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  • MURDOCK: Biden Turns Vets into P.O.W.s Under Kafkaesque VA System...'Every time we think this administration has reached a grotesque low, they dig deeper...'

    02/18/2024 9:26:27 PM PST · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    Headline USA ^ | February 18, 2024 | Staff
    (Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Democrats constantly crow about their faith in “the right to choose.” But this applies to little beyond abortion. Any woman who chooses to buy a gun or send her child to a charter school should expect “pro-choice” Democrats to stand in her way. Democrats crave control and uniformity, even when it comes to medical care for America’s veterans. Democrats want vets in the Department of Veterans Affairs, not getting cured in the private sector. Obama–Biden’s VA waitlist scandal found veterans dying before they could see their doctors. Donald J. Trump promised to fix this lethal mess....
  • Colorado medical team cut 65-year-old Lakota man’s hair without permission, family says

    12/09/2023 10:48:12 PM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 59 replies
    NBC News ^ | Dec 9, 2023 | Joe Kottke
    A police investigation is underway after the family of a Lakota man said staff members at a Colorado hospital cut the 65-year-old’s hair without permission. Members of UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital “lied” about having a video that allegedly showed the medical center was not at fault for cutting Arthur Janis' hair, a regent of the University of Colorado said. Arthur Janis is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, for whom hair is sacred from the moment of birth. It is significant in many sacred rites — such as the Keeping of the Soul, Arthur Janis’s brother, Keith, said....
  • REPORT: New York City Hospitals and Medical Centers Are Being Overwhelmed by Illegal Immigrants

    10/05/2023 11:47:18 AM PDT · by bitt · 58 replies
    GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 10/4/2023 | mike lachance
    The medical system in New York City is straining under the weight of the constant flow of illegals. Hospitals and medical centers are being overwhelmed by the sheer number of people seeking treatment and it’s not surprising. When you suddenly add tens of thousands more people than a system was designed for, this is what you get. Have the people of New York had enough yet? NBC News reports: Inside a New York City hospital on the front lines of the migrant crisis In the past year alone, medical centers across the five boroughs have received nearly 30,000 visits from...
  • Department of Defense Shuts Off Military Children’s Medical Care From Their Parents?

    08/02/2023 2:23:06 PM PDT · by Twotone · 31 replies
    Eagle Forum ^ | August 2, 2023 | Amy Haywood
    The Department of Defense (DOD) has quietly implemented controversial adolescent health policies throughout the military health system (MHS) that kick in when children turn 12 years old. Because the official policies are hard to find and are not posted publicly at base clinics, most parents are shocked to find out that doctors prefer to treat their adolescent children in a completely parent-free setting. Parents are outraged to be treated as if they cannot be trusted to guide their own children. Here is my story detailing a quest for answers on why online medical record access is limited and why I...
  • To head off hospital closures, California legislators are fast-tracking a loan program

    05/04/2023 3:17:11 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 23 replies
    Cal Matters ^ | MAY 4, 2023 | ANA B. IBARRA
    California hospitals in financial trouble will soon be able to apply for interest-free state loans, although key questions about the selection process aren’t yet resolved. The Legislature on Thursday approved a bill that will allocate a one-time sum of $150 million from the general fund to aid hospitals that are facing severe financial distress and are at risk of closure, or that have closed but have a plan to reopen. The loans would have to be paid back within six years, although loans may be forgiven for hospitals that meet certain requirements. Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to sign the bill...
  • South Carolina House committee passes CON repeal

    04/26/2023 11:01:28 AM PDT · by CFW · 6 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 4/26/23 | T.A. DeFeo
    The South Carolina House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee has signed off on a measure to repeal certificate of need regulations for most healthcare facilities in the state. S.164 would eliminate the CON requirement for most healthcare facilities. In February, the State Senate approved the CON repeal by a 30-6 vote. Last week, the South Carolina House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Subcommittee voted in favor of the mandate repeal. "With today’s committee passage, attention now turns to the full House to repeal our state’s certificate of need laws," Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina State Director Candace Carroll...
  • Biden Admin Pushes Transgender Medical ‘Care’ While Quietly Bankrolling Research Showing Its Risks

