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Illinois: Beloved Doctor Benched For Not Being Proficient with Electronic Medical Records System

Posted on October 26, 2011October 27, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

A popular, longtime Doctor from central Illinois has been sidelined by employer Springfield-based Memorial Health System because he has not become proficient with the electronic medical records system, named EPIC Systems, that they purchased and implemented. Patients are so incensed that they’ve started a Facebook page as well as a blog to rally to his […]

Another California Tax Hike to Fund a Boondoggle Program

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

As a result of years of budget deficits and wasteful spending by the state legislature, California faces difficult budget challenges for the next ten years. This bad news is courtesy of a recent analysis of the state’s long-term debt obligations by state Treasurer Bill Lockyer (Download .pdf of Lockyer’s Report). The analysis adds to a […]

VIDEO: Rep. Joe Walsh Discusses Obamacare

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Joe Walsh appeared at a conference earlier this month and he was asked to address some of the troubles that this nation is going to suffer once Obamacare really kicks in. Walsh is 100% right about his contentions over this destructive Obamacare mess. Representative Walsh has already announced that he will run against Republican […]

Did a Big Dem Donor Turned Obama Medical Records Czar Hoodwink Members of Congress?

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Did Obama’s medical record czar, Judy Faulkner, hoodwink five members of Congress into pushing her own medical records company as the solution for the problem of electronic medical records for all government contracts? That’s what some wonder as Obama’s search for an electronic medical records solution evolves. In a likely earnest effort to bring jobs […]

Nancy Pelosi Says Republicans Want to Kill Women — But Who Are Really the Killers?

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Nancy Pelosi has a message for you: Republicans want to kill women. Yes, there it is, another fine example of the Democrat “new tone.” All one can say to that is, “Nancy, you ignorant slut.” (If you’ll excuse my channeling an SNL era Dan Aykroyd?) What’s all her hypocritical fury being directed at? The Protect […]

Why, Yes, HHS Does Want All Your Confidential Medical Records

Posted on September 27, 2011 by William Teach

As ObamaCare may be headed to the Supreme Court, we find out that (Washington Examiner) It’s been said a thousand times: Congress had to pass President Obama’s health care law in order to find out what’s in it. But, despite the repetitiveness, the level of shock from each new discovery never seems to recede. This […]

Obama Donor, Now Medical Records Czar Gets Little Gov’t Job BIG Gov’t Contracts

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Must be nice to be a member of the “in” crowd, the crowd of crony capitalists to whom President Obama has given so much of the taxpayer’s money. And not just money but positions of power in the government. Take, for instance, Obama’s newest czar, Judith Faulkner, recently named Obama medical records czar. She was […]

Socialized Medicine = Healthcare Rationing in Britain

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Dave Blount

Milton Friedman famously observed that if you put Big Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, within 5 years it would run a shortage of sand. What would happen if you let statist bureaucrats take over the healthcare system? Britain shows us: A survey of GPs [general practitioners] has found that many agree restrictions are […]

I Agree With the People Who Yelled “Yes,” We Should Let Him Die at the Debate

Posted on September 16, 2011September 18, 2011 by John Hawkins

There’s a lot of controversy over a question asked to Ron Paul at the Tea Party debate and the response yelled by a handful of audience members. Here it is…. BLITZER: …A healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, you know what? I’m not going to spend $200 […]

ObamaCare Increases Both Healthcare Costs and Number of Uninsured

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Dave Blount

There’s no guessing how much ObamaCare will end up costing in the long run, but it’s already clear that if not repealed before it becomes hopelessly entrenched, it will go down as one of the most expensive pieces of legislation in human history. The massive expense of a major new entitlement was justified by the […]

Big Donor to Democrats Appointed to Obamacare Policy Panel

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

We’ve seen it over and over with the Obama administration. All one need do to become a “czar” or get a plum appointment to yet another Obama regulatory board is to donate big money to Obama’s campaigns specifically or the Democrats in general. Now it’s happened again. The Washington Examiner’s Lachlan Markay reports that Judith […]

Obamacare Far, Far Worse Than Imagined

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

The Congressional Budget Office has said that only about 7% of employers will drop their own company-offered plans and enter the new government plans that Obamacare will feature when the crap hits the fan in 2014. This small percentage, though is likely untrue. More likely it will be somewhere around 30% — or higher — […]

Forcing People To Buy Health Insurance Shouldn’t Be Controversial, Says Obama

Posted on August 16, 2011August 16, 2011 by William Teach

Obama’s out on his big taxpayer funded bus trip, with two buses that cost around a million dollars a piece, not to mention the cost of all the chase cars, security, and whatnot, making speeches that look oddly like campaign stump speeches, as Byron York points out. Then we get this, via CNS News “Here’s […]

Obama DID Lie: Obamacare Now Paying for Illegal Immigrants

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Remember when South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson called out “You Lie!” when Obama claimed in his 2009 state of the union address that his Obamacare plan would never go to care for illegal aliens? Well, turns out Wilson was right. We now know that Obama did lie. His latest move has been to turn Obamacare […]

Food Fascists: Hot Dogs Are Just as Bad as Cigarettes

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dave Blount

You had to know the cigarette jihad was only the beginning. Now they want to take away arguably America’s most iconic food, hot dogs: Instead of grouping hot dogs with Mom and apple pie, a national medical group wants you to consider them as bad for your health as cigarettes. The Physicians Committee for Responsible […]

Today In Britain: Your Future Under Obamacare Tomorrow!

