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  • Obamacare's Medical Device Tax Kills Jobs

    06/08/2012 2:00:09 PM PDT · by 92nina · 12 replies
    ATR ^ | 2012-06-05 | Justin Sykes
    Following close on the heels of the latest dismal jobs report this week is a House vote to repeal the Medical Device Tax. The Protect Medical Innovation Act, or H.R. 436, was introduced by Representative Erik Paulsen (R-MN) and thanks to bipartisan support, including 233 co-sponsors, was approved by the Ways & Means Committee by a vote of 23-11 last week. H.R. 436 will now go to the House floor for a vote sometime this week. H.R. 436 seeks to repeal the Medical Device Excise Tax included as part of Obamacare legislation. As part of the Obamacare bill, a 2.3...
  • Surgeon: Remove Kidneys for Transplant Before Donor's Death

    06/06/2012 5:12:34 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 27 replies
    Yahoo via ABCNews ^ | June 6, 2012 | KIM CAROLLO
    The severe shortage of viable organs for transplantation in the U.S. has led a transplant surgeon to propose harvesting kidneys from people who are not dead yet. Dr. Paul Morrissey, an associate professor of surgery at Brown University's Alpert Medical School, wrote in The American Journal of Bioethics that the protocol known as donation after cardiac death -- meaning death as a result of irreversible damage to the cardiovascular system -- has increased the number of organs available for transplant, but has a number of limitations, including the need to wait until the heart stops. Because of the waiting time,...
  • Top senators open to changes in military health (McCain Alert)

    10/15/2011 9:18:43 AM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 26 replies
    AP ^ | 2011-10-14 | Donna Cassata
    The top lawmakers on the Senate’s defense panel on Friday recommended that a special committee searching for ways to slash the deficit consider some of President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to health and retirement benefits for the military. In separate letters to the bipartisan panel, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., signaled they were open to cost-saving steps in military benefits, recommendations that have already attracted fierce opposition from powerful groups of retired officers and veterans resistant to change.
  • Will tea party purists back imperfect Romney? (MSM says Tea Partiers can't win without Romney)

    10/14/2011 6:29:56 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 158 replies
    Communist News Network ^ | 2011-10-14 | Gloria Borger
    After watching the GOP presidential debate the other night, it was hard to avoid this conclusion: Mitt Romney looks more and more like the GOP presidential nominee. He's the best debater. He's got his issues and his rejoinders down pat. He brushes away his opponents like lint on his lapel. And all with such ease. That said, there's a teensy problem he just can't seem to beat: Conservatives don't like him. Or trust him. Or really want him to be the GOP nominee. Sure, you say, Republicans never like their nominees, and they still manage to vote for them. There...
  • Dems mock their own when they lampoon RomneyCare

    04/19/2011 4:55:38 PM PDT · by pietraynor · 5 replies
    Sentinel & Enterprise ^ | 04/19/2011 | Peter Lucas
    Democrats mocking former Gov. Mitt Romney on Massachusetts health care are also mocking the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Ironically many of these Democrats are the same liberals who had nothing but praise for Romney when the first in the nation universal health-care law became a reality under his governorship. All you have to do is listen to the sly praise Democrats have been laying on Romney, from the White House down to Gov. Deval Patrick, Romney's successor, for signing that bill into law five years ago. Read more: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/opinion/ci_17879181#ixzz1K12xLvGz
  • FDA's Avastin decision is a breast cancer patient's worst nightmare

    12/26/2010 6:40:22 PM PST · by gusopol3 · 41 replies · 2+ views
    Washington Examiner ^ | December 26, 2010 | Sally Pipes
    ronically, the exact same day the FDA revoked Avastin's approval, its counterpart across the Atlantic did the opposite. The European Union's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use had conducted a similar investigation into Avastin in breast cancer treatment... Genentech, Avastin's developer, spent some $2.3 billion creating this treatment. In reaction to this decision, other drug firms will be less likely to make the investments required for research into advanced drugs.
  • Obama compares his health care plan to Romney's on '60 Minutes.' "Wasn't that different...."

    11/07/2010 7:57:04 PM PST · by Right Wingnut 2 · 30 replies · 1+ views
    Right Speak ^ | 11/7/2010 | Right Wingnut
    President Obama sat down with Steve Kroft from 60 Minutes Sunday night to discuss the political earthquake that occurred on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, ObamaCare was discussed as a source of voter discontent. The President acknowledged the political consequences of ramming the government takeover of health care down our throats. However, in a likely preview of what is to come should Mitt Romney win the GOP nomination, he drew comparisons between his health care legislation and the one conceived and enacted by the former Governor of Massachusetts. Politico reports: [...] Obama sought in the interview to explain many of his policy...
  • The despicable 'duty to die'

    05/15/2010 3:15:35 AM PDT · by Scanian · 23 replies · 660+ views
    NY Post ^ | May 15, 2010 | Thomas Sowell
    One fashionable notion among some of the intel ligentsia is that old peo ple have "a duty to die," rather than become a burden to others. This is more than just an idea discussed around a seminar table. Already Britain's government-run medical system is restricting what medications or treatments it will authorize for the elderly. It seems almost certain that similar attempts to contain runaway costs will lead to similar policies when US medical care is taken over by the government. Make no mistake: Letting old people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to...
  • Obama’s Can’t Fail Way to Cut Healthcare Spending - Deny Services to Seniors

    05/13/2010 9:32:10 AM PDT · by Nachum · 10 replies · 529+ views
    canada free press ^ | 5/13/10 | Fred Dardick
    Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) … remember the name. Sometime in the not so distant future, these are the people who will decide whether or not you qualify for knee replacement surgery, or if your expected lifespan is too short for that expensive heart medication, or you’re as good as dead, so why don’t you forget about chemo?
  • Obama on the brink of a health care reinvention (More crAP from AP)

    03/21/2010 1:18:53 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies · 503+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/21/10 | Calvin Woodward - ap
    WASHINGTON – Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment now seems near. After a year of riotous argument, decades of failure and a century of spoiled hopes, the United States is reaching for a system of medical care that extends coverage nearly to all citizens. The change that's coming, if Sunday's tussle in the House goes President Barack Obama's way, would reshape a sixth of the economy and shatter the status quo. To the ardent...
  • Obama to spell out new healthcare plan

    02/19/2010 4:17:13 PM PST · by NoExpectations · 80 replies · 3,400+ views
    Reuters ^ | 2/19/10 | Donna Smith
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday. The administration's bill will aim to jump-start the stalled healthcare overhaul and comes just days ahead of a planned televised White House summit with congressional Republicans, who are calling on Democrats to scrap the bills and start over with a far less sweeping proposal. Democrats are struggling to push healthcare legislation over the finish line in the face...
  • Why Dems Are Obsessed by Health Reform

    12/05/2009 6:11:49 PM PST · by GOP_Lady · 38 replies · 1,984+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 12-05-10 | John Fund
    They believe the liberal base expects them to deliver and will punish them if they don't. Voters are increasingly worried about unemployment, but Democratic leaders in Congress remain obsessed with passing health- care reform. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin was asked recently if a health-care bill would pass the Senate by the end of this month. "It must," he said. "We have to finish it." Still, many in the trenches are uneasy about the sprawling, complex bill they privately acknowledge has no bipartisan support, doesn't seriously tackle soaring costs and will increase insurance premiums. That may explain Majority Leader Harry...