New Healthcare Screening Question: What's Your Worth In Gold And Silver Coinage?

New big-nanny-state government wants to know your worth in gold and silver coinage in healthcare bill...remember Pelosi, "We have to pass the bill before we can see what's in it..." Makes one think that some "healthcare patients" will be more "equal" than others...

Ben Chandler's Congressional Office Anti-Oganda Obamacare Vigil

"THE PUBLIC OPTION" Explained in 40 Seconds

Government Health Air

A Laptop and Some Free Time

I'm Not A President, But I Play One on TV

Operation Make Em' Apologize for Obama-Health-Rationing Bill

Okay people there's a lesson to be learned here. It's more uncomfortable for legislators and their staff to spout their talking points when they have to do it in front of a live town hall and not from their cushy office. Know of a town hall meeting with your elected representation? Show up and demand they apologize for even bringing this up for debate.

Outright Rebellion in Missouri

Single Payer Restaurant

Doctor Shortages. Weeehoooo. This Is Going to be Fun.

Hamilton's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was full when Ava Isabella Stinson was born 14 weeks premature at St. Joseph's Hospital Thursday at 12:24 p.m.

A provincewide search for an open NICU bed came up empty, leaving no choice but to send the two-pound, four-ounce preemie to Buffalo that evening.

Well, it would be unreasonable to expect Hamilton, a city of half-a-million people just down the road from Canada's largest city (Greater Toronto Area, five-and-a-half million) in the most densely populated part of Canada's most populous province (Ontario, 13 million people) to be able to offer the same level of neonatal care as Buffalo, a post-industrial ruin in steep population decline for half-a-century. ~Mark Steyn

Let's Ration Our Healthcare!! Take a Number Please!

Healthcare Utopia in Britain Guilty of Murder

This is from Britain, but it's coming to the U.S. people. It's already in the "Porkulus" spending bill that's before the Senate. Government managed, run and provided healthcare. The same service you get at the BMV. Take a number.

Be afraid, be very afraid...

"The Wallers said they called the hospital on Nov. 28 but was told Sophie could not be readmitted. Instead they were told to contact a community child psychologist who had been assigned to the case, and the psychologist told them not to worry. Sophie's parents said they talked to their regular family doctor once over the phone, but no medical practitioner ever saw the child.

“No one saw her after she was discharged from hospital. I told [the child psychologist] she was sucking on a watermelon, she told me that was enough for her to survive on," Janet Waller said. 'I asked her to come round and see her but she kept saying there is nothing to worry about and I'll come next week.” "This could have easily been avoided, if we could have just gone to the hospital," Sophie's father said."

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Canada's Health "Authority"

Ahhh. Healthcare utopia and socialized medicine. Can't wait until B. Hussein Obama and the Dems bring it to the U.S.

"He died of an infection. Robert Sinclair told CBC News he can't understand how his cousin could sit in the hospital for such a long time without being noticed. "He's my blood," Robert Sinclair said. "I don't like to see any of my blood relatives die for no reason and I believe that.… It was for no reason. The guy sat there for 34 hours..."

"Brian Sinclair, a 45-year-old...Bradley Sinclair, a brother, said he has also waited in the emergency room for long periods while seeking care. "I waited, waited, waited with people that were there. They waited long times to see a doctor. That's what happens there," Bradley Sinclair said...Brian Sinclair could have been saved by a catheter change and a course of antibiotics."

Quoted from CBC News

A Level of Hell Reserved for Lane County Oregon's Healthcare Utopians

From Foxnews.com

PORTLAND, Ore. — Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a "chilling" corruption of medical ethics.

Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon's state-run health plan for help.

Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup's request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup's pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.
"It dropped my chin to the floor," Stroup told FOX News. "[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?"


The letter, which has been sent to other terminal patients throughout Oregon, follows guidelines established by the state legislature. Oregon doesn't cover life-prolonging treatment unless there is better than a 5 percent chance it will help the patients live for five more years — but it covers doctor-assisted suicide, defining it as a means of providing comfort, no different from hospice care or pain medication.

"It's chilling when you think about it," said Dr. William Toffler, a professor of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. "It absolutely conveys to the patient that continued living isn't worthwhile."

In issuing their latest Prioritized List of Health Services, state officials reported a new emphasis on preventive care and cost effectiveness. Dr. John Sattenspiel, LIPA's senior medical director, defended the measures.

"I have had patients who would consider knowing that this is part of that range of comfort care or palliative care services that are still available to them, they would be comforted by that," Sattenspiel said. "It really depends on the individual patient."

Toffler called it a callous practice that went against medical convention. "It corrupts the consistent medical ethic that has been in place for 2,000 years," he said. "It's absolutely breathtaking."

Oregon is the only state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, which came into effect in 1997. Since that time, there have been 341 reported cases where doctors provided lethal doses of medicine to patients to end their lives.

Oregon voters have upheld the "Death with Dignity" law three times, and Sattenspiel says it is the state's duty to inform patients of all their legal options.

For Stroup, however, suicide was never an option. He fought back, and the Oregon Health Plan eventually reversed its decision and is now paying for his chemotherapy, giving him hope he'll be around a little longer for his 80-year-old mother and five grandchildren.

Canadian Healthcare Utopia

Brian Lee Crowley (Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada) from BigGovHealth on Vimeo.

Healthcare Utopia under a Marxist Light President B. Hussein Obama

This is posted at the Bluegrass Institute's Blogg but worth spreading around. Also don't miss their column on how high cigarette taxes help to fund terrorists.

Regulating Barack Obama's way to prosperity

Slate.com doesn't want Americans to buy health insurance across state lines. Their article rips Sen. John McCain for suggesting it would save people money. The article uses New York as an example of a state whose regulators prohibit insurance companies from giving discounts to healthy people. "If an insurer wants to sell policies in New York, the insurer has to obey New York's laws. Many states pretty much let companies sell the policies they wish, but others set a floor of protections. New York laws, for example, require that companies issue coverage to all new customers and not set higher rates for people who are already sick." After our 1994 disastrous experiment with "universal" health care, Kentucky no longer makes such a requirement on health insurers.In New York, a healthy 28 year-old male non-smoker can buy a $2000 deductible, 20% coinsurance, $30 office visit PPO for $361.54 per month. In Kentucky, a healthy 28 year-old male non-smoker can buy a $2000 deductible, 30% coinsurance, $30 office visit PPO for $45.68 per month. Uh, what was the question?