Posted on July 28, 2011July 28, 2011 by John Hawkins

The government rationing medical services to save money? If you listen to liberals, it’ll NEVER happen. Yet in Britain, where the government runs health care, you can see what our future looks like if Obamacare isn’t repealed. Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for “non-urgent” conditions as part of the drive to […]

Remember Those Death Panels David Brooks Said Were “Crazy?” Well…

Posted on July 18, 2011July 18, 2011 by John Hawkins

….this time, the New York Times “conservative” (ha, ha) dancing monkey, David Brooks is talking up saving health care money by cutting back on end-of-life care. This fiscal crisis is about many things, but one of them is our inability to face death – our willingness to spend our nation into bankruptcy to extend life […]

“114-Year-Old Attributes Longevity to Sheer Random Chance”

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Craig Newmark

One of the (many) common questions reporters ask that I’ve never understood is one addressed to people who’ve lived a very long time: “What’s the secret to living a long life?” Even as a semi-serious, kinda fun question, it makes absolutely no sense. How is a person supposed to know? Even if a better form […]

Shockingly, Yet Another ObamaCare Provision Raises Costs

Posted on July 15, 2011 by William Teach

Unlike Queen Nancy’s statement that “we’ll have to pass the bill to see what is in it,” we actually knew this little tidbit was in the bill prior to passage, and critics pretty much proclaimed that it would have a negative effect. And, guess what? It has Lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bipartisan […]

Mexican Government Helps Illegal Colonists Get Free Healthcare at Our Expense

Posted on July 7, 2011July 9, 2011 by Dave Blount

Mexico’s government may be corrupt and ineffective at controlling drug violence, but unlike ours it looks out for the best interests of its people. For example, it helps its illegal colonists to take advantage of free healthcare on our side of the border: Mexico’s government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers […]

No, John Adams Did Not Pass the First Obamacare Law

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Every few weeks for months now leftist bloggers have been happily touting the “fact” that our second president, John Adams, passed the first “national healthcare law” one that supposedly forced Americans to buy a form of healthcare. Unfortunately for them, this is simply untrue and comparing John Adams’ sailor’s relief act to Obamacare is misleading […]

Saddam Hussein Torture Doctor at Work in British Hospital

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dave Blount

Under socialized medicine, there is little incentive to become a doctor. Fortunately, Britain’s liberal immigration policies allow them to be imported from abroad: A doctor involved in horrific torture by Saddam Hussein’s henchmen is working in British hospitals. In an astonishing immigration scandal, border officials have allowed the suspected war criminal to treat thousands of […]

On the Road to Totalitarianism With the Sixth Circuit

Posted on July 4, 2011July 6, 2011 by Doug Ross

Last week’s decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare, which was handed down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, is troubling on many fronts. Two of the three judges asserted that Congress has the authority under the Commerce Clause to compel individuals’ behavior by dint of their mere existence. A requirement that citizens purchase a […]

Team Obama Recruits People To “Mystery Shop” Doctors

Posted on June 27, 2011 by William Teach

I wonder if they will ask the question “has the threat of ObamaCare made you turn away patients with Exchange insurance?” Of course, since only about 5 people have signed up through the Exchange, I guess that question wouldn’t be meaningful. How about “do you plan on continuing your practice once ObamaCare takes full affect?” […]

Nanny State to Impose Oversized Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dave Blount

In an appalling example of its increasing heavy-handedness, the Nanny State will be imposing revolting graphic propaganda images on cigarette packaging starting in October of next year: The new labels must occupy the top half of the front and back of a cigarette pack, and the various images will be accompanied by messages such as […]

Dems Plan Proves Medicare Dead by 2024

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Congressman Peter Roskam, House GOP Deputy Majority Whip, got on record the fact that as things stand right now Medicare is dead by 2024. No ifs, ands, or buts, unless a major overhaul of the system is undertaken, Medicare is done in a little more than a decade. Before congress two officials testified that based […]

Video Interview: Eric O’Keefe and Getting Rid Of Obamacare With The Health Care Compact

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will sink this country if it is ever allowed to come into full operation. So says Eric O’Keefe, Chairman of Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based, free market organization, and chief advocate for the Health Care Compact, an effort that can replace Obamacare and give us a truly American way to address our healthcare problems. […]

Death Without Dignity in Socialist Hospital

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Dave Blount

As Big Government consolidates control of the healthcare industry under ObamaCare, we will come to know first-hand what the term “socialized medicine” means. In the meantime, we can just look over the border to Canada, or across the sea to England, where this picture was taken: Background on the photo: Nurses casually stepped over a […]

Healthcare: Let The States Decide

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

The debate about healthcare coming from the Democrats is steeped in purposeful misdirection on one hand and a complete lack of any real knowledge about what Obamacare will even do on the other. It is also a major overreach on a federalism level which is why it is hard to understand why more people aren’t […]

Big Government Comes Out of the Closet at Federal LGBT Youth Summit

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave Blount

Once again our rulers confirm that encouraging homosexuality is a major aspect of the liberal agenda: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at the first “Federal LGBT Youth Summit” on Monday after being introduced by a homosexual on her staff, who said the secretary “gets us” and is “tireless” in her support of […]