The Healthcare Morass

By: Laura Adelmann
With the public option seemingly off the table, Harry Reid and Senate Democrats had to look for another idea to sway votes for the healthcare bill. Their latest offering? Expand Medicare to allow a buy in for those between the ages of 55 and 64. This Medicare option now appears to be off [...]

Rationing: Ladies First

By: Laura Adelmann
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services’s Preventative Services Task Force issued new mammogram guidelines for women. If the recommendations are followed, gone are yearly mammograms for women between 40 and 50 years old and women over 75. The Task Force claims that cost was not a consideration, but rather the [...]

The Importance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by: Congressman John Shadegg

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  It is a time for women across America to highlight the importance of prevention and to celebrate the millions of breast cancer survivors across our nation. This year, it is also a time to recognize the looming danger of government-run health care and what it could mean for America’s [...]

Better to be a tourist than a patient

By Lisa Farrar Wellman
I love the UK. I’ve been there twice. I can’t get over the history, the beauty, the little red mailboxes. I mean, it’s great. London is one of my favorite cities in the world, in fact. I just have no intention of ever being there when I’m feeling feeble.
Apparently, in what the [...]

A “Townhall” Event: Cincinnati, Ohio

By Laura Adelmann
The Women’s City Club of Greater Cincinnati hosted a healthcare townhall on August 3, 2009, with Congressman Steve Driehaus. The event was held at a local church and was standing room only with overflow into an adjoining room with speakers. Congressman Driehaus began with a speech after stating that he [...]

That Pesky Public Option

By Laura Adelmann
The Democrats are again steamrolling their agenda through Congress. Whether the vote takes place this week or after the August recess, it is likely that the Democrats’ plan for healthcare reform will include a public option or government run insurance program intended to compete with private insurance. Underestimating the damage [...]

A Golden Opportunity

By: Laura Adelmann
In fumbling through what he thought would be a slam dunk ad for his healthcare proposals, Barack Obama has presented us with a golden opportunity. He had, as Ed Morrissey on Hotair.com labeled it, a “Dukakis Moment.” He has given us his true opinion of his own healthcare plan. Dr. [...]

Canada Doesn’t Get It

By: Ellen Janoski

Barack Obama has scheduled a play date this month with Canada’s NDP (New Democratic Party) leader, Jack Layton. President Obama plans to sit down with Canada’s premier socialist “expert” on how to best nationalize our healthcare system.

Layton, who is known in his homeland for trying to imitate Obama’s feel good speeches, and Obama’s state-of-the-art suit ensembles, will now be urging Obama to imitate his party’s healthcare principles. Layton will spend three days this month bragging to Americans about Canada-Care, delivering speeches and meeting with Democrats.

When Brad Lavinge, the National Director of Canada’s NDP, was asked about the upcoming appointment, he stated, “We would go down there to not only defend Canada’s health-care system — but encourage them to adopt similar features.”

Lavinge went on to say, “”[Medicare] is one of the greatest connections we have to each other. Regardless of your economic status, if you get sick, you will get care.”

Lavinge is right of course. If Canadians get sick, they do get care. He just fails to mention how long it may take depending on your ailment.

According to a recent study published in Health Affairs it could take a Canadian cancer patient up to 3 months to receive treatment. It was found that you were most likely to wait more than 1 month for elective surgery, 6 days or longer to see a doctor when ill…the list goes on.

Entitlement Mania

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By: Laura Adelmann
Is there something about our culture that makes an ever growing number of Americans feel that they should be getting everything they want, with no real effort on their part? What happened to the values of working hard and saving, starter homes and delayed gratification? It seems they’ve disappeared from [...]

Popular Ranking Unfairly Misrepresents the U.S. Health Care System

By: Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD
The media and political community have made a big deal out of the fact that the U.S. ranks 37 out of 191 countries on the World Health Organization’s Health Care Ranking System.  Is this tool a credible way to compare quality health care delivered in the U.S. vs the rest of [...]