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"The doctor overseeing my health care advised me to get an H1N1 flu shot. I've been under a six-year treatment program for a chronic infection, plus I have heart and lung problems. Therefore, I am considered a high risk. Fortunately, my doctor had three shots available, but I would have to get approval from my county health department. Much to my surprise, the woman at the health department apologized and told me that even though I was a senior citizen at high risk, the health department had been instructed to approve shots only for children and pregnant mothers. I asked...

While normal everyday oblivious Americans were preparing their beds to sleep Saturday night their elected officials quietly passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Indeed, the passage of this act deals one of the final death blows to the Constitution and with it our liberties. As I ponder upon this momentously horrid occurrence it is as if I have just woken up from a nightmare and been thrown directly into the plot of George Orwell’s 1984, with no hope of escape. As this thought grabs hold I am lead to ponder more and more about America and...

Dallas County's first mass distribution of the swine flu vaccine Wednesday tested the patience of thousands of adults and children, who stood outdoors for hours to snag a scarce shot. SONYA N. HEBERT/DMN Rony Velazquez, 4, waited while his mother, Blanca Medrano (left), and his sister Diana Velazquez were screened before getting their H1N1 shots at the Dallas County Health and Human Services building on Wednesday.But in the end, there was a lot of praise for how well the county dispensed the vaccine. Despite chilly weather before dawn and intense sun by late morning, almost no one in the line...

As explained by Dr. David H. Janda (author of "The Awakening of a Surgeon"), the healthcare rationing board has already been slipped into the "recovery act" bill. Take a look who is buried down the list on the board ... Rahm's brother, that champion-of-eugenics ... "Dr. Death Panel" Ezekiel Emmanuel. http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html

Residents of the Venezuelan capital face cuts in water service for as much as 48 hours per week, after the government imposed rationing to stem a 25 percent shortfall in the city's supply, officials said Monday.

 Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. David Janda has a blistering commentary on the newest House version of Obamacare that succinctly and powerfully illuminates the danger to all of us–well, not the elite who never are bound by the same rules–if this monstrosity passes. From his column “Obamacare versus the Hippocratic Oath (all emphasis within the text): The sad fact is that the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Administration’s 1990 page health care reform bill (HR3962) and supplement(HR3961) violate The Oath by stripping  freedom from every person, family and business in Our country . This 19 ½ pound pair of documents, entitled ”Affordable Health Care For Americans...

Everyone knows that if you don't pay to maintain and repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true as human beings age. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers -- disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes. For nearly a half century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care. But ObamaCare is about to change that, by limiting what doctors can provide their aging patients. The Senate Finance Committee health bill released last week controls doctors by cutting their pay if they give older patients more care than the government deems appropriate. Section...

By drastically increasing demand while doing little to increase primary care physician supply, ObamaCare will turn health care into a consumer nightmare: longer wait times, shorter visits, higher prices, and decreased customer satisfaction. The U.S. will have to rely increasingly on nurse practitioners and physician assistants to meet patient demand. According to the WHO, the nurse-to-physician ratio in Canada and the U.K. are 5.3 and 5.6, respectively, compared to 3.6 in the U.S. And as fewer bright young people pursue medicine due to the profession's general malaise and oppressive bureaucratic regulations, we're likely to see an even greater physician shortage---not...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants these groups to have top priority, as they are at highest risk of spreading or catching the flu: Health care workers; healthy children and young adults age 2 to 24; and healthy adults up to age 49 who are caring for children younger than 6 months.

Chris Dodd is one lucky old fart. The guy survives lots of heavy, HEAVY drinking throughout his life, the kind where you can't remember the crap you've done the night before and don't know how you got home, became the co-creator of the waitress sandwich with Dead Kennedy, and lots of sex with a number of different women without picking up herpes or AIDS, and the ol' boy comes down with prostate cancer this July. He's not lucky because he has prostate cancer. He's lucky because he's got an awesome private Senate healthcare plan, and a clinic to go to...

Is this the type of healthcare system that President Obama wants for the rest of the country? Update: Make sure you check the update below. Rationing! The Baucus plan and the Waxman Murphy plan both will tax you if don’t have health insurance. But as we pointed out right here it’s so much more than that. You will be taxed even if you have coverage, IF, it’s not up to government standards. Remember, you read it here first?

Kidney patient must make three trips a week to Saint John for dialysis, while a unit sits idle 10 minutes from her home A1 By Jim Dumville Helping her mother travel more than 1,200 kilometres each week to secure life-saving medical procedure, while the necessary medical equipment sits only a few kilometres away, has become a major source of disbelief and frustration for a Woodstock businesswoman. In a detailed letter addressed to political and health-care officials and members of the media, Woodstock's Kelly Atherton outlined the lengths she and her family must go to ensure her mother receives dialysis treatment....

