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US Sailors Claim Cancer From Helping At Fukushima
by Tammy on December 20, 2013Jamie Plym and Maurice Enis (inset) were among the 50 other crewmembers of the USS Ronald Reagan who have joined a lawsuit against Fukishima Power Plant operators TEPCO in which claims are made that the power company with held information about a radioactive leak in the days after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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Signing Up For Obamacare? First, Read the Fine Print!
by Shifra on December 19, 2013Excellent “catch” by Edward Morrissey, regarding the continuing Obamacare fiasco. (And he provides a clear definition of the difference between Medicaid and Medicare.) via Yahoo Finance: The Obamacare ‘Shotgun Wedding’ — Marry or Lose Your Home ….Instead of designing a solution that focused on the half of the 15 percent who needed better options and leaving everyone else alone, Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill insisted on imposing an overhaul of the entire health-insurance industry. This includes, crucially, an unprecedented individual mandate to carry health-insurance coverage. The ACA contains a highly-complex series of subsidies that help working-class Americans pay the now-skyrocketing premiums caused by coverage mandates on insurers, but only down to a certain income level. Below...
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Even Tippy The Fainting Squirrel Is Horrified By Obamacare
by Shifra on December 6, 2013For reasons unknown, this video has become an internet sensation; a squirrel, dubbed “Tippy” because of his tendency to repeatedly tip over and faint. via Honor Via Everyone is chiming in with possible diagnoses for Tippy’s condition, ranging from “Brain… this is your brain on Liberalism” to “intoxication from fermented acorns.” Well, I am not a veterinarian (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn once) but here is my diagnosis: Tippy is suffering from Obamacare Sticker Shock. Tippy has just learned that his new Obamacare insurance policy has a $13,000 deductible. He faints, gets up, remembers the $13K deductible, and faints again. No one is safe from this disaster. Not even poor Tippy. Related: via CBC News: Tippy the...
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If He Had His Way… Obama Promises: “If You Like Your Teeth, You Can Keep Them”
by Shifra on November 22, 2013(Major h/t to @rossmallioux on Twitter for this clever tweet!) Is dental insurance included in Obamacare? If so, will it be offered at Home Depot, next to the wrenches and power tools? From the *fab* pic of POTUS, it looks like a good deal to me
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Obamacare Update: Lost Jobs, Exposed Social Security Numbers, Hospital Units Shutting Down
by Tammy on September 15, 2013We are a scant 17 days away from the disaster of ObamaCare becoming official. Despite the obvious debacle, no one in Washington has attempted to stop this monster from setting its boot on our neck yet they’re still scrambling to save themselves. Here’s a brief update on where things stand. First big Obamacare security breach reported The company handling Minnesota’s health insurance exchange program for the Affordable Care Act accidentally sent out more than 2,400 names, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information to an insurance broker, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Friday. When the security breach was discovered, MNsure phoned the broker, Jim Koester, to walk him and his assistant through the procedure for deleting the information from their...
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Veterans Affairs Officials Regret Patient Deaths But Keep Bonuses
by Tammy on September 10, 2013Really, where do these people come from? The irony here is if anyone deserves the best healthcare it’s our veterans. And this sort of government-managed healthcare is where they want us all to be. If this were the United States of Tammy, what happened here to our vets would be handled as a criminal matter. Instead, bonuses. Via Fox News. Top health care officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs apologized for a recent string of preventable patient deaths, but not for the big performance bonuses paid out afterwards, during a congressional field hearing in Pittsburgh Monday. The apologies followed tearful testimony from the families of veterans who died at VA facilities in Pittsburgh and Atlanta, and from agency whistleblowers...
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It’s Up to Us! Don’t Fund It! The Countdown to Obamacare.
by Patricia on July 29, 2013Once again, it’s up to us – boots on the ground to stop this government take over of our healthcare by convincing our representatives not to fund it. We have to be persistent, vigilant, and unrelenting in making our demands clear. As of this post we have only 63 days left! Contact everyone http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ this is our last chance and only we can make this happen. from: Don’t Fund It! The Countdown to Obamacare On October 1st, millions of Americans will be required to enroll in Obamacare and could lose access to their doctors and be forced to pay higher premiums and higher taxes. But there’s still time to stop it. Republicans in Congress can stop Obamacare if they refuse...
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An Obama “Ethics Panel” Approves Testing Anthrax Vaccine In Children, Including Infants
by Tammy on March 19, 2013Gee, I guess Obama’s peace and love unicorn-laden Garden of Eden ain’t so much. I’m curious to see your thoughts on this. Which infants will be used for testing? Will testing primarily affect the poor who may need money so desperately they’ll volunteer their children? My issue is, I so don’t trust the government at this point, not only about their agenda, but about actually getting something like this right. Everything the Fed touches these days seems to go awry, so it makes me very, very, nervous. Test of anthrax vaccine in children gets tentative OK A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from...
