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US Health Tech for Licensing - Interested?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:02:22 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Our tax dollars pay for all sorts of inventions, research, etc. All of it may be licensed and sold for a profit and/or improved upon. These are healthcare related - so there is one on a different treatment for AIDS and another for a different way to isolate viruses for vaccine production. Not exactly money for nothing but one of the users reading this might be in the market - eh?

Clip Source: www.regulations.gov

Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing

The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S.

National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service

The subject technology is a method of inactivating enveloped viruses by hydrophobic photoactivatable chemical crossing-linking compounds and detergent treatment.

The technology relates to the use of cDNA microarrays to facilitate the identification of pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors.

Immunotoxin Useful for Treatment of AIDS

Tags: government-owned inventions

Pelosi fine with jailing the uninsured

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:42:24 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: This should put to rest the lie the left is spreading that conservatives are lying when they say you could go to jail for not buying insurance under the democrat health care takeover.

Clip Source: www.redstate.com

[Video]

I fiddled with cutting down this video…

…of Speaker Pelosi admitting that she’s fine with sending people who don’t want to be insured to jail (H/T: Infidels are Cool); but I’m not all that happy with the results. Which is interesting, because I’m also not happy with the notion of throwing poor people into jail just because Speaker Pelosi wanted to raid taxpayer wallets and pocketbooks for the benefit of the Democratic Party’s various special interest groups.

See also Hot Air, AoSHQ - and probably everybody else soon enough.

Tags: politics, healthcare, pelosi

Fat mothers banned from giving birth at their local hospital #health #healthcare #UK

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:09 GMT

clipped by: cheapogroovo

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Pregnant women are to be barred from giving birth at their local hospital if midwives consider them to be too fat, it emerged today.

Mothers-to-be with a body mass index of over 34 – the equivalent of a woman of 5ft 6in weighing 15 stone - will be turned away from the unit because of fears among staff that obese patients could die there during child birth.

Tags: eugenics, healthcare, population control, uk

Masculinity beliefs impacting men's health

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:45 GMT

clipped by: roniellemontreal

Clip Source: www.altpenis.com

Masculinity beliefs impacting men's health

Men that are middle-aged and who strongly idealize masculinity are almost 50 percent less likely than other men to seek healthcare services, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

"This research strongly suggests that deep-seated masculinity beliefs are one core cause of men's poor health, in as much as they reduce compliance with recommended preventative health services," said Kristen W. Springer, the study's primary researcher.

The study also noted that education - despite its well-established beneficial effect on health behaviors - also was a moderating factor. Highly educated men with the strongest-held masculinity beliefs were just as unlikely to obtain preventative care as men with lower levels of education.

She concluded by emphasizing the need for more research using samples with greater diversity.

Tags: masculinity, beliefs, impacting, men's, health

Good things agreed upon in the healthcare bills so farare

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: These are significant improvements, and will probably be included in the final form of any bill that passes.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

1. The ability of insurers to destroy people's lives over pre-existing condition clauses, recissions, and lifetime caps on their coverage will end.

2. Everyone will finally be covered, with subsidies for low and middle income people. That is a very big deal, something that a lot of us have been fighting for our entire lives.

3. The "doughnut hole" screwing over senior citizens on their prescription coverage will be fixed.

5. Creating the insurance exchange will provide lower prices and more choices for many people.

6. It does provide immediate help for the un-insured, even before the public option and insurance exchanges are in place.

7. It extends coverage for young people wanting to stay under their parents' coverage up to 27 years old.

8. Strengthens Medicare

11. Creates a new long term care insurance program.

12. Makes it easier for early retirees (55-64 years old) to get health care coverage.

14. More money for education/training of primary care providers.

Tags: healthcare

Fighting For The Welfare State

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:14:47 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: This makes me really proud to be Danish. Anyway, why ARE we so happy? Well... we all know how we are all are in the grip of the worldwide economic crisis at the moment, right? Well, despite this, a huge number of Danes are now calling for the government to please let us pay more taxes! "Please raise taxes, so we can afford more!". .Now... I know this might seem odd and counter-intuitive to some, but please lend me your ear and I'll try to explain....

In a society like for example the US, where Wall Street reigns supreme and the gap between rich and poor just grows every day, how can it be expected that there is anything in it all, for the little guy? Capitalism is all good and fine, but money shouldn't be the goal, but merely the means. It's not about how much you have, but how much you give.

Clip Source: www.oprah.com

In October 2009, Oprah traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark's charming capital city

her first visit to the country that's considered one of the happiest places on earth.

For the past 30 years, scientific researchers and survey results have all reached the same conclusion—Danes are consistently happier than the rest of the world

So what makes the Danes so happy?

people are very environmentally conscious.

Homelessness, poverty and unemployment are also extremely rare

If you lose your job, Nanna says the government continues to pay up to 90 percent of your salary for four years. And not to worry…healthcare is free for everyone.

Clip Source: www.oprah.com

The Danish government also takes a special interest in mothers and their children.

And, when it's time to go to college, citizens get paid to go the universities. "When you go to university, then you get paid $400 or $500," Nanna says. "You have free education. Then, you have healthy, well-educated people in the world. What could beat that?"

Tags: people power, social democracy

Private Health Insurance is a Defective Product

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:32 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns
clipper's remarks: DR. STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER: Right. Well, the private insurers are getting millions of mandatory new customers. The taxpayers are going to give subsidies. It’s not going to make healthcare affordable, but it’s going to cost the taxpayers a lot of money to give these subsidies.

