Healthcare

Connecticut stem cell grants – Directed to adult or embryonic stem cells?

By Steve McGough | June 14, 2013 |

I’m not comfortable with the state using tax money to fund medical research, but it is what it is. That said, why doesn’t The Hartford Courant – or the state – let us know if the $9.8 million in grant money spread out to 23 different research projects will be used for adult or embryonic…

Stop connecting girls lung transplant to Obamacare and death panels

By Steve McGough | June 6, 2013 |

Sure, you can go ahead and relate 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan’s battle with cystic fibrosis to the disaster that is Obamacare, but in reality, the rules have been in place for years, long before President Obama got into the White House or Obamacare was passed. Let’s use this time to look at the rules and determine if…

The new and improved Obamacare enrollment form

By SoundOffSister | May 1, 2013 |

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services released yet another version(s) of the forms you must fill out to obtain insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.

More problems for Obamacare

By SoundOffSister | April 23, 2013 |

Yet another snafu has cropped up in implementing Obamacare. It seems that the Secretary of Health and Human Services “unexpectedly” has run out of Obamacare money needed to implement the insurance exchanges.

Aurora theater shooting: A failure directly related to our mental health system

By Steve McGough | April 5, 2013 |

I was speaking to Jim the other day about the reluctance of people to “get involved” with the mental health of friends and family members. Honestly, I’m guilty. It’s not a stretch to be aware of a constant stream of strange attitudes, inappropriate comments, excessive drinking, depression, anti-social behavior and other “quirks” of someone we…

Obamacare, shortage of doctors, will lead states to give more authority to nurse practitioners

By Steve McGough | April 5, 2013 |

Back in November 2009, I pointed out an article in the Wall Street Journal about the coming physician shortage in the United States. The post noted President Obama’s health care legislation did nothing to deal with the issue, that could result in a shortage of 125,000 doctors by 2025. The shortage is still mentioned in…

Obamacare’s insurance subsidies

By SoundOffSister | March 25, 2013 |

Last week the federal government issued information concerning the sign-up process for Obamacare that will begin October 1 of this year.  Here are the details.

Face it: they just don’t trust you….

By Dimsdale | March 5, 2013 |

All this renewed talk about gun control in the wake of the Newtown murders made me realize: the liberals just don’t trust you do to much of anything on your own. Consider, if you will, a few of the liberties the left has tried to, is trying, or has, wrested from you: School choice and/or…

Info you should know: Retirement facility staff won’t help if residents have emergency

By Steve McGough | March 4, 2013 |

I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up! There is a story in the SF Gate about a nurse at a retirement facility who would not preform CPR on a resident who collapsed and had a heart attack. This is not something new, but standard policy for many facilities.

Yet more Obamacare casualties

By SoundOffSister | February 22, 2013 |

Yesterday, Universal Studios, the Orlando theme park, announced that beginning January 1, 2014, when Obamacare takes full effect, it will no longer provide health insurance to its part-time employees.