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  • Judge Orders Trump to Restore Deleted HSS, CDC, FDA Webpages on Transgenderism

    02/11/2025 5:58:06 PM PST · by kevcol · 72 replies
    Twitchy ^ | February 11, 2025 | Brett T
    If you go by CBS News, you'll see them reporting that HHS, the CDC, and the FDA were ordered by a D.C. judge to restore deleted webpages with "health information." As Amuse clarifies, the deleted webpages were dedicated to sex change operations and gender ideology. How a judge can demand which webpages must be included escapes us.
  • “This Is Where the BIG Money Fraud Is Happening”: DOGE Dives Into Medicare Payment Malarkey

    02/06/2025 5:19:44 AM PST · by Red Badger · 80 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | February 05, 2025 | Tyler Durden
    Representatives of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – who just obtained security clearances, have been embedded at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week, gaining access to critical payment and contracting systems, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing multiple individuals familiar with the situation. The DOGE representatives have been on site at the agency’s offices this week, the people said, and they are looking at the systems’ technology as well as the spending that flows through them, with a focus on pinpointing what they consider fraud or waste. DOGE representatives are also examining the...
  • French gynaecologist suspended for refusing to treat trans woman

    02/06/2025 7:02:09 AM PST · by grundle · 50 replies
    The Times ^ | January 31, 2025 | David Chazan
    Dr Victor Acharian, who sparked a media storm after telling a patient he only treated ‘real women’, has been barred from practising for a month A French gynaecologist has been barred from practising for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women”. Dr Victor Acharian was accused of transphobia after he turned the patient away in August 2023, and LGBT groups lodged complaints. In December he appeared before a disciplinary board of the French Medical Council and he has now been suspended for a month from...
  • Price Transparency and Competition: Put American patients first and drain the health care behemoth’s wasteful costs

    01/30/2025 3:22:56 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 22 replies
    New York Post ^ | 01/28/2025 | Steve Moore and Steve Forbes
    At long last, President Trump is poised to slash government spending and aggressive regulations — and advance his first-term health-spending policies that were obstructed by Congress or overturned by the Biden administration. That’s a big reason why Trump created the now-famous Department of Government Efficiency. The goal: identify and weed out inefficient and counterproductive government spending. Reform could not come soon enough. Health-care costs, in particular, are ballooning the federal deficit and hindering economic growth. DOGE won’t make much progress without lowering the rampant costs of the US health-care system, because an astounding 48% of federal expenditures are devoted to...
  • The tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is alarming. It's not the biggest in US history though, CDC says

    01/29/2025 2:50:37 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Tue, January 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM CST | DEVI SHASTRI
    A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.“We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Kansas Health System. But the high case counts in this outbreak were a “stark warning," he said.The outbreak has killed two people since it started in January 2024, Kansas state health department spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. Health...
  • The shame and horror of NHS corridor care: Devastating 460-page dossier compiled by frontline nurses lays bare shocking reality of 'inhumane' hospital conditions

    01/16/2025 4:13:33 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 43 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 16 Jan 2025 | SHAUN WOOLLER
    Dead patients are lying undiscovered for hours in A&E because NHS staff are too overstretched to notice, a harrowing report reveals today. A severe shortage of beds means the sick are also being left in 'animal-like' conditions in hospital car parks, cupboards and toilets. The Royal College of Nursing today lays bare the tragic collapse of the NHS in a 460-page dossier, titled 'On the frontline of the UK's corridor care crisis'. It features the testimonies of more than 5,000 nurses, who expose how patients are being cruelly 'stripped of their dignity' and routinely suffering avoidable deaths. They say it...
  • Maine Democrats, Illegal Voting, Runaway Health Care Costs Ruining Vacationland

    01/16/2025 6:22:36 PM PST · by Tudorfly · 23 replies
    The Maine Wire ^ | 12/31/2024 | Steve Robinson
    Illegal Aliens and Resident Aliens are voting in Maine and also costing Maine a small fortune in health care expenses, all encouraged and brought to Maine by Democrats.
  • More than 74,000 Canadians have died on health-care wait lists since 2018: report

