health care

• City of Los Angeles Wants to Spend $261 Million to Create a “Public Health” Department—In Competition With County, State and Feds
    A Public Health Initiative That Will Make You Sick Written by Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA,   6/18/13 LA WATCHDOG - As a result [...]
• Democrat Insurance Commissioner: Small Businesses have NO RIGHT TO FREE CHOICE of Health Care Insurance Providers—Gov’t Will Control
    Commissioner Jones recommends Covered California exclude Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Cross of California from participating in Small Business Exchange Recommendation [...]
• Only 5500 to Be Fired When San Onofre Closes/Thousands More Due to Higher Energy Costs
    San Onofre nuclear plant closure will mean hundreds of layoffs Wendy Lee | June 9th, 2013 Edison announced on June 7th that [...]
• Kaiser Should Stick to Medicine—Stop the Obama Lies and Propaganda
    Beyond Rebates: How Much Are Consumers Saving from the ACA’s Medical Loss Ratio Provision? Cynthia Cox,Gary Claxton and Larry Levitt, Kaiser,  6/6/13 Most of the conversation [...]
• CA Medi-Cal rate cuts could hit this summer—health care shortage to start soon
    Medi-Cal rate cuts could hit this summer An enthusiastic crowd of health care execs, providers, home care workers and others jammed [...]
• South Portland doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online–cash ONLY
    South Portland doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online By Jackie Farwell, Bangor Daily News, 5/27/13 Dr. Michael Ciampi took his practice [...]
• Coming: A Two-Tiered Health Care System
    Coming: A Two-Tiered Health Care System By John Goodman, National Center for Policy Analysis,  5/30/13 I believe we are moving toward two [...]
• California to Pay $12 Million to Promote Government Health Care—Less $$ for health Care
    Covered California to pay $12M for ad agency and PR over two years Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 5/24/13 Covered [...]
• Obamacare premiums may be lower than expected, but…wait till the increases next year!!
    Obamacare premiums may be lower than expected, but… By Mark Lacter, LA Observed,   5/24/13 Can anybody make heads of tails of the [...]
• Loss leader Rates for CA Obamacare in 2014—2015—no limits to rates!
    Covered California announces 13 health plans Nannette Miranda, KABC,  5/24/13 Thirteen health plans will be available on California’s Health Benefits Exchange starting [...]
• Will California Dumb Down Health Care to Third World Status—Leave Out the Doctors?
    Survey: Doctors, nurse practitioners disagree on scope of nurses’ role José Martinez, KPCC,  5/16/13 Rosaura Guizar, a patient at UMMA Community Clinic [...]
• Obama/Brown Wants Doctors to Work for Minimum Wage—Take Financial Risks—Doctors Refuse
    Most doctors still reject Medicaid as program expansion nears By Tony Pugh , McClatchy Newspapers, 5/14/13 BONIFAY, Fla. — Sandra Duck thinks [...]
• New program to curb hospital return visits may burden smaller ones in poorer areas
    New program to curb hospital return visits may burden smaller ones in poorer areas (map) Deborah Schoch, California HealthCare Foundation Center [...]
• In California: ObamaCare “Marketing” Actually Payoffs to Unions and Planned Parenthood
    Covered California exchange set to make $30M in outreach grants, some potentially controversial Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 5/10/13 Covered California, [...]
• ObamaCare Sticker Shock: 40-70% INCREASE in Private Insurance Costs SOON
    Insurance exec sees rate spike under health reform Western Health Advantage CEO Garry Maisel expects to see rates spike for individual [...]
• Who Needs Doctors: Legislature to Say We Only Need Nurse Practitioners
    California Weighs Expanded Role For Nurse Practitioners NPR, 5/9/13 Nurse Practioner Tina Clark examines Anastacia Casperson at the Glide Health Clinic in [...]
• Is System Broke? Malpractice cap, medical board under attack
    Malpractice cap, medical board under attack Growing numbers of attorneys decline medical malpractice cases because they are too time-intensive and costly [...]
• Grimes: CA Obamacare penalty to cost employers more than plan
    CA Obamacare penalty to cost employers more than plan By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog,   5/7/13 As more regulations are discovered in the 2010 [...]
• Nurses union threatens 7-day East Bay strike against Sutter hospitals
    Nurses union threatens 7-day East Bay strike against Sutter hospitals San Francisco Business Times, 5/7/13 The California Nurses Association is planning a [...]
