Tag Archives: health care

Obama Will Round Up All The Pastors

“I am hoping that they have called President Obama’s bluff here, because what’s the alternative now? Are they going to go in and start shutting down Catholic hospitals? Start shutting down Catholic schools? Start fining them inordinate amount of money? Start throwing priests in prison, pastors in prison, organizers and CEOs of Christian hospitals around the country in prison? They …

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SCOTUS Denies Debate Over Whether Justices Should Recuse On Obamacare

The Supreme Court today quashed a wingnut demand that Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from the coming case to overturn Obamacare. Freedom Watch, a group led by Larry Klayman, asked the court for permission to file a brief on Kagan’s participation in the case. The court on Monday denied the request without comment, though it did note that Kagan did …

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SATURDAY: Protest At St. Vincent’s

Embiggen for the details.

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Perry: No Health Care For The Poor

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LOS ANGELES: Some Healthcare Providers Deny Treatment To HIV+ Patients

Think Progress notes a Williams Institute study which gave the above results. Women and minorities were the most frequently refused. The linked article also notes that three out of four HIV patients do not receive enough medication to “stay healthy and prevent the transmittal of the virus to others.”

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Frothy Mix: No Right To Health Care

Frothy couldn’t even draw more than a handful of elderly teabaggers at a South Carolina appearance on Saturday.

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Tweet Of The Day – Bryan Fischer

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James Randi Rips Homeopathy

“Pharmacies like Walgreens, Rite-Aid, CVS and a lot of other major retailers are silent accomplices in this scam.” Randi is offering a $1M reward to any homoepathic manufacturer that can prove that their product is the slightest bit effective.

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FLORIDA: Activist Judge Kowtows To GOP Agenda, Strikes Down Health Care Law

The right wing loathes those activist judges who are always imposing their agendas on the American people. Except when those judges are GOP appointees and do their bidding. A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Obama administration’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy health insurance, and questioned the constitutionality of the entire health care law. “I must reluctantly …

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Obama: Your Granny Is Safe

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Europe Vs. America

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SAN FRANCISCO: Federal Judge Signals Intent To Overturn Portion Of DOMA

A federal judge in California has ruled that state employees may sue the federal government for excluding their partners from a long-term health care program. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland denied an Obama administration request to dismiss the suit Tuesday and signaled that she is likely to overturn provisions of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which denies …

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U.S. Life Expectancy Declines

Newly released data from the federal government show a slight decrease in life expectancy for residents of the United States. According to the report, West Virginia is the worst state for mortality, with a death rate there that is almost 1.5 times greater than Hawaii, where people are living the longest. Data gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics …

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Texas GOP Mulling Medicaid Withdrawal

The Texas GOP, which swept into the state legislature with overwhelming numbers last week, is mulling a complete withdrawal from Medicaid, a move which could leave millions of Texans without any health care coverage. “With Obamacare mandates coming down, we have a situation where we cannot reduce benefits or change eligibility” to cut costs, said State Representative Warren Chisum, Republican …

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HomoQuotable – Charles Winecoff

“Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away – called New York City – there was a special place where fairies could go when they weren’t feeling well. It was known as the Gay Men’s Health Project. The friendly bears and slender youths who ran this magical dispensary helped unlucky fairies mend their wings and wee-wees so they …

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HCR: Wingnuts Ride The Waaambulance

Right Wing Watch has posted a compilation of wingnut group reactions to yesterday’s health care reform vote. A sampling: The Eagle Forum: “Any formerly pro-life Democrat who voted ‘Yes’ on the Senate health care bill tonight will be forever remembered as being among the deciding votes which facilitated the largest expansion of abortion services since Roe v. Wade. Mr. Stupak …

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New York Senate Approves Partner Healthcare Bill

Seventeen years after its approval by the state Assembly, the New York Senate has finally approved the Family Health Care Decisions Act. Domestic partners will now have priority over biological family members when it comes to the medical needs of an incapacitated partner. Via press release from the Empire State Pride Agenda (my bolding): New York has been one of …

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Photo Of The Day

Canadian hockey fans reacted to their defeat by the Americans with the above photo. (Sent by JMG reader Cheyenne)

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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: Global Warming Is A Hoax

Months after he infuriated loyal customers by saying that no American has an inherent right to health care, Whole Food CEO John Mackey is back in the news, this time for claiming that global warming is a hoax. The New Yorker profiled Mackey and asked him for some of his favorite books. One of the books on the list was …

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Rush Limbaugh: I’m OK

Speaking at a press conference held at his Honolulu hospital minutes ago, Rush Limbaugh announced that an angiogram had “found absolutely nothing wrong” with his heart. Speculation about worse news had been mounting after Limbaugh’s team remained silent on his condition for more than a day. At the press conference, Limbaugh added, “I don’t think there’s one thing wrong with …

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