Posts Tagged ‘clinic’

Preventive care does not save money

August 11th, 2009 | No Comments

That’s the conclusion Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf told Congress Friday: Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall. Nancy Pelosi was so excited to hear this, she went on the offensive against [...]

Get your heroin safely in San Francisco

October 19th, 2007 | 3 Comments

This is nuts: City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility [...]

Is Michael Fox acting?

October 24th, 2006 | 11 Comments

Was reading a trashy New York gossip rag that was talking about Rush attacking Michael J. Fox for over-acting his Parkinson’s symptoms for political gain.  Well, here is the video in question via Claire McCaskill: Here’s Fox circa June 2006: The problem Rush has is just making the allegation is distasteful to just about anyone [...]

Medicare for All

October 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]