Healthcare

$60 Billion a Year in Medicare Fraud

Medicare fraud is a $60 billion a year industry, and in places like Miami, Florida, it is actually bigger than the drug trade....

Steven J. DuBord October 28, 2009

Swine Flu Emergency Declaration Elicits Questions, Criticism

Alex Newman October 27, 2009

President Barack Obama granted himself more broad powers late last week when he declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, announcing the...

Senate Healthcare Bill Will Have Public Plan

Steven J. DuBord October 27, 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on October 26 that Senate healthcare reform legislation will include a public option that would allow...

Study Finds Obama Is Focusing Upon Wrong Healthcare Waste

Thomas R. Eddlem October 27, 2009

A major healthcare study by Thomson-Reuters has concluded that the United States wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion on healthcare annually, a...

New York State Backs Off Forced Vaccines

Alex Newman October 24, 2009

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

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...