Dividing and penalizing Americans: the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962)

The latest iteration of Democrats’ “health care reform” legislation, dubbed NancyCare, is the longest so far, 1990 pages. Basically it is the same as H.R. 3200.

Provisions can be broadly categorized by effect: tax increasing, cost increasing, choice decreasing, hassle increasing, wealth redistributing, and growth punishing. Continue reading

Doctors on the Hill will hold their own hearings!

Watch online WED. Oct 28, 2009

If the Democratic Congressional committee chairs won’t hold hearings about health care reform bills, then the Congressional GOP doctors will!

On Wednesday, October 28th, 2009, the GOP Doctors Caucus will host a hearing to examine what physicians and economic experts think about the impact of healthcare legislation put forth by Congressional Leadership in the House of Representatives and Senate. Continue reading

Nurses win temporary injunction against influenza vaccine; Canadians suspend seasonal flu shots; firemen refuse H1N1 vaccine

Some states are passing laws to expand the powers of public health authorities to force people to submit to mass immunizations: for example, Pennsylvania House Bill 492 and Massachusetts (WorldNetDaily 10/12/09).

But public health campaigns to get everybody immunized against both seasonal influenza and swine flu (novel H1N1) are running into opposition. Continue reading