• AFSCME workers authorize strike at five UC medical centers
    AFSCME workers authorize strike at five UC medical centers San Francisco Business Times, 5/7/13 AFSCME Local 3299, which represents nearly 13,000 technical [...]
• Grimes: State of California Allows Firm to Operate Health Care Agencies for Ten years—With NO License!
    Politically connected HealthCare Partners sidestepped licensing for 10 years By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 5/3/13 One of the original pioneers of the Obamacare [...]
• As Expected—ObamaCare Harms Health Care for Poor—As Well as Rest of Society
    Hospitals fear lost revenue Health law mandating millions buy insurance could mean cut in reimbursements for treating the poor By Paul Sisson, [...]
• Legislature to Restore Medical Pay Cuts—Where is the $$ to Pay?
    Measure To Reverse Medi-Cal Pay Cut Advances SAN DIEGO — Momentum is building in the state legislature to reverse a looming 10 [...]
• Union Agreements and ObamaCare—Possible Cause for Hospital Cut Backs?
    Sutter Health files under WARN Act for 169 NorCal layoffs Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 5/1/13 Sutter Health has filed on [...]
• Prefunding retiree health care: Is this the year? Does it Matter?
    Prefunding retiree health care: Is this the year? Ed Mendel, CalPensions, 4/29/13 With pensions presumably shored up by Gov. Brown’s reform and a [...]
• Reverse Medi-Cal rate cuts, health providers say–or less health care
    Reverse Medi-Cal rate cuts, health providers say Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 4/25/13 An unlikely coalition of doctors, dentists, hospitals, health plans [...]
• Government Raises Cost of Health Care Beyond What Companies Can Pay
    Fewer Californians getting health insurance through their job Central Valley Business Times,  4/24/13 •  Premiums are skyrocketing •  Workers paying increasing [...]
• Seiler: Obamacare already gutting CA jobs
    Obamacare already gutting CA jobs By John Seiler, Calwatchdog,   4/20/13 Obamacare officially is called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But [...]
• UC hospital workers to hold strike vote
    UC hospital workers to hold strike vote Kathy Robertson,, Sacramento Business Journal, 4/18/13 After 10 months at the bargaining table with the [...]
• Obamacare a ‘train wreck,’ according to bill’s supporters
    Off the Rails Obamacare a ‘train wreck,’ according to bill’s supporters BY: Lachlan Markay, Washington Free Beacon, 4/18/13 Opponents of Obamacare on Thursday [...]
• Sen. Boxer: Federal Government Determines Local Hospital Policies
    Dem proposes federal regulation of nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals By Pete Kasperowicz, The Hill,  04/17/13 Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Tuesday proposed [...]
• Nation’s biggest movie theater chain cuts workweek, blaming ObamaCare
    Nation’s biggest movie theater chain cuts workweek, blaming ObamaCare By Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News,  4/15/13 The nation’s largest movie theater chain has [...]
• Humana CEO: Health insurance will go the way of pensions
    Humana CEO: Health insurance will go the way of pensions   James Ritchie, – Cincinnati Business Courier, 4/12/13 The health care system of [...]
• Democrats Want NON Doctors to Provide Health Care
    BILLS WOULD ALTER MEDICAL ROLES Nurse practitioners, pharmacists and others would get more authority Paul Sisson, San Diego U-T,  4/7/13 A trio of [...]
• Doctors driven to bankruptcy
  O Doctors driven to bankruptcy By Parija Kavilanz @CNNMoney,  4/8/13 As many doctors struggle to keep their practices financially sound, some are buckling [...]
• Obama War on Women Continues: Chemotherapy – Sequester Victim
    Chemotherapy – Sequester Victim Studio City Patch,  4/6/13 The outrage continues… Cancer clinics across the country are turning away Medicare patients because of [...]
• Great News: Connect the Dots: Guv Brown TAKING $2 Billion From Illegal Alien Health Care
    Monterey Leaders Voice Concerns Over Proposed Health Care Cuts California County News,  4/3/13 Monterey County labor leaders are voicing their concerns over [...]
• Results of ObamaCare and Sacramento Regulations THREE Los Angeles Area Hospitals CLOSE
    Operations Suspended at Three L.A. Hospital Sites By Deborah Crowe, Los Angeles Business Journal,  4/3/13 Financially strapped Pacific Health Corp. on Wednesday [...]
