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Cut Costs Without Rationing Care By Putting Patient Back In Charge1. End the unfair tax on the uninsured. We should give tax credits to individuals and families who are uninsured or self-insured, thereby putting them on the same ground as those with employer-sponsored insurance.
Who Is Richard Scott— and Why Is He Saying These Things about Health Care Reform? I came accross this link on the Huffington Post site and thought it was worth sharing. Pretty much sums up what what Richard Scott stands for and where he stands on the health-care issue.
"How to make your pelvic exam not suck"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a ... writer/activist/educator who works for a gynecological teaching asssociation, teaching med students how to give pelvic exams that—among other things—take women's trauma histories into consideration.
Judge Expected To Rule Friday In Forced Chemo CaseThis is being characterized as a case of religious rights, since the parents say they are refusing conventional cancer treatment based on their religious views.
Why Cant Our Veterans Receive Decent Hospital Care? Former veteran sent home from VA hospital with IV needle still stuck in his arm and in a hospital gown.
Vet Administration Confiscate's Reporter's Recording of InterviewAfter hearing a certain patient speak at the event, Schultz said he approached him for an interview. Their talk was interrupted by a VA employee, who asked Schultz to hand over the sound card containing the interview.
Doctors forcing patients to sign gag orders to prevent them posting criticism on-lineThe anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people."
As Arizona Goes? Prop 101 ignored in furor over Prop 8, can affect your healthcare choiceArizona's Prop 101 fight may have far more wide-reaching import than the Prop 8 furor. Prop 101 was titled the Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act; it proposed that patients should retain the right to seek their own choice of healthcare provider and may pay cash if desired.
Rules Let Health Workers Deny AbortionsNew Bush proposed legislation may allow health care workers deny patients access to contraceptives, and could possibly act as a springboard for insurers/HMOs to remove contraception from their benefits package.
South Dakota's unbelievable new abortion law.In 2005, South Dakota passed an unprecedented abortion law. The statute purports to be about ensuring that patients give informed consent.
Nursing Homes, In Bid to Cut Costs, Prod Patients to Sign Away Right to SueNursing-home patients and their families are increasingly giving up their right to sue over disputes about care, including those involving deaths, as the homes write binding arbitration into their standard contracts.
Organs to be taken without consent. By Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly. 8:53am GMT 13/01/2008Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to allow hospitals to take organs from dead patients without explicit consent.
I've mentioned before that my mom is in a nursing home. She had a stroke about 3 years ago. Oddly and fortunately, as it turned out, she had it while in the hospital recovering from a heart attack.
FDA in violation of Nuremberg Code?It was reported on the front page of Wednesday's Wall Street Journal that despite doctor pleas and 2 fatalities, Northfield Laboratories Inc. has been given the okay by the FDA to continue clinical trials of a blood substitute called PolyHeme.
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