Category: Health

Project 21 Members Protest Jesse Jackson Linking Racial Identity to ObamaCare Vote

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Washington, DC - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network have risen to condemn Jesse Jackson for saying of Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL), "You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man," calling Jackson's statement divisive ...
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Quote of Note: The Core Problem With Government-Run Health Care

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"The core problem with government-run health care is that it doesn't make decisions in the best interests of patients, but in the best interests of government." - Wall Street Journal editorial, "The Health Care Rationing Commission," November 15, 2009 E-mail ...
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Canadian Patient Flies to India for Immediate Care

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An ailing hip caused Canadian Raghav Shetty so much pain that he could barely walk. Instead of being one of 25,000 patients in Calgary waiting up to two years for surgery or a scan, Shetty traveled to India, his native ...
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Report Questions Quality of Care Dementia Patients Receive in British Government Hospitals

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A British government report is questioning the quality of caredementia patients receive in hospitals run by the British government-run health system. Among other things, the report says such patients often are not properly fed. E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe ...
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Grandma Got Run Over by Her Health Care Music Video

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"They say there's no such thing as free health care, and now me and Grandpa, we believe." This video is a couple of months old, but it's pretty funny, as warnings about the death-dealing potential of government-run health care go ...
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A One Way Ticket Away From Healthyville

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An illuminating short video about the perils of government-run health care brought to you by The Independence Institute. Email it to a liberal today. E-mail any comments to the National Center for Public Policy Research at [email protected] Subscribe to this ...
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Britain’s National Health Service Denied Sight-Saving Medicine to Its Own Employee

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Despite her 18 years of service to Britain's government-run health system, Sylvie Webb had to fight her employer for sight-saving drugs. An employee of Britain's government-run National Health Service was denied medication that could save her from going blind in ...
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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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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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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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