• ObamaCare might do some good!! Non profit abortion clinics could be forced to close
    Feminist clinic fights to be included in health care reform Leah Bartos, California Health Report 3/26/13 As millions of Californians are projected [...]
• California Health Exchange Start-Up Costs $910 Million—Privately Owned Esurance? Under $50 Million
    California’s $910 Million ObamaCare Exchange Peter Suderman, Reason, 3/25/13 Health policy consultant Robert Laszewski notes that California has already received a little [...]
• ObamaCare to Raise Private Insurance Costs in California by 62% (on top of 25% already done)
    Study estimates Obamacare could raise individual claim costs 32 percent BY John Solomon, Washington Guardian,  3/26/13 Actuaries groups offers sobering look at [...]
• How Amnesty For Undocumented Immigrants Would Impact Health Care: Could Bankrupt Free Clinics
    How Amnesty For Undocumented Immigrants Would Impact Health Care John M. Gonzales, CHCF Center for Health Reporting, KPBS,   3/24/13 Clinic director Fred Bauermeister [...]
• ObamaCare to Cost California Small Businesses 65% of Profits
    Obamacare May Cost Small Business ‘Whiners’ 65% of Annual Profits by John Sexton  3/20/13, Breitbart Today the NY Times has a case [...]
• Barack ObamaCare Will Nickel and Dime Businesses to other nations—Found $63 TAX per Employee Added to the cost
    Employers, Unions Outraged by $63-Per-Worker Obamacare Fee by Wynton Hall, Breitbart, big government,  3/16/13 A provision buried inside Obamacare will force many [...]
• Obamacare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones — And Expensive
    Obamacare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones — And Expensive By Scott Gottlieb, Real Clear Markets,   3/5/13 There’s mounting evidence that come [...]
• California is Deeper Financial Trouble: House Cuts $$ for Health Exchanges—CA Deficit to get Deeper
    House Spending Bill Cuts Funding For Exchanges By Mary Agnes Carey< Kaiser Health News,   3/7/13 You don’t hear much these days about [...]
• Briefing Report: Why MICRA Matters
    Briefing Report: Why MICRA Matters Senate Republican Caucus,  3/6/13 In 1975, Governor Jerry Brown called a special session of the California Legislature [...]
• Obama and CA Congressman McNerney: Cutting Health Care to Seniors—As Expected
    New Medicare Advantage Cuts Could Force Millions of Seniors Off Current Plans  Obama-McNerney Obamacare Medicare Cuts Will Cripple Medicare Advantage in [...]
• Due to High Cost of ObamaCare: 20 Million Union Members Could be Forced onto Government Health Care
    Big Labor Backed ObamaCare Decimating Benefits for Union Members By NRTW Committee Staff, 2/24/13    Seems like union bosses have finally gotten [...]
• SEIU Does Not Disrupt “Oscar” Party—Instead will Try to Close Down Motion Picture Hospital
    Union Didn’t Disrupt ‘Night Before’ Party By THE DEADLINE TEAM,  2/24/13 Deadline contributor Ross Johnson reports that Beverly Hills Hotel security kept [...]
• Another ObamaCare Casualty: Spouses/Plan Kills Corporate and Family Budgets
    Obamacare Causing Employers To Dump Health Coverage For SPOUSES The Lid,   2/23/13 Here’s another unintended consequence of Obamacare. According to the legislation [...]
• Democrat State Controller Chiang: Unfunded State Health Care Plan for Retirees: $64 Billion Unfunded Liability.
    Chiang Unveils Updated Costs For Funding State Retiree Health Benefits State Controller John Chiang, 2/21/13 SACRAMENTO – State Controller John Chiang today [...]
• CalPERS Pushing Government Employees Out of PRIVATE Long Term Coverage—Into Federal Program (socialism)
    Outrage at CalPERS’ 85% rate hike for long-term care By Dave Roberts, Calwatchdog,   2/20/13 When tens of thousands of state employees signed [...]
• Socialism is Official in the United States. Feds to RUN Health Care in Half the States
    Federal Government To Run Insurance Marketplaces In Half The States By Phil Galewitz and Alvin Tran, Kaiser Health News,   2/19/13 It’s official. [...]
• $2 BILLION in Medicaid Funds JUST for Illegal Aliens–$1 Billion in CA
    $2 Billion Medicaid Program Helps Mostly Illegal Immigrants By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News,   2/12/13 During the debate over the 2010 federal [...]
