Global Warming & Healthcare Coverage Linked by Playground Activities
The mention of global warming nearly always takes me to thoughts of the healthcare issue being played out on the Washington, DC playground. A playground that seems to have more than its fair share of bullies strutting around. Bullies that seem to think we are simply to take their word for whatever the issue, but especially global warming [...] Read more »
Wife’s Visitation in Jeopardy: The Isolation of Gary Harvey
By Carrie K. Hutchens
Gary Harvey is the brain injured man from New York, who seems to have his own private “death panel” determined to kill him off and to make his and his wife’s life as miserable as possible, until the sentence is carried out. One might think it could get no worse than it [...] Read more »
It’s Time to Go Home: Gary Harvey’s Case in Review
By Carrie K. Hutchens
The holidays are fast approaching and Gary Harvey isn’t home yet. Why not?
The wheels of justice turn slowly? Someone needs to get out the grease because this situation has gone beyond unreasonable, illogical, irresponsible and control-freak mode. It’s unacceptable!
In review:
“This is a case where a 55 year old man had a heart [...] Read more »
The Gary Harvey Case: Where Obama’s Non-Existent Death Panels “DO” Exist
by Carrie K. Hutchens
It was a day in court like any other day, or was it?
The Corning Leader’s John Zick and Star Gazette’s Ray Finger reported on the September 17, 2009 Gary Harvey hearing. A hearing that sees a county fighting desperately to hold onto Gary Harvey, though the reasons behind their desperation seems [...] Read more »
Dakota Voice AIDS Poll Closed
The last week’s Dakota Voice poll question is now closed. It was:
According to the CDC, what is the largest source of AIDS transmission?
Here’s how the answers came out:
- Homosexual contact & injected drug use (48%)- Injected drug use (16%)- High-risk heterosexual contact (15%)- Homosexual contact (13%) – Other (6%)
Only 13% got the answer correct. The [...] Read more »
Mass. Govt Acknowledges Increased Homosexual Health Risks
My fellow Red County blogger Dr. Richard Swier brings our attention to fresh evidence of one of the best-kept secrets in health research: the increased health risks in the homosexual community.
I say “best kept secret” because if the same health risks associated with homosexual behavior were even hinted at for, say, drinking Diet Coke, [...] Read more »
Tom Daschle: A ‘Health’ Secretary Who Promotes Unhealthy Practices
The news is out that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former South Dakota senator Tom Daschle to be his Health Secretary, and one has to marvel that such a supporter of unhealthy practices should be chosen to shepherd the nation’s health interest.
The South Dakota Left is predictably all aglow at the news. Daschle remains one [...] Read more »
Elli Schwiesow on Health Care in South Dakota
Dakota Voice wraps up our series on issues with District 32 Independent Senate candidate Elli Schwiesow.
Schwiesow, a life-long Republican, faces Republican Stan Adelstein and Democrat Tom Katus in tomorrow’s election.
In this series, Schwiesow has discussed her stand on the issues of taxes, Second Amendment rights, universal preschool, energy, Native American issues, Initiated Measure 11, and [...] Read more »
The Sorry State of Free Health Care
Socialism just doesn’t work, folks. The longer it’s tried, the more it costs and the less it works.
The National Center for Policy Analysis looks at the pathetic wait times in countries like Canada and Britain where they have socialized medicine and finds that while our medical system in the United States leaves a lot to [...] Read more »
BREAKING: Sanford Health Changes Position, Says Initiated Measure 11 Consistent With Current Standards
SIOUX FALLS, SD – The VoteYesForLife.com campaign is holding a press conference Wednesday, October 22nd at 12:15 p.m. at the campaign headquarters (3500 South Louise Ave.). Sanford doctor, Glenn Ridder, will read portions of a letter sent to the VoteYesForLife.com campaign, highlighting the fact that the values of Sanford hospital are consistent with those [...] Read more »
Great Solution to Fix Health Care Accessibility
This video report, while light-hearted at times, holds some very important truth about our “health care crisis.”
It also contains a very important truth about socialism itself. Take note of both the visible and underlying attitudes of some of the people interviewed here. If you think they’re rare and isolated incidents, you’re [...] Read more »
Who Wins the Self-Centered Vote?
We have the blue-collar vote, we have the social conservative vote, we have the feminist vote, and a host of other “votes.”
Most of these voting blocks are pretty predictable as to whether they’ll vote for John McCain or Barack Obama.
Presidential debates like the one tonight seldom sway these voting blocks; after all, debates these days [...] Read more »
Poll: Most People Find Problems After an Abortion
Last week the Family Research Council held a forum to examine women’s health as it relates to abortion.
One of the things discussed at that forum was a new poll sponsored by the Elliot Institute which found a very large majority say there are problems which follow an abortion.
From LifeNews:
The survey asked several different questions about [...] Read more »
The Uninsured and Government Health Care Scam
This is an enlightening video about some of the people who “can’t” afford health insurance.
This is also an important lesson in why socialism is not only the lamest idea ever to strike humanity, it’s bad for everyone it touches: bad for the drive and dignity it enables to be slackers, and bad for [...] Read more »
Senate Candidate Dykstra on Health Care Reform
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joel Dykstra talks about health care and what is needed for reform in this video.
Dykstra has lived overseas in England and Italy under government health care systems, so he has experienced first-hand what these systems are like–and realizes they are the last thing we want here in the United States.
“Free” health [...] Read more »
Video: Obama Says Health Care is a RIGHT
Unlike our normal rights (like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from self incrimination, freedom from unlawful search and seizure, etc.), Barack Obama believes in a new “right” which requires that government take property (money) from one person and give it to another.
Does my right to free speech require that the taxpayers [...] Read more »
Health Care Cannot Be a Right
Why Health Care Cannot be a RightAs Bob Ellis has argued in a post today, health care for all would require imposing on some citizens the burden of bearing the cost of the “right” for others. No right given by God and recognized in our Constitution contains similar requirements. A true “right” cannot [...] Read more »
Sanford Health: Blocking Healthy Choices and Allowing Unhealthy Ones
Boy, if that isn’t a blatant–and pathetic–double standard from Sanford Health.
Voices Carry points out that if you take your laptop to the hospital and try to go online through their web portal, you’re blocked from at least one pro-life website under the auspices that it is an “abortion/advocacy group.”
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood’s website–the billion-dollar earning, getting [...] Read more »
Universal Healthcare? Is This What Americans Want?
From the London Telegraph we have news of a proposed solution to the soaring costs of “free” healthcare. I suppose that it is true that dead people cause little financial strain on the medical system. Huge savings can certainly be realized by adopting such a plan, but think what additional savings are possible [...] Read more »
State Investment Officer Bonus Illustrates Myth of Government Competency
Like many people, I am disappointed and disgusted that state investment officer Matt Clark received a $147,178 bonus, even though South Dakota’s investment fund lost $692 million.
The Rapid City Journal editorial board talks about that in today’s editorial.
Obviously, it was gross incompetence at one or more steps of government that provided a whopping bonus to [...] Read more »
A Liberal’s Idea of Compassionate Health Care
Liberals promote socialized medicine as the answer to all our health care problems, and presidential candidate Barack Obama is certainly no exception.
According to these worshippers of the government-god, we should entrust our health care system (and our lives and health with it) to the same people who have done such a great, efficient, compassionate job [...] Read more »
