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  • 'She Should Be Here': Nova Scotia Family Says Loved One Died Shortly After Leaving Busy ER

    01/13/2023 11:38:24 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    CTV News ^ | Jan. 12, 2023 | Andrea Jerrett, Kyle Moore
    Another Nova Scotia family is speaking out about the death of a loved one following a lengthy wait at an emergency department -- and they’ve created a website where others can share their own stories. Katherine Snow says her mother-in-law, Charlene Snow, died suddenly at home on Dec. 30, 2022, after she waited seven hours in the ER at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital. “I’m mad. I’m angry,” says Snow, who lives in Donkin, N.S. “She should be here.” Snow says her 67-year-old mother-in-law had jaw pain and flu-like symptoms. She was triaged, but eventually gave up after being told...
  • The Roberts Trap Is Sprung

    01/03/2014 4:49:02 PM PST · by Kaslin · 203 replies
    American Thinker ^ | January 2, 2014 | Bill Dunne
    One of the most overlooked aspects of the year just ended is the vindication of Chief Justice John Roberts -- a vindication that showed up as the national catastrophe known as ObamaCare got rolling. Roberts may have also doomed Hillary Clinton's chance to live in the White House again. The chief justice, an appointee of President George W. Bush and reputedly a constitutionalist in his jurisprudence, set his diabolical trap (diabolical to Democrats) on June 28, 2012, when he joined with the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Conservatives and Republicans across the...
  • Minnesota resurrects California’s failed single-payer health care bill: Not even the California Democrats were crazy enough to fall for this

    02/09/2022 9:07:20 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/09/2022 | Matt Dean
    Rep. Cedrick Frazier (D-MN) is giving single-payer health care advocates new hope in Minnesota after California’s $400 billion single-payer bill died in early February. Although Frazier’s bill has not yet been scored by Minnesota fiscal analysts, assuming California’s $10,000 per-person cost, and $163 billion tax increase were cast proportionally across 5.7 million Minnesotans, it would create a $23.2 billion per year tax increase and more than double Minnesota’s entire budget. And that’s only part of the problem.Frazier’s proposal would replace private health insurance in Minnesota with an unelected board to “cover all necessary care, including dental, vision and hearing, mental...
  • Universal Health Care Bill Fails to Pass in California

    01/31/2022 8:04:53 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    SFgate ^ | Jan. 31, 2022 | Adam Beam
    A bill that would have created the nation's only government-funded universal health care system died in the California Assembly on Monday as Democrats could not gather enough support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline. The bill had to pass by midnight on Monday to have a chance at becoming law this year. Democrats needed 41 votes for that to happen, a threshold that did not seem impossible given that they control 56 of the 80 seats in the state Assembly and universal health care has long been a priority for the party. But intense lobbying...
  • California weighing proposal that could double its taxes

    01/17/2022 9:49:38 PM PST · by lowbridge · 33 replies
    foxbusiness.com ^ | January 17, 2022 | Megan Henney
    California lawmakers unveiled a new bill at the beginning of the year that would establish a single-payer health care system – an ambitious plan that would be funded by nearly doubling the state's already-high taxes. A new analysis from the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan group that generally advocates for lower taxes, found that the proposed constitutional amendment would increase taxes by roughly $12,250 per household in order to fund the first-of-its-kind health care system. In all, the tax increases are designed to raise an additional $163 billion per year, which is more than California raised in total tax revenue any...
  • Post Pandemic Health Systems Could Be Challenged by COVID 19 Spending Spike: CIHI

    11/04/2021 12:29:39 PM PDT · by lightman · 2 replies
    A spike in health-care spending during the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to some serious financial challenges for provinces as they work to rebuild their health systems in the aftermath, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The spending surge is expected to reach a record $308 billion in 2021, say newly released projections from CIHI. That is roughly $8,019 per Canadian. “COVID-19 resulted in the single biggest increase in health spending we have ever seen in this country,” said CIHI president David O’Toole in a news release. Health spending is projected to have increased 12.8 percent between 2019 and...
  • ‘Build Back Better’ Plan Puts in Place a Government Option and Sets a Path to Single-Payer

