Health Care Reform

Some oxymoronic health care cuts

Sheila Liaugminas | 07 December 2009

The New York Times points out in this piece that home health care is yet another type of service that will suffer when Medicare takes a big hit in health care legislation, in all likelihood.

Important decisions are now being made

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 December 2009

…or soon will be made. Forces favoring abortion, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, the redefinition of marriage, and the like see this as a critical moment for advancing their causes.

Smoke & mirrors in Congress

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 November 2009

We’ve already got problems in health care delivery in the US. Some of it is in Medicaid. That and more, including problems with Medicare, would get worse if the reform legislation currently written somehow got enacted.

Senate bill not just a disappointment

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 November 2009

The Catholic bishops called the Senate health care bill an “enormous disappointment” that creates new and unacceptable federal policy for funding and coverage of abortions, as well as rights of conscience.

Breast cancer survivors speak out

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 November 2009

About the suddenly changed guidelines on mammograms the federal task force has just released.

So NOW guidelines change?

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 November 2009

‘Why do we suddenly have new recommendations for screenings after all these years?’

American health care is out of whack

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 November 2009

Three Irish surgeons have revealed that they are being paid a whopping $350,000 to do nothing.

Anyone in the House listening?

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 November 2009

Every chance he gets, Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak is making a reasoned argument for his amendment to ensure health care legislation won’t require citizens to pay for abortion.

How much less safe?

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 November 2009

Questions missing from the “already too-complicated health care debate”: "The case of the Missing Assistant Surgeon."

Max and the Bean Counters

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 September 2009

The Baucus bill under debate in Congress this week is being touted as the compromise to save health care ‘reform’. But that’s a misrepresentation.

Faith healers

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 September 2009

President Obama is not surprisingly looking for lots of support on his health care plans from the half of the Catholic divide that voted for him.

Settle down and take a deep breath

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 September 2009

Republicans are hearing from constituents that they want to restart the process of reforming health care in America.

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