Category: Health

Jaw, Jaw and Bromides: Obama’s State of His Next Campaign for President Address

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I sat through President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Address last night. During the event I live Tweeted the whole thing (You can read that all at http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston) and ended up with an empty feeling and a headache. Obama’s address was long on calls for spending, filled with bromides, and weighted with jaw, jaw […]

 

Gabrielle Giffords and ObamaCare

Posted on by Dave Blount

Best wishes for Gabrielle Giffords’s continued recovery. American medicine certainly can work miracles. It’s a good thing she’s a member of Congress, and not a normal pleb under ObamaCare. Jeffrey Lord asks: If Gabrielle Giffords were not part of the governing elite — the Ruling Class — with this serious of a wound, a gunshot […]

 

Sting Operation Nabs Psychotherapist Who Tried to Cure Disease Instead of Encouraging It

Posted on by Dave Blount

We have sting operations to enforce laws against terrorism, why not have them to enforce the laws imposing the homosexualization of our culture? They’re already underway in formerly Great Britain, the canary in the coalmine of authoritarian moonbat degeneracy: In yet another instance of the growing conflict between believing Christian professionals and the homosexualist movement […]

 

Wacky Sheila Jackson Lee: Repealing ObamaCare Violates The Constitution

Posted on by William Teach

It’s so simple: including a mandate that requires someone to buy health insurance based on a Constitutional clause giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, which means someone had actually purchased something, but, they haven’t purchased it yet, but, you will purchase it because the government says you have to purchase it, so, because […]

 

Paul Mason, Socialism Incarnate

Posted on by Dave Blount

The nice thing about socialism is that no individual is responsible for his own behavior. That means that if you screw yourself up, it’s society’s fault — and you can sue taxpayers: A man who once weighed nearly 70 stone [980 pounds] is to launch legal action against the NHS [Britain’s socialized medicine monolith], claiming […]

 

Thousands of Dead Blackbirds and Fish in AR, KY,and LA Raise Questions About Gov’t Testing

Posted on by Jane Jamison

There is plenty of “chatter” in the “conspiracy world” about why 5,000 dead blackbirds fell from the sky on a one mile section of the town of Beebe, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve and why, just a few miles away, hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of the Arkansas River.

 

Republicans Plan ObamaCare Repeal Votes Before State Of The Union

Posted on by William Teach

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner pledges that the GOP “Pledge To America” will not become a worthless piece of paper, much as the “Contract with America” became. Things will change. He has already put out the new rules, and plans to take them seriously. We’ll see. And one thing we’ll see soon will be votes […]

 

Fox News’ Kirsten Powers Falsely Claims Bush Supported Earlier End-Of-Life Law

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the Sean Hannity Show on Fox News this week, Democrat Kirsten Powers offered some misinformed political analysis. Naturally, her analysis heavily favored the Obama administration’s goals. On the Dec. 27 show Powers insisted that inflamed talk about Obama’s “death panels” was nothing but a cynical spin meant to attack Obama because, she asserted, back […]

 

Happy New Year to your FSA and HSA from ObamaCare

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

While you were celebrating the new year ObamaCare made your Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts much less valuable.:  As of January 1st new restrictions on their use for over-the-counter medications, along with doubled penalties for paperwork screwups, will cause headaches for millions of Americans. And no, you can’t just buy an aspirin for […]

 

Obamacare: When Obama LIKES Imposing Higher Costs on ‘The Poor’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend George Scoville, who works for the CATO Institute, asked a question that really does go to show the left’s hypocrisy. This time the question reveals a “feature” of Obamacare that tends to expose hypocrisy so large that an ambulance could drive through it. (See how I said “ambulance” there to keep with the […]

 

Warner, that is quite rude of you to call the new monetary incentives to speed up end-of-life care ‘Death Panels’

Posted on by Doug Ross

More great news for seniors: the all-powerful Department of Health and Human Services will create monetary incentives for medical professionals to accelerate “end of life care”. …the White House will create incentives for doctors to discuss “options” for end of life care through regulation, after Congress removed the incentives from ObamaCare… Under the new policy, […]

 

President Gets Around Annoying Voters, Instills Death Panels By Regulation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of you may have missed this story since it was published on the day after Christmas (and a Sunday at that), but Obama’s death panels are back, this time via the president’s fiat regulatory powers. Since it was easy to have missed, I’ve decided to post the story today (Monday) so that more people […]

 

Obamonomy: Companies Look More Towards Temporary Jobs

Posted on by William Teach

The good news is, there are some jobs out there. The bad news is they are simply temporary/contractor positions Temporary workers are starting to look, well, not so temporary. Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor […]

 

No Cancer in Hinkley, California: Activist Hollywood Wrong AGAIN!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Proving once again that Hollywood always gravitates to the wrong causes, Tim Cavanaugh of Reason.com reported on Dec. 14 that the California town made famous by Erin Brokovich — an activism that Hollywood embraced with a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts — has proven not to have lived up to all the anti-corporate fearmongering […]

 

FDA: Dec. 17, Countdown to a Death Panel for Breast Cancer Drug Avastin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a few days the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to release its final decision on whether or not 17,000 women across the country will have the same access to the breast cancer drug Avastin that they now have. Several congressmen, thousands of doctors and patients, and many small government activists stand against […]

 

Punishing Moonbat Heresy II: Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard

Posted on by Dave Blount

After Galileo Galilei was forced by the authoritarian establishment of his time to renounce his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, he’s said to have said, “And yet it moves.” The modern equivalent would be, “And yet homosexuality spreads AIDS.” The new archbishop of Brussels, Andre-Joseph Leonard, is being targeted by homosexualist groups, […]

 

NY Times Shocked To Learn There Could Be Years Of Wrangling Over ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Seriously, around eight months ago, who would have thought there would be legal challenges to legislation that the majority of Americans hated overall, and found constitutional issues in? The Times is shocked, shocked, I tell you! By contradicting two prior opinions, Monday’s court ruling in Virginia against the Obama health care law highlighted both the […]

 

Obama Claims Power to Decide if Your Medicine is Too Expensive to be Allowed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s very easy for Obamacare supporters to scoff at the whole idea that there are “death panels” ensconced in Obama’s health care power grab. But the fact of the matter is that they exist in a defacto form. One of those defacto death panels is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an agency invented under […]

 

FDA Set To Cut Off 17,000 Women Annually From Lifesaving Drug

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to take up the case of Avastin, a cancer drug that successfully treats some 17,000 women annually. With a coming December 17 decision, the FDA seems poised to take this drug away from these patients quite despite the fact that their doctors find the drug effective. The […]

 

Teachers Union’s BIG Break: Obama Let’s Them Get Out of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the list was revealed of 111 corporations and unions that got a free pass to get out of having to suffer under Obamacare given them by their bought-and-paid-for president, we see that the teachers really got a break. With over 350,000 members, the United Federation of Teachers is one of the largest organizations on […]

 

Obamacare Forces Union to Drop Insurance for 6,000 Children

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how Obama said that if you liked your healthcare plan you could keep it? Apparently someone forgot to tell the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York because they’ve announced that Obamacare is forcing them to drop coverage for the children of its 30,000 low-wage members. The union will be dropping coverage for […]

 

If You Got Cancer From Smoking, That’s YOUR Problem

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The government’s newest great idea to save us all from ourselves is to put billboard sized photos of cancer victims on packs of cigarettes. Big pictures of guys with holes in their necks, lungs blackened, maybe even the occasional really yellow teeth, or perhaps the severely calloused thumb of a smoker who was constantly flicking […]