Insurance industry support for “health care reform” apparently has a big price tag: forcing 46 million Americans to become potential customers. An individual mandate to purchase insurance could help to offset looming cuts to Medicare […]
Posted on December 26, 2008 The Obama team has allowed a mere two weeks, over the busy holiday season, for collecting all the “input” they need for rapidly forcing a radical “health system reform” plan […]
Massachusetts, the proud model for likely Obama-Kennedy reform, is trying a new answer for the problem of a severe doctor shortage: group appointments. Deluged with demand from newly insured patients, doctors have no room on […]
Volume 64, No. 12 December 2008 THE MORNING AFTER Euphoria about “change” explodes across the television screens and front pages and at least the coastal and heavily urbanized parts of the land. Huge crowds hitherto […]
Front-page headlines worldwide announced the “stunning” results of a trial of rosuvastatin (Crestor) in “apparently healthy men and women” with an LDL-cholesterol less than 130 mg/dL (3.4 mmol/L). Serious heart problems were reportedly reduced by […]
Hawaii is ending the only state universal child health-care program in the country, after just 7 months. The Keiki (Child) Care Plan was designed to offer health care insurance to the children of parents who […]
The 30-day myocardial infarction and mortality rate was significantly higher (2.74% v. 0.7%) in patients who got beta blockers in conjunction with noncardiac surgery, according to an article in the October 2008 issue of Archives […]
A series of articles in the Dallas Morning News focuses on alleged financial conflicts of interest of psychiatrists involved in the Children’s Medication Algorithm Project (CMAP). The CMAP protocol has been “quietly shelved” after objections […]
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If he’s in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after Nov 4, Barack Obama said he would classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant, and use the Clean Air Act to curb emissions by […]