Why does “pro-choice” refer only to abortion, but not to health care, or schools, or gun ownership, or what car (if any) you can drive, or even what light bulbs and toilets you can use? Choice? What choice? Whether to live in pain or kill yourself? Are we independent citizens who care for ourselves and our loved ones, but who sometimes need the government’s help? Or are we infantilized subjects, totally dependent on a parentified government to care for us, usurp the responsibility for our families, and make important decisions for us? This, rather than what health-care system we choose,...

In President Obama’s Washington, medical specialists are slightly more popular than the H1N1 virus. Compared to bread-and-butter primary care doctors, specialists cost more to train and make more use of expensive procedures and technology—and therefore cost the government more money. Even so, the quiet war Democrats are waging on specialists is astonishing.

Politics: The administration stages a photo-op with handpicked doctors who support its health care reform. Fortunately, most doctors still believe that the first rule of medicine is to do no harm. It would seem some doctors still make house calls. Some 150 of them made one at the White House Monday in an attempt to give a booster shot to the administration's chaotic and stalled health care reform drive. Rather than a grass-roots uprising of physicians, this was a classic case of AstroTurfing. Attendance was by invitation only, and 40 of the 150 were said to be members of Doctors...

The Wall Street Journal today highlights a provision in the Baucus bill which is actually frightening and could not make more clear that Obamacare will lead to rationing despite what he says: "Take a provision in the Baucus bill that would punish any physician whose 'resource use' is considered too high. Beginning in 2015, Medicare would rank doctors against their peers based on how much they cost the program—and then automatically cut all payments by 5% to anyone who falls into the 90th percentile or above. In practice, this rule will only apply to specialists." ...As it stands now, the...

No it isn't death panels, but it might as well be, two moves coming from our Democratic-party-controlled government ration needed health care treatment one in the Baucus version of the Obamacare bill, the other an executive order by the POTUS. The Baucus bill has a provision which penalizes the doctors who prescribe the most tests/procedures. Those in the top 10% of prescribing doctors will get fined five percent of the money they get back from the government. The purpose of this procedure is to provide incentive to the doctors to stop giving life-saving procedures. Not wanting to wait for the...

Health Care Systems: A return to private health care is rising from the grass roots north of the border. While we rush headlong toward socialized medicine, Canadians are saying, "No, thanks — been there, done that." We recently told the story of Ava Isabella Stinson, born 13 weeks premature at St. Joseph's hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. She weighed all of two pounds and had no time to be put on a waiting list. But there were no open neonatal intensive care beds for her at St. Joseph's or anywhere else in the entire province of Ontario it seems. Canada's perfectly...

A new report finds that medical innovation boosts life expectancy, but doesn't cost more "About half of all growth in health care spending in the past several decades was associated with changes in medical care made possible by advances in technology," declared(pdf) a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report last year. "Health care economists attribute about 50 percent of the annual increase of health costs to new technologies or to the intensified use of old ones," writes bioethicist Daniel Callahan in his new book, Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Conventional wisdom holds...

Free Speech: The Senate votes against transparency as the administration silences a private insurer for exposing the president's health care proposal. Meanwhile, AARP is allowed to tout reform as it awaits payday. We weren't surprised when the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday voted 12 to 11 against allowing two weeks for the Congressional Budget Office to complete its cost analysis of the health care bill pushed by Montana Democrat Max Baucus and to put the bill online in its original wording. Instead, the Senate panel passed another amendment to require the committee to post the full bill online in "conceptual"...

Obama did, and again he lied to the public. there are "Death Panels as we speak deciding which "populations" deserve treatment and limited health resources and who does not. The decisions are being made quietly and without public input; but they are being made and through regulation given the force of law. Sheri Fink, writing for propublica, has discovered that State and Federal officials are planning guidelines for removing life support from patients regardless of the patient's permission or desire in a pandemic situation. The justification for ignoring SOME patient wishes and medical needs is based on limited resources. http://www.propublica.org/article/flu-nightmare-officials-ponder-disconnecting-ventilators-from-some-pat-923....

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Baucus health care "reform" bill that is quickly becoming the potential alternative to the Kennedy bill and HR 3200 includes abortion subsidies and mandates. Additional analysis also shows the legislation includes health care rationing that would cause problems for senior citizens.Burke J. Balch, an attorney and the director of the medical ethics center at the National Right to Life Committee, has examined the entire bill.He points to language on pages 80-81 regarding Medicare physician payments as a concern."Beginning in 2015, payment would be reduced by five percent if an aggregation of the physician's resource...

We critics of ObamaCare may have been doing ourselves a bit of a disservice over the past few months by focusing on health care “rationing.” Yes, “rationing” best describes some of the most disconcerting effects of government run health care, and it strikes a chord with the general public. But it is rarely used by our duplicitous opponents, leaving the door open for them to argue that we are just raising a general alarm over nothing. But rationing does not have to be called such to be rationing. So, perhaps, we should shift our focus away from language that we...

