illegal immigrants, according to Kaiser Health News. The vast majority of the total emergency care reimbursements cover delivering babies, Kaiser reports. Based on a Kaiser ...
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Jan 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Hill: Comprehensive immigration reform could make millions of people suddenly eligible for assistance under President Obama's healthcare law, assuming a final deal paves the way for undocumented immigrants to receive papers. Illegal aliens are now prohibited from purchasing coverage through the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges, which will launch next year. They are also ineligible for ...
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Jan 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Daily Caller: Medicare payments to health care providers for services rendered to illegal aliens totaled more than $91.6 million from 2009 to 2011, a new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General revealed. The $91.6 million in claims went toward services for a 2,575 illegal aliens. Centers ...
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Jan 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Cancer
Excerpted from USA Today: People who smoke take at least 10 years off their life expectancy, a new study has found. On the other hand, those who kick the habit before age 40 reduce the excess risk of death associated with continued smoking by about 90%, according to the study in Thursday's New England Journal of ...
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Jan 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Because it will spread quickly. Excerpted from The Guardian: Britain's most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major coastal flooding. Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said the threat from infections that are resistant to frontline ...
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Jan 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
(CNSNews.com) –While President Barack Obama is moving ahead with executive orders and legislation to further tighten gun control in response to the mass murder committed by Adam Lanza at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., neither the toxicology report on Lanza's corpse nor the police report on his crime have been completed. Lanza attacked ...
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Jan 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around the city to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips. Police pharmacies to hide fake pill bottles fitted with GPS devices amid the legitimate supplies on their shelves. The New York Police Department believes the so-called "bait ...
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Jan 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from The New York Times: Some of the most common and most powerful prescription painkillers on the market will be restricted sharply in the emergency rooms at New York City’s 11 public hospitals, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday in an effort to crack down on what he called a citywide and national epidemic ...
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Jan 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from The New York Times: Most adolescents who plan or attempt suicide have already received at least some mental health treatment, raising questions about the effectiveness of current approaches to helping troubled youths, according to the largest in-depth analysis to date of suicidal behaviors in American teenagers. The study, in the journal JAMA ...
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Jan 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Washington Examiner: In its latest annual report for fiscal year 2011 to 2012, Planned Parenthood reveals that it performed 333,964 abortions in 2011 – a record year for the organization. According to annual reports, the organization performed 332,278 abortions in 2009, 329,445 in 2010, making the total number of abortions in three years to 995,687. Planned ...
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Dec 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Who will speak for the American Mariscal has hurt or killed? American Medical Association: How hard is it to get a kidney? Unfortunately, there are too few kidneys for all the people who need them. Not enough people sign up to be organ donors. The shortage persists even though each person gets only one kidney at a ...
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Dec 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from The Foundry: American health care consumers aren’t the only ones who will be hit by slated Obamacare tax hikes. Medical bills for their pets may go up as well. According to a rule published Friday by the Internal Revenue Service, some medical devices used in veterinary practices will be hit by Obamacare’s 2.3 percent ...
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Dec 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from France 24: French men are not as fertile as they used to be, according to a new study which reports that the sperm count in the average Frenchman's semen has fallen by nearly a third over a 16-year period. French men are not as fertile as they used to be, according to a ...
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Dec 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from New York Daily News: For twins, sibling rivalry starts before they’re even born. Strikingly clear video appears to show identical twins kicking each other and fighting for space inside their mother’s womb. The images are from an MRI scan taken at London’s Center for Fetal Care, Reuters reported. “What this ...
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Nov 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A Planned Parenthood affiliate based in the New York cities of Binghamton and Oneonta is breaking away from the national organization over a mandate that reportedly requires all affiliates to offer abortion services by 2013. Citing that pending requirement, Planned Parenthood of South Central New York’s leadership approved the decision to ...
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Nov 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CINCINNATI — One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees Wednesday for failing to get a required flu shot. TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get the shot were terminated Wednesday, a company ...
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Nov 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from Fox News: In the midst of cash-strapped Californians approving new taxes to prevent further cuts in essential state services, San Francisco health officials appear to have found the money to fund what they say is a much-needed service to residents living in the City by the Bay: Sex changes. The gender-switching surgeries are part of ...
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Oct 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Telegraph: School nurses have given implants or jabs to girls aged between 13 and 16 more than 900 times in the past two years, a survey by The Daily Telegraph has found. Girls aged 13 have been given contraceptive jabs and implants on more than 20 occasions. A further 7,400 girls ...
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Oct 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from Pajamas Media: Veterans in select areas of the country may soon be hit with a reduction in health care coverage, a proposal that has sparked outcry from lawmakers representing affected regions. It looks like the announcement of the controversial move to discontinue TRICARE Prime for military members and their families in certain states, though, will ...
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