• California Lacks Doctors to Meet Federal Health Law’s Demand
    California Lacks Doctors to Meet Federal Health Law’s Demand By Michael J. Mishak, McClatchy News,   2/10/13 As the state moves to expand [...]
• Quality Reporting Program Slow to Catch On–Meant to Fail–Force Big Fines on Doctors
    Quality Reporting Program Slow to Catch On By David Pittman, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today, 1/9/13 Fewer than one in five physicians met Medicare’s [...]
• Private Insurance for Healthy Young Males to go up 190%
    ACA premium sticker shock could fuel foes By: Brett Norman, Politico,  2/4/13 The federal health care law could nearly triple premiums for [...]
• Cancer screening delayed by Obamacare
    Cancer screening delayed by Obamacare by Constance Uribe, MD, Medi-bid,   2/4/13 It is common knowledge that over 500,000 Americans die from cancer [...]
• Obama Using Obamacare to Bankrupt Families: IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
    IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family By Matt Cover, CNSNews,    2/1/13 President Barack Obama hugs HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [...]
• What is concierge medicine? The wave of the future for the rich—while poor stand in long lines
    What is concierge medicine? By Samantha Gluck, BlancedLiving,   2/1/13 Do you long for the old days? You know — the ones your [...]
• College Students Feel Sting of ObamaCare
    College Students Feel Sting of ObamaCare by Alieta Eck, MD, Medibid,   1/30/13 College students will soon wake up to the fact that [...]
• Affordable Health Care is Coming—But Not Enough Doctors, Hospitals or $$
    Briefing Report: Affordable Health Coverage Is Coming… Or Is It? California Republican Senate Caucus,  1/23/13 Introduction As California and other states busily prepare in [...]
• Obamacare Increases Unnecessary Medical Tests, Wastes Doctors’ Time, Drives Up Billings And Costs
    Obamacare Increases Unnecessary Medical Tests, Wastes Doctors’ Time, Drives Up Billings And Costs by Hans Bader, Open Market.org,  1/22/13 President Obama claimed [...]
• California Endowment pledges $225M to federal health reform–to help illegal aliens get FREE health care
    California Endowment pledges $225M to federal health reform   Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 1/17/13 The California Endowment has pledged a special allocation [...]
• Exclusive: Wal-Mart exploring private health insurance exchange for small biz
  G Exclusive: Wal-Mart exploring private health insurance exchange for small biz Orlando Business Journal,   1/11/13 Wal-Mart is exploring the idea of building a [...]
• More of Our Doctors Are Losing Independence
    More of Our Doctors Are Losing Independence Nat Hentoff, Cato,   1/9/13 Recently, as usual, I was anticipating an appointment with one of [...]
• NY Mayor Bloomberg—Gov’t NOT Doctors to Control Emergency Room Medicine in New York
    Bloomberg Slaps Down Criticism of Painkiller Restriction Plan By Colin Campbel, Politiker,   1/11/13 Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials unveiled a new [...]
• The Obamacare Recession Has Started
    Obamacare Layoffs, Hiring Freezes Begin by Wynton Hall, Breitbart,   1/5/13 Obamacare opponents warned that forcing companies employing 50 or more full-time workers [...]
• New Years Eve “Fiscal Deal” Takes ONE BILLION $$$ From California Hospitals
    Hospitals hit by fiscal cliff deal, while docs get reprieve from pay cut Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 1/3/13 Doctors got [...]
• Elevated rates of invasive breast cancer in Bay Area cities
    Elevated rates of invasive breast cancer in Bay Area cities By Leah Bartos, California Health Report,1/3/13 Though the exact causes of breast [...]
• IRS Looks to Force Obamacare on Employers Who Cut Staff
    IRS Looks to Force Obamacare on Employers Who Cut Staff by Wesley J. Smith, LifeNews,  1/2/13 A few months ago I predicted [...]
• The Right Not to Work for Obamacare
    The Right Not to Work for Obamacare by Jane Orient, MD, Medibid,  11/30/12 About a century-and-a-half ago, the right not to work [...]
• Grimes: CA to Spend $90 MILLION to “Promote” Health Exchanges in 2013—Selling Health Care Like Soap
  California health exchanges – ‘Mo Money’ By Katy Grimes, Calwatcdog,   12/28/12 The Obama administration has a lot riding on California’s implementation of [...]
• San Francisco to consider paying city employees to stay healthy
    San Francisco to consider paying city employees to stay healthy By: Joshua Sabatini, SF Examiner, 12/25/12 A recent analysis of city workers [...]
