The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline’s swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose.

In a statement issued Friday, the European drug regulator said data from GlaxoSmithKline PLC showed a higher number of children aged six months to 3 years had a fever after their second dose of the Pandemrix vaccine, compared with the first. Kids were also more likely to have side effects like muscle pain, drowsiness, and irritability.

The European regulator recommends children get two doses of swine flu vaccine, though Glaxo says one dose is enough.

Last month, Glaxo advised health authorities not to use one batch of its Canadian-manufactured swine flu vaccine in case it triggered life-threatening side effects like anaphylactic shock.

Judge Napolitano was on Glenn Beck on Tuesday, November 11th.   Part 1 of 6 of the video is below.

Visit the poster’s You Tube Channel to view the remaining five parts.

From: http://www.medinafortexas.com/
Published 11/09/2009 – 3:58 p.m. CST

Debra Medina, a registered nurse and candidate for governor, is taking the lead in defending Texas against the nationalization of healthcare.

“This bill devastates freedom and destroys healthcare. Texas must nullify the action by congress and fight for an injunction in the federal courts. I am urging Governor Perry today to call the Texas Legislature into special session. I am encouraging Attorney General Abbott to begin the work necessary to obtain an injunction against the IRS and the 111 other federal agencies empowered in this legislation to further embed Washington D.C. in our lives. These actions are critical to insuring that Texans are free to make our own decisions about healthcare” stated Medina.

As the U.S. Senate takes up HR 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” Texans must mobilize now as never before! We must not wait, there can be no delay. We must prepare for the eventuality that the U. S. Senate will pass this bill and be ready to immediately defend the sovereignty of the great state of Texas.

The Texas Legislature must act. Please call your state representative and state senator today. Find your district and their number here:  http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/. Ask them to demand that the governor call a special session to address the nationalization of healthcare; to nullify those actions by Congress that undermine the sovereignty of Texas.

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[Original CNSNews.com story here.]

Friday, October 23, 2009
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Pelosi’s press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.

The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday [October 22nd] occurred as follows:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a ”serious question.”

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Continue reading here… http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55971 .

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

[Here is The Washington Times original story, links added by HALC.us staff.]

When it comes to having past views that should frighten every American citizen, Ezekiel Emanuel (see above editorial) has nothing on the president’s “chief science adviser,” John P. Holdren. The combination of Mr. Holdren with Dr. Emanuel should make the public seriously concerned with this administration’s moral compass concerning care for the old and weak.

Earlier this month, Mr. Holdren served as co-chairman when the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met for the first time. It’s a disgrace that Mr. Holdren is even on the council. In “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” a book he co-authored in 1977 with noted doomsayers Paul R. and Anne H. Erlich, Mr. Holdren wrote: “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

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Source: CBS News

President Obama’s plan to remake the nation’s health care system is one step closer to reality after the pivotal Senate Finance Committee approved sweeping legislation Tuesday requiring nearly all Americans to purchase insurance and ushering in a host of other changes to the nation’s $2.5 trillion medical system.

The committee approved the measure by a vote of 14 to 9, with all Democrats supporting it, along with one Republican – Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.

“Ours is a balanced plan that can pass the Senate,” Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Tuesday before the vote. “Our bill should win the support of Republicans and Democrats alike… My colleagues, this is our opportunity to make history.”

Baucus ultimately failed at winning any more than one Republican vote, even after marathon negotiating sessions.

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called the vote another step toward the “flawed solution… of more spending, more government and more taxes.”

Snowe cautioned that her vote for the committee bill did not indicate she would support the Democrats’ final plans.

“I [support the committee bill] with reservations because I share my Republican colleagues’ trepidation about what will transpire on the Senate floor” and later on in the legislative process, Snowe said. Still, she said she would vote for the measure because “when history calls, history calls.” Read the rest of this entry »

By STEPHEN MOORE

Art by Benito Segovia

The Obama Administration’s health care public option, which is the key to an eventual government-run system, is starting to look like one of those corpses out of the grave from Zombieland. Last week the public option failed in the Senate Finance Committee and Democrat Max Baucus, the committee chairman from Montana, announced that the votes aren’t there on the Senate floor for a government-operated and subsidized insurance option. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, under pressure from unions and welfare groups, won’t take no for an answer, so expect a knock-down drag-out floor fight over the issue on the Senate floor.

