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House Dems favor insurance requirement
• APSenior House Democrats drafting health care legislation are considering slapping an unspecified financial penalty on anyone who refuses to purchase "affordable" health insurance, a key committee chairman said
House Dems favor insurance requirement
• MyWay APDemocrats Weigh Health Mandate as Obama Urges Tax the Rich
• BloombergDemocrats Weigh Health Mandate as Obama Urges Taxing Wealthy
• Bloomberg.comJune 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health-care overhaul, as House Democrats discuss a plan to require health insurance for most Americans.
The Obama administration stepped up efforts to influence health-care legislation today as advisers David Axelrod and Austan Goolsbee appeared on televisi
Nagin, wife, staffer quarantined in China
• New Orleans Metro Real-Time NewsNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife, Seletha, and a member of the mayor's entourage were being held in quarantine at a hotel in Shanghai after a passenger on Nagin's flight to China came down with suspected swine flu symptoms, a city spokeswoman said Sunday
Obama team taking more active role on health-care reform
• Desert NewsThe White House, backing away from President Barack Obama's "it's-all-on-the-table" approach initially advocated, prepared to get louder and more involved in the details of a health care overhaul that officials once were content to leave to Congress, administration officials said Saturday
House Dems draft sweeping health bill
• PoliticoThere would be a "soft” mandate on individuals to purchase insurance, with a waiver for those who can’t afford it and a “moderate” tax penalty on those who skirt the requirement.
Why is health care so expensive in America?
• Mark YannoneThe Economic Case for Health Care Reform
• Cato InstituteThree years ago, Mass. governor Mitt Romney signed into law one of the most far-reaching experiments promising to reduce health care costs. In reality, however, insurance premiums rose by 7.4%in 2007, 8-12% in 2008, and are expected to rise 9 percent this year.
Baby Killer Tiller The Rest of The Story. Baby Funerals!
K. LibertyTiller performed 60,000 later term abortions. Then for additional revenue, he had the women take pictures with their dead fetus for a memorable family picture. Then he also offered a following baby funeral... wait... I thought it wasn't a baby. link text
Socialized Healthcare Protest at Universal Healthcare March Rally
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBNOrMpNHEAbout a thousand people marched in an organized event in Seattle on May 30, 2009, to promote socialized healthcare. Nearly 400 regular citizens turned up, many with homemade signs to protest socialized healthcare.
CDC Vaccine Advisor Pockets $29 Million Promoting Vaccines
• Natural NewsDr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) received at least $29 million from his share of royalties for Merck’s Rotateq vaccine after using his position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that childhood vaccination with the vaccine became compulsory.
Fight Government Encroachment into Healthcare!<br>by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX)
Powell GammillWith a faltering economy, and skyrocketing costs, healthcare continues to be a critical issue for all Americans. Unfortunately government encroachment into the doctor/patient relationship is poised to exacerbate our problems with healthcare.
Kennedy plan to outline U.S. healthcare overhaul
• ReutersDemocratic plans for revamping U.S. healthcare are taking shape, with Senator Edward Kennedy soon to announce a proposal which could form the core of the nation's new health system. Kennedy will include both a new government program to provide medical coverage for all as well as a mandate that every American acquire some form of health insurance.
Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa
• APScientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus.“This one is really, really aggressive” he said of the virus.
FDA now restricting over-the-counter sales of Celox, Quik-Clot and other hemostatic trauma agents
• www.survivalblogs.com(FDA) began regulating these products mid-May because "they go inside the human body." I was able to order some of my other products in the "scrape and light cut" size" but none of the larger quantity hemostatics. (Black Mar
Ron Paul interviewed by Judge Napolitano and Brian Kilmeade - socialized medicine
• libertymaven.comRon Paul on Fox News Radio. They talked about socialized medicine. Keep in mind that Ron Paul is also a doctor so he speaks with some personal knowledge of this issue. In fact, he was a doctor prior to the current HMO system.
Pelosi: House taking up health care before recess
• APHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her chamber would have a sweeping health care bill on the floor by the end of July, an announcement that President Obama hailed. "That's the kind of energy and determination that we need," the president s
Obama Says Health Overhaul Could Save U.S. Trillions
• NY TimesPresident Barack Obama will aim on Monday to build support for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system by highlighting a drive for greater efficiency he predicts could save trillions of dollars.
Trial drugs 'reverse' Alzheimer's
• BBCUS scientists say they have successfully reversed the effects of Alzheimer's with experimental drugs.
The Impossibility of Healthcare Reform
• Bill Sardi - Knowledge of HealthThe race to provide every American with health insurance is leading to a medicine chest that is bare. The Administration in Washington has fashioned an unproven plan to improve the efficiency, coordination, convenience, accessibility and affordabilit
Seven people in U.S. hit by strange new swine flu
• ReutersDC officials are unsure whether the cases are related to an unusually late and severe flu season in Mexico in which 20 people have died. "Generally the period of infection ends during the first week of March, but this year there was an atypical
NYC takes lead in setting next food target — salt
• APFirst, it was a ban on artery-clogging trans fats. Then calories were posted on menus. Now the New York City health department is taking on salt. City officials are meeting with food makers and restaurants to discuss reducing the amount of salt in co
HHS pick urges health coverage for all Americans
• APDuring her confirmation hearing, Sebelius avoided endorsing a plan to make people legally responsible for seeing that they're insured. The concept of how, or whether, universal coverage would be mandated is just one of the thorny issues to be dea
American Health Security Act of 2009: Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda
• by John Nichols, State Of Change, The NationWhile the one reform that could cure what ails America's health care system has attracted plenty of adherents in the House -- 72 members have signed on as backers of House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers' single-payer proposal and othe
VA: 16 Patients From Clinics Infected
• CBS NewsVeterans Affairs officials say 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at its medical facilities have tested positive for viral infections, including hepatitis.
Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul
• APMajority Leader Reid indicated he's willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a filibuster. The prospect has ignited Republicans' ire, and key Democratic chairmen don't
Birth Certificate Application
Tom WestbrookJust curious why an application for a Birth Certificate requires a disease/complication history of both mother and baby???
New project exposes Phoenix Planned Parenthood
• WorldNetDailyPlanned Parenthood's Phoenix, Ariz., facilities have been caught on video attempting to conceal statutory rape, according to a new undercover production from pro-life activist Lila Rose.