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Was Canada’s health care the problem?
Post Date: 2009-08-19 11:26:25 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Could actress Natasha Richardson’s tragic death have been prevented if her skiing accident had occurred in America rather than Canada? This is a legitimate question because of how Canadian and American medical care differ. Canadian health care de-emphasizes widespread dissemination of technology like CT scanners and quick access to specialists like neurosurgeons. While all the facts of Richardson’s medical care haven’t been released, enough is known to pose questions with profound implications for both countries. Richardson died of an epidural hematoma, a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure ...
Canada's health care system has its problems
Post Date: 2009-08-19 11:21:22 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The Health Council of Canada recently published a report in which they reiterated Canada’s universal, publicly funded health care system is widely viewed as an essential part of a social safety net and a reflection of Canadians’ core values. But they also found that the cost of the system is a constant concern, and many fear that public health care is unsustainable. Negative discussion about health care in Canada tends to focus on a persistent set of problems: access, wait times, and shortages of health care providers. This has been the case in times of good economy and during economic crisis. The 10th annual Health Care in Canada survey confirms that wait times and the shortage ...
Our health system is broken, but few care (Canadian health care system)
Post Date: 2009-08-19 11:13:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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CMA president's call for reforms have fallen on deaf ears, and it's time we all listened Dr. Robert Ouellet and U.S. President Barack Obama have something in common. Both are urging fundamental reform in the way their countries approach health care, and both are getting strong resistance from those who favour the status quo. The president of the Canadian Medical Association has spent most of the last year trying to interject some common sense into Canadian health care. Unfortunately, Canadians prefer to keep plugging along just as they have in the past, despite mounting evidence that our system is inefficient and doesn't serve patients nearly as well as it should for the ...
The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care
Post Date: 2009-08-19 11:10:25 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care David Gratzer Socialized medicine has meant rationed care and lack of innovation. Small wonder Canadians are looking to the market. Mountain-bike enthusiast Suzanne Aucoin had to fight more than her Stage IV colon cancer. Her doctor suggested Erbitux—a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast-growing cells in the body—and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment. But if Erbitux offered hope, Aucoin’s insurance didn’t: she received one inscrutable form letter after another, rejecting her claim for reimbursement. Yet another example of the ...
Wheels Coming Off the Obama Agenda
Post Date: 2009-08-19 07:47:39 by Eric Stratton
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Wheels Coming Off the Obama Agenda Donald Lambro WASHINGTON -- The gutsy admonition that "failure is not an option" has turned into the "failed public option" in President Obama's trouble-plagued, government-run health care plan. The idea of the federal government operating another health-insurance business to compete with Blue Cross/Blue Shield and hundreds of other private plans has crashed and burned -- the victim of a massive grassroots protest movement and deepening fears and divisions among Democratic lawmakers. The White House gave Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the go-ahead Sunday to suggest that the administration was not ...
Canadian health care hardly a Marxism threat
Post Date: 2009-08-19 07:03:06 by wudidiz
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Canadian health care hardly a Marxism threat By Naomi Lakritz, Calgary HeraldJuly 24, 2009 Sheesh! To hear the extremist rhetoric floating around south of the border, you'd think Canada's public health-care system was the socialist demon incarnate, hatched directly from the fevered imaginations of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels themselves. Cool it, America. Your health-care system is nothing to write home about, with some 46 million people sans insurance, with your managed care and gatekeepers, your doctors wasting time filling out insurance forms, and your insurance companies dreaming up ways to avoid paying out to people who faithfully paid their premiums for years. ...
The Misinformation About the Canadian Health Care System
Post Date: 2009-08-19 06:46:29 by wudidiz
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The Misinformation About the Canadian Health Care System For the past few days I have watched misinformation being bantered about in reference to the Canadian Health Care System. This article is not intended to sway anyone in the US on either side of the issue, but rather to set the record straight, as I see it. The Republicans claim that the Obama Administration is trying to introduce a Canadian Style Health Care System. There are ads that claims that there are lotteries for doctors, long waiting lists, and the control over drugs that can be used. While this may be true in some jurisdictions, I don't believe it to be true as a carde blanche rule. In some cases, where drug plans are ...
Genome-based health care coming
Post Date: 2009-08-19 05:19:09 by Tatarewicz
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American medicine is expected to move from "one size fits all" to much more personalized, genome-based health care with President Obama's appointment of Francis Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Collins headed the Human Genome mapping Project and has long been championing the use of genome knowledge to accelerate personalized medicine. Many drugs that worked for some people had to be pulled off the market because they were unsafe for others whose genetic makeup wouldn't tolerate them. Due to small differences in gene DNA arrangement in individuals the proteins coded for come out different and may not respond as required by certain drugs. Once such ...
Whose Medical Decisions?