    10/07/2021 9:29:01 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 11 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | October 5, 2021 | Nina Owcharenko Schaefer
    As negotiations over the staggering $3.4 trillion “Build Back Better” plan price tag continue to raise concern, the health policy agenda put forth in the plan is equally alarming. At first glance, some might argue the Build Back Better plan takes a more modest approach on health care by avoiding the inclusion of a full-blown, government-run, single-payer proposal. Yet, the various health care provisions in the proposal taken collectively expose an agenda to use a public option to pave the way to single-payer health care. Instead of “Medicare for All,” a congressional proposal to outlaw private insurance and put everyone...
  • NY state senator: Single-payer healthcare bill has the votes needed to pass

    06/08/2021 8:13:23 AM PDT · by Erik Latranyi · 33 replies
    MSN ^ | 8 June 2021 | Joseph Choi
    New York state Sen. Jabari Brisport (D) on Monday said that a bill for single-payer health care in New York has the support needed to pass and override any potential vetoes from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). "This is legislation that's been introduced time and time again since 1992. This is the first time ever in nearly 30 years that we have a majority of co-sponsors on the legislation in both the New York State Assembly and the State Senate. So we have majority support in both houses and we just need to vote on it," Brisport said while appearing on...
  • New single-payer bill intensifies Newsom's political peril (Calcare)

    02/21/2021 7:34:01 AM PST · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Health Leaders Media ^ | 2/19/21 | Angela Hart, Rachel Bluth
    SACRAMENTO - A group of Democratic state lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to create a single-payer health care system to cover all Californians, immediately defining the biggest health policy debate of the year and putting enormous political pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Democratic governor faces the increasingly likely prospect of a Republican-driven recall election later this year. The single-payer bill adds to his political peril from the left if he doesn’t express support, and from the right if he does. State Assembly member Ash Kalra, author of AB 1400, said the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a broken health care system...
  • CBO: If Democrats Push Socialized Medicine, Get Ready For Rationing

    02/05/2021 8:30:16 AM PST · by Kaslin · 24 replies
    The Federalist ^ | February 5, 2021 | Christpher Jacobs
    CBO’s work provides important context about Democratic health-care proposals, including the end goal for most on the left: a full government takeover of health care.Amidst all the pre-holiday jockeying over an economic “stimulus” package, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a little-noticed report with big implications. More than 18 months after CBO issued a publication on single-payer health care with very little specificity, last month the budget analysts published a 200-plus page report giving more detail about the potential impact of a move to a government-run health system.Joe Biden claims his administration will not implement a single-payer plan, even though...
  • How Democrats Would Make Hospitals’ Corona Cash Crunch Worse

    04/17/2020 6:53:13 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    The Federalist ^ | April 17, 2020 | Christopher Jacobs
    The types of financial shocks hospitals currently face illustrate the problems inherent in Democrats’ proposed expansions of government-run health care. The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted such vast damage on the American economy that one damaged sector has gone relatively unnoticed. Despite incurring a massive influx of new patients, the hospital industry faces what one executive called a “seismic financial shock” from the virus. The types of shocks hospitals currently face also illustrate the problems inherent in Democrats’ proposed expansions of government-run health care. Likewise, the pay and benefit cuts and furloughs that some hospitals have enacted in response to these...
  • Coronavirus update: Italy reports almost 800 deaths, Russian army to send military help

    03/23/2020 7:24:11 AM PDT · by NorseViking · 2 replies
    FXStreet ^ | March 22, 2020 | Dhwani Mehta
    Italy, the world’s worst-affect country by the coronavirus pandemic, reported a massive jump in the number of deaths that rose by 793 to 4,825 on Saturday, marking it the largest one-day rise since the contagion spilled over into the European economy. The Civil Protection Agency said that confirmed cases rose to 53,578 from 47,021, There were 2,857 people in intensive care, up from 2,655. Lombardy, the northern Italian region around Milan, remains in a critical situation, with 3,095 deaths and 25,515 cases. In this dire situation, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday, President Putin has ordered the Russian military to...
  • Coronavirus Response from CDC Is an Omen for Single-Payer Healthcare Shortages for All

    03/18/2020 11:45:29 AM PDT · by Pining_4_TX · 15 replies
    The Independent Institute ^ | 03/11/20 | Greg Eyermann
    The CDC and its response to coronavirus has provided Americans with a small taste of what life under a government-run, single-payer healthcare system would be like, with the bureaucrats who make decisions that have life-or-death impacts reigning supreme in regard to what care will be provided and who will be allowed to get treatment. Who wants more?
  • 'Every Single Individual Must Stay Home': Italy's Coronavirus Death Pass China's

    03/19/2020 1:33:39 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    NPR ^ | 03/19/2020 | Sylvia Pogiolloi
    Daniela De Rosa, a 43-year-old veterinarian in Italy's southwest Campania region, made a video message over the weekend as she was hospitalized with COVID-19. Her video plea has gathered much attention in Italy, which has just surpassed China in the number of reported deaths from the new coronavirus. "I've been in isolation in a hospital room for so many days I've lost count," she says. "I have no contact with anyone other than doctors twice a day." "Very few people understand what's happening. I want people to see I'm suffering," De Rosa continues. "Every single individual must stay home and...
  • Coronavirus - why Italy?

