Network News
- Health Care Would Be Rationer Out at Medicare
- 11/25/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - Donald Berwick has resigned as the head of Medicare. From the Boston Globe story: "Don Berwick, the Harvard professor who was tapped by the Obama administration to lead the overhaul of the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs, resigned today - just months before he was scheduled to leave his post. Despite his reputation as a health care innovator, Berwick became enmeshed in the divisive politics over revamping the country's health care system.
- Tonight on EWTN County Music Star Collin Raye!
- 11/24/2011
- (Terri's Life & Hope Network) - The death of his 10 year old granddaughter in 2010 literally knocked Collin Raye to his knees, and challenged his faith like never before! Don't miss his story Thursday/ Thanksgiving Night on worldwide Television on EWTN at 8:00pm Est.
- Doctor-Assisted Suicide is Dangerous For Us All
- 11/23/2011
- (Calgary Herald) - It's been a sickly couple of weeks for life. This past Monday, a B.C. Supreme Court case kicked off in which five people are seeking the right to choose to be killed by a physician. The very next day, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) released a report that urges the federal government to legalize assisted suicide in Canada.
- Why Do They Look the Other Way?
- 11/22/2011
- (TBNweekly) - I am a caregiver of a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor (Diane) and this past Friday we did a wellness check on a member (as she had missed our meeting and dine out), only to find that she had mail in the box for a few days.
- New York's High Rate of Disabled Deaths Prompts Outcry
- 11/21/2011
- (CNA).- Reports that one in six disabled persons in New York over the last decade have died from preventable causes has drawn sharp criticism from local media and disability advocates. "We are devaluing these people," Bobby Schindler of the Life and Hope Network told CNA, and "we are seeing" this kind of treatment "rationalized and justified everyday."
- Guardianship Attorney Indicted for Bilking from Incapacitated Wards
- 11/20/2011
- (AHHerald.com) - A guardianship attorney and her former paralegal were indicted today on charges of theft and failing to make required disposition of more than $800,000, Prosecutor PeterE. Warshaw, Jr. announced. The charges stem from a three-year investigation conducted by the MonmouthCounty Prosecutor's Office into the guardianship practice of attorney Lynn Kenneally, 50,of Wall.
- Gabrielle Giffords Says She is 'Getting Stronger'
- 11/19/2011
- (Washington Post) - Ten months after a gunman shot her at point-blank range at a constituent event in Tucson, Rep. Gabrielle Gifffords (D-Ariz.) appeared on national television Monday night, sang along to the Broadway show tune "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" and said she wanted to get better more than she wanted to return to Congress.
- Ohio Mom Charged in Starvation Death of Her Special Needs Daughter
- 11/18/2011
- (WDTN) - Police arrested a mother and three nurses, all accused of being involved in allowing a special needs child to starve to death. Angela Norman, the child's mother, is charged with involvuntary manslaughter and endangering children.
- Euthanasia is Heroin
- 11/17/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - I once called euthanasia, "heroin." My point was-and is-that once a culture starts mainlining mercy killing, it will always wants more. And now a Dutch euthanasia advocacy groups wants to create mobile euthanasia clinics.
- Desperate Mom Wins Fight for Son's Care
- 11/16/2011
- (Clarion Ledger) - After lying in a hospital bed for nearly two years with a severe brain injury, Mike Barnes of Mount Olive is finally receiving the rehabilitative care his mother fought for. Barnes, 50, was transferred Tuesday from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson to a brain-injury facility in Arkansas after a long struggle against bureaucracy and lack of in-state services.