Some Democrats, notably Senator Tom Carper of Delaware, are trying to forge yet another compromise. Mr. Carper is promoting a bill to allow a quasi-public option in states where private insurance competition is scarce. That plan is a derivative of the co-op insurance system that many Democrats favor as their “Plan B.” Call it a public option in disguise.

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[HALC.us Editor’s Note: this original story was posted on U. S. Rep. Kevin Brady’s homepage on July 15, 2009.]

Baffling Flow Chart –
Public Gets Peek at Complicated Bureaucracy in Democratic Health Care Plan

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), the lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, today unveiled a detailed flow chart of the complex health care reform proposal by Democratic congressional leaders.

The chart identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions and mandates that accompany the unprecedented government takeover of health care in America.

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A HALC Meetup.com member posted this on the discussion board.

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Fellow Patriots,

I spoke with Culberson’s office regarding his comments on Edd Hendee’s radio show Thursday morning in Houston. He was speaking about a sneaky plan to pass government-run healthcare.
A copy of their emailed response and other comments from him are posted here. 

It appears that regardless of what we think, say, or DO, the senate plans to attach the two committees combined efforts to some simple bill (i.e. TARP salaries) w/60 votes- after it’s passed so they can vote it through – in attachments – with only 51 votes. We need to MELT every phone/email/fax line once they pass the ‘carrier’ legislation and before they pass the amended TROJAN HORSE.

Here you can find all of the Senators’ contact info here, then click on a state.

We have two sample letters (one directed at the democrats and one directed at the republicans) posted here.

Here are links to articles that can explain it better than I. (The one from Heritage is my favorite.)

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed093009a.cfm

http://www.redstate.com/jrichardson/2009/10/01/reid-health-care-reform-not-complete-without-public-option/

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_093009/content/01125106.guest.html

Please help us get this information out to as many as we can before it is too late (some sources say by next Thursday, 10/08/09)!

For Liberty,

Renee’ A Herath

Note from HALC: This article was originally printed in the September 2009 edition of Atlantic Magazine and is available freely online. In my personal opinion, this is one of the most thorough and well-thought analysis of the healthcare issue and deserves a read by everyone genuinely interested. Goldhill’s journey takes you to the conclusion you probably already know – that healthcare costs (true costs – not just what people pay) are obscured by government intervention and a return to market solutions is the only way to fix it.

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After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it. Here’s a radical solution to an agonizing problem.

by David Goldhill

How American Health Care Killed My Father

Illustration by Mark Hooper

ALMOST TWO YEARS ago, my father was killed by a hospital-borne infection in the intensive-care unit of a well-regarded nonprofit hospital in New York City. Dad had just turned 83, and he had a variety of the ailments common to men of his age. But he was still working on the day he walked into the hospital with pneumonia. Within 36 hours, he had developed sepsis. Over the next five weeks in the ICU, a wave of secondary infections, also acquired in the hospital, overwhelmed his defenses. My dad became a statistic—merely one of the roughly 100,000 Americans whose deaths are caused or influenced by infections picked up in hospitals. One hundred thousand deaths: more than double the number of people killed in car crashes, five times the number killed in homicides, 20 times the total number of our armed forces killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another victim in a building American tragedy.

About a week after my father’s death, The New Yorker ran an article by Atul Gawandeprofiling the efforts of Dr. Peter Pronovost to reduce the incidence of fatal hospital-borne infections. Pronovost’s solution? A simple checklist of ICU protocols governing physician hand-washing and other basic sterilization procedures. Hospitals implementing Pronovost’s checklist had enjoyed almost instantaneous success, reducing hospital-infection rates by two-thirds within the first three months of its adoption. But many physicians rejected the checklist as an unnecessary and belittling bureaucratic intrusion, and many hospital executives were reluctant to push it on them. The story chronicled Pronovost’s travels around the country as he struggled to persuade hospitals to embrace his reform. Read the rest of this entry »