    03/15/2020 9:45:42 AM PDT · by Riflema · 59 replies
    AltNewsMedia ^ | 3/12/20 | Unknown
    As the impact of the Corona Virus (Covid-19) continues to grow, nowhere in Europe has been more affected than Italy, and in particular northern Italy. With a complete lockdown announced by the Italian Government, everyday life for Italians has ground to a halt as the rise in cases of Wuhan-Flu continues. This has raised the question of why Italy has suffered more than other countries to date? AltNewsMedia has a theory as to what may lie behind this. Many Italians in Northern Italy have sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China. Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese workers from...
  • Elderly Will Be Denied Intensive Care as Coronavirus Overwhelms Italy's National Health System, Experts Warn

    03/12/2020 1:17:57 PM PDT · by Erik Latranyi · 76 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 12 March 2020 | Paula Bolyard
    Health officials in Italy have issued guidelines for rationing care as hospitals there struggle to keep up with the surge of patients infected with the coronavirus. Doctors are being told that they'll likely need to deny care to senior citizens and those with other health conditions as the virus explodes across the nation. Italy has been rocked by the still not-well-understood COVID-29, with more than 1,200 confirmed cases and 827 deaths—second only to China—and 16 million residents currently under quarantine. An article published by the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (translated here by Yascha Mounk) warns...
  • BIRTH OF A VIRUS … (Excellent article)

    02/29/2020 8:04:07 AM PST · by xzins · 81 replies
    Reggie Hamm ^ | FEBRUARY 27, 2020 | Reggie Hamm
    As I watched my neighbor put her dog’s poop in a single-use plastic baggy, I thought about split pants in China. When my wife and I got off the plane, 18 years ago, to adopt our first daughter, we were taken aback by the split pants. Split pants are (or at least were, back then) pants the children wear that are open in the crotch area. That allows them to urinate or defecate unobstructed, onto the street or wherever they may be. The theory is that eventually they will learn to “aim it at the toilet” or something to that...
  • The Healthcare Single Payer In Utah That Republicans Love

    01/29/2020 5:17:27 PM PST · by MAGAlady · 11 replies
    CD Media ^ | 01/29/2020 | L Todd Wood
    Republicans love to wail and gnash their teeth at the concept of a single payer for healthcare. And they should — the U.S. government would certainly destroy the quality of our medicine and shorten lives. The miracle of American healthcare today would be long gone with the creation a vertically integrated system run by Uncle Sam. As Ronald Reagan used to joke, the scariest words in the English language are, ‘We’re the government and we’re here to help’. However, hypocrisy is not something to be lost on any politician. So, it does not come as a surprise that the GOP...
  • Video Emerges of Nancy Pelosi Backing Single-Payer Health Care in 1993

    11/04/2019 6:41:10 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11.04.2019 | Joel B Pollak
    Video from 1993 has re-emerged showing Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) backing single-payer, government-run health care — though the current Speaker of the House claims to oppose that policy today. Pelosi told a news conference: “I remain a staunch and ardent supporter of the McDermott-Conyers bill.” She was referring to H.R. 1200 of the 103rd Congress, the “American Health Security Act of 1993,” which proposed a “single-payer,” government-run health insurance system.
  • Buttigieg: Warren Is ‘Extremely Evasive’ on Whether Medicare for All Will Raise Taxes

    09/20/2019 6:24:56 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/19/2019 | Ian Hanchett
    On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” 2020 presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) stated that fellow 2020 candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been “extremely evasive” on whether her Medicare for all plan will raise taxes for the middle class. Buttigieg said, “Senator Warren is known for being straightforward, and was extremely evasive when asked that question, and we’ve seen that repeatedly. I think that if you are proud of your plan and it’s the right plan, you should defend it in straightforward terms. And I think it’s puzzling that when everybody knows the answer to that...