" An estimated 2,500 patriots protested against government-run health care and rampant socialism during a rally this afternoon at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis. As the video and photos (above and below)...
Ninety-two percent of the almost 2,000 physicians who responded to a Jackson Healthcare survey of physicians agree with Dr. Chad Hewitt. The number one way to reduce health care costs may be tort reform. While Dr. Hewitt, a podiatrist friend of mine in the Kansas City area...
A report released by The Canadian Institute for Health Information, forecast Health-Care spending in Canada to reach $183.1 billion for this year. This brings the per capita cost up to $5,452, an increase of $241...
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Sometimes experience speaks volumes. Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter. The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the...
In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didn’t present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. She did,...
It seems some right wing blogs have allowed a falsehood to spread like wild fire, regarding Obama's health care reform, and jail time for those who do not buy insurance coverage under the program....
The Nation's largest doctors' group has joined efforts to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), the United States military policy term about homosexuality in the U.S. military mandated by federal law that...
Below is Sarah Palins full text on her facbook page regarding the House's passage of the Health Care Bill. The Omnibus Bill passed yesterday, after removal of the payment for abortion was removed, in a close...
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Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year-plan that Democrats said said could be their defining social policy achievement."After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades,...
It came as no surprise to learn this morning that the American Medical Association announced its support for concurrent passage of two health care reform bills in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sadly, the...
Despite several statements to the contrary in recent months, it turns out that AARP, a membership organization that purports to represent the interests of people 50 and older, was behind ObamaCare all along. According to an article in The Hill tonight, Associated Press...
Bluedog Democratic Coalition punished for speaking out against public option? An OpEd piece I just chanced upon on my favorite OpEd News Online, is confirming that the efforts to punish the "BlueDogs"...
This Tuesday, 10-27-09, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook and other state legislators will be announcing a "Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment" - a proposal for a state constitutional amendment that would effectively nullify national health care in that state. (h/t...
It's no secret that several Blue Dog Democrats including Max Baucus, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson have been fighting the public option harder than the Republicans. However, now Progressives Democrats are...