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PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 12:41 pm 
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McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy

Exclusive: Department of Health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease

The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.

In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign groups to be the equivalent of handing smoking policy over to the tobacco industry, health secretary Andrew Lansley has set up five "responsibility deal" networks with business, co-chaired by ministers, to come up with policies. Some of these are expected to be used in the public health white paper due in the next month.

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PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2011 10:40 am 
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Number of Brits waiting more than 18 weeks for health care rises 26%

Doctors are blaming financial pressures on the NHS for an increase in the number of patients who are not being treated within the 18 weeks that the government recommends.

New NHS performance data reveal that the number of people in England who are being forced to wait more than 18 weeks has risen by 26% in the last year, while the number who had to wait longer than six months has shot up by 43%.

In March this year, 34,639 people, or 11% of the total, waited more than that time to receive inpatient treatment, compared with 27,534, or 8.3%, in March 2010 – an increase of 26% – Department of Health statistics show.

Similarly, in March this year some 11,243 patients who underwent treatment had waited for more than six months, compared with 7,841 in the same month in 2010 – a 43% rise.

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 Post subject: Re: Tales of Socalized Health Care
PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:52 am 
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if you think this is bad just wait until democrats get to FULLY decide who gets entitlments and who doesn't.

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Daily Caller, by Joanne Butler

“I used to be a drunk, but now I’m bipolar.” A guy who was applying for Social Security disability benefits once said these words, which sum up the problem with this entitlement program. Thursday’s Wall Street Journal article about a “just say yes” Social Security administrative law judge (ALJ) in West Virginia who granted benefits to 100% of the people on his case docket during this fiscal year highlights one problem with the program, but its roots are deeper. The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, which was created in the 1950s, was designed to provide cash benefits


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In Sweden, ambulance denied because woman was 'still talking'

A woman from northern Sweden died after four calls placed over a four day period requesting to have an ambulance sent to her home in Timrå were ignored.

"She was having trouble breathing. She was instructed to call the healthcare information hotline and there they thought she sounded irritated," the young woman's mother told the local Sundsvalls Tidningen.

Following her daughter's death, the mother has had the transcripts of her daughter's conversations with emergency service operator SOS Alarm read to her.

The mother told the newspaper that healthcare representatives have since told her that her daughter's first call for an ambulance was denied because she "was still communicating verbally".

"That's totally insane. If you can't communicate verbally, you can't call for an ambulance anyway," another close relative told the newspaper.

During the woman's first call, she complained that she had had a fever, chills, and aches for an entire week.

By the third call, she had a friend on hand in hopes of convincing emergency call operators to send an ambulance so she could get to hospital.

Her final call for an ambulance came at 1am on January 27th. A few hours later, she was dead.

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UK'S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BEGINS RATIONING SURGERIES

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health care costs by 2020

CNN Money, by Parija Kavilanz


NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The U.S. government will foot the bill for half of all health care costs in the United States by 2020, according to a government report released Thursday.

That's up from 44% just two years ago, and reflects both the rising cost of health care and the fact that millions more people will have access to it under health reform, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Total health care spending is expected to nearly double to $4.6 trillion in 2020, from $2.6 trillion in 2010.

Health care spending per capita is forecast to increase to $13,708 in 2020 from $8,327 in 2010, the report said.


http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/28/news/ec ... /index.htm


and not one of the worthless libtards can explain where the money to pay for all this will come from.

I sometimes think these idiots truly believe obama is just going to pass it out to everybody.

they'll just stand in line for all the freebies and entitlements he touted during his campaign.

that is their mentality.

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NHS delays operations 'as it waits for
patients to die or go private'

Telegraph [UK], by Martin Beckford


NHS managers are deliberately delaying operations as they wait for patients either to die or go private in order to save money, according to an official report. Health service trusts are “imposing pain and inconvenience” by making patients wait longer than necessary, in some cases as long as four months, the study found. Executives believe the delays mean some people will remove themselves from lists “either by dying or by paying for their own treatment” claims the report, by an independent watchdog that advises the NHS. The Co-operation and Competition Panel says the tactic is one of a number used


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 Post subject: Re: Tales of Socalized Health Care
PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:25 am 
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Plan to keep your health plan? Don't count on it
Washington Examiner, by Byron York


In June 2009, as he fought to pass the Democrats' national health care bill, President Obama made a clear, unequivocal pledge. "No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people," Obama said. "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."

Spoken with great confidence, Obama's words were meant to reassure, and it's possible many Americans believed them. But at the same time, the president and his Democratic allies in Congress built the new health care law on provisions that, when acting together, guarantee that some people -- perhaps many people -- won't be able to keep their health care plans.

On the one hand, the new law orders the establishment of health care "exchanges" through which anyone can purchase government-subsidized coverage. On the other hand, the law levies fines on employers who fail to offer coverage to their employees -- but sets the fine far below the cost of coverage. In 2010, the average employer paid $4,150 to cover a single employee and $9,773 for family coverage. (Both figures are about double what they were in 2000.) The new law sets fines for employers who don't cover their workers at $2,000.

