61% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law Sixty-one percent (61%) of Likely U.S. Voters now at least somewhat favor repeal of the new national health care law, including 50% who Strongly Favor it. That’s up eight points from a week ago and the highest level of opposition measured since late May. A new Rasmussen...
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Woman heals 1,000 children using family remedy
A woman in Zhouwangzhuang village in Shandong province has cured more than 1,000 children suffering from convulsions in the last 40 years using a secret recipe and never gets stumped over the cases, Bandao Metropolitan News reported. With a secret prescription handed down from her husband’s family, Xu Ximei, 81, always wearing a radiant...
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Opposing view on medical inflation: Repeal and replace
By George Pataki This month, with support for ObamaCare continuing to erode, a Democrat-led group is ramping up a multimillion-dollar national ad campaign to rescue the new law. At the same time, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius”misinformation and scare tactics” to blame 2011 premium increases on ObamaCare. wrote the health insurers’ national...
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ObamaCare Extortion
CATO Institute by Michael D. Tanner The mobster walks into an office. “Mighty nice insurance company you have here,” he muses. “Be a shame if anything happened to it.” Shortly thereafter the business owner “voluntarily” hands over a payment for “protection.” The Obama administration didn’t quite pull a page from the Sopranos last week...
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Potentially lethal fungus moves south from Canada
Cases are rare, but it can be difficult to diagnose. Officials are on the lookout for it in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California.
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Gov’t: Spending to Rise Under Obama’s Health Care Overhaul
// | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The nation’s health care tab will go up — not down — as a result of President Barack Obama’s sweeping overhaul. That’s the conclusion of a government forecast released Thursday, which also finds the increase will be modest. The average annual growth in health care spending will be...
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Detroit fire chief: ‘I haven’t had anything like this in 20 years’
BY CECIL ANGEL, MELANIE D. SCOTT, SUZETTE HACKNEY, BILL LAITNER and GINA DAMRON FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS Sparked by downed power lines, blazes jumped from house to house, garage to garage, displacing families, disrupting neighborhoods and stretching thin the Detroit Fire Department on Tuesday. “I haven’t had anything like this in 20 years,” said...
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Losing weight may pollute the blood
New Scientist by Wendy Zukerman Weight loss has a serious downside: it leads to the release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which may have a significant impact on health. POPs are man-made chemicals which enter the food chain from sources including pesticides and manufacturing. They have been linked to an increased risk of diabetes,...
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Bird flu jumps to pigs
by Deborah MacKenzie The H5N1 bird flu virus may be evolving the ability to spread from mammal to mammal, says a team who have discovered that pigs in Indonesia have been infected with the disease since 2005. It’s one step in the frightening chain of events that could lead to human transmission and a...
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Health Insurers Already Jacking Up Your Premiums To Compensate For Obamacare
Joe Weisenthal | Sep. 8, 2010, POLITICO is reporting this morning that there are actually a few Congressmen out there, mostly in very liberal districts, who are running on Obamacare as being among their accomplishments. But for the most part, few Democrats are inclined to bring up the program on the campaign trail. And...
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