I have been providing longterm and end-of-life care to my loved ones for most of the last 29 years, since my late life partner moved in with me in September 1984. (She died of complications of multiple sclerosis in December 2004.) I took care of my mother when she was dying in 2006 and shortly …
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A surgeon learns what hospice care can do to improve the end-of-life experience and reduce medical costs
I’ve been providing end-of-life care for my loved ones for most of the last 10 years. Hospice care did so much to improve the end-of-life experience for my late life partner and my mother that my father had me make arrangements so that he can have it, too, when his time comes. (New gentle readers: …
WaPo reporter fakes own death to escape Obama filibuster
Oh, all right, not really. But the last time I remember the Washington Post quoting a president at length, it was when George Herbert Walker Bush was running for his second term against Bill Clinton. Pres. Bush had undiagnosed Grave’s disease, which makes your thoughts race, and he could not speak in coherent paragraphs. Anyway, …
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Obamacare has no privacy protections for electronic medical records
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Megan Kelly reminds viewers that an Obama supporter in Ohio’s state government used her access to government databases to publicize embarrassing details of the private life of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber.” Oh, and remember WHY the Obama campaign did that? Recall that Obama came to his …
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Why Obamacare is a threat to marriage
One of the consequences of Obamacare becoming law is that its means-tested benefits will destroy marriage for the middle class the same way that the Great Society welfare state destroyed the black family with financial incentives for staying single. This information was tucked away in a piece in the New York Times on March 24, …
Hitler predicts Obamacare has a silver lining
The captured terrorists will talk soon enough after we put them on Obamacare. If you’re a conservative, do NOT have food or fluids in your mouth when Hitler delivers the final punchline.
Watershed: Al Sharpton says Americans voted for socialism by electing Obama
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Sharpton on Fox to Geraldo Rivera right after the passage of the Obamacare healthcare reform bill on 3/21/10: “I think that this began the transforming of the country the way the president had promised. This is what he ran on. First of all we have to say that …
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My Maine man, Andrew Ian Dodge, on repealing Obamacare
I met conservative blogger Andrew Ian Dodge and his wife at CPAC last month and took an instant shine to him (both of them, really). I know, I know, I fall in love with practically everyone at CPAC. We’ll let that be our little secret. Andrew lives in Maine and is a Tea Party organizer …
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Observations on the health care 'summit'
First, the best coverage of the White House health care “summit” at Blair House in Washington, D.C., today is on C-SPAN 3 because it shows the name cards of the speakers and sometimes a chyron identifying the speaker. Also, it does not show irrelevent messages and a crawl as second-best Fox News is doing. CNN …