Month: March 2011

What Happens to the Egg Donors?

~ Pharmer

eggsploitation ::: the infertility industry has a dirty little secret….

Women are selling their eggs to assist the reproductive efforts of financially well heeled people with fertility troubles.   This documentary presents the possible serious  risks of the various means of egg harvesting  to the  donor women.

These women should also be informed that the bulk of  human embryos produced from their eggs are killed.

Click above to see various film trailers.

Also see this news story, of  a slave surrogacy operation based in Thailand, using women from Vietnam. The business appeared to serve the reproductive  ‘needs’ of Taiwanese customers.

Yes, women remain second class, able to be purchased,  and useful as a medical commodity.

 

Canadians Shopping in U.S. for Bargain Medical Prices

~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

Canadians buy U.S. health care as weak economy pushes down prices – The Globe and Mail.

Wait times and availability of  health care has long been sending  Canadians southward to the U.S. for care.   This migration is increasing due to economic downturns and new bargain rates for medical procedures.  U.S.  health facilities are actually negotiating  with Canadian health care brokers and matching prices.

This state of affairs has sent people of more moderate means into the U.S. health care market for such things as joint replacements and cardiac procedures.

Let’s hope that a private system can remain in place for those who think their health is worth the money.

What About the Tracheostomy for Baby Joseph?

~ Pharmer

It’s good to juxtapose some lay-person friendly medical info up with the hot button pro-life issues of the day. So…. if you want to learn about tracheostomies for babies, and trach care at home, read a long term internet resource put up by the Bissell family.

A London Ontario hospital is holding a baby, Joseph Maarachli, on a ventilator, and has been refusing to do a tracheotomy so the boy can be taken home to be with his family. He suffers from a neurodegenerative disease which will take his life.

His family already knows the drill…… they previously lost a child to this problem. She had undergone a tracheotomy procedure, and was allowed to die at home.

This time, it appears that the Canadians are clamping down with the cost containment. The tracheostomy is “not indicated” for a patient with this kind of terminal disease, although it used to be allowed. Apparently the money has gotten tighter up there, with that socialized medicine system.

Which do you think is worse for baby Joseph?….. intubated on a ventilator in the hospital, or a tracheostomy and vent at home? With all the publicity, security and legal intervention, he’s in limbo on the former. No secrets on where the Daily Mail reporter stands on this issue.

National Labor Relations Board accepted Free Advertising from Google

~ Pharmer

Union-Controlled NLRB Suddenly Pulls Google Ads on ‘How to Start a Union’ | LaborUnionReport.com.

The National Labor Relations Board, a governmental agency,  is funded by YOU,  and functions to encourage unionization.   It was noted that they had been running ads on Google, to this end, (worth big bucks) since 2008.

Observers figured that this was  $$ funded  $$ by You the taxpayer, and published this assumption.  This caused the NLRB to put a “fact check” on its site, announcing that those ads  were a free donation from Google.

Laborunionreport brought  up the second question as to whether the government run agency is supposed to accept freebies from a private business.

And THAT perhaps is what  caused the Google ads to suddenly disappear.  🙂

So check the links and follow this very interesting story of More Impropriety from the Union-fed Obama administration.

See the screenshots of these now disappeared Google ads.

Thanks to the folks at Shopfloor.org and Laborunionreport.com for keeping a sharp eye out for us.  Could be that if you ever want to see them or the Pharm anymore, you’ll have to search on Bing ;-).

Now that the Union ads have come down from the big wide world web, perhaps Google would like to consider running them on a private intranet to teach its own employees how to unionize.  Wouldn’t that be fun?

 

 

Senate Democrats Give up Confirmation of Two Legged Death Panel, Donald Berwick

~ Pharmer

Senate Democrats Abandon Obama Rationing Czar Donald Berwick | LifeNews.com.

The Senate Dems have dispaired of overcoming the filibuster promised by Republicans to overcome confirmation of Obama Nominee Donald Berwick  as Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare administrator.

Berwick has been an avid proponent of UK style socialized medicine and rationing, though he pretended to back away from this during the process of his nomination.

Obama had used a recess appointment to overcome Republican opposition to his nomination, but without senate confirmation the temporary  appointment is over by the end of the year.

 

Mayor Daley Nephew, R.J. Vanecko qualifies for political office

~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

In Chicago….

Homicide case involving Daley nephew closed without charges – Chicago Sun-Times.

Richard J Vanecko is accused of punching out a much smaller guy, David Koschman, in 2004.  Koschman died 11 days later in a hospital.

The police investigation of the killing was identified as “CLEARED, CLOSED/EXCEPTIONALLY”

Ald.  Howard Brookins and Ald. Freddrenna Lyle are interested in further investigation of police handling of this matter.

Pharmer says……. par for the course in Chicago, and it just adds to the resume of a person interested in  political life.

Christian Copts Rehabilitation Center for Handicapped Targeted for Demolition in Egypt

~ Pharmer

Pakistan Christian Post.

Look where you have to go to get news of what’s happening to Christians in Egypt.

Ahmed Dia-el-Din, Governor of Minya has been extorting huge amounts of money from Coptic Christians.  He demanded that families in the village of Saeed Abdelmassih  come up with a million pounds or donate land to build a mosque in  this place which has no Muslims.  When they refused to pay, he ordered demolition of three homes, which was accomplished on Feb 28th.   The governor is also threatening to demolish a Coptic  community center  (Mallawi Diocese) which serves for rehabilitation and education of special needs youth.   So far, demonstrations and anger from the Coptic communities have forstalled this.

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has reported 53  actions by Muslims against Copts  from 2008 to 2010,  Of 29 districts,  the Minya governorate leads the pack  with 21 incidents.

Budget Gimmicks in Obamacare

~ Pharmer

$500 billion represents a slowdown of the growth of medicare over 12 years, Sebelius says.

How do you think that medicare growth will slow down, particularly with the baby boomers entering that phase of life?
Through killing off the elderly by means of the worst shortages of meds for critical care that we’ve ever seen, through the “unintended” consequences of HIPAA “privacy protections” and through direct rationing of care…. just thought you ought to know.

In addition, Sebelius reveals double counting of the “savings” as revealed in this hearing, and questioning by Rep. Shimkus of Illinois.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Approves Ban on Federal Abortion Funding

~ Pharmer

Judiciary Committee approves bill on federal abortion funding on party lines – The Hill’s Healthwatch.

The vote split along party lines to allow a bill to ban federal spending on abortion to go to the House Floor in 2011, with 100 percent of the Democrats opposing the bill, as expected.

The confused Hank Johnson (who fears that Guam might capsize due to overpopulation)  offered comic relief for the day.  Quoted at The Hill:

“Some might argue that life begins with the potential, with just one sperm … with just … one egg, so if we decided that we’re going to make it illegal for a man to get a vasectomy because we believe that life begins at that point, what’s to stop us from doing that?”

“We can argue arbitrarily that life begins at conception, which is the sperm penetrating the egg. We can decide it like that, but you are not respecting those who think that sperm or the egg standing by itself represent the potential life and that potential should not be cut short,”

Amusing as this is…. and even the legislators are said to have stifled their responses…. Pharmer has heard this, and stranger stuff coming from the abortion supporters.

And here’s an insider view.