One of the oft heard challenges to government run health care is that it will lead to rationing. I believe we on the right need to be more careful about way we express this argument. The easy retort to this challenge is that rationing goes on right now, in that only the wealthy can afford health care (whatever wealthy may mean). The truth is that this retort is absolutely correct; arguing that government run health care will lead to rationing is a non-starter.

Here is a video report on calls by Missouri Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill to cut back on providing motorized wheelchairs to people through Medicare. She was citing this as a place to save money and reduce Health Care costs. Here is a perfect example of how the Democrats' Government Health Care would inevitably result in rationing of care. It has not even passed, and McCaskill is already talking about what the Government can get rid of in order to pay for their massive plan. What do you think will happen once it passes? . . . (VIDEO)

In the British National Health Service, which has been in place for 60 years, not only are rationing and 'death panels' happening, they are policy.

BLAYLOCK ON OBAMA (SOCIALIZED) CARE [WNHO-Aspartame-Information] National Health Insurance: The Socialist Nightmare by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com Friday, August 14, 2009 10:10 AM FROM "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum." This is absolutely the best paper I've seen on National Health Insurance that Dr. Blaylock has just written. I would suggest that everyone forward it to their lists and their members of Congress. We must stop Obama Care before its too late. Anyone who reads this will understand. Please help to get it forwarded. ------ Dr Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder, Mission Possible International, www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com...

Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted... The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors' own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul. It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality...

To the sons and daughters of our Founding Fathers, "Health care" under Obama's drastic plot is neither healthy nor caring, as these actual pages of the bill below will demonstrate. Ever since our founding fathers broke free from tyranny of a foreign power, enemies of America have always sought to destroy her special place in history. German "National Socialists" in the 1940s and Liberals from the 2000s, their goal is the same: the annihilation of freedom and the American way of life. America has a special place in history. Marxists wish to destroy it. Ever there was a time to...

Knowing that I had spent the summer in England, a fellow law professor recently asked me whether "the Republicans" had hired me to advertise against the president's health-care plan. My response was, "No, but they could have." I would have done it for free.Watching the health-care debate from the other side of the Atlantic this summer was very interesting. First of all, British doctors do not like having their system held up as an example of what not to do. There were several panel discussions on television and the radio in which doctors defended the British medical plan; the...

... Will seniors ever acquiesce to what Sarah Palin referred to as “death panels”? As our Cato colleague Will Wilkinson points out, that pejorative term is an inappropriate description of a necessary mechanism. Medicare’s funding is drying up. According to Medicare’s trustees, the Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance) trust fund will be exhausted by 2017. And Medicare Parts B and D (supplementary medical insurance and the Medicare prescription-drug plans) are growing at breakneck speeds and imposing a heavy drain on federal general revenues — which provide more than three-quarters of their funding. A key part of the solution is to...

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee wants levies on insurers to pay for Obamacare and fines for families who don't sign up. To keep Obamacare alive, Baucus has proposed a Rube Goldberg scheme of fees and fines on insurers and the uninsured designed to forcibly bring everyone into the loving and protective arms of the nanny state...

The God's Partner Zero dollar is out and available for download, printing and passing out. take them to DC with you for the rally! For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Zero Bill Archive"

The Obamacare Zero dollar is out and available for download, printing and passing out. take them to DC with you for the rally! For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Zero Bill Archive"

Reform: The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee wants levies on insurers to pay for ObamaCare and fines for families who don't sign up. We can cut costs and expand coverage without sacrificing freedom.To keep ObamaCare alive, Montana Democrat Max Baucus has proposed a Rube Goldberg scheme of fees and fines on insurers and the uninsured designed to forcibly bring everyone into the loving and protective arms of the nanny state. To help finance his Plan B, Baucus would impose annual fees of $6 billion on health insurers, $4 billion on medical-device makers, $2.3 billion on drug manufacturers and $750...

The Times Colonist, a newspaper in British Columbia, is reporting bad news from the Victorian Island Health Authority for residents seeking an MRI. Though already overwhelmed with demand, the health authority is looking to reduce usage of the expensive diagnostic device to make up a $45 million deficit: The cuts likely mean patients will wait in pain even longer for treatment and surgery -- and already they are waiting twice as long as last year. VIHA spokeswoman Shannon Marshall said patients are being booked for March, six months away, for elective MRI scans. Last year, wait times for MRI scans...