So when it takes effect in 2014, the law will give employers a choice: Continue to offer increasingly expensive health coverage, or pay a relatively small fine, save a lot of money, and let employees buy their own subsidized coverage on the exchange. The incentive seems pretty clear.


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are you liberal ass holes still happy you voted for this worthless trash?

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39 chances to diagnose
tumour that killed pensioner

Daily Mail, by Jessica Satherley

Health chiefs have apologised to the family of a woman whose lung cancer was missed - even though she was seen by doctors 39 times in three years.

Jean Cross, 60, died alone in a hospital toilet after being misdiagnosed with a ‘frozen shoulder’ when she actually had a tumour so large it was pressing into her arm.

She repeatedly visited her local health centre over three years and was prescribed painkillers and advised to have physiotherapy for a frozen shoulder.

But Jean, of Moray, Scotland, died on a hospital toilet floor on April 5, just hours before scan results finally revealed the tumour.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1WjMhCCQ8


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... ioner.html


Coming soon to an ObamaCare facility near you

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I think Obama's approval ratings will go up substantially following his great speech tonight. He straightened out many of the lies that have been told in the past few months, and in my opinion inspired the nation to support health care reform.
It really was a great speech. I especially liked this line.
I believe that soon, very soon, affordable health coverage will be available to all, in an America where the state of a family’s health will never again depend on the amount of a family’s wealth




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Produce Report Showing That the
Health Care Overhaul Will Make
Health Insurance More Expensive

Reason Online, by Peter Suderman


When Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services, which manages health programs within the state, wanted to get a better sense of how last year’s health care overhaul would affect insurance coverage within the state, they turned to Jonathan Gruber, a health policy expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who served as a consultant on both Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care overhaul and (somewhat controversially) President Obama’s nationwide successor program.

Gruber! is a frequent defender of ObamaCare as well as one of its architects. And the report was ordered under Wisconsin’s departed Democratic Governor Jim Doyle, who, after leaving the governor's office, signed on to an ObamaCare agitprop mill dedicated to highlighting “the stories of the millions of Americans who are already benefiting from this important law and how it will benefit millions more in the coming years.” So it's not exactly a hit job.

The report Doyle ordered before leaving office certainly reveals something about how the law will affect hundreds of thousands of individuals in the state he used to govern, it's not all flattering. Indeed, it’s telling that despite bring ordered and authored by true-blue ObamaCare backers, a big part of what this report suggests is that the law will ultimately raise the health insurance costs for large numbers of the state’s residents.

Naturally, Gruber’s leads with a smiley face, noting for the umpteenth time that the law is expected to increase health insurance coverage; approximately 340,000 of the state’s residents are expected to gain insurance coverage by 2016. Of course, about 170,000 of the newly covered will be shuffled into Medicaid, a program that’s wrecking state budgets and providing, at best, uncertain health benefits.

Meanwhile expanding the state’s health insurance coverage will come at a significant cost to hundreds of thousands of individuals,


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UK docs ordered to ration cancer scans

Coming soon to a hospital near you . . . if we don't defeat Obamacare® Inc.

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keeps seeping out

Washington Examiner, by Editorial


When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said that she had to pass Obamacare through Congress so that we could find out what was in it, Americans were given a preview of what they are seeing now -- a profusion of legislative errors and broken promises related to President Obama's virtual government takeover of health care. Just this month, we have seen another tranche of bad Obamacare news.

Last week, Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, acknowledged that -- as Obamacare's critics have contended all along -- the bill will prompt many employers to drop their health plans. "Most small businesses are not going to be in the health insurance business anymore after this thing goes into effect,"

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2 ... z1ZAsmJDuD


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My premiums have risen 25% in the last year because of this disaster perpetrated on us by the walking clusterfuk

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Care Act: Obamacare is already
infecting America's economy

New York Daily News, by Andrea Tantaros


Someone call the doctor. The side effects of President Obama's Affordable Care Act are becoming apparent, and so is the irony. This week, nonprofit research group The Kaiser Family Foundation found that, despite the title, "affordable" health care premiums have risen steeply under the law - with the annual premium for family coverage through an employer reaching $15,073 in 2011, an increase of 9% over the previous year. Or as Politico put it: Premiums are now costing families as much as a new car.

This wasn't supposed to happen. Remember, the real reason for ramming the bill through Congress was to bring costs down. In fact, the White House is still claiming the law will lower premiums.



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Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions

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Now patients are denied 'breakthrough'
prostate cancer drug as health watchdogs
brand it too expensive

Daily Mail, by Jenny Hope


A ‘breakthrough’ drug that gives extra months of life to men with advanced prostate cancer has been rejected for use on the NHS.

The once-daily pill was developed by UK scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and trials were partly funded by British charities.

But it has been branded as too expensive by the rationing watchdog the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.


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