Mice Found Nibbling Dementia Patient’s Face in Nursing Home
A dementia patient in Canada is being treated for infection after a staff member at a long-term care facility found mice nibbling on her face. Due to the patient’s physical disabilities, she was unable to remove the mice herself.

The healthcare advocacy group Friends of Medicare report that the incident occurred September 1 at St. Therese Villa in Lethbridge, Alberta. Though the woman is physically recovering from bites that drew blood, she has also been “emotionally impacted” by the event. A nest of mice was found in the patient’s closet after the biting.

Staff members at the St. Therese Villa began reporting the incidence of mice about a year ago and they were recently demanded by management to clean up mouse droppings before a visit from the Health Minister Fred Horne. The facility has also been struggling with a nine-month bedbug infestation....

NHS: time to disestablish our ‘national religion’?
...But as Macdonald noted, the NHS is the nearest thing we have to a ‘national religion’ these days and the most socially acceptable face of government-knows-best thinking. Instead of constantly treating such problems as minor ailments on an otherwise health body, maybe it is time for a proper and hard-headed diagnosis of the NHS’s ailments with all treatment options on the table. It may well be that a tax-funded system is the best way forward, that for all its faults it still provides the widest care at the lowest price. But we’ll never know because, by and large, politicians refuse to discuss it.

Surprise! New Study Suggests That Obamacare Could Cost Much More Than Expected
Obamacare could cost a lot more than the official estimates, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University.

That's because the law will create big incentives for employers to drop worker health coverage so that employees can get health insurance through the law's insurance exchanges. Anyone who buys insurance through an exchange and has a household income between 133 and 400 percent of the poverty line is eligible for publicly funded subsidies. So if a lot more people than expected end up in the exchanges, that means a lot more subsidies — and a much higher total cost for the law. ...

Obamacare to Leave 31 Million Uninsured
...The Affordable Care Act, the most sweeping health care program created in a half century, is expected to extend coverage to 25 million Americans over the next decade, according to the most recent government estimates. But that will still leave a projected 31 million people without insurance by 2023. Those left out include undocumented workers and poor people living in the 21 states, such as Virginia, that have so far declined to expand Medicaid under the statute, commonly called Obamacare.