The Obama "Trust Me" Zero dollar is out. Please download both side images, print them up, pass them out. Use them if you're going to DC next week. This bill focuses on Obama's "We (govt) are God's partners in matters of life and death." We could write a book on this one sentence. It also focuses on the reality of government rationed care and whether you get care or not by some cost/benefit analysis of if it's worth it to society to save you. Front of the bill first, then the back. Please use both, they go together. For the...

MRI scans that are used to detect tumours, fractures and other ailments will be cut by 20 per cent this year, the Vancouver Island Health Authority has confirmed. The health authority plans to do 4,400 fewer of the magnetic resonance imaging scans to help cover a $45-million budget shortfall, figures released yesterday show. The cuts likely mean patients will wait in pain even longer for treatment and surgery -- and already they are waiting twice as long as last year. VIHA spokeswoman Shannon Marshall said patients are being booked for March, six months away, for elective MRI scans. Last year,...

As the health care debate rages, many conservatives have correctly argued that government-run “universal care” will lead to medical rationing. To control costs, the socialized health systems of Canada and Great Britain routinely restrict patients’ access to expensive services. A Canadian with a possible brain tumor might wait months for his government-approved MRI scan, whereas an American can receive one within days. Liberals will typically counter that a free market is just “another form of rationing” — but by price rather than government decree. It is unjust, they say, that patients with money (or good insurance) can receive MRI scans...

The Deathcare Zero dollar is out - it isn't money, it's political artwork that fits in your wallet. Please use it in your fight against Obamacare, please use the front AND back. Front of the 'bill' comes first, then the back. For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Zero Bill Archive"

Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein is taking exception to Post columnist Charles Krauthammer's depressing op/ed on how health care "reform" will likely play out. Krauthammer's op/ed argues that the public option is dead, as is end of life counseling, and imposing treatment choices through comparative effectiveness studies will be downplayed. The notion that health care reform will cut costs will also be dropped. So what will happen? Krauthammer predicts:

In a desperate bid to legitimize a government take over of the health care industry; Democrats now are seeking to gain political cover and traction with the recent death of Senator Ted Kennedy. Senator Kennedy died of brain cancer this week, a condition that on average had a 33% survival rate over 5 years. To say the least, his condition was one no one would wish upon another human being. So it is interesting that Democrats wanting to use Senator Kennedy’s death from this horrible disease fail to recognize the irony of their shallow maneuver. Given the life years and...

Health Care Reform: A study by the British Patients Association tells the true story about socialized medicine in Britain. It's one of willful and woeful neglect of millions, missed diagnoses, and elderly patients left in pain.BD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For FailureWhile reading this disturbing analysis of the pitiful state of medical care in Britain in the Daily Telegraph, the Vincent Price horror classic "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" came to mind. Price portrayed a man who used bizarre methods to dispatch his victims. The abominable British National Health Service, based on this report, is only slightly better. The...

Skyrocketing numbers of expensive medical imaging procedures - from CT scans to nuclear stress tests - are not just straining the nation's health care system, but are exposing patients to significant amounts of potentially cancer-causing radiation even though little research has been done into whether those tests actually make people healthier, a new study suggests. The tests, say the study's authors, may be doing more harm than good. "One reason why these tests are being used more is they're getting better and better and they're an extremely helpful part of diagnosis and treatment," said Dr. Reza Fazel, a cardiologist at...

A provision for an end-of-life “death panel” in Barack Obama’s health care reform plan, brought to light by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, already exists in legislation passed earlier this year under the Stimulus Bill.- This is already funded and law. Probably helps explain why the bill was rushed, without being read.

President Obama has a problem, one familiar to smarmy salesmen since the beginning of time. His product stinks, and consumers know it. The packaging looked nice at first. The copy was well-written and well-delivered, but the dogs won't eat the food. What to do? The genius of the Obama campaign was inspiring millions of Oprah worshippers, teenyboppers, and similar pop culture aficionados whose only previous experience with voting involved texting a 5 digit number on Tuesday night to choose the next "American Idol," to discover those other elections, the ones with actual consequences. As it turns out, while this strategy...

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health adviser to President Barack Obama, is under scrutiny. As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs. Many physicians find that view dangerous, and most Americans are likely to agree. The health bills being pushed through Congress put important decisions in the hands of presidential appointees like Dr. Emanuel. They...

Gimme a Single Payer Food Program Dear Mr. Obama, It has been a busy year! Kudos on bringing your vast managerial experience to the banking, auto, and credit industries. Soon you may have control of our health care industry, too (fingers crossed!). Despite your many successes, there is one great American injustice that I fear you have overlooked: no American should be required to feed him or herself. Consider the plight of parents. In order to feed their children, they must submit to the mercy of heartless corporations like Target or Mike’s Cafe on Route 12. There, they must stand...

Is this a warning to what Obamacare would look like in the US? The wait for out-of-stock medicines can cause "extreme distress" in some patients and even see them admitted to hospital, pharmacists have warned