    02/28/2023 9:16:38 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 02/28/2023 | Anonymous
    As the Biden administration pushes the Department of Health and Human Services to make “gender-affirming health care” more widely available, HHS’s own National Institutes of Health is funding multiple studies premised upon how little research has been conducted on the long-term risks of taking cross-sex hormones and whether they improve mental health. The NIH research on transgender issues also emphasizes intersectionality and about half has been on HIV prevention. The NIH Reporter database, which lists active federally funded research projects, shows 74 with “transgender” in the title, totaling more than $26 million of taxpayers’ money annually. Several NIH-funded studies examine...
  • 'Expert' calls for denying life-saving hospital treatment to unvaccinatedSays they are 'not fit for life on earth' in unhinged rant

    10/17/2021 8:27:16 AM PDT · by rktman · 88 replies
    Summit.news ^ | 10/15/2021 | Paul Joseph Watson
    An “expert” whose work on cybersecurity has been cited by the NY Times and the Washington Post announced on Twitter that the unvaccinated should be denied life-saving hospital treatment because they are “not fit for life on earth.” Chris Vickery, who describes himself as a “data breach hunter” also brags about how his “findings have contributed to investigations conducted by the FTC, FBI, SEC, Secret Service, HHS, SSCI, and more.” During an unhinged Twitter rant, Vickery asserted that a time limit of December 1st should be put on people refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. “Set a date now. After...
  • ‘Flattening The Curve’ Has Become A Massive Bait And Switch

    06/29/2020 7:21:04 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 67 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 29, 2020 | Karl Dierenbach
    Everything 'flattening the curve' represented has been abandoned and now thousands have needlessly died, millions are out of work, and cities are burning. At one point, the theory of “flattening the curve” was ubiquitous. The basic concept was that lockdowns could slow the spread of coronavirus, and this was of great importance since, as we were told at the time, “We can’t stop this virus.” The narrative went that if the virus were to spread unchecked, hospitals would be overwhelmed and both people with coronavirus and those needing medical attention for other ailments would die from the lack of access...
  • I Can’t Get My Hip Surgery Because Of Coronavirus Even Though Nobody Is In Our Hospital

    04/09/2020 6:16:38 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 53 replies
    The Federalist ^ | April 9, 2020 | Anominous
    Focusing only on coronavirus deaths and illnesses doesn’t tell the full story of what is happening in America. Other patients, waiting with no end in sight, deserve not to be forgotten. I’m one of many Americans waiting in limbo for a surgery because of coronavirus. I have a hip problem that cannot be solved with physical therapy, and my quality of life is miserable while I wait for the hospital — cleared out to make way for potential COVID-19 patients — to reschedule my procedure.Each step I take is a deep, painful grinding feeling that makes my leg ache, and...
  • Doctors And Judges Shouldn’t Have More Authority Over Tinslee Lewis’ Life Than Her Mother Does

    01/06/2020 8:58:15 AM PST · by Kaslin · 17 replies
    The Federalist ^ | January 6, 2020 | Libby Emmens
    Why, now that doctors can do so much with advancements in modern medicine, are they turning their backs on the patients who need them most, and saying it’s for their own good? A terminally ill child’s death should not be determined by a panel of doctors and a judge. Parents should have a say in the decision to maintain life-extending care. But in Texas, Fourth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice Sandee Bryan Marion went along with the determination of doctors at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth to pull life support from 11-month-old Tinslee Lewis, despite her family’s...
  • Why Bureaucracy, Not Your Doctor, Is Making All Your Medical Decisions

    12/27/2019 9:20:57 AM PST · by Kaslin · 38 replies
    The Federalist ^ | December 27, 2019 | Diane Waldman
    With the current third-party payment structure, you doctor does not practice as much medicine on you as insurance executives and federal bureaucrats do. Americans, who practices medicine on you? The answer may seem self-evident, but it is not. In our current health-care system, millions of nameless, faceless government or private insurance bureaucrats practice medicine on you without a license for medicine.You may think your life is in your doctor’s hands, but it is not. The bureaucrats, not you or your doctor, make your medical and financial decisions. Consider these health-care decisions: DiagnosisTreatment: what, when, where, by whomMedicationsPaying for care Your...
  • In Illinois, dead people not only can vote, but can get free medical care

    09/14/2019 6:12:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/14/2019 | Thomas Lifson
    Illinois clearly is the pioneer in the not yet existent deceased rights movement, which I have heard is having trouble with turnout for its rallies.  But if the dead ever do rise from their graves in a zombie apocalypse, as so often dramatized on cable television, they will no doubt demand that other states follow the lead of  Illinois. They're not dead, they're a constituency: Illinois Policy reveals that the state has spent $4.6 million on Medicaid for dead people: An audit by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General, or OIG, found Illinois spent $4.6 million on Medicaid...
  • Riches by Regulation: Communities’ Most Trusted Healthcare Workforce Needlessly Overburdened

