Jeff Emanuel Online

Over 11,000 veterans who received routine colonoscopies at three VA health centers are being warned to get blood tests for HIV, hepatitis, and other malignant viral infections in the wake of revelations that government-employed clinic staffers frequently neglected to sterilize the equipment between procedures.
Patients at the Veterans Affairs health centers in question — 3,260 in [...]

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In his non-State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama claimed that health care “is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds,” and that, “in the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages.”
Further, he claimed that “one million more Americans…lost their health insurance” in “each” [...]

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