http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/universal/ en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:31:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2281555/posts Excessive Government involvement is what's wrong with our current healthcare system. One prominent example: FDA regulation and Medicare/Medicaid policies are suppressing new drug and device options and increasing healthcare costs. The FDA's approval process for new technologies costs companies between 250 and 800 million dollars. It takes an average of 8.5 years to move through the FDA's clinical and approval phases and there is no guarantee of approval. Out of 5000 compounds discovered in the pre-clinical stage, only about 5 will make it through. The cost of approved and non-approved drugs and devices are passed on to the physician practice,... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2281555/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279678/posts This is an article filled with good links, that demonstrates Obama's effort to pretend to offer us a choice, but really the supporters of socialized medicine are out of the closet on the destruction of private health care as a whole. It is not about the efficacy of socialized health care, it is about showing how we are not really being offered a choice, and it demonstrates the slipping support for the plan. http://www.examiner.com/x-14881-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Obamas-Health-Care-Reform-debacle Political Buzz Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279678/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:32:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277726/posts Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky addressing over 500 Chicago area residents and local political leaders at the Health Care For America Now rally in Chicago. The rally called for quality, affordable health care for all in 2009. Youtube/Health Care For America Now rally in Chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277726/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:04:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277719/posts Rep. Jan Schakowsky (9th, IL) speaks to a group of sheep regarding the government plans for universal health care. Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277719/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2264320/posts This video is an entry for the Galen’s Institute’s “Do No Harm” contest. patientpowernow.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2264320/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:24:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260586/posts Is your medical insurance bad for your health? If you have a high-deductible plan, the answer may be yes. The investment firm Fidelity recently surveyed employees at various companies who had opted for a high-deductible health plan linked to a health savings account. About half of those workers said they or a family member had chosen not to seek medical care for minor ailments as many as four times in the last year to avoid paying the out-of-pocket expenses. As any doctor will tell you, small health problems left untreated can become big problems, warns Kathleen Stoll, director of health... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260586/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 15:33:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254211/posts Everyone on both sides of the issue should read this. Frankly, I’m tired of pro universal health care advocates pretending there is a mythological utopia involving government run medical care. The truth is there are more negatives to it than positives. On the other hand, I’m getting tired of opponents of universal health care proclaiming that there are people dead in the street where ever you have government run health care. The truth is there is decent medical treatment in most western universal health care systems. You have the facts with your side, but you can’t blow them out of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254211/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 21:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2212409/posts “Systems” appeal to politicians and paper-pushers. Patients need care from human beings. But if you want to know what a government-controlled, monopolistic “system” is like, just visit the DMV − and imagine that not your driving privilege but your life depended on the wisdom and empathy of bureaucrats. www.stolinsky.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2212409/posts#comment Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:12:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212028/posts Did the fact that Canada has a socialist, government-run healthcare system --similar to the kind that President Obama wants to ram down the throats of Americans-- kill acclaimed actress Natasha Richardson? American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212028/posts#comment Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:24:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208800/posts To no one’s surprise, President Obama plans to ask Congress to spend billions of dollars on public education. As he stated in his presidential agenda on education, the country cannot afford four more years of neglect and indifference. This neglect and indifference, according to the president, occurred despite the fact that in the last four years, the federal government and the states have spent more money on public education than at any other time in the history of our nation. What is surprising about Mr. Obama’s education initiative is his priority on early childhood education. His “Zero to Five Plan”... HSLDA.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208800/posts#comment Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185744/posts H.R.676 Title: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/26/2009) Cosponsors (42) Latest Major Action: 1/26/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY AS OF: 1/26/2009--Introduced. United States National Health Care Act... thomas.loc.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185744/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183207/posts Covertly slipped into GL Obama’s faux “stimulus bill” last weekend—by leftist Democrats—was the Socialist Universal Healthcare program. Contained within the bill is the provision that doctors will now be forced to report any and all of their patient treatments to the federal government for approval to treat. Also contained within this portion of Obama’s non-stimulus bill is the rationing of healthcare services to senior US citizens and the withholding of potentially life-saving measures. As Democrat Tom Daschle wrote in his book “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis” senior citizens “should be more accepting of the conditions that... BorderFireReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183207/posts#comment Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:02:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180063/posts Obama Signs SCHIP Legislation, Says Bill Is 'First Step' Toward Universal Health CoverageMain Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 06 Feb 2009 - 5:00 PST President Obama on Wednesday signed into law a bill (HR 2) that will reauthorize and expand SCHIP to an additional four million children, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. Obama said that expanding the program is "the first step" to achieving universal health coverage in the U.S. (Freking/Elliot, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 2/5). The House cleared the final version of the measure by a vote of 290-135 earlier in the day. Forty Republicans voted in... Medical News Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180063/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176111/posts Teresa Ghilarducci: The 401(k) Retirement System Has FailedJanuary 30, 2009 03:51 PM ET | Emily Brandon **SNIP** Under Ghilarducci's plan, outlined in her book When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, all workers who don't have a traditional pension would be required to contribute 2.5 percent of their income to a government account with a 2.5 percent employer match. A 3 percent return above inflation would be guaranteed by the government. U.S. News asked Ghilarducci about her controversial retirement plans. Excerpts: **SNIP** How will GRAs fix the retirement system? After 30 years of experience... US News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176111/posts#comment Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:02:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2172861/posts ••• Q: If there are things that are wasteful in the stimulus package, what would you see go? A: I actually brought a list of a few that I uncovered here. ... There’s $1.1 billion on research to compare the effectiveness of medical treatments. It might be a nice program, but I’m not sure if I would consider that stimulus. There’s a $726 million for an after school snack program. Again, it’s wonderful, something I think maybe we should put in our regular budget, but I think this falls outside the stimulus. $400 million for habitat restoration, $200 million... Tonawanda News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2172861/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:28:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107864/posts Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched. Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan. AP, via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107864/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:12:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026937/posts By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor The shake-up of NHS dentistry has been condemned as a failure after official figures showed fewer people are receiving health service treatment. More than 300,000 people lost their NHS dentist in three months alone Eight hundred thousand fewer people saw an NHS dentist in the two years up to December than in the last two years under the old dental contract. The shake-up was aimed at simplifying the payments system, encouraging more preventive work and reducing the 'drill and fill' culture in NHS dentistry. But the contract was so unpopular many dentists left the NHS... Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026937/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:00:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026966/posts British doctors will take the historic step of admitting for the first time that many health treatments will be rationed in the future because the NHS cannot cope with spiralling demand from patients. In a major report that will embarrass the government, the British Medical Association will say fertility treatment, plastic surgery and operations for varicose veins and minor childhood ailments, such as glue ear, are among a long list of procedures in jeopardy. James Johnson, the BMA chairman, will warn that patients face a bleak future because they will increasingly be denied treatments. He will urge the NHS to... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026966/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:31:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024547/posts Low water pressure hampered efforts today to fight a fire that raged through the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City, destroying a soundstage, the theme park's King Kong attraction, a video vault and sets such as the Courthouse Square seen in "Back to the Future" and the New York street scape from "Bruce Almighty." As the equivalent of two city blocks burned -- firefighters were still dousing hot spots 10 hours after the blaze began in predawn darkness -- a mushroom-like cloud of smoke drifted over surrounding neighborhoods, raising some health concerns. A large explosion near the video storage building... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024547/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:05:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024394/posts UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — A massive fire raged on a back lot at Universal Studios early Sunday, devouring several movie sets, including mock New York and New England streets. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Daryl Jacobs said at least one building had burned and as many as three blocks of movie facades were destroyed. Though the fire was contained, it was still raging, Jacobs said. "The facades are constructed of heavy timber and they tend to burn quite freely," he said. The blaze broke out just before dawn on a sound stage,... AP via Google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024394/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:27:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2004309/posts According to the sages of the Talmud, there are 70 families with 70 paths within the great Family of Man. And each individual has his or her path within a path. Yet, there is one universal basis for us all. At the dawn of human history, G-d gave man seven rules to follow in order that His world be sustained. So it is recounted in the Book of Genesis as interpreted by our tradition in the Talmud. There will come a time, our sages told us, that the children of Noah will be prepared to return to this path. That... Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2004309/posts#comment Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:45:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997163/posts Once they discover that she is Dr. Kate, the supplicants line up to approach at dinner parties and ballet recitals. Surely, they suggest to Dr. Katherine J. Atkinson, a family physician here, she might find a way to move them up her lengthy waiting list for new patients. Those fortunate enough to make it soon learn they face another long wait: Dr. Atkinson’s next opening for a physical is not until early May — of 2009. Now in Massachusetts, in an unintended consequence of universal coverage, the imbalance is being exacerbated by the state’s new law requiring residents to have... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997163/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:32:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980394/posts Medicare is poised to wreak havoc on the economy. And our presidential candidates are avoiding the issue. Twice I have asked Alan Greenspan what he considers the greatest threat to the U.S. economy, and both times he has answered immediately with a single word: Medicare. He isn't so worried about the trade deficit and the housing crash; he figures market forces will sort them out. But Medicare is something else - a multitrillion-dollar problem that's about to get dramatically worse, and one that nobody wants to talk about. You'd think that the greatest threat to America's economy would be Topic... Fortune Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980394/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:10:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945174/posts TOKYO - An 89-year-old woman died after an ambulance crew spent two hours trying 30 hospitals before finding one that would accept her for treatment, Japanese officials said Friday. The woman's family called an ambulance early Tuesday morning after she became ill with vomiting and diarrhea, said Hideto Matsumoto, a fire official in Tondabayashi City, Osaka prefecture (state). The ambulance crew and local fire department contacted 30 hospitals before one finally said it could admit her, Matsumoto said — about two hours after her family had called for an ambulance. The woman's heart stopped when she was taken to Osaka... AP via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945174/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:25:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938495/posts I am a small-government conservative/libertarian and have hated the concept of socialized medicine almost all my life. But now, I could live with universal health coverage in the U.S.. Here's why. We now have the worst of both worlds: we are paying for universal health coverage, but not getting it. In fact, we pay more for health care in taxes than countries that provide universal coverage. Then we pay more than that amount again in private coverage. Additionally, what we have now in the U.S. is nowhere near a free market in health care. Defending the status quo is not... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938495/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:48:04 GMT