Post Date: 2009-08-19 05:08:45 by beyond the sea
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Whose Medical Decisions? Concerns about bureaucrats deciding who get to receive medical care didn’t “arise from nowhere.” **** There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first six months of a new administration. The fact that they got away with it before — with the “stimulus” bill — may have led them to believe that they could get away with it again. But the first bill simply spent hundreds of billions of dollars. The current “health care” bill threatens to take life-and-death decisions out of the ...
Swine Flu Shots May Be Too Little, Too Late to Halt Outbreaks
Post Date: 2009-08-19 02:13:58 by TwentyTwelve
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Swine Flu Shots May Be Too Little, Too Late to Halt Outbreaks By Tom Randall Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu vaccines under development by drugmakers may not provide immunity until the last week of November, too late to hold off outbreaks triggered by infected students returning to schools in the U.S. and Europe. Just 45 million of 195 million doses ordered for the U.S. will be delivered by mid-October, said health officials who lowered their estimates yesterday. The vaccine will probably require two shots given three weeks apart, and the body won’t produce antibodies for two additional weeks, according to an Aug. 7 report by the Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. ...
Microbes suspected in mental, heart and other diseases
Post Date: 2009-08-18 09:02:20 by Tatarewicz
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Just as H pylori was found to cause stomach ulcers other bacteria are being associated with stroke and heart disease (chlamydia pneumoniae), Chrohn's (mycobacterium paratuberculosis) and Obsessive Compulsive disorder from sore-throat - streptococci which brings on antibodies which then home in on the brain causing changes in behavior. In the case of viruses, the infectious XMRV has been linked to prostate cancer, flu and herpes put pregnant women at greater risk for schizophrenia, Epstein-Barr linked to MS, enterovirus linked to diabetes and Herpes Simplex, the cold sore virus is a major cause of protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. The transmissible, upper ...
Beer May Strengthen Bones, Study Finds (Finially Some Good News)
Post Date: 2009-08-17 19:05:38 by tom007
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Beer May Strengthen Bones, Study Finds Thursday, August 13, 2009 * Print * ShareThis Here’s another reason to have a beer – a recent study suggests that females who drink beer on a regular basis are less likely to suffer from osteoporosis, London’s Daily Telegraph reported. The medical journal Nutrition says that beer has a high level of silicon, which slows down the thinning that leads to broken bones and helps form new ones. Beer also has phytoestrogens, which are also good for keeping bones healthy and strong. Scientists asked more than 1,000 women in their 40s about their drinking habits. They then scanned the women’s hands, and found the women who drank beer ...
Commentary: How insurance firms drive debate OR Are You Being Used?
Post Date: 2009-08-17 17:59:25 by tom007
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* Commentary: How insurance firms drive debate * Wendell Potter: In my former job, I helped shape public opinion on health care * He says insurance companies quietly seek to counter reform measures * Potter: Industry worked to kill the Clinton health reform plan * He says he didn't want to be part of another effort to kill a health care plan updated 11:16 a.m. EDT, Mon August 17, 2009 * Next Article in Politics » * Read * VIDEO By Wendell Potter Special to CNN Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font Editor's note: Wendell Potter has served since May 2009 as senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit organization that ...
Obama's Health Care Plan and the People Who Oppose It
Post Date: 2009-08-16 18:38:30 by tom007
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White House appears ready to drop 'public option'
Post Date: 2009-08-16 14:55:23 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON – Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system. Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run plan. Such a concession probably would enrage Obama's liberal supporters but could deliver a much-needed victory on a top domestic priority opposed by GOP lawmakers. Officials from both political parties reached across the aisle in an effort to find ...
Refuse and Resist Mandatory Flu Vaccines
Post Date: 2009-08-16 12:26:09 by christine
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QUESTION: What is the difference between a needle shot in your arm and a bullet shot through your brain? ANSWER: With a bullet shot through your brain, your death will be quick and painless. With a needle shot in your arm, your death will be slow, painful, and very profitable for drug companies. More people have died from the vaccination than from swine flu. Polio vaccine was contaminated with cancer causing SV40 monkey virus Cancer-causing monkey SV40 virus contaminated POLIO vaccine www.vaccinetruth.org/page_13.htm Eventually, sixty different labs confirmed the results. Polio Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer Given to Millions of Americans www.prisonplanet.com/arti...20100 ...
Which Foods Contain the Most Antioxidants?
Post Date: 2009-08-16 03:46:41 by wudidiz
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Which Foods Contain the Most Antioxidants? By Dr. Ben Kim on February 16, 2005 Healthy Eating Resources One of the most important steps you can take to prevent heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease is to eat plenty of antioxidant-rich foods. As discussed in a previous article on free radicals, antioxidants protect your health by preventing and repairing damage caused to your cells by excessive free radicals. Antioxidants are plentiful in plant foods, particularly those that have bright colours. As of May, 2005, the most comprehensive study of the antioxidant content of common foods that I know of was published in the June 2004 edition of the ...
