Author: Amy Ridenour

What’s Happening Now

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6,000 surgical operations may be cut to make up for budgetary shortfall in Vancouver. Would 6,000 Canadians trade health insurance for health care? (Let's ask when some of them visit.) Via Twitter, @ruffedge asks: USA or USSR? How much would ...
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Girl, 17, Faces Paralysis Thanks to Gov’t Health Care Waiting List

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A young lady in Ireland fears she may be paralyzed for life because Ireland's government-run health care service hasn't gotten around to putting her on the waiting list for the operation she needs -- and the waiting list is a ...
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Thin Skins Across the Pond

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There's been a bit of a fuss in Britain the last few days. It's keyed to Americans taking a look at the performance of their government-run health care system, the National Health Service, or NHS, and finding it wanting. It ...
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Postal Supervisors Are Not Happy With Our President

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The National Association of Postal Supervisors is not happy with President Obama for what it says are his "negative references... without knowledge of the facts" about the performance of the U.S. Postal Service. The Heritage Foundation, as usual, has excellent ...
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Is Obama Really Dropping the So-Called Public Option? Not a Chance

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The media is making much of the Obama Administration's hints that the President will no longer insist on a so-called "public option" in a health care bill he signs, but the idea of a government-started "co-op" alternative to private health ...
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Want a Baby? Thanks to Government Health Care, In Britain Becoming a Parent May Depend on Where You Live

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Everyone over a certain age knows what you have to do if you want to have a baby -- that is, except in Britain, where for some couples, the route to parenthood lies in changing their home address. That's because ...
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Quote of Note: On Hospitals Overseas

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"Because I have traveled a great deal in my life, often recklessly so, alone, and to weird places in search of answers to topographical questions of the ancient Mediterranean world, and first-hand observations about battles and campaigns in out of ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Tonsils redux: President Obama says greedy doctors are coming for your feet... but LA Times says prevention in these cases is expensive. Why don't the greedy doctors do prevention, Mr. Prez? Funeral Director Full-Employment Bill: President Obama sees post office ...
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If You Don’t Care Enough About Policy to Know Better Than This, Why Didn’t You Go Into Another Line of Work?

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Picked up by the Detroit News, and then the Heritage Foundation, is this nearly-unbelievably ignorant statement by Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan: Climate change is very real. Global warming creates volatility and I feel it when I'm flying. The storms ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Triumph of hope over experience: Pro-Georgian blogger asks Russian government to defend his free speech rights. Got the flu in Britain? Need medical help? No problem! The government health service will put a 16-year-old on the phone with you. President ...
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