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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?

One former heart surgeon is claiming marijuana is a miracle medicine. For years, the hands of Dr. Dave Allen operated on the hearts of patients. He’s done with that business and now does evaluations and prescriptions for medical marijuana. “No other medicine made by man can help in this manner.”

But while Congress, and the rest of the country, continue to argue over who's helped and who's hurt by health care reform, the world's cheapest health insurance program can be found in India.Some Indian farmers pay pennies for insurance that'll cover any surgery they have.

Doesn't everyone agree, the Verbal Surgery commercials are ridiculously awful. I just can't figure it out, well, Mandrik pays Wheels off Liberty millions for his ads, so maybe this guy has millions to pay for it.

2-month-old baby's parents would not consent to blood transfusion. A baby will have a life-saving heart surgery despite his parents refusing because they are Jehovah's Witnesses, a judge ruled yesterday.

Doctors at Texas Children's Hospital will operate on two-month-old Gabriel Zepeda after State District Judge Michael Gomez signed an order to allow it against his parents' will.

Despite the life-or-death situation, the infant's parents would not to consent on religious ground as Jehovah's Witnesses are forbidden to accept blood transfusions

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.

Not only does the U.S. government spend more on health care than Canada, it also spends more than the U.K., Japan, Germany, and France!

Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs for other people and small businesses.

The Canadian Media Production Assiociation (CMPA) is suggesting that the CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television Commission) should be charging Netflix because it’s “undermining the Canadian broadcasters’ revenue model”. In other words, it’s too cheap.