Monthly Archives: December 2008

Women get better care in the United States than in Canada or England

Posted on December 30, 2008 by admin

The Obama-Biden transition team has specifically used the failure to reach all women with mammography screening as a reason for greater government control of medicine. It states that only 71.8% of women age 50 to 64 and 63.8% of women … Continue reading →

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Doctors at “house party” deplore destructive “reform” ideas

Posted on December 26, 2008 by admin

The Obama team has allowed a mere two weeks, over the busy holiday season, for collecting all the “input” they need for rapidly forcing a radical “health system reform” plan through Congress. House parties are explicitly designed to elicit tearjerkers … Continue reading →

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Kennedy plan called a bailout for merciless industry

Posted on December 17, 2008 by admin

Insurance industry support for “health care reform” apparently has a big price tag: forcing 46 million Americans to become potential customers. An individual mandate to purchase insurance could help to offset looming cuts to Medicare Advantage plans, writes Melissa Davis. … Continue reading →

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Massachusetts resorts to group visits with the doctor

Posted on December 3, 2008 by admin

Massachusetts, the proud model for likely Obama-Kennedy reform, is trying a new answer for the problem of a severe doctor shortage: group appointments. Deluged with demand from newly insured patients, doctors have no room on their appointment schedules for all … Continue reading →

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