    05/17/2019 5:44:43 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 17, 2019 | Ryan Shucard
    For nearly 20 years, the nursing profession has resided atop Gallup’s most trusted professionals list. Hardly anyone would dispute the high ratings, and most are contented to think that number means all is well with those operating in the profession. It’s not. Nurse practitioners (NPs) in particular, the unsung heroes of America’s healthcare workforce, routinely face unnecessary barriers to carrying out their jobs by one of the most notoriously cumbersome of all government functions: regulation.In 28 states these outdated regulations have exacerbated the healthcare provider shortage and needlessly put patients at a severe disadvantage when it comes to accessing care....
  • With Teladoc, the Doctor Will See You Now ... Really!

    11/07/2017 5:06:45 AM PST · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 7, 2017 | Cal Thomas
    If you're tired of the dysfunction in Washington -- the backbiting, the questioning of motives, the failure to agree on much of anything, the one-upmanship, the allegations about a "stolen" presidential election, Russian "collusion," the posturing and boorish behavior -- how about focusing on something that is working and benefits a growing number of people? Consider a company called Teladoc, which provides access to a doctor through a computer screen, telephone, or mobile app. The waiting time, a company official tells me, is between eight and ten minutes. That beats any doctor's office I have ever been in, even with...
  • Illegal aliens often get large insurance settlements when in wrecks or injured. Here's why.

    02/18/2017 10:05:20 AM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 15 replies
    Local sources of information | 18 February 2017 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
    Here's another important fact. Many Mexicans go to Mexico for medical care, including surgery and all kinds of major medical care. As a result, when one of them is in a wreck or injured, no medical records are available here to show previous injuries/conditions and they are able to claim it was because of the wreck/injury. As a result, lawyers argue that all injuries they have were a result of the incident which occurred here. Conversely, Americans whose records are available can not claim previous injuries were caused by the recent wreck/injury due to availability of records AND a different...
  • The ACLU’s Sterile View of the First Amendment

    09/01/2015 4:41:13 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 1, 2015 | Robert Knight
    Tie her tubes, or we’ll sue you for sex discrimination, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told a Catholic-affiliated hospital in California. So after first declining to do so, Mercy Medical Center in Redding has now slated a tubal ligation for a woman after her scheduled C-section to deliver a baby in late September. The ACLU’s demand is cut from the same cloth as the Obama Administration’s order under Obamacare to the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their beliefs and provide contraceptives and abortifacients or pay crushing fines. That case is still in litigation. The latest manifestation of...
  • Psychiatry Ain't What It Used To Be

    07/19/2015 6:00:16 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 39 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 19, 2015 | Steve Chapman
    There was a time when most of what I knew about psychiatrists came from Woody Allen. In his 1973 movie "Sleeper," his character wakes up in the future and complains, "I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian, and if I'd been going all this time I'd probably almost be cured by now." But even his treatment sounded better than what Jack Nicholson's character got in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for being rebellious: a lobotomy. Those films imprinted a couple of lessons about psychiatry. The first was that mental health professionals were useless;...
  • Report: One-third of vets on pending medical care list already dead

    07/14/2015 6:02:05 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/13/15 | Martin Matishak
    An internal Veterans Affairs Department report states that about one-third of the veterans waiting to receive medical care from the agency have already died. ... as of April, 847,822 veterans were awaiting healthcare and that of those, 238,647 were already deceased. The report was handed over by Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA's Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta He also sent copies to the House and Senate VA panels and to the White House. ... VA wants you to believe, by virtue of people being able to get health care elsewhere, it's not a big deal. But VA...
  • VA Denies Iraq War Vet Medical Care Because They "Aren't Taking New Patients"

    07/02/2015 3:45:44 PM PDT · by george76 · 11 replies
    Townhall ^ | Jul 01, 2015 | Katie Pavlich
    The Department of Veteran's Affairs apparently doesn't have time for the nation's veterans and recently turned at least one young man away after he sought treatment for PTSD. The excuse? The VA just isn't "taking new patients right now." ... Iraq war veteran Chris Dorsey figured that no one would believe he had been turned away from a U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs clinic when he sought an appointment for post-traumatic stress disorder. So when he went on Tuesday to another facility, the VA Oakwood, Georgia, Community Based Outpatient Clinic, he flipped on his smartphone camera. ... Unforunately, Dorsey's case...