CBO report says healthcare law could cause as many as 20M to lose coverage – The Hill’s Healthwatch

As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-provided coverage because of President Obama’s healthcare reform law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new report Thursday.

The figure represents the worst-case scenario, CBO says, and the law could just as well increase the number of people with employer-based coverage by 3 million in 2019.

The best estimate, subject to a “tremendous amount of uncertainty,” is that about 3 million to 5 million fewer people will obtain coverage through their employer each year from 2019 through 2022.

via CBO report says healthcare law could cause as many as 20M to lose coverage – The Hill’s Healthwatch.

UK doctors warn new superbug gene found in patients from India, Pakistan could spread widely

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LONDON (AP) — People traveling to India for medical procedures have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance could soon appear worldwide.

Though already widespread in India, the new superbug gene is being increasingly spotted in Britain and elsewhere. Experts warn the booming medical tourism industries in India and Pakistan could fuel a surge in antibiotic resistance, as patients import dangerous bugs to their home countries.

The superbug gene, which can be swapped between different bacteria to make them resistant to most drugs, has so far been identified in 37 people who returned to the U.K. after undergoing surgery in India or Pakistan.

via UK doctors warn new superbug gene found in patients from India, Pakistan could spread widely – chicagotribune.com.

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POST ABORTION TRAUMA COULD = LAWSUIT | Blogs | Life Matters

Post-abortion problems could = lawsuit Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow – 7/25/2010 4:20:00 AMDespite a recent federal court ruling, Nebraska women can file lawsuits for psychological injuries resulting from an abortion. Psychological problems post-abortion have been proven in previous research, but David Reardon of the Stop Forced Abortions Alliance reports that Nebraska women can now rely on the courts for relief, “especially if they feel coerced into abortion or had any of the risk factors predicting psychological problems after abortion, such as negative moral beliefs about the abortion, feeling pressured into the abortion by other people, history of depression, [or] being an adolescent.”

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The Rationer-in-Chief – The Truth About British Health Care

When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to her regimen. But the rationing body for Britain’s National Health Service, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), had previously ruled that the drug was not cost-effective and therefore would not be paid for by the government. So O’Boyle liquidated her savings and paid for the drug herself. But this is not allowed under NHS rules. When government bureaucrats found out that O’Boyle had purchased the drug with her own money, she was denied NHS treatment and died within months.

via Morning Bell: The Rationer-in-Chief | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News..

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The Affordable Care Act: Propaganda

Uninsured people with pre-existing conditions may qualify for this new coverage. Notice how the will be covered has changed to may.

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Obama appoints comrade Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without undergoing confirmation hearings in the Senate.

Berwick favors redistribution of wealth, health care rationing and believes Britain’s National Health Care System is the perfect model.

Those who thought Palin’s ‘death panels‘ remarks were a joke will not be laughing now.

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