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Sinking S-CHIP.

Shot in the arm.

Earlier today, I blogged the failure of the Democrat attempt to override President Bush’s S-CHIP expansion bill veto. I linked to the roll call vote, but it deserves a separate post. As covered here extensively last year, the Dems’ push to expand the children’s health insurance entitlement beyond low-income families, beyond children, and beyond […]

“…to expose lifestyles…”

Trans-fat hypocrisy.

Did you stuff your face over the holidays? Feeling guilty? Want to do something about it? Or at least read about what other people are doing about the obesity epidemic–and whether more government is the solution? My friend Eric Finkelstein, a health economist at Research Triangle Institute’s Public Health Economics Program, has co-authored a […]

Illin’.

I’m sure you’ve all heard by now about the parents in Prince George’s County, Maryland, who were threatened with jail time by public school officials if they didn’t get their kids vaccinated with chickenpox and hepatitis B shots. Hundreds of moms and dads lined up at a local courthouse over the weekend–many pointing out […]

I’ve said it all along: The Democrats’ massive S-CHIP expansion is a Trojan Horse for Hillarycare. Now, we get it straight from the horse’s mouth. A Hill source sends an audio clip of former Iowa Dem. Governor Tom Vilsack at Drake University on Nov. 16 describing how S-CHIP will help achieve those universal entitlement […]

Sickos.

Unhealthy.

Update 3:20pm Eastern. See my new post on Pete StarkRavingMad. These people can’t contain themselves. And let’s stop the delusion that the Starks are the fringe. They are the center of the nutroots-i-fied Democrat Party.
Shocker! Not a word in the NYTimes coverage of the override vote failure about Stark’s remarks.
Nothing in the latest WaPo story, […]

Fumes.

Update 1:35pm Eastern. WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN SO MUCH?!
Update 1:00pm Eastern. Snort-worthy blue-on-blue spat of the day: ThinkProgress vs. CNN.
Snort-worthy reverse conspiracy theorizing of the day: ThinkProgress in a tizzy over a McConnell aide’s e-mail to reporters about blogger coverage of Harry Reid’s poster child abuse, which the left-wing group touts as proof! […]

Watch it.

Bad medicine.

Unhealthy.

Update 7:30pm Eastern. Mark Steyn is uncowed by the unhinged…
The Democrats chose to outsource their airtime to a Seventh Grader. If a political party is desperate enough to send a boy to do a man’s job, then the boy is fair game. As it is, the Dems do enough cynical and opportunist hiding behind biography […]

Henry Gomez at Babalu Blog led an anti-socialist blogburst this week to counter Michael Moore’s anti-American, pro-Cuban health care crockumentary.
Claudia 4 Libertad strikes back:
Ask any Cuban who has recently left the island (because they can’t talk freely about this inside of Cuba) about their health care system and they will tell you that it is […]

Crockumentarian Michael Moore heads to the Beltway. Time for a reality check-up.

Michael Moore is playing martyr to full effect in advance of the premiere of his latest crockumentary effort. He reportedly faces a US Treasury Department “probe” for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary “Sicko.”
Posted on his website this morning:
‘SiCKO,’ Michael Moore’s new movie, will rip […]

First, having visited Walter Reed many times to visit wounded friends, I never even knew that Building 18 existed. I do know that there were some complaints in the hospital that were not addressed very expeditiously (or at all). And I worry about this media frenzy’s affect on the excellent, world class doctors, […]

The Washington Post is back today with another story about the pitfalls of the military health care system. Like I said when the WaPo series was launched, these failures are damnable–and nothing new. David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy adds:
If private companies had mismanaged outpatient care for veterans the way the V.A. system has, there […]

Universal health care. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
With emphasis on serving illegal aliens, of course. Much more at my blog.

Two cautionary tales:
-David HaLevi on the Canadian health care system’s deadly consequences
- David Asman on the British health care system’s shortcomings

Hospitals could be held criminally liable if hospitalized patients catch methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Britain’s new health secretary said yesterday, according to the London Telegraph:
Asked on ITV’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme if that meant hospitals could be held criminally liable if patients contracted bugs such as MRSA [Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt] said: “That’s what we are […]

FYI, the American Academy of Dermatology has designated this month Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month. A close family member died of melanoma eight years ago at the young age of 33, leaving a wife and two young daughters behind. More than 1 million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United […]

Oft-cited Census data apparently overstate the number of uninsured because they undercount the number of people covered by Medicaid. Turns out the true number of uninsured may be closer to 36 million than 45 million. That’s still a lot of people. For a more detailed discussion of the statistics, see here.

Sounds like this book speaks some uncomfortable truths about what it’s like to be a sales rep. for a large pharmaceutical company. If you don’t feel like shelling out for the book, you can find a lot of similar stories on the message boards at this site.

Mike Fumento has written two important columns that deserve more attention:
- “Diabetes Foundation Loses its Way”
- “Is Diabetes Cure a Buck Too Far?”
The gist of the columns is that the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) has been so focused on the potential of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research that it has ignored more promising […]