Letting "Old People" Die is Not a Good Way to Fund Health Care

Recently, prominent liberal health care mouthpiece and former Colorado Governor, Richard Lamm openly discussed rationing as a financial solution to help fund universal health care ("Better Health Care Through Rationing," The Huffington Post), or as he puts it, "“Old people...

UK – Political Battling over the Elderly for votes

News 06 10 2009 'Medicine errors' in care homes. A report “slams” the shocking treatment of the elderly in care home. (News more fully below ). As is usual the Government consistently allows failure to build as a future political instrument for use at every new election...

Sorry folks, Sarah Palin is (partly) right on health care

"But that should not distract voters from this reality: President Obama has proposed a new body that would enhance Medicare’s ability to deny care to the elderly and disabled based on government bureaucrats’...

Multiple Myeloma Risk For 9/11 Responders

Emergency personnel that responded to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers may be at higher risk for multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. The findings, which were published in the Journal of Occupational and...

The Woman Behind “Health Care Reform Will Kill Old People” Lie

"MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that health care executive Betsy McCaughey created the “Obama health care will kill old people” lie. The same lie that has been repeated by opponents of health care reform,...

Prisons + Tshirts = Jobs

Michael Norburyhttp://bringhomethepoliticians.comThe following is a comment I posted to a California newspaper's online Op-Ed complaining that the idea being considered to release 27,000 low risk and elderly prisoners was being unfairly opposed citing that just because the...

Can USA Provide Free, Public Medical Care Like Brazil? (w/fotos)

"""Free public neighborhood health clinic in Brazilwhere treatment is provided to all as fundamental right."I am not convinced that single payer is necessary to dramatically improve health care in the US. I believe that making health care a right (like the right to vote) - a...

Elderly Woman w/ Diabetes & No Insurance Told “Good Luck” by GOP

Stop the presses! The Republicans do have a way to reform health care in this country, it's called "good luck!" At least that what former Republican Congressman Tom David told an elderly woman, with diabetes...

Texas Police Shock White Woman, 72, Making Nightly News in Brazil

Cross-posted at the Police Brutality Blog and the Electrocuted While Black blog in the afrosphere.I live in Brazil and I just saw a scene on the nightly news here, from the US state of Texas (click here for video), that disgusts me, and will shock and astound Brazilians...

Inhofe Slams EPA Over Proposed Endangerment Finding

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said today that the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed endangerment finding will unleash a torrent of regulations that will destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend the agency's...

Elderly Driver Mishap No Joke for Victim Pinned between Vehicles

At a of a grocery store in Brookline Mass (a suburb of Boston), an accident involving an 82 year old driver, Gustav Schachter, pinned a parking lot attendant between the driver's car and a Ford Exlorer. The 29...

Mellowing Out May Decrease Dementia

New research from the UK suggests that  personal disposition may affect your tendencies for dementia. Scientists in the UK talked with 500 elderly people, analyzing their lifestyles, activity levels, and social...

Elderly Couple Missing from Carnival Cruise Ship

An elderly couple is missing from a Carnival Cruise ship that sails out of California and are "presumed to have gone overboard." "A statement released overnight by Carnival says the 90-year-old man and his...

Patagonia Indian Tribe Faces Extinction

This has happened to the smaller tribes in the US and is happening now in south and central America.  It is one effect of "progress". " PUERTO EDEN, Chile (Reuters) – Hawking sea lion skin souvenir canoes at one of South America's most remote outposts, Francisco...

BE DIFFERENT!

Monitoring our elderly people pro-style‘Be different’, happens to be the new slogan of the VARA, a Dutch television network. Being ‘different’ as opposed to being ‘indifferent’ is what’s been...

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