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20 Dec 09

Stupak aims to sink 'unacceptable' abortion compromise - POLITICO.com Print View

  • The president of the Susan B. Anthony List, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said the bill “is not ‘compromise’ or ‘middle ground’ – it is a betrayal of conscience for millions of Americans.”



    “The new abortion language solves none of the fundamental abortion-related problems with the Senate bill, and it actually creates some new abortion-related problems,” she said.
  • the emails were sent from his office to McConnell’s. Smith “should have let me make up my own mind,” said Stupak.

National Organization for Women opposes Senate health bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

  • "The so-called health care reform bill now before the Senate, with the addition of Majority Leader Harry Reid's Manager's Amendment, amounts to a health insurance bill for half the population and a sweeping anti-abortion law for the rest of us," NOW President Terry O'Neill

Senate healthcare bill set to pass by Christmas -- latimes.com

  • "Today is a major step forward for the American people," Obama said Saturday afternoon at the White House as a thick layer of snow blanketed the capital. "After a nearly century-long struggle, we are on the cusp of making healthcare reform a reality."
  • If the Senate bill passes, negotiations over differences with the House could drag on for months, although Democrats hope to finish work in January.
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19 Dec 09

arora - Project Hosting on Google Code

  • ully standards-compliant WebKit layout engine. It features fast rendering, powerful JavaScript engine and supports Netscape plugins
17 Dec 09

Ben Nelson Reviewing Compromise on Abortion Funding in Senate Health Care Bill

  • CNN
    indicates Nelson has seen the proposed language and that they "look
    better than what's in the bill," but he said he still has to
    review it and wants pro-life groups to examine the language before
    making a commitment.


    "I
    don't know at this point in time. Constituency groups haven't responded
    back yet," Nelson added, according to AP

  • The Associated Press indicated the "compromise" involves
    an attempt to separate private and public funds, but that is the current
    approach in the Senate bill modeled after the Capps amendment that
    pro-life groups and Nelson himself have rejected in the past.
15 Dec 09

What About Webb? - Robert Costa - Doctor! Doctor! on National Review Online

  • In today's Winchester Star, Webb writes that he' "still undecided," among other things:
  • Our country needs health-care reform. While a strong percentage of Americans are satisfied with their health care, the system is not working for millions of others. Spiraling costs for health care also have placed our biggest industries at a severe competitive disadvantage worldwide, and have become unsustainable for many small businesses.

Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill” | The Plum Line

  • In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me.
  • Dean said the removal of the Medicare buy-in made the bill not worth supporting, and urged Dem leaders to start over with the process of reconciliation in the interview, which is set to air at 5:50 PM today on Vermont Public Radio, political reporter Bob Kinzel confirms to me.

A Chastened Lieberman Defends Himself - The Atlantic Politics Channel

  • A Chastened Lieberman Defends Himself












    One person with knowledge of what it's like to work for Sen. Joe Lieberman these days describes a "bunker mentality" in his Senate office. Apparently, Lieberman was not happy that even the legacy media -- the Washington Post, the New York Times -- characterized his Medicare-buy-in position-change as craven and self-serving -- or an attempt to eschew good policy for the satisfaction of angering liberals. 

Bid to Break Health-Bill Impasse - WSJ.com

  • Senate Democratic aides suggested Mr. Reid could move as soon as Tuesday to begin shutting off debate on the legislation. That would likely set the stage for a final vote on the bill just before Christmas.



13 Dec 09

Pajamas Media » Health Care vs. the Value of Human Life

  • Similarly elusive is how the new Health Benefits Advisory Committee will decide whether or not you get certain medical treatments, regardless of the opinion of your doctor. After all, how do you put a dollar value on a human life?
  • Basically, if you are in optimal health, the QALY of one year of your life is 1.0. But if you have any underlying conditions, like asthma or muscular dystrophy, your QALY is much lower. Under the QALY system, the blind are worth less than those with sight, as those who can walk are worth more than those in wheelchairs. Sound like discrimination against persons with disabilities? It gets worse.