• Easy to De-Fraud Medicare in California
    Prime hospital abruptly stops billing Medicare for rare ailment Lance Williams and Stephen K. Doig, California Watch,   12/20/12 After billing Medicare for [...]
• CA government almost KILLS 53 Year Old Diabetic—Delayed Medical Care
    Medi-Cal patients sue state over being forced into managed care Julie Small, spcr.org,  12/21/12 A lawsuit has been filed against the State [...]
• The Doctor Won’t See You Now
    The Doctor Won’t See You Now Mark Steyn, New Media Journal,   12/17/12 A few years ago, my small local hospital asked a [...]
• Obamacare Death Panel Backdoor Targets Seniors for Health Care Rationing
    Will Health Coverage For Older, Sicker Patients Become A Target for Cuts? By Erin Mershon, National Journal,  12/14/12 As lawmakers search for [...]
• Court Rules CA Can Cut Medi-Cal Fees and Services—Needed to Stave Off Bankruptcy
    Appeals court rules Medi-Cal cuts can happen Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 12/13/12 A federal appeals court has reversed a lower [...]
• Telemedicine to expand at Kern Medical Center–Save on Need for Doctors
    Telemedicine to expand at Kern Medical Center BY STEVEN MAYER, Bakersfield Californian,  12/11/12 It’s no secret that Kern County has a shortage [...]
• States Should Just Say No to Medicaid Expansion to Stop Obama From Bankupting Them
    States Should Just Say No to Medicaid Expansion National Center for Policy Analysis,   12/10/12 Democrats are desperately hoping the states will accept [...]
• Judge mocks Obama’s ‘accommodation’ proposal on contraception mandate
    Judge mocks Obama’s ‘accommodation’ proposal on contraception mandate Joel Gehrke, The Washington Examiner, 12/7/12 Judge Brian Cogan mocked the “accommodation” on religion [...]
• State Insurance Officials Raise Concerns About ‘Rate Shock’ For Young People
    State Insurance Officials Raise Concerns About ‘Rate Shock’ For Young People By Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News,   12/4/12 If young adults can’t [...]
• On CBS, Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Be ‘Very Costly’
    On CBS, Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Be ‘Very Costly’ By Matthew Balan, Newsbusters,   12/3/12   On Monday’s CBS This Morning, Cheesecake [...]
• Obamacare “Freebies” Cause Private Health Insurance to Go up 25%
    Health insurance rate hikes on horizon Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 12/3/12 The New Year is coming, along with some whopping [...]
• Pelosi: Catholic Hospitals Need to Abort Babies or Be Closed
    Pelosi Won’t Defend First Amendment Rights of Historic San Francisco Catholic Hospital By Matt Cover, CNSNews,   11/30/12 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi [...]
• Salinas Valley: Special Health Care Insurance for Illegal Aliens—Taxpayer Subsidized
    Salinas safety nets catch immigrants dropped by ACA By Lynn Graebner, California Health Report,  11/28/12 The Affordable Care Act excludes undocumented immigrants [...]
• 57,000 Brits Not Told GOVERNMENT Stopped Trying to Keep Them ALIVE
    Half of those on Liverpool Care Pathway never told Telegraph [UK], by Laura Donnelly,  12/1/12      The study suggests that in total, around 57,000 [...]
• Under ObamaCare Your “FREE” annual Exam Could Kill You AND be Time Consuming and VERY Expensive
    A Physician’s New Reality: Patients Ask Me to Break the Law Ironically, but expectedly, the ones who do this now are [...]
• CHA leader: Unions, organizations need to work together
    CHA leader: Unions, organizations need to work together Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 11/25/12 Duane Dauner, president and CEO of the [...]
• San Francisco faces retiree health costs–will add to bankruptcy crisis
  San Francisco faces retiree health costs By: Joshua Sabatini, SF Examiner, 11/23/12 City officials are beginning to deal with the growing cost [...]
• How the Implementation of Obamacare Will Make the GOP a Majority Party
    How the Implementation of Obamacare Will Make the GOP a Majority Party Rick Moran, PJ Media,   11/24/12 As we get closer to [...]
• State injects millions of new patients into ailing Medi-Cal
    State injects millions of new patients into ailing Medi-Cal By Dave Roberts, Calwatchdog,  11/20/12 California’s Medi-Cal managed care programs have an abysmal [...]
• List of Obamacare taxes that target the rich, middle class and the poor!
