How ObamaCare slaps the sick

Betsy McCaughey The New York Post 3/4/2014

“Lies,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls the TV ads that feature people complaining about ObamaCare. Sorry: The people in those ads are sick, but their new health policies don’t let them see the specialists or get the medications they need.

These patients aren’t liars; they’re people President […]

ObamaCare Rules to be Unleashed After Election

Dr. Susan Berry Breitbart.com Big Government 6 Nov 2012

President Obama has not talked about ObamaCare much during the campaign, understandably because most Americans want the health care law repealed. But just wait. We’ll be hearing a lot more about the president’s signature legislation, because a “flood” of ObamaCare rules will be unleashed upon us […]

Despite Democrats’ Warnings, Private Medicare Plans Find Success

Robert Pear The New York Times 8/25/2012

Even as President Obama accuses Mitt Romney and Representative Paul D. Ryan of trying to privatize and “voucherize” Medicare, his administration crows about the success of private health plans in delivering prescription drug benefits and other services to Medicare beneficiaries.

More than a quarter of the 50 million […]

Rationing Begins: States Limiting Drug Prescriptions for Medicaid Patients

Melanie Hunter CNSNews.com 7/30/2012

Sixteen states have set a limit on the number of prescription drugs they will cover for Medicaid patients, according to Kaiser Health News.

Seven of those states, according to Kaiser Health News, have enacted or tightened those limits in just the last two years.

Medicaid is a federal program that is […]

New government fees pepper Obama deficit plan

More than $130B in new government fees pepper Obama deficit plan

Andrew Taylor Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance 9/19/2011

It’s not just millionaires who’d pay more under President Barack Obama’s latest plan to combat the deficit.

Air travelers, federal workers, military retirees, wealthier Medicare beneficiaries and people taking out new mortgages are among those who […]

Sick trade in NHS medicines: Profiteering chemists cash in by selling life-saving drugs to European clinics

Jenny Hope and Pat Hagan Daily Mail [UK] 19 February 2010

NHS patients are being put at risk because profiteering pharmacists are selling prescription drugs to Europe.

Unscrupulous speculators cashing in on the weak pound have created a shortage of at least 40 drugs, a Daily Mail investigation has found. They include treatments for cancer, […]

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