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Public health care has no claim to moral superiority
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/22/lorne-gunter-public-health-care-has-no-claim-to-moral-superiority Lorne Gunter: Public health care has no claim to moral superiority Lorne Gunter, National Post Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 Please tell me how this is better than two-tiered American health care? Monday, the Ontario provincial government decided to cover the …
Cancer Screening Budget Cuts May Prove Deadly for Some Women
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/20/cancer-screening-budget-cuts_n_1284880.html Low-income women are being hurt by having important preventative tests cut to make way for Obamacare’s unnecessary demands, such as for employer insurance to cover all birth control prescriptions. Cancer Screening Budget Cuts May Prove Deadly for Some Women Lanajh Jones, …
PPACA-Based Age Rating Pinch Could Leave a Million More Uninsured
http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/13/ppaca-based-age-rating-pinch-could-leave-a-million?utm_source=HCRW&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=LifeHealthPro_eNLs PPACA-Based Age Rating Pinch Could Leave a Million More Uninsured By Allison Bell February 13, 2012 (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Whatever states do about health insurance prices for older and younger adults, one thing remains certain: it will …
Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/1291-direct-pay-medicine-a-free-market-approach-to-healthcare-reform Having a direct relationship between the physician and patient is the way medicine was meant to be. Doctors are starting to break the confines of insurance programs and the hassles they bring with them. By paying your physician directly, …
Ontario’s health care system needs more than Band-Aid solutions
I can never understand how anyone can believe that having the government make it illegal to obtain medical care is a good thing. Whenever you put a politician in charge of picking winners and losers, there will be a lot …
Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-looks-to-change-the-rules-for-those-with-rare-conditions/article1939555/ Ontario looks to change the rules for those with rare conditions lisa priest From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 8:01PM EST The operation was so risky and rare even the best neurosurgeons in the patient’s …
Suggested Resolutions for Caucuses
http://www.cchfreedom.org/ Suggested Resolutions for MN Caucuses – Tuesday, Feb 7 by Twila Brase NO CONFORMING WITH OBAMACARE The federal health care reform law has been unconstitutionally imposed on all citizens and all States of the Union. Obamacare regulations on “exchanges” …
OHIP turns blind eye to suffering
This is an unfortunate byproduct of government intervention in medicine. It’s very unfortunate, and it’s the reason so many Canadians use MediBid to get timely and affordable medical care. http://m.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/01/20/19274441.html OHIP turns blind eye to suffering JONATHAN SHER, The London …
What about Interstate Compacts? A frank look at the problems
This is an interesting view on Compacts. Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the healthcare compact in AZ. Possibly because it increases government spending in Healthcare. They are now running a bill called the “Healthcare Freedom Compact”. There are many compacts, such …
Preparing for the obamacare Exchanges
Some states are very anxious to install an obamacare exchange. I think it has to do with addiction to government money. Legislators don’t always understand that the government doesn’t actually make any money (other than running printing presses). It is …
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