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Right to Die

LoveFreedomAndLiberty — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:42:21 +0000

After a stroke, a man wants the right to die. Do you feel this should be allowed? How much should it cost? Should it be limited to the terminally ill? What is your opinion? Read more here:

FDA tries to stop free sperm donor

jeffersonish — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:32:32 +0000

The Food and Drug Administration is working to put an end to a California' man's free sperm donation operation. Trent Arsenault, who has provided more than 350 donations and fathered 14 children through them, tells KNTV's Traci Grant he's just "helping people in need."

Vaccine for Flu worthless for elderly, so says a study.

libertylover — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:08:08 +0000

In the paper published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researcher Lone Simonsen of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and colleagues report that though immunization rates in people over 65 have increased 50% in the past 20 years, there has not been a corresponding decline in flu-related deaths.

FDA caused drug shortages...FDA now to fix drug shortages...

ElGuapo — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:39:28 +0000

Yes folks, the FDA's fund-raising measures have resulted in drug shortages and the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-benevolent master obamarama has now ordered the FDA to reduce the drug shortages that it successfully prevented by creating in the first place.

NH soon to be only state without a vaccines registry

Nemi — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:24:20 +0000

Vaccines in the state of Massachusetts may soon be tracked via a centralized registry, The Boston Globe reports ... [i]ronically, Massachusetts, the birthplace of public vaccination programs, is one of two states without statewide registries to track who gets vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New Hampshire is the other state without such a registry.

Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., data show

Causarius — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:39:21 +0000

Fueling the surge in deaths are prescription pain and anxiety drugs that are potent, highly addictive and especially dangerous when combined with one another. Such drugs now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.

Constitution doesn't guarantee emergency services, says court

Crash Gordon — Sat, 07 May 2011 22:10:32 +0000

"[Curtis] Mitchell died in February 2010 while waiting 30 hours at his... home for an ambulance during a blizzard, but Chief U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster dismissed his family's lawsuit against city and county emergency services."

The judge says that regardless of whether the facts are as alleged, it's irrelevant since the Emergency Services personnel are not constitutionally obligated to actually provide emergency services.

Washington the Latest State to Waive Goodbye to "States Rights"

askbillmitchell — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:40:04 +0000

The state of Washington is the latest state to cave to the federal government and the DEA regime as their governor is set to veto a purposed medical marijuana bill on Friday, for fear that the federal government might go after state employees.

Canadian deemed burden on health care system to be deported

berserker13 — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:43:42 +0000

David Barlagne's family made headlines across the French-speaking world last year after Canadian immigration officials rejected his application to stay here permanently - saying his 8-year-old handicapped daughter would be an "excessive burden" on the state's social services.
His daughter, Rachel, was deemed "medically inadmissible" because she has cerebral palsy.
Her "excessive burden" on social services would amount to $5,259 a year in special educational costs.

Former NHS Director Dead Due to Long Surgery Wait

celestrion — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:06:44 +0000

Former UK National Health Service director Margaret Hutchon has died after a nine months' wait (and four cancellations!) to have a critical stomach surgery. State-run healthcare to save us all, eh?

Drug company granted monopoly. Price of drug increases 15,000%.

E in MN — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:16:58 +0000

A drug for high-risk pregnant women has cost about $10 to $20 per injection. Next week, the price of the progesterone shot, which is administered weekly, will be $1,500 a dose. The drug known as Makena has been made cheaply for years, mixed at pharmacies that do custom-compound treatments. But recently, KV Pharmaceutical of suburban St. Louis won government approval to sell the drug exclusively.

Legalized violence against abortion providers!

tRySt — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:50:11 +0000

Senator in S. Dakota wants to pass a bill to make it legal to commit violence against anyone who commits and act against and unborn fetus.

FL judge sides with 26 states: Obama health care is unconstitutional

pmfalcon — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:07:08 +0000

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson accepted without trial the states' argument that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. At issue was whether the government is reaching beyond its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce by requiring citizens to purchase health insurance or face tax penalties.

Student Sent to Mental Hosp For Complaining About Hidden Camera

loungedaddy — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:12:52 +0000

Chinemerem Eze, a Nigerian student at Brooklyn College, complained to her college about secret surveillance in December 2008, according to a lawsuit she’s filed in New York Supreme Court. Yes, there was indeed a camera in her bedroom.

She’s suing the security officers, psychologist, and the government-managed school for negligence. She’s already settled with the government-managed hospital.

Nice racket the State has going here, though. Hope her lawsuit goes well.

$200M Government Healthcare Scam Busted

EtotheRic — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:23:13 +0000

Massive healthcare fraud scheme uncovered in Miami
(Reuters) - The top two officials of a leading chain of community mental health centers were among four people arrested in Miami on Thursday in connection with a scheme involving about $200 million in fraudulent medical claims, U.S. prosecutors said.

Keeping Us Sick Stupid & Broke. Lew Rockwell interviews Dr Don Miller

LibertyPyro — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:44 +0000

There are vital health ingredients that we need but can’t get enough of like Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Iodine. Then, there are the harmful elements pushed upon us by the State, which we should not be getting at all, like fluoride which causes brain disorders, vaccines which cause autism and statins which inhibit healthy cells. Dr. Miller keeps close watch on government-enslaved doctors and the lying propaganda of the pill-pushers.

Family to Receive $1.5M in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award

jitgos — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:12:16 +0000

Hannah was described as normal, happy and precocious in her first 18 months.

Then, in July 2000, she was vaccinated against nine diseases in one doctor's visit: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae.

After fluoride: What’s going into your water next?

loungedaddy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:59:47 +0000

In 2008, Julian Savulescu, a professor respected for his work in bioethics, wrote a piece advising Health Secretary Alan Johnson on adding fluoride to tap water. Savulescu believes that government has a duty to promote, among other things, the “cognitive enhancement” of humanity.

Yes, Savulescu referenced “cognitive enhancement” when discussing the government tampering with your water.
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Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care

masshole — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:26:44 +0000

LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.

NHS told cancer patient he was already dead

jdegon — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:53:32 +0000

A man with cancer was told that he could not book an appointment with the UK's NHS because the bureaucrats' system said he was deceased, and he would have to get it all sorted out before he can receive the care he needs.