    01/16/2025 6:15:42 AM PST · by george76 · 37 replies
    National Post ^ | Jan 15, 2025 | Sharon Kirkey
    At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double.. ... The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data ... Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba. ... The government health bodies that did respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests represent 62 per cent of the population. “If the findings from the provinces that did give us data are extrapolated across provinces that didn’t, the total rises to closer to...
  • Canadians Flee To U.S. After Doctors Threaten To ‘Unplug’ Their Son And Harvest His Organs

    01/13/2025 5:32:58 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 01/13/2025 | Logan Washburn
    When a Canadian child was rushed to the hospital after nearly drowning, his parents say doctors threatened to take the child off life support and suggested harvesting his organs. “We had 14 days to prepare his funeral and say goodbye to him,” Nicolas Tétrault, the boy’s father and a former Montreal politician, told The Federalist in English, his second language. “They were promoting to harvest the organs and give them away.” Tétrault said his two-year-old son, Arthur, drowned in October. An ambulance took Arthur to a hospital where doctors resuscitated him, and he was later transferred to Montreal Children’s Hospital,...
  • Why More Americans Are Turning To Holistic Health Care

    01/11/2025 8:05:30 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 22 replies
    Real Clear Health ^ | 01/11/2025 | Maggie Miller
    A significant shift is underway in American healthcare as more people embrace alternative therapies that focus on identifying and addressing the root causes of health issues. This transition, often referred to as “root cause medicine,” represents a departure from traditional reactive medical practices toward a preventative and holistic approach. A movement that is expected to expand in 2025.According to a JAMA study, 37% of adults sought alternative treatments such as acupuncture, yoga, and specialized diagnostic testing —a sharp rise from just 19% two decades ago. This movement is also gaining traction among patients of all ages, particularly those over 55,...
  • Three-Year Med Schools Are Coming

    01/08/2025 1:34:58 PM PST · by karpov · 34 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | January 3, 2025 | Daniel Buck
    Much of medical education is careening into an ideological ditch. Following the directives of the “health equity” movement, med schools have veered off the course of teaching future doctors the basics of anatomy and various medical procedures to instead discuss how systemic racism causes back pain or how doctors can raise their own “critical consciousness.” That being said, there are a few medical schools, such as NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, that are heading in a new, surprisingly promising direction: They’ve crammed the traditional four-year course of study into three years, trimming the electives and carrying classes through the summer....
  • Medical debt soon will be banned on credit reports

    01/07/2025 11:08:29 PM PST · by blueplum · 17 replies
    CNN ^ | 07 Jan 2025 | Tami Luhby
    ...The Biden administration is finalizing a rule Tuesday that will end the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports and ban lenders from using certain medical information in loan decisions. The rule will also remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million people, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in a press release.... Credit reporting agencies and debt collectors are also expected to oppose the rule. They questioned the bureau’s findings and its authority to issue the regulation...
  • Keir Starmer is warned millions of Brits will continue to wait months for NHS treatment - despite PM unveiling a series of 'radical' reforms to improve long waiting lists

    01/07/2025 1:39:44 AM PST · by blueplum · 42 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 05 Jan 2025 | JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
    Millions of people will continue to wait months for NHS treatment despite a series of ‘radical’ reforms to be unveiled by Keir Starmer on Monday.... Sir Keir will hail the reforms as a ‘key plank’ in Labour’s bid to transform Britain. But a new target slipped out by Downing Street last night suggests that at least 35 per cent of all patients will continue to face waits of more than 18 weeks next year, down only slightly from the current figure of 42 per cent. The figures underline warnings from Wes Streeting yesterday that delivering Labour’s pledge to restore the...
  • US Health Insurance: Why is it so Expensive and What Are Its Problems And Potential Solutions?

