A large health company here in Cincinnati has fired 150 people for failure to get their flu shots: TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get the shot were terminated Wednesday, a company spokesperson […]
The biggest reason I have been very pessimistic about the possibility of us seeing health care reform this year is because of the problems in the Senate. I know a lot of people have maintained that we already have a bill that passed the Senate, but we do have to remember that our Congress is […]
How many times have we heard Republicans say that health care reform will lead us to “socialized medicine”? How many times have they used Canada as an example of what we don’t want to be? Well check this out: Sarah Palin’s family use to “hustle” across the Canadian border to get healthcare, the former Alaska […]
Next year seniors won’t see an increase in their monthly Social Security checks. The increase, which is determined by cost of living up to June of the previous year, was determined to not be necessary by the government. A lot of people depend on these checks, and as well depend on Medicare. Currently Medicare has […]
I was just reading this story in the Cincinnati Enquirer: LEXINGTON – A Lexington gynecologist has been stripped of his license to practice medicine by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Dr. Hamid Sheikh was accused of having a dirty office, not giving women proper pain medication and other violations. […]
Last night Bush gave his farewell address and during it he gave himself an awful lot of pats on the back. Here’s one part that really got me: A new Medicare prescription drug benefit is bringing peace of mind to seniors and the disabled. Really? Someone should have told the seniors and disabled about this […]
This is change, we need. Actually it isn’t as much change as it is undoing the damage of the Bush years: The Food and Drug Administration, bedeviled by a salmonella outbreak and tainted medicine from China, is likely to monitor imports and fresh produce more closely under an Obama administration. With President Bush no longer […]
(HT John) Not once, not twice, but three times during his show last night, O’Reilly had different cutaways labeling Foley as a Democrat last night. Even worse? This happened during two different segments. Is FOX sinking to a new low to try and swing votes? We report – you decide. Wait. Perhaps we report and […]