Private health insurance is a defective product. We know from our studies of bankruptcy that the majority of Americans who face medical bankruptcy start their illness with private health insurance but are bankrupted anyway by gaps in coverage, like co-payments, deductibles and uncovered services.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler,

DR. STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER: Well, we think that the Congress needs to start from scratch on this bill. The reform process in Washington has been hijacked by the private health insurance industry. If you look at the Baucus framework, which was the basis of the Senate bill—it’s on the Senate Finance Committee website. Just right-click on that document, and it turns out the author of the document was Elizabeth Fowler, who’s a former vice president of Wellpoint, the nation’s largest private insurance company, covering 35 million people. So the private insurance industry has hijacked the process. What’s come out of the House, what’s likely to come out of the Senate, is a completely inadequate bill that takes about $500 billion in taxpayer money and hands it over to the private health insurance industry.

small business health insurance

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:27:45 GMT

clipped by: Bestmedicalcover
clipper's remarks: Before looking for affordable health insurance plan, get your free quote to find cheap small business health insurance.

Clip Source: bestmedicalcover.co.uk

Tags: healthcare insurance, health insurance quotes, private medical insurance, private hospital treatment

Politicians and Healthcare

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:35:37 GMT

clipped by: mklosinski
clipper's remarks: Great read by John Stossel

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The notion that a small group of politicians can know enough to design something so complex and so personal is astounding. That they were advised by "experts" means nothing since no one is expert enough to do that. There are too many tradeoffs faced by unique individuals with infinitely varying needs.

Competition is a "discovery procedure," Nobel-prize-winning economist F. A. Hayek taught. Through the competitive market process, we producers and consumers constantly learn things that force us to adjust our behavior if we are to succeed. Central planners fail for two reasons:

First, knowledge about supply, demand, individual preferences and resource availability is scattered -- much of it never articulated -- throughout society. It is not concentrated in a database where a group of planners can access it.

Second, this "data" is dynamic: It changes without notice.

Tags: politicians, healthcare

Lack of health insurance kills 2,000 vets each year

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:40:55 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Four times as many as die in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Clip Source: www.newser.com

(Newser) – Some 2,266 US veterans under 65 died last year because they didn't have health insurance, a team from Harvard Medical School estimates. Although most vets get medical care through the VA, there are about a million and a half, under 65, who were not wounded and are "too poor to afford private coverage but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or means-tested VA care," one professor says.

Being uninsured ups your odds of dying by 40%, the researchers note. Hence the result: "Six preventable deaths a day," says a study co-author. "On this Veterans Day we should not only honor the nearly 500 soldiers who have died this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the more than 2,200 veterans who were killed by our broken health insurance system," the associate professor says, according to ThinkProgress.

Tags: healthcare

Nancy Pelosi: buy a $15,000 policy or go to jail

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:44:51 GMT

clipped by: billpar

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill: buy a $15,000 policy or go to jail

The health care bill just passed by the House has a surprise for younger Americans who may want to avoid the expense of extensive health coverage, either buy the Democrat version of insurance or go to jail for 5 years.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

A letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) obtained by the office of Republican House member Dave Camp confirmed that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land you behind bars.

The letter says that citizens don’t have “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), can be slapped with civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 five years in jail.

Tags: healthcare, politics

ObamaCare endorsements: What the bribe was

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:38:44 GMT

clipped by: billpar
clipper's remarks: The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill. Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43 passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized, lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap. Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care, usually by the same physician. So more than 10 million seniors went with Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues.

Presto! Obama solved their problem. He eliminates subsidies for Medicare Advantage. The elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap, but the AARP — which supposedly represents them — will make more money

Clip Source: thehill.com

ObamaCare endorsements: What the bribe was

As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ’09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these — and the other endorsements — his package has received are all bought and paid for. Here are the deals:

· The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians’ reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5-6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill … or else!

Tags: healthcare, politics

Leakey Collection featured on the Average parent

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:13:09 GMT

clipped by: INKinc

Clip Source: averageparent.com

Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Great Gifts that Give Back

FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS from The Leakey Collection

Zulusport Friendship Bracelets are an environmentally-friendly way for girls to sport a new look with a best friend. Each set of bracelets comes tied together for friends to wish on as they break the tie. The eco-friendly bracelets are hand-strung by the Maasai women of Kenya from grass that was previously burned as a nuisance. In addition to providing the Maasai women a sustainable way of life, The Leakey Collection reinvests 5% of sales back into the community for education and healthcare initiatives. Zulusport Friendship Bracelets come in brown, navy and cranberry, and are available online and at stores nationwide for $14.95.

Every Christmas I feel like my heart strings are pulled in several different directions. I want to buy presents for the people I love, but I also want to give to charities that help causes I care about.

Below are a few of my favorite finds.

Tags: leakey collection, average parent, gifts that give back

Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:44:59 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: This from the Salon and Camille Paglia??? Amazing.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

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Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess

As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors!

this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare.

why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of more healthcare providers means that we're hurtling toward a staggering logjam of de facto rationing. Steel yourself for the deafening screams from the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors' offices.

And why are we even considering so gargantuan a social experiment

AARP puts 'political self-interests' above members

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:00 GMT

clipped by: jay8h

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

AARP puts 'political self-interests' above members

Some senior citizens are dropping their membership with the AARP following the group's decision to endorse a new government health insurance program.

Last week the American Medical Association and the AARP both endorsed the Democrats' House healthcare bill. AARP executive vice president Nancy LeaMond says the bill "meets our priorities for protecting Medicare, providing more affordable insurance for 50 to 64-year-olds, and reforming our healthcare system."

"The AARP has received over $2 billion in grants from the federal government over the past 15 or 20 years, and most people don't know that," Barton reports. "With having such a huge liberal agenda, it is really a travesty for them to get that sort of money. The Senate Finance Committee [has] passed this bill...[it refers to] a co-op, and this co-op is the AARP -- and they will be making money on the government-run option. They're going to handle it."