    01/05/2025 8:23:15 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 63 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 01/05/2024
    American health insurance seems to frustrate everyone. Patients complain that it’s expensive and complicated. Providers say it buries them in paperwork and can negatively affect patient care.Poll after poll indicates that most people simply don’t trust their health insurance provider or the health care system itself. Fully 70 percent of the country thinks American health care has major problems or is in a state of crisis. Consumer satisfaction is at a 24-year low.Frustration with health insurers may have turned to rage in a young man accused of killing a UnitedHealthcare executive in New York City on Dec. 4. The alleged...
  • Price transparency could be the healthcare win Trump wants (and America needs)

    01/05/2025 12:00:24 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/05/2025 | Cynthia A. Fisher
    Americans nationwide have every reason to be optimistic that positive change is on the horizon for the nation’s healthcare system. Though new government figures show costs $4.9 trillion per year and 17.6 percent of GDP, straining families, businesses, workers and public-sector budgets, President-elect Trump and his healthcare nominees are poised to deliver access to quality care at far lower costs, by fully realizing his price transparency legacy. Using power vested by the Affordable Care Act, Trump issued hospital and health insurance price transparency rules during his first administration that empower consumers, including employers and unions, with actual prices for their...
  • United Healthcare Assassination Puts New Spotlight on Ghost Guns

    On December 4th, 2024, at 6:45 ET, an assassin killed United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York City in front of the Hilton Hotel. Video of the assassination shows the assassin with what appears to be a pistol with a suppressor attached. The assassin fires at least two shots, possibly three, while manually working the action at least twice. This would leave two shell cases and a potentially loaded round or three shell cases at the crime scene.On December 9th, 2024, a suspect was identified in a McDonald’s at about 0914 a.m. in Altoona, PA. Altoona police officers approached...
  • RFK Jr: Arrest Bill Gates

    12/27/2024 4:47:45 AM PST · by spirited irish · 35 replies
    X ^ | Liz Churchill on X
    “Bill Gates has control of the WHO that mandates ‘vaccines’ all over the World. The companies that make those vaccines…Gates is a major shareholder. He’s also doing the same thing with the ‘Green Revolution’…” -RFK Jr.
  • Canada’s Dysfunctional Healthcare System Fears ER Surge During Holidays

    12/25/2024 2:01:20 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/25/2024 | Francis Martel
    Health providers in Canada have expressed concern in the weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year that the country’s overburdened healthcare system could see a dangerous surge in the number of patients in emergency rooms, encouraging prospective patients to exhaust other available options before going to hospitals. The holidays approach following the publication of reports this month that wait times to see doctors in Canada, particularly specialists, are longer than even in the modern history of the country, and thousands of Canadians are dying on waitlists for life-saving medical interventions.
  • Health care, the transition, the economy, Hunter Biden, and crypto: December 8-10, 2024 Economist/YouGov Poll

    12/24/2024 9:21:09 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    YouGov ^ | 12/24/2024 | Kathy Francovic
    This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers the health-care system, the presidential transition, the economy, President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter, and cryptocurrency.Health careTwo-thirds (66%) of Americans with health insurance say they are very or somewhat satisfied with it; 14% say they are dissatisfied while 20% say they do not have health insurance or are not sureThe highest satisfaction levels are among Americans with health insurance coverage from Medicare (86%) or Medicaid (89%)One in four Americans (25%) say they or an immediate family member have ever had a health insurance claim denied60% of Americans who have had an insurance claim in...
  • US Medical Panel endorses new terminology for Early Pregnancy

    12/23/2024 3:25:25 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 3 replies
    For the first time, a multi-medical society panel has developed and endorsed a uniform lexicon for describing the observations seen on US during the first trimester of pregnancy. The lexicon addresses terms frequently used in first trimester US reports, such as ‘ectopic pregnancy,’ ‘heartbeat,’ ‘living’ and ‘viable.' The panel was convened by the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU). Other societies participating in the development of the lexicon included the Society of Abdominal Radiology, the American College of Radiology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the American...