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Government Health System Penalized Woman for Supporting Her Own Cancer Treatment

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Summary: The British National Health Service refused to provide the advanced cancer drug Avastin to Colette Mills, who was willing to pay for it herself. Mills was told that if she paid for the drug the NHS didn't cover because ...
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Fourteen Hospitals Turn Away Critically-Injured Elderly Man

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Summary: Instead of whisking a 69-year-old Japanese bicyclist who collided with a motorcycle to the emergency room, paramedics called 14 hospitals trying to find a facility that at last accepted the critically-injured man. The hospital at which he was taken ...
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Quote of Note: Government-Run Health Care Results in Fewer Doctors

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"Long waits and shortages result from government control of the health sector. There are only so many hospitals, only so many doctors. When government promises that everyone will be treated (ostensibly) gratis, it does not simultaneously conjure more doctors into ...
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Project 21’s Horace Cooper on C-Span Friday to Discuss Race Issues in Obama’s America – Watch or Listen Live

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By David Almasi: Project 21 member and National Center board member Horace Cooper has been scheduled to discuss how the dynamic of race relations is changed by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency on C-Span's "Washington Journal" program Friday morning.You ...
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Health Care Rally Photos

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Max Pappas of FreedomWorks sent over some pictures of today's rally at the Capitol in opposition to liberal efforts to have the federal government take over our health care system. I'm posting the pictures because this is a tremendous turnout ...
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In Case You Missed it

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Gallup says: "40 percent of Americans describe themselves as politically conservative, 36 percent moderate and 20 percent liberal." E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for Public Policy Research on Twitter. | Download Shattered ...
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British Government Health Service Locks Man in Ambulance

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The British government's National Health Service has apologized to a patient and his family after an NHS ambulance driver drove him to an ambulance station and, as the BBC put it "went home and forgot about him." The man was ...
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“California’s Going to Make Out Like a Bandit With This Legislation”

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...so says Ohio Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) regarding the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, referring to $385 billion in transfers the bill requires some states (including Ohio) send to others (such as California). Senator Voinovich's presentation includes a map comparing the states ...
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Radio Day

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I'm having another of what I call "radio days," in which I do a lot of radio interviews -- in this instance, on the latest developments in the health care debate. If you care to tune in, I will be ...
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Now That This Important Business Has Been Dispensed With, Perhaps Our Commander-in-Chief Could Notice Afghanistan

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Thanks to a bill signed into law by President Obama today, it's illegal to murder a gay person now. What, you say? It was illegal yesterday? E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for ...
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