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Obama’s New Health Care Czar: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”
EyeBlast
July 7, 2010
Today, President Obama officially made Donald Berwick his recess appointment to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In a 2008 while speaking on the British health care system in the UK, Berwick said wealthy individuals must redistribute their wealth to those less fortunate for health care funding.
Also during this speech, he told those in attendance that he opposes free markets.
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”
Obama’s New Health Care Czar Donald Berwick: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”…(VIDEO)...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/obama%E2%80%99s-new-health-care-czar-donald-berwick-%E2%80%9Cwe-must-redistribute-wealth%E2%80%9D-video/Obama’s New Health Care Czar: “We Must Redistribute Wealth”... more
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Technology consultant and blogger, Sarah Cortes, went by ambulance to Robert Packer Hospital, a facility located in rural Pennsylvania, after she suffered a serious spinal fracture. The story takes an unusual turn because Cortes says Twitter helped her escape from the clutches of hospital staff whom, she claims, tried to intimidate and coerce her into accepting unnecessary spinal surgery.
On her blog, Cortes writes that Packer, “tried numerous maneuvers over 48 hours to hold me there against my will.” She continues [bullet formatting added]:
[The] tactics included:
Threats that my insurance would not pay any expenses if I did not accept their treatment. My bill was already in the many thousands of dollars, they informed me.
Intimidation that if I did not stop resisting their treatment I could be paralyzed
Impeding my communication with Boston doctors by needlessly limiting my phone access. Thank God for Twitter and iphones.Technology consultant and blogger, Sarah Cortes, went by ambulance to Robert Packer... more
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An estimated 98,000 hospital patients are killed every year, according to the Institute of Medicine, as a direct result of medical errors.Even though these are ten essential medical errors everyone should know, there are also many others.An estimated 98,000 hospital patients are killed every year, according to the... more
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Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an increase in cancer risk. A CT scan packs a mega-dose of radiation — as much as 500 times that of a conventional X-ray.researchers behind two recent studies that sound the alarm about the increased cancer risk associated with multiple CT scans. In the first study of its kind, physicians at hospitals in Florida and Washington, D.C., evaluated the medical-imaging records of 1,243 randomly selected patients to calculate just how much radiation each patient had sustained in the past five years. Although CT scans were the biggest source of radiation, other offenders included X-rays and mammograms. The results of the study, presented in May at the annual conference of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, were disturbing: the average patient had received 45 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation. (The typical chest X-ray dispatches 0.02 mSv of radiation.) And 12% of patients had gotten more than twice that amount — 100 mSv or more.Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to... more
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