From the Wall Street Journal: The White House said Thursday it has no plans to reverse course on its decision to require that all employers cover contraception in their insurance plans, despite a wave of criticism from Republicans and Catholic leaders. After a bruising week for health officials on the issue, the White House arranged [...]
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum visited Minnesota today in an effort to boost support for his campaign one day before the Minnesota Caucus. Tuesday’s caucus here in Minnesota corresponds to that of Colorado and Missouri. Santorum visited voters in a small banquet room of Rochester’s prestigious Kahler Grand Hotel, which stands across the street from [...]
Way back in the early days of America, there were a wide assortment of traveling salesmen roaming from town to town selling everything from pots and pans to “magic elixir” guaranteed to cure everything from warts to polio. These unscrupulous traveling elixir peddlers became known by several terms, the most popular of which referred to [...]
This just in from the Associated Press: The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy. About 302,000 homes were sold last year. That’s less than the 323,000 [...]
“Because the Affordable Care Act does not include a severability clause, if the individual mandate is found unconstitutional, then the whole Act must be struck down as unconstitutional.”
I have been actively involved in the political spectrum for about 3 years now. Thirty-five years ago I tried to get involved, but when I saw how corrupt and self-serving the process was, I gave up. I registered as an Independent with the hopes that being an Independent would insulate me from the corruption, self-serving [...]
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, is the 2700 page monstocity that Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said we had to pass to see what was in the bill. Its passage has given rise to the ObamaCare waiver fiasco and now there are some new provisions cropping up. On December 2, 2011, [...]
I think it’s about time we take a good look at Newt Gingrich’s plan to reform welfare entitlements through “promoting growth and innovation”, detailed in this 48-page white paper. First and foremost: Gingrich (or his writers) use very idyllic language which sounds very plausible. It’s the same sort of language Gingrich employs in debates with [...]
A quick review of the headlines for November 16, 2011 reveals that there’s yet more “progressive” insanity afoot. DEBT JUMPS TO $15 TRILLION… As other cities crack down, DC Council backs ‘Occupiers’… Occupy protesters plan to ‘shut down’ Wall Street on Thursday… ‘You’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to MACY’S’… Protester [...]
The Supreme Court announced that it would decide whether or not President Obama’s health care law would stand as it was passed by Congress. For months, many legal experts have been expecting the decision to hear the case brought against the law by 26 states Attorneys General and a separate suit filed by a business [...]
As we see President Obama currently campaigning across America and telling citizens that Republicans are out to hurt the poor, pollute the air and push Granny off the cliff, we see that the President’s administration is approving cuts to State medicaid healthcare programs, some of the them seeing as much as a 10% total reduction [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will dramatically reduce the number and variety of healthcare plan choices available to seniors and reduce benefits and enrollment, according to a new study released today by the American Action Forum. The report outlines that by 2017 nearly all Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees [...]
Ann Coulter may be disappointed, but New Jersey gets to keep its governor. Meanwhile, Republicans still must pick their Presidential candidate. Despite what the “progressive” Party Pravda (aka the mainstream media) tells you, there are more than two options. Rick Perry’s been a fairly successful governor in a State that’s created a lot of jobs [...]
Nancy Pelosi and President Obama have been making sure that all their close friends are getting waivers from the disastrous health care reform act. It is a slayer of businesses, destroyer of physicians and ultimately the slayer of the American medical system. Who wouldn’t want out? The problem is that while Unions and cronies of [...]
Speakers bureau of experts on language access for limited-English proficient patients, hospitals and others in the healthcare industry now available nationwide MONTEREY, Calif., June 14, 2011 — Language Line Services, the worldwide market leader in interpretation and translation services, and the single largest provider of language access solutions to the healthcare industry, today launched its [...]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proposing changes to HIPAA privacy rules. This proposed rule represents an important step in our continued efforts to promote accountability across the health care system, ensuring that providers properly safeguard private health information. We need to protect peoples’ rights so [...]
TUCSON, Ariz., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On May 26, three physicians, including Congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX), briefed Congressional staffers on the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), sometimes called ObamaCare, on the patient-physician relationship and patient care. Patients and physicians are the people you don’t find on the complex organizational charts describing ObamaCare, stated Jane Orient, M.D., executive [...]
