After the Senate voted Saturday night to pro ceed with debate on health reform, Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the public the winner. In truth, more Americans will be losers than winners. Both Senate and House bills strip nearly half a trillion ...
Everyone knows that if you don't pay to maintain and repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true as human beings age. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers -- disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes. For nearly a ...
AS the health-reform bills move through Congress, the prognosis for Medicare pa tients gets worse and worse. The Senate Finance Committee bill (generally called the Baucus bill, after Chairman Max Baucus) robs the elderly to cover the uninsured -- ...
When President Obama addresses Congress and the nation tonight, he should pledge to do three things. First, he should announce that he will discard the 1,018-page health bill drafted in the House of Representatives and replace it with a 20-page bill ...
Instead of trying to discredit me, the focus should be on the facts about the proposed health legislation. The House bill (H.R.3200) is dangerous to the elderly, as many are beginning to realize. Here is what you need to know: Partisans for the ...
HEALTH "reform" would be a body blow to New York: The city is the nation's hospital capital -- and the legislation being rushed through Congress cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from payments to hospitals. More New Yorkers have jobs in... ...
Dr. David Blumenthal, a Harvard professor and key health advisor to President Obama: "The more people have, the more of it they tend to spend on healthcare." But as a nation's wealth increases and standards of medical care become higher and more costly, ...
A 2007 study of 20 hospitals found that over half the surfaces that are supposed to be disinfected before a patient is admitted to a room were left untouched by cleaners. ...
Maureen Daly cried when she heard the official reaction to the report released last week by New York State on infection rates in hospitals. The State Health Commissioner, Dr. Richard Daines, said the report shows that "New York hospitals' results are ...
Governor Paterson is reportedly having trouble finding a distinguished business leader to head the Empire State Development Corporation. That's not surprising. The agency's giveaways are an embarrassment. The ESDC selectively dispenses tax relief and ...
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