http://www.fourwinds10.net 2013-05-22T16:23:15+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1360684244 Feb. 11, 2013   President Barack Obama has ruled out raising the age that Americans become eligible for Medicare, the government health insurance program for seniors, as a way to reduce the government's deficit, a White House spokesman said on Monday. Republicans in Congress, who have focused on cutting spending, have said they want to see the eligibility age raised to 67 from the current age of 65, but many Democrats have opposed the idea vehemently. "The president's made clear that we don't believe that that's the right policy to take," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. The White House and Congress have been grappling with how to avoid a March 1 deadline when $85 billion in automatic across-the-board spending cuts are o take effect. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1354553652 Dec. 3, 2012 Sheep #1:  "I love Obama because now I can get health care even though I'm unemployed". Sheep #2:  Why are you unemployed?" Sheep #1:  "I got laid off because my employer can't afford to pay for Obamacare."   from rremelin@gmail.com text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1347730792 Sept. 13, 2012   Posted by KimmyKaye on January 22, 2011 at 10:37pm in Obama Care View Discussions And now, we get to heart of Obamacare.  On Sunday March 21, 2010 the Senate Healthcare bill HR3200 was passed and signed into law the following Tuesday.  Like I said before, there are a legion of horrible and just plain evil aspects to this bill and I’m sure you’ve heard a lot them by now. I don’t want to discount them but what cannot be missed here is this new law now opens a prophetic door on a magnitude not seen since the reformation of Israel. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1343658591 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1341069321 June 29, 2012 WASHINGTON — Millions of poor people could still be left without medical insurance under the national health care law if states take an option granted by the Supreme Court and decide not to expand their Medicaid programs, state officials and health policy experts said Friday. Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states said they opposed expanding Medicaid or had serious doubts about it, even though the federal government would pick up all the costs in the first few years and at least 90 percent of the expenses after that. While upholding the most hotly debated part of the health care overhaul law — a requirement that most Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty — the Supreme Court said in its ruling on Thursday that states did not have to expand Medicaid as Congress had intended — leaving a huge question mark over the law’s mechanism for providing coverage to 17 million of the poorest people. In writing the law, Congress assumed that the poorest uninsured people would gain coverage through Medicaid, while many people with higher incomes would receive federal subsidies to buy private insurance. Now, poor people who live in a state that refuses to expand its Medicaid program will find themselves in a predicament, unable to obtain either Medicaid or subsidies. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1327626301 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1323973979 Dec. 15, 2011 Back in February 2010, I sat down with Rep. Paul Ryan to talk about health-care reform. Ryan had his own bill back then: the Roadmap, which was, in many ways, a precursor to the budget he crafted for the Republicans earlier this year. But he was open to some other ideas, too. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1323891034 Dec. 12, 2011 ombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is having a tough year. First, he comes out with a plan to "reform" Medicare in the same way that an iceberg once "reformed" the White Star shipping line. Many people including (at the time) Newt Gingrich laughed at his mighty brain. (Why do they all laugh at my mighty brain?) Then bad things happened to some people who thought Paul Ryan had a good idea. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1320252218   Nearly half of hospitals visited by undercover inspectors are failing to meet basic nutrition standards, a damning report has warned. Elderly patients are routinely left without anything to drink for hours, with some so dehydrated they are being put on drips. Other patients found themselves regularly being fed by their relatives because nursing staff were too busy to help.   Mealtime: But in many hospitals patients must wait hours without food or drink (picture posed by models) The appalling failings were uncovered by the Care Quality Commission during inspections of NHS wards. Other concerns highlighted included hospitals slipping Do Not Resuscitate orders inside patients’ notes without telling them or their families. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1320168525 (NaturalNews) Doctors and hospitals in the United States have a financial incentive to perform surgery on dying seniors because Medicare is guaranteed to pay for it, and most of the procedures fail to improve the patients' lives at all. Several colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health recently reported that 1.8 million Medicare beneficiaries age 65 or older died in 2008, and over 34% were operated on during their last year, 25% in their last month, and 10% in their last week of life. Other studies show that just the stress of surgery and poor conditions of hospitals is adding to mortality rates, including post surgery pneumonia and heart attacks. To throw salt in the wound, the nation's 175 lowest quality hospitals are actually the highest cost institutions. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/mediacare_-_medical/news.php?q=1294163641 (NaturalNews) Here's another one of those stories about mainstream medical practices that sounds like it couldn't be true -- but it is. According to an editorial just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, there are currently regulations in place to restrict the work hours of doctors in training -- but no such rules for fully trained physicians. That means doctors who are severely sleep deprived are currently performing operations on unsuspecting patients who have no idea their surgeons are as impaired as if they were drunk out of their minds. "Studies have shown that sleep deprivation impairs psychomotor performance as severely as alcohol intoxication," the authors of the study pointed out in a media statement. The editorial presents a compelling case that these sleep-deprived physicians should not be allowed to perform elective surgery unless their patients give informed, written consent agreeing to be operated on by an impaired doctor.