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Robert Reich, Clinton’s Secretary of Labor and avid Obama supporter, wants to deny health care to old folks. They’re too expensive. He also told an audience in 2007 that most people will not live longer than their parents. Again, too expensive. He wants to force medical technology...
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Of course the news scum spin it at the end. That is to be expected.
www.youtube.com/watch
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OK so I'm working on this story about health care reform. I find something out by pure accident and I decide to call the Senate Finance Committee today in Washington, D.C. to see if this proposal has a bill number yet (No, not 3200). Well, I get sent to the voicemail...
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Seems a little over the top, but The Hill, a publication that covers DC politics, recently published a story leading with the "escape plan" Bakersfield and CSUB police "devised" for Congressman Kevin McCarthy at his recent town hall meeting at the Icardo Center.
Seems like...
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Forgive the cut and paste job. This is just too good as is.
"Right Wing’s Anti-Health Care Icon Is Uninsured, Seeking Donations To Pay For Care
Last week, during a scuffle between health care town hall protesters and SEIU members at a town hall hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO),...
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With Obama's polls dropping below 50% for the first time in his professional career (on this one issue, anyway), Obama goes in front of the cameras again today - this time to try and swing public opinion that isn't already going his way. This is a new step for Obama. Will he go with the soaring...
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Community members are invited to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Wednesday for a town hall-style meeting on the push for national health-care reform.
The 10 a.m. gathering at the hospital’s Founders Hall Auditorium, 420 34th St., is part of hospital owner Catholic Healthcare West’s...
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Bad medicine: People skimping on treatment
Bakersfield waitress Rebecca Maitz knows what it's like to choose between buying groceries and paying for a doctor's prescription.
When she contracted a serious double infection, her doctor prescribed a super antibiotic. But when the clerk at her...
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National Health Services, Inc. recently opened a new optometry department, as well as a remodeled behavioral health department, at the Oildale Community Health Center.
A section of the center that was not being used was remodeled to equip the departments with new state-of-the-art technology,...
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I can't type much right now, but I figure I need to. My finger has
been killing me (feels like arthritis), but screw it.
I guess what I was meant to come here to write was that yes, I am struggling. I am struggling with the very fact that I am going to have to say "enough is...
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Local health care providers scratched their heads this morning over what would make residents take the cuts to Medi-Cal more seriously.
The impacts won't only be felt by the poor, they said.
Like many government programs, Medi-Cal took a 10 percent cut July 1 to help make up for the budget...
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Several health care bills are working their ways through the Assembly and Senate — many incorporating ideas originally introduced in the governor's health care proposal and other older bills.
According to California Healthline and the L.A. Times, some aim to curb the insurance industry...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't given up on passing a health plan that covers all Californians.
According to the Associated Press, his staff is working to fix the previous plan.
"Now we'll try again," Schwarzenegger said. "We will continue on, keeping the stakeholders...
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More than anything else, small business owners want lawmakers to work on health care.
That's the finding of the fourth annual survey done by Small Business California. You can read all the stats on their site, but here's a summary:
• 62 percent of small business owners surveyed thought...
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Even if we don't personally pay for low-income people and illegal immigrants to get health care, we will be paying for it in the long run and in other ways.
That's how Dr. Patricia Riba, a pediatrician with the Community Care Health Center in Huntington Beach, feels.
Religion/general assignment...
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I spent most of my night Thursday in Kern Medical Center's emergency department — not because I was sick or hurt but because I wanted to find out about the people who work there and the patients who go there for care.
(Look for the story soon in The Californian.)
While I was shadowing,...
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Super Tuesday is only a handful of days away. Do you know who you are going to vote for?
Unfortunately, I missed the past couple debates. So to help anyone like me get up to speed, below are excerpts about health care from the Democratic debate last night.
(Excerpts from the last Republican...
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Everyone seems worried about health care costs these days.
President Bush, of course, is weighing in too.
The Associated Press just sent out the following alert:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Bush administration official said President Bush’s 2009 budget will virtually freeze...
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Not sure how Clinton feels about universal health coverage? Wanna find out what Huckabee's stance on private health care is all about?
Well, the Association of Health Care Journalists, of which I am a member, has compiled a break down on all the candidates' health plans and opinions. Along...
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You can get gift cards to almost any store or Web site, for almost any good or service, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone created a gift card for something that leads to half of all bankruptcies — health care.
A Pittsburgh health insurer is selling Healthcare Visa...
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Bakersfield is facing a $183,000 shortfall in covering its employees’ health-care plans for the first six months of 2008.
The employees’ Blue Cross PPO is expected to cost 20 percent more in 2008, the city’s health-care consultants told a City Council committee this week....
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From Yahoo- The US health care system ranks last among other major rich countries for quality, access and efficiency, according to two studies released Tuesday by a health care think tank.
The studies by the Commonwealth Fund found that the United States, which has the most expensive health...
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Mexico's new secretary of health visited California Monday to talk about the health needs facing Mexicans in California.
According to a story from the San Francisco Chronicle, Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos plans to meet every six months with U.S. health officials and Mexican immigrant...
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Will be on the 10 o'clock news channel 23... to night! They are very slow there about getting back to the men. My husband is still waiting for a hearing aid or even a call back appointment to L A... to see if there is more treatment other than hearing aids.... That...
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America is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a government sponsored, single payer health system.
And it is The LEAST accessible. MOST Expensive . Ranked only 37th in level of care...From:
http://www.photius.com/rank...
The World Health...
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One only needs to know one truth to come to a conclusion.
Did the cost of drugs go up?
Answer. Undeniably. The cost of medications have risen dramatically since the passage of Medicare part D.. After congress forbade Medicare the right to negotiate drug prices..
In fact for a majority...
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When you're a kid, health insurance never was one of those "perks" you thought about when you dreamed about your "grown-up" job. Or at least, it wasn't for me. Even in college, talking about the finer sides of health coverage seemed weirdly adult, like talking about a 401k....
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