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After Passing CR That Funds Obamacare, GOP Presents Budget Symbolically Repealing It
by Tammy on March 12, 2013A very concise headline from CNS describing the absurdity of what the GOP is doing, all gestures while doing the opposite when it comes to actual action. And we wonder why we’re in such trouble. Via CNS News. One week after voting to give the Obama administration full funding for the implementation of Obamacare in the must-pass continuing resolution that will fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal 2013, the House Republicans are once again vowing to symbolically repeal Obamacare in legislation that is not must-pass. “We don’t like this law,” House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said of Obamacare as he unveiled his budget for fiscal year 2014 at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. “This is why...
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Um, Not Good. CDC Warns Of Spread Of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
by Tammy on March 5, 2013Why this isn’t being reported as major news I have no idea. This is an emergency national heath issue, and yet flu season gets more attention. Make double-sure you know the conditions under which loved ones are living in or being treated in. While this story is from a local Miami affiliate, this is a national problem. Via CBS Miami. An antibiotic-resistant family of bacteria continues to spread throughout the U.S. health care system and is now prompting warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria, Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), kill up to half of the patients who get the bloodstream infections from the disease. The disease has evolved a resistance to carbapenems, also called last-resort antibiotics. In...
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New Column: Peas In A Pod==> Obama’s War On Our Troops & Rove’s War On Tea Party
by Tammy on February 6, 2013Obama and Rove really are the same animal. Both see this nation as an irritant, something to put up with and ultimately silence in their push for more money and power. Finally, we see their agendas self-destructively coincide. Obama wants the money and power the United States can afford him, while he works to irreparably damage this nation. His latest target? Our troops. Rove, on the other hand, claims to be a conservative fighting for the GOP, as he now focuses on destroying the Tea Party, the one entity of independent conservatives which was able to bring the GOP back into power in 2010 after Rove and the Republican machine destroyed any hope for relevance with massive failures in 2008...
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ObamaCare Preview? UK Putting Sick Babies on “Death Pathway”
by Shifra on December 4, 2012**A Post by Shifra** Remember when all the Liberals apologized to Sarah Palin for mocking her use of the term “death panels” when it came to ObamaCare? Yeah, neither do I. But I’ll tell you what I do remember: Two years ago, I heard Paul Krugman, economist, NYT writer and Uber-Liberal, on a Sunday talk-show, explaining that the U.S. will get its debt crisis under control by the use of “debt panels.” “What’s a ‘debt panel?’” I wondered. And didn’t it sound like “death panel?” I began to worry about my hearing. Maybe I needed to see a good ENT person. I was thinking about this as I read this UK Daily Mail article. Sick children are being discharged from...
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Pay Off the Fed, Pass Go, Do Not Go To Jail. Glaxo SmithKline settles fraud case for $3B
by Tammy on July 2, 2012“Largest case of healthcare fraud in US history.” On these issues affecting life and death, not one person going to jail. If any of the rest of us did this we’d be in jail for the rest of our lives. Pay off the government, pass go, do not go to jail. GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials on Monday described as the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history… GSK targeted the antidepressant Paxil to patients under age 18 when it was approved for adults only, and it pushed the drug Wellbutrin for uses it was not approved for, including weight loss and treatment of sexual...
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GOP Preps Plans for ObamaCare Ruling, May Keep Portions in Place
by Tammy on May 17, 2012The odds of them getting anything done and passed by January is pretty low, but it’s possible. But it’s certainly Reason #1,889,045 to make sure we get a Tea Party Congress in place January 2013 Health care reform: GOP preps plan for ruling on law House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama’s health care law. If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear out its most controversial pieces, such as the individual mandate and requirements that employers provide insurance or face fines. If the law is partially or fully overturned they’ll draw up bills to keep the popular, consumer-friendly portions...
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Cheney: ‘Everything’s marvelous’ since transplant’
by Tammy on April 23, 2012A genuine hero, God bless him and his family. Everything we liked about the George W. Bush administration came from this man, and I’m convinced he is uniquely responsible for keeping this nation safe and free not only during that time, but in all of his political work. He’s also a good example why we need to fire Obama–so others can receive the kind of amazing medical care from advances made possible only in the free market system. Thank goodness he’s still with us 🙂 Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that “everything’s been marvelous ever since” he received a heart transplant one month ago, as he encouraged college students to sign up as organ donors. “I’m feeling very well,”...
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