    List of Obamacare taxes that target the rich, middle class and the poor! TPC,   11/19/12 In other words the new taxes [...]
• States now must make call on Obamacare
    States now must make call on Obamacare Victoria Colliver, SF Chronicle,   11/12/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “The health law [...]
• ObamaCare Set to Punish Hospitals for Re-Admitting Medicare Patients
    ObamaCare Set to Punish Hospitals for Re-Admitting Medicare Patients By Dr. Johnny Nesman, 870Newstalk,   8/23/12 Imagine you’re a senior citizen with Medicare [...]
• Fixing California’s Retiree Health Care Problem
  Fixing California’s Retiree Health Care Problem By Stephen D. Eide, Union Watch,  10/31/12 THE ROLE OF OPEB IN LOCAL FISCAL DISTRESS IN [...]
• California Officials: ObamaCare ‘Exchange’ Will Hike Premiums up to 25%
    California Officials: ObamaCare ‘Exchange’ Will Hike Premiums up to 25% by Michael F. Cannon, CATO,  10/31/12 California is one of the few [...]
• Job-Based Health Insurance Declines Dramatically In California
  Job-Based Health Insurance Declines Dramatically In California By Kenny Goldberg, KPBS,  10/30/12 California — A new study finds less than half of Californians [...]
• Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Cut Staff to Stay Solvent–Obamacare Major Part of Problem
    Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Cut Staff to Stay Solvent Officials say patient demand has been less than expected this year, forcing [...]
• CA Gov’t to Decide Your Vision Care—NOT YOU
    Health exchange will ask board to allow stand-alone vision plans Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 10/29/12 Staff at the California Health [...]
• Santa Cruz County braces for Healthy Families transition to Denti-Cal
    Santa Cruz County braces for Healthy Families transition to Denti-Cal By Lynn Graebner, California Health Report,  10/22/12 Low income children in Santa [...]
• CalPERS approves 85% rate hike to long-term care insurance–to kill product
    CalPERS approves 85% rate hike to long-term care insurance Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 10/17/12 About 114,000 people with long-term care [...]
• Is Obamacare Responsible for the Surge in Part-Time Jobs?
    Is Obamacare Responsible for the Surge in Part-Time Jobs? What About Obama’s Defense Layoff Suspensions? Mishs Global Economic Trend Analysis,  10/09/12 Following [...]
• Study: Obamacare regs have cost $27.6 billion, killed 30,000 jobs
    Study: Obamacare regs have cost $27.6 billion, killed 30,000 jobs Conn Carroll, The Washington Examiner, 10/9/12   Fully implementing Obamacare regulations have already [...]
• Racism in Government Health Care Grants Exposed
    UC Davis creates center for aging Latinos, thanks to $3M grant Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 10/2/12 UC Davis has established [...]
• Obama-care supporting quiet boom in new school-based health centers
      Obama-care supporting quiet boom in new school-based health centers By Tom Chorneau, slacabinet report,  10/1/12  If all goes as planned, the [...]
• Obama’s Social Security Disability policy busting Calif. general fund
  Obama’s Social Security Disability policy busting Calif. general fund By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 9/28/12 Here’s the dirty secret of Gov. Jerry Brown’s [...]
• Thank You, Obamacare: Families Pay $3000 More for Insurance; Obama Promised $2500 Decrease
    Thank You, Obamacare: Families Pay $3000 More for Insurance; Obama Promised $2500 Decrease by Joel B. Pollak, Big Government,  9/25/12 President Barack [...]
• The Emerging Obamacare Truth Is Disarray
    The Emerging Obamacare Truth Is Disarray By Scott Gottlieb, Real Clear Politics,  9/19/12 A remarkable truth about Obamacare is how many aspects [...]
• Brown/Obama ”Health” Exchange to Kill 2100 California Jobs—Take Away Health Choices From Citizens
    Rancho Cordova’s VSP threatens to leave state over health insurance decision By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee,9/19/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Medical Background NOT Needed: Medicare’s New Price Control Board
      Medicare’s New Price Control Board National Center for Policy Analysis,  9/11/12 Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) claim [...]
• Gov’t Schools in Orange County Becoming Gov’t Health Care Centers
        Schools Where Dental Clinics and Algebra Classes Share a Hallway http://voiceofoc.org/healthy_communities/article_6cda1b1c-f2ce-11e1-b48f-001a4bcf887a.html AMY DePAUL, voiceofoc.org,  9/4/12 It’s not easy to keep up with Principal [...]
