What Has Started Happening Even Before The Health Bill Is Passed

10-09 Farm Wars Barbara Peterson reported that Pennsylvania drafted a mandatory vaccination law.

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If you're a Canadian, you've probably seen by now the story of Shona Holmes, the Hamilton-area woman who was on an American television commercial, telling the story of how she couldn't get treatment in Canada for a brain tumor, so she fled to the United States for treatment and w …

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Time For Democrats To Play Hardball With The Healthcare Narrative

Gary over at TPM raises a significant point on the healthcare debate, asking "Ever wonder why Republicans aren't holding live town halls on healthcare?" The conclusion at which he arrives - and I am inclined to agree with him - is that no Republican politician in his right mind …

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You hear leading Republicans say that the U.S. has the best health care system in the world. They say that at press conferences. They say that during interviews on cable news networks. They say that to the Washington Press Corps.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractured her right elbow Wednesday during a fall, State Department officials said.

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Yep, those crazy liberal hippies at the New York Times have conducted yet another research poll with CBS News. Questions covered a variety of social and political issues affecting Americans today in these most unstable of times.

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An important element is being overlooked in the healthcare debate between the Democratic presidential candidates: Namely, whether the plans they propose are constitutional.

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During the first 30 years of my life, I had no health insurance. Neither did a lot of other people, back in those days.

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The WSJ writes about a "last line of defense against" Healthy Wisconsin, but I say, let Wisconsin try it! Their suffering will be for the greater good.

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There's absolutely no mystery why our greatest complaints are in the arena of government-delivered services and the fewest in market-delivered services. In the market, there are the ruthless forces of profit, loss and bankruptcy that make producers accountable to us.

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But the box office numbers tell the story: In Sicko's first three day weekend after it opened nationally on June 29 in 702 theaters, its total gross was $3,600,179 or an average of $5,128 per theater.

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Three months passed. Then six. He waited at home, a prisoner unable to leave the house for fear something would hit the exposed side of his brain – for him a potentially fatal incident. In the end, it took nearly a year before he could get skull replacement surgery.

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The availability of surgeons to do the operations is part of the problem. Dr. Brian Colquhoun was performing bariatric surgery in Saskatoon until last spring when he stopped because of his own poor health. Only one other doctor has been doing the surgery since then.

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THE true state of Britain's hospitals can be revealed today in a shocking People investigation. Despite a record cash injection of £84.3 billion - £4,000 for every UK household - the NHS is on the critical list...and fading fast. Our investigation found:

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Dental care also has another function. Neglected teeth rot. Rotted teeth fall out. And toothlessness is a signifier, in our culture, of poverty and backwardness.

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While Ottawa and the provinces are struggling to reduce surgical wait times for hips and knees, some Canadians are waiting years to see a back specialist, according to a new survey released to CTV and The Globe and Mail.

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There's a cure for our health care problems. That cure is not to demand more government but less government. I challenge anyone to identify a problem with health care in America that is not caused or aggravated by federal, state and local governments.

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A doctor has gone public with his concerns about the state of Sudbury Regional Hospital.

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Growing numbers of operations are being cancelled because of a lack of sterile surgical instruments, newly released figures show. Some Health Service trusts have seen an eight-fold increase since 2003 in the amount of patients turned away at the last minute.

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