Ron Paul on Healthcare Reform (CNN American Morning)
Post Date: 2009-08-15 19:02:56 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Show: CNN American Morning Channel: CNN Date: July 22, 2009 Transcript Kiran Chetry: Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. President Obama is getting ready to push his healthcare reform plan in prime time tonight. He’s hoping to win over the American people as well as members of Congress who are skeptical about the plan. Congressman Ron Paul who has been a very vocal critic and he’s with us this morning from Washington. Congressman Paul, it’s always great to have you with us. Ron Paul: Thank you. Kiran Chetry: I wish to point out that you’re a physician as well and I’m sure that you have a lot of thoughts on this issue as we debate healthcare and you ...
Comprehensive Health Care Act (Ron Paul)
Post Date: 2009-08-15 18:52:33 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Before the U.S. House of Representatives on August 2, 2007 Madame Speaker, America faces a crisis in health care. Health care costs continue to rise, leaving many Americans unable to afford health insurance, while those with health care coverage, and their physicians, struggle under the control of managed-care "gatekeepers." Obviously, fundamental health care reform should be one of Congress' top priorities. Unfortunately, most health care "reform" proposals either make marginal changes or exacerbate the problem. This is because they fail to address the root of the problem with health care, which is that government polices encourage excessive reliance on ...
Lowering the Cost of Health Care (Ron Paul)
Post Date: 2009-08-15 17:52:07 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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As a medical doctor, I’ve seen first-hand how bureaucratic red tape interferes with the doctor-patient relationship and drives costs higher. The current system of third-party payers takes decision-making away from doctors, leaving patients feeling rushed and worsening the quality of care. Yet health insurance premiums and drug costs keep rising. Clearly a new approach is needed. Congress needs to craft innovative legislation that makes health care more affordable without raising taxes or increasing the deficit. It also needs to repeal bad laws that keep health care costs higher than necessary. We should remember that HMOs did not arise because of free-market demand, but rather because ...
The GOP's Health-Care Alternative
Post Date: 2009-08-15 17:14:15 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Republican congressional leaders are finally offering a clear alternative to the health-reform plans being developed by the White House and Democrats in Congress. The goals and the rhetoric of both sides are remarkably similar: cover the uninsured, allow people to keep the coverage they have, provide more choices of affordable health insurance, and rein in health costs. But their policy prescriptions are remarkably different. Democrats are uniting around proposals to vastly expand federal regulation of health insurance, require everyone to have coverage, and compel employers to provide federally prescribed insurance or pay a new tax. A new Medicare-like insurance plan is still being ...
A new superbug found in Britain is major concern: Government scientists
Post Date: 2009-08-15 15:34:42 by DeaconBenjamin
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A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad, Government scientists said. Doctors are urged to be vigilent for a new bug that has arriving in Britain with patients who have travelled to India and Pakistan for cosmetic surgery or organ transplants and is now circulating here. So far there have been 22 cases in 17 hospitals Britain and the Health Protection Agency has said its emergence here is a 'major concern'. The HPA has found the enzyme that destroys antibiotics in patients with infections caused by E.coli and other bacteria. The enzyme, called New Delhi Metallo-1, has so far been found attached to ...
'Right-Wing Turncoat' Frank Schaeffer: Repub Healthcare Mobs Industry-Sponsored, 'Full Blown American Version of the Nazi Brown Shirts'
Post Date: 2009-08-15 09:44:23 by tom007
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'Right-Wing Turncoat' Frank Schaeffer: Repub Healthcare Mobs Industry-Sponsored, 'Full Blown American Version of the Nazi Brown Shirts' Says same 'protest' mechanisms, tactics he and his father developed, used on abortion providers like the now-murdered Dr. Tiller... Devastating. From someone who knows these tactics well. And, if the corporate media wasn't under an almost complete stranglehold, such an op-ed from someone like Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back, might actually make a difference. He says the Republican/industry-run health ...
Glen Beck's Wisdom on the Health Care Issue
Post Date: 2009-08-15 09:40:30 by tom007
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Would the Real Health Care Bill Please Stand Up?
Post Date: 2009-08-14 21:25:01 by farmfriend
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Would the Real Health Care Bill Please Stand Up? Written by Art Thompson Friday, 14 August 2009 15:56 Watching the debate on the health care package currently before the Congress reminds me of one of the old television programs in the 1960s, “To Tell the Truth.” The basic premise of the show was a panel of distinguished New York personalities would ask questions to see if some invited guests could guess the real person whose background was described by the announcer. If the panel could not identify the person, the question was asked, “Would the Real (Person) Please Stand Up?” We are reminded of this show due to the debate going on over the health care bills, trying ...
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