• Socialized Medicine Is Enough To Chase Away British Doctors
      Socialized Medicine Is Enough To Chase Away British Doctors Investors.com,  8/28/12 Health Care: Britain is suffering from an exodus of doctors. If [...]
• Special session planned to tackle Health Benefit Exchange issues
        Special session planned to tackle Health Benefit Exchange issues Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 8/28/12 Gov. Jerry Brown recently informed lawmakers [...]
• Sterilization for 15 Yr Olds Needs No Parental Consent Under ObamaCare – Effective 8-1-12
      Sterilization for 15 Yr Olds Needs No Parental Consent Under ObamaCare – Effective 8-1-12 By Maggie, Maggies Notebook, 8/27/12 This literally made [...]
• State Can’t Keep FELONS From Working in Health Care–Refuses to Enforce Laws
      State struggles with limiting felons in home health care jobs Critics, some officials worry loopholes in caretaker program invite fraud By Jennifer [...]
• State, Local Officials Consider Cutting Gov’t Retiree Health Care
      State, Local Officials Consider Cutting Gov’t Retiree Health Care California Healthline,  8/7/12   State leaders and local government officials are targeting government retiree health [...]
• The Real Cost of ObamaCare Starts: Adds 15 Cents to a Pizza and Job Losses
  Papa John’s: ‘Obamacare’ will raise pizza prices By BYRON TAU, Politico,  8/7/12 Pizza chain Papa John’s told shareholders that President Obama’s [...]
• Study: Minorities hit hardest by Calif. hospital overcrowding
        Study: Minorities hit hardest by Calif. hospital overcrowding Findings ‘are a matter of concern,’ says study by UCSF, Stanford, UCLA researchers By [...]
• Got docs? CA Does Not Have Enough
      Got docs? Insurance may not fix the health care woes of the poor By Robin Urevich, California Health Report, 8/6/12 Anita Montalbano sits [...]
• Obama Health Care to KILL Safety Net Hospitals for the Poor
      Safety Net Hospitals Imperiled by High Court Ruling by Christine Vestal, Stateline, 8/6/12 Safety net hospitals, which serve the vast majority [...]
• Administrators ordered to stop making patient care decisions
      Administrators ordered to stop making patient care decisions Christina Jewett, California Watch, 8/6/12 California managed care regulators are ordering a doctors’ group [...]
• Calif. retiree health care time bomb is ticking
      Calif. retiree health care time bomb is ticking By Dave Roberts, Calwatchdog,  8/2/12 When discussing California’s exorbitant benefits for state government employees [...]
• More uninsured in San Mateo County to receive health care–who pays?
      More uninsured in San Mateo County to receive health care Under pressure, Peninsula Health Care District releases $4.6 million to [...]
• UCLA Doctors to Run Private Clinics for CVS Drug Stores—Step Toward Gov’t Takeover?
      UCLA doctors to oversee 11 CVS Minute Clinics Los Angeles Business from bizjournals, 7/25/12 Under a collaborative agreement with CVS Caremark, UCLA [...]
• Anthem Blue Cross ordered by Gov’t to stop trying to collect old overpayments
      Anthem Blue Cross ordered to stop trying to collect old overpayments Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 7/17/12 State regulators ordered Anthem [...]
• Surgical costs much lower outside Bay Area
      Surgical costs much lower outside Bay Area By: Stephen Buel, SF Examiner,  07/12/12 “There are times when you need medical assistance immediately, [...]
• San Fran Closing ‘essential’ St. Luke’s Hospital could hurt poor
      Closing ‘essential’ St. Luke’s Hospital could hurt poor By: Ari Burack, SF Examiner, 07/11/12 “St. Luke’s has been an essential emergency room [...]
• Planned Parenthood and Obama Need to Keep Medical Malpractice Caps in CA
      State’s medical malpractice law faces more challenges Bernice Yeung, California Watch,  7/2/12 The family of a San Francisco man who died [...]
• CA Doctor Shortage as Obama/Brown Give “FREE” Health Care to Over Two Million Californians
      California Faces Headwinds in Easing Doctor Shortages DAVID WESTPHAL, CHCF Center for Health Reporting, 7/2/12 The Supreme Court’s validation of President [...]
• Los Angeles to Give “Free” Health Care to 1.7 Million People—Tooth Fairy Will Pay, I Guess
      What the SCOTUS ruling on healthcare means to Los Angeles Christina Hulen, LA Democrat Examiner, 6/30/12 The Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday upholding [...]
