A new mailer has surfaced in the Massachusetts Senate race: This is absolutely brutal: Massachusetts Dems have dropped a mail piece accusing GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown of wanting hospitals to turn away “all” rape victims. The mail piece — sent over by the Brown campaign — shows pictures of women who are supposed to […]
Here’s Conrad’s latest: Kent Conrad is pushing to decouple this Medicare buy-in from Medicare. Conrad wants to make it fake Medicare. He wants people in this fake Medicare to pay much higher reimbursement rates. and be placed in a separate risk pool. The people in fake Medicare might not even be able to use the […]
At the beginning of the week the health industry was all gung-ho to work with the administration to ease to costs of healthcare. Now it looks like they are yelling out “SIKE!” Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health […]
Average wait for a patient in an ER suffering a heart attack: 1997: 8 minutes 2004: 20 minutes Pretty amazing – isn’t it? Well how about this: — In 1994 there were 93.4 million ER visits (adults) — In 2004 there were 110.2 million ER visits (adults) — In 2004 there were 12.4% fewer hospitals […]
You get to stay away from the doctor and hospitals and maybe even having your life saved! President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program. It was Bush’s seventh veto in seven […]
There is some heart-breaking testimony coming from these hearings today. It is totally unacceptable that the situation was able to reach this low point. Something I am tired of hearing is this meme that the hospitals are overloaded because of Iraq. This was a war of choice waged by the commander in chief and if […]
This is just horrible. Atrios has a piece up talking about how Republican Rep. Curt Weldon has decided to challenge his Democrat opponent, retired Adm. Joe Sestak, by questioning his choice in hospitals for their five year old daughter who is recovering from a brain tumor. Read the piece here – it shows you how […]
October’s poll dealt with your town’s evacuation plan and if you felt it was up to date. The results are as follows: Definitely – 8% (2) Possibly – 8% (2) Not Sure – 44% (11) No Way – 40% (10) This was based on a total of 25 respondents. It is shocking yet in a […]
It seems Bill Frist’s sudden selling of stock in his families medical company has drawn attention from the United States Attorney’s office in New York. From the Associated Press: HCA subpoenaed, may involve Senate leader HCA Inc.,HCA.N operator of the largest chain of U.S. hospitals, said it received a subpoena from the U.S. attorney for […]
The spin that the White House continues to catapults out of its mists still amazes me. We continue to hear how the City of New Orleans failed its people because it could not get them all out. We don’t hear about the 80% of the town that was evacuated, just the 20% that was not. […]