Category Archives: health care

Judicial Watch Uncovers FDA Records Detailing 16 New Deaths Tied to Gardasil

Records Document 3,589 Adverse Reactions Related to Gardasil between May 2009 and September 2010, Including 213 Cases Resulting in Permanent Disability

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has received new documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), detailing reports of adverse reactions to the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil. The adverse reactions include 16 new deaths (including four suicides) between May 2009 and September 2010. The FDA also produced 789 “serious” reports, with 213 cases resulting in permanent disability and 25 resulting in a diagnosis of Guillain Barre Syndrome.

Adverse report excerpts include:

* A nineteen year old girl with no medical history except occasional cases bronchitis received Gardasil and in 53 days, had “Headache, Nausea, dizziness, chilling, tiredness, shortness of breath, complained of chest plain, severe cramps.” She experienced an Acute Cardiac Arrhythmia. Attempts to resuscitate her resulted in a sternal fracture, but were unsuccessful and the patient died. — V. 356938

* A thirteen year old girl was vaccinated on July 17th, 2009. Ten days later, she developed a fever and was treated. However, “the patient did not recover and was admitted to the hospital on [August 8th]…She developed dyspnoea and went into a coma…she expired [that day] at around 9:00 pm. The cause of death was determined as ‘death due to viral fever.’ … This event occurred after 23 days of receiving first dose of Gardasil. — V. 380081

* Thirteen days after vaccination, a ten year old girl developed “progressive loss of strength in lower and upper extremities almost totally…Nerve conduction studies [showed Guillain Barre Syndrome].” Case was “considered to be immediately life-threatening.” — V. 339375

One mother of a 13-year old girl who died 37 days after receiving the vaccination noted in a report: “I first declined getting her the vaccination but her doctor ensured me that it was safe…” After her daughter complained of a severe headache, no feeling in her foot and a tingling feeling in her leg, a doctor’s appointment was set for October 23, 2009. “My daughter never made it to Oct[ober] 23rd, which is also her birthday,” the mother noted. “She passed on Oct[ober] 17th, I found her cold unresponsive in her room at 7am….”

“To say Gardasil has a suspect safety record is a big understatement. These reports are troubling and show that the FDA and other public health authorities may be asleep at the switch,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “In the meantime, the public relations push for Gardasil by Merck and politicians on Capitol Hill continues. No one should require this vaccine for young children.”

[The above further demonstrates how government works with physicians to make drug companies profitable at the expense of the well-being of America’s children. The safe-sex drug, Gardasil, is itself product to make the secularist values as harmless as possible. The secularist agenda, however, apparently is not very safe or harmless.]

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Six Month Check-Up of the New Health Care Law: A SBE Council Evaluation

SBE Council issued a “check up” regarding the success, to date, of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). According to SBE Council President & CEO Karen Kerrigan, ObamaCare has already broken many promises and left small business owners more vulnerable than ever in terms of losing coverage for themselves and their workforce.

“After six-months of ObamaCare, small business owners are getting hit with higher premiums. And, if the regulatory process continues to move forward on grandfathering, most small business owners will lose the coverage they currently offer or be forced to buy more expensive plans,” said SBE Council President & CEO Karen Kerrigan.

SBE Council highlighted the following problems with PPACA at six months:

• The miniscule tax credits for small business are not working. Many report that the value of the tax credit is too low, and its tight restrictions disqualify many small firms from accessing it.

• Premium costs continue their upward trajectory. Small business owners are reporting premium rate hikes in the 10%-20% range, and higher. PPACA is not helping to lower the cost of health insurance for small businesses – in fact, the new mandates are driving costs higher.

• “Grandfathering” is a joke. Rules issued by Health and Human Services (HHS), if they become final, will force many small firms to purchase more costly plans if they wish to remain “grandfathered” once PPACA fully kicks in. Even the HHS reports that 80% of small firms will lose the plans they currently offer. What happened to the promise of being able to keep the health coverage you currently have?

• Paperwork Nightmare. A massive paperwork burden awaits small business owners in 2012 when they will be required to file a 1099-MISC form for all vendor transactions that total $600 or more on an annual basis. What does this have to do with health care?

• Higher health spending and more bureaucracy. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that PPACA will increase health care spending by 6.3% annually, consuming nearly 20% of the national’s health care bill. The Congressional Research Service described the size and scope of PPACA’s bureaucracy as “currently unknowable.” More cost to taxpayers – higher taxes for small business owners.

• The high-risk pools are a failure. In Iowa, 32 people have enrolled in the state’s high-risk pool, which beats Kansas where only 17 people have enrolled.

• Uncertainty in the marketplace. Small business owners remain uncertain about scores of other regulations being developed by the federal government as to their impact on health savings accounts (HSAs) and other consumer-directed health plans. Will these plans survive once HHS decides what “qualifies” as health care? Will a government-designed “essential benefits package” drive HSAs out of the marketplace?

“ObamaCare has increased costs, uncertainty, and the size and scope of government. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning and we have to hope that more rational heads will prevail in the new Congress so this mess can be fixed,” concluded Kerrigan.