• SCOTUS says Obamacare is just a tax. Here’s Obamacare’s 21 Taxes!
      SCOTUS says Obamacare is just a tax. Here’s Obamacare’s 21 Taxes! Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dr. Eowyn, Fellowship of the [...]
• Killing the Elderly Is Old News for Britain’s NHS–130,000 Last Year
      Killing the Elderly Is Old News for Britain’s NHS R. Cort Kirkwood, New American, 6/27/12 Last week’s story here that Britain’s National Health [...]
• Senator Strickland shows how Brown is harming the health care of the poorest kids in CA
  Sen. Tony Strickland’s statement on the elimination of the Healthy Families Program Senator Tony Strickland, 6/27/12 In response to the elimination [...]
• Union warns of possible Dignity Health strike of”Nurses”
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• Clinics Prepare for Onslaught of Patients–While Obama Takes Away Resources
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• Strickland: Reuseable Grocery Bags are Health Hazards
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• ObamaCare: Taxing Jobs Out of Existence
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• SEIU Drops Ballot Measures to Control Hospitals
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• California moves forward with insurance Exchange–Ultimately Billions in Subsidies
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• Survey: No jobs for 43 percent of newly licensed nurses
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• Union Nurses Pretend to Protect Children—Actually Oppose Saving $$ for Health Care
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• Insurers Making Clients Pay for State Demanded Freebies—State Upset
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• Cost of CA State Retiree’s Health Care: $62.1 billion in 30 years
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• Grimes: Legislature Advances Dental Socialism
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• CA Brings Socialized Health Care Back From Grave
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• Problems finding new Medicare primary care doctors small but growing
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• ObamaCare in Canada: Wait times for surgery vault to record high of 19 weeks
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• CA State agency wants money from Medi-Cal cut
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• Community clinics, county battle over healthcare reform in Fresno
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• San Fran Employers: Found Loophole Out of Bankruptcy–Stick it to taxpayers
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• San Fran Employers: Found Loophole Out of Bankruptcy–Stick it to taxpayers
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• Court strengthens public retiree health rights–and assures health system insovency quicker
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• Heart failure cases surge among Prime Hospital’s Medicare patients” $$ NOT Sickness
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• CA medical groups seek to block Medicaid cuts–Add to CA Deficit
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• ObamaCare Kills 1,000 Jobs in One Company–Raises Cost of Pacemakers
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• Greens to seniors: Die faster
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• Obama Plan is Working: Bay Area Hospitals Struggling with Drug Shortages
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• Doctors Livid Over Medi-Cal Pay Cut–will stop seeing the poor
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• Illegal aliens bankrupting CA’s Medicaid; Obama approves cuts
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• Supreme Court to decide if suits can be filed over CA Medicaid cuts
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• ObamaCare Board Cuts Specialist Pay 50%, cuts Primary Care Pay 30%–Rationing is to start
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• CA Subsidized health insurance program falls far below target enrollment
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• Why Aren’t Seniors Yelling? Obama administration approves massive Medicaid cuts requested by CA
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• California Medi-Cal–About to End–NO DOCTORS WILLING TO TAKE NEW PATIENTS
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• Guv Brown/Legislature Determine Winners and Loser in Health Care Industry
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• Obama Jobs Bill Could Dry Up 238,000 Pharmaceutical Jobs, Report Says
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• California Medical Association Promotes Marijuana Use–No Joke
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• Tax Subsidized Counties to Compete With Private Sector in Providing Heath /Care Coverage
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• San Diego Cities Unfunded Health Care Liabilities: 13% of Payroll
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• Kaiser-Permanente: $5.9 BILLION Profits in Two Years
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• ObamaCare No Boon to CA Workers–it is a Real Killer
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• Fresno County’s Decision to Reject Health Care Funds Draws Potential Legal Backlash
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• Controversy over San Fran pregnancy center ads nears boiling point
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• Catholic Bishops on Obamacare Reg: ‘Unprecedented Attack on Religious Liberty,’ Even Jesus Wouldn’t Qualify as ‘Religious’
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• Feds to Cost Asthmatics more for less effective drugs–death sentence for some?
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• Government-run health insurance raises costs and kills jobs
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• The Big One is Coming: Strikes Rattle California Hospitals–You can Die on Sept.22
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• Health-Care Mandates Infecting CA
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