Orszag's Double Standard

  • He quoted positive statistics on compliance rates with the health insurance mandate in Massachusetts, something over 90%. He cited the high rate of compliance with seat belt laws vs. speeding laws as another sign, indicating the size of the penalty has less influence than the societal norms of wearing seat belts or obeying the speed limit. Not a perfect analogy, makes some sense, and effectively illustrated his point that you can't just look at the CBO scoring of the economics of a proposal to judge effectiveness.

Obama Is Criticized on AIDS Program - NYTimes.com

  • the drive to put more people on drugs is being scaled back as emphasis is shifted to prevention and to diseases that cost less to fight, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and fatal birth complications.
  • AIDS advocates complained bitterly that they had been betrayed and that the Bush administration’s best legacy was being gutted — and they blame a doctor and budget adviser who is also the brother of the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
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American Thinker Blog: Health care reform by hook or by crook

  • persuade Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu and Evan Bayh to vote against cloture can make the argument that a vote for cloture is a vote for enacting whatever makeshift bill Harry Reid manages to concoct.

Mammography in the Middle

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, advised women in 2002 to start getting mammograms at age 40 and repeat every 1-2 years. You can check out the details here, in the 2002 press release still posted on the AHRQ website. The Task Force recently studied the data again and determined the risks of mammography (false positives, unnecessary follow-up testing and treatment, unnecessary stress) outweighed the benefits. The November 2009 recommendations are here.
  • t does nothing for a woman covered by a government operated public plan, because government recommendations tend to set the floor for both public and private insurance options. Real health reform would address the problem by shifting away from 3rd party ownership of policies (employer, government or union) and move toward individual control.
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11 Dec 09

Obamacare and Hannan Ignite a Firestorm in Britain - HUMAN EVENTS

  • Full marks to Steven Glover for his analysis in The Daily Mail. He wrote what most Brits would categorize as “the bleeding obvious.” The medical care provided by the NHS is not a chamber of horrors, nor is it wholly incompetent. However, facts are facts.

    “In treating almost every cancer, America apparently does better than Britain, sometimes appreciably so,” Glover observed. “According to a study in Lancet Oncology last year, 91.9 per cent of American men with prostate cancer were still alive after five years, compared with only 51.1 percent in Britain. The same publication suggests that 90.1 percent of women in the U.S., diagnosed with breast cancer between 2000 and 2002, survived for at least five years, as against 77.8 percent in Britain.“

    Glover admitted that it was painful to see the NHS cited - by angry Americans in town hall clashes across the US -- as a model for what can go wrong with government provided health care. He also said that the pain came from knowing that it was the truth which hurt.

EDITORIAL: Obama's risky-sex czar - Washington Times

  • It was revealed this week that Mr. Jennings was involved in promoting a reading list for children 13 years old or older that made the most explicit sex between children and adults seem normal and acceptable.
  • and a much older man as well as his praise for Harry Hay, a notorious supporter of the North American Man Boy Love Association.
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A gun case or Pandora's box? - Washington Times

  • The Privileges or Immunities Clause says states cannot enforce any law that abridges the rights of U.S. citizenship. In 1873, just five years after the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, the Supreme Court held in a landmark case called the Slaughterhouse Cases that this clause only extends to the states the rights of federal citizenship and strongly suggested that such rights must be found in the Constitution's text. The high court thus rejected a claim brought by some Louisiana butchers asking it to strike down a state law regulating the slaughtering of animals around New Orleans.


    What's so important about that ruling is that there's nothing in the Constitution about such an economic right. Had the court accepted the butchers' argument and struck down the Louisiana law, federal courts would have the power to declare anything they want to be a right of U.S. citizenship and strike down any state or local law they don't like.

Whose Right to Die? - The Atlantic (March 1997)

  • What, then, should be U.S. policy regarding
    physician-assisted suicide and
    euthanasia? Magazine and television stories about patients who want to end
    their suffering by means of physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia help to
    reinforce the seemingly inherent link between pain and such interventions. As
    an oncologist I have often personally cared for patients who suffer despite all
    available treatment. Only the callous and insensitive would deny that in such
    cases physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia can offer obvious benefits
    -- can
    end a life that is worse than death.
  • But these cases distort the picture. The question is not about whether
    intervention is right for this or that particular patient. In any given case it
    may be the ethical thing to do, whatever the law says—and should be
    done.
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