Author: Amy Ridenour

Engineer Left Blind for Three Years Awaiting 20-Minute Operation

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85-year-old Richard Adams went blind because the British government's health care system delayed his cataract surgery. Said Adams, "I've been waiting for three years but they don't seem to care. I think they're just waiting for me to die or ...
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A Public Option in Health Care Doesn’t Mean Low Overhead

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One of the arguments proponents of the so-called "public option" in health care reform often make is that health insurance company executives make too much money. I wonder how many of these people realize that almost 60 administrators in the ...
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“An Animal Would Have Been Treated with More Compassion”

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Debra Luck, the widow of Ian Luck, believes the medical staff at the British government's Princess Alexandra Hospital was so neglectful of her late husband's care during his last days that he effectively "was murdered... because people couldn't be bothered ...
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Health Care Bombshell: ObamaCare Would Doom Medicaid

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Writing for the Heritage Foundation, Dennis Smith and Ed Haislmaier have today exposed a huge political drawback to the liberal health care bill: ObamaCare -- without intending to -- could, almost certainly would, be the death knell of Medicaid, America's ...
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Britain Investigates Deaths in Government Hospitals

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From the Times in Britain, November 28: An immediate investigation to uncover the true extent of death rates across the [British government's National Health Service] has been ordered by the Health Secretary after scandals at two hospital trusts.Amid claims that ...
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Canadian Cancer Patient Fights Bureaucracy in Desperate Fight for Life

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To fight advanced colon cancer, Canadian Suzanne Aucoin needed Erbitux, a powerful anti-cancer drug, but the Canadian health bureaucracy said it wouldn't pay. Aucoin traveled to New York to get the drug and to begin treatment on her own. "I ...
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Hollywood Hypocrisy (Again)

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A column by Jonathan Foreman in Britain's Times excoriates celebrities who tell ordinary folk to do without in the name of environmental protection while living a very wasteful lifestyle themselves. My favorite hypocrisy example is the famous actress who boasted ...
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We’ll Live

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See Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie in NYC Panel Discussion on Effects of Obama Victory on Black Youth This Monday

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By David Almasi: Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by The Smith Family Foundation on "Does the Election of Barack Obama Portend the Effective End of American Racism?"The event will be held on Monday, ...
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Not Giving Thanks

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The Washington Times Inside the Beltway column today is quoting Project 21 Senior Fellow Deneen Borelli from this press release Wednesday ...
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