Healthcare Archives

New York State Backs Off Forced Vaccines

A rule that would have forced half of a million healthcare workers in the state of New York to be vaccinated for seasonal...

Alex Newman October 24, 2009

Report Sees Flaws in Baucus Healthcare Bill

Steven J. DuBord October 23, 2009

A Cure Worse Than the Disease: Obama Care Won’t Cut Costs, But May Cut Quality is the title of an October 22 report...

Florida Plans Plug Pulling, Death Panels, Healthcare Rationing

Alex Newman October 23, 2009

Public health officials in Florida are silently drawing up guidelines that call for “rationed” medical care, admission denials, and even withdrawing essential care...

Investigation: Swine Flu Numbers Inflated

Alex Newman October 22, 2009

Most people who were diagnosed with probable or presumed swine flu in the last few months likely did not actually have it, a...

NY Judge Temporarily Stops Mandatory Shots

Alex Newman October 20, 2009

A justice for the New York Supreme Court in Albany issued a temporary reprieve late last week from mandatory H1N1 and seasonal flu...

Obama Attacks Healthcare Studies

Thomas R. Eddlem October 17, 2009

President Obama used his weekly radio address this weekend to attack two health insurance industry-funded studies that concluded the President's healthcare proposal pending...

Swine Flu Seizures

Alex Newman October 15, 2009

Concern over the H1N1 swine flu has inundated the airwaves and the newspapers since active swine flu was first identified in Mexico in...

Getting Your Health Insurance at the DMV

Steven J. DuBord October 15, 2009

The Senate Finance Committee healthcare reform bill approved this week provides that Americans will be able to enroll in healthcare plans at their...

Swine Flu: The Risks and Efficacy of Vaccines

Alex Newman October 14, 2009

Death from the flu is often heartrending for those who have to watch: the victim, having been weakened from the flu virus, contracts...

Senate Finance Committee Clears Healthcare Bill

Thomas R. Eddlem October 14, 2009

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee voted to send a health care “reform” bill to the full Senate by a 14-9 vote October 13....

Insurance Industry Criticizes Healthcare Bill

Steven J. DuBord October 13, 2009

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), an insurance industry trade group, released a report on October 11 that is critical of the Senate Finance...

Massachusetts House Approves Quarantine Bill

Alex Newman October 13, 2009

The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly late last week in favor of a draconian bill that purports to give public health and...