Category: Health

Blacks and Anemia Medications, by Lee H. Walker

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  Blacks and Anemia Medications by Lee H. Walker (bio) Have you heard federal regulators want to cut back on the amount the government will pay for certain drugs for cancer patients and people on kidney dialysis? Any changes in ...
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SCHIP’s Next Controversy: New “Ad” Tells Kids to Smoke

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This mock ad appearing on You Tube will no doubt be controversial, but it makes an accurate point. The SCHIP expansion the Democratic leadership is fighting for is to be funded by smokers. There aren't enough smokers now to fund ...
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Democrat Leadership Limits Options for Frost Family and Other SCHIP Recipients

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Nancy Pelosi has been critical of people who questioned whether the Frost family of Baltimore really needs other people to pay their health insurance premiums. Yet it turns out she's not so pro-Frost herself: SCHIP-Expansion Backers Oppose Choice; Democratic Leadership ...
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In Which We Are Condemned As Big-Spending Quasi-Liberals (on SCHIP, No Less)

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Dale Franks at QandO is bitterly complaining about my complaint that the Democrat Congressional leadership and its handful of Republican allies have a provision in their SCHIP expansion bill forbidding SCHIP families from making use of FSAs and MSAs offered ...
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Pete Stark on SCHIP and the War

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https://youtu.be/7lTUB5_l0Mg Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his gang were so, so upset that Rush Limbaugh used the term "phony soldiers." Will they object to what Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) said on the floor of the House? "You don't have ...
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SCHIP-Expansion Backers Oppose Choice; Democratic Leadership SCHIP Bill Blocks Insurance Options for the Frost Family

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Washington, D.C. - As the U.S. House of Representatives votes today in what the Democratic leadership hopes will be a successful override of President Bush's veto of its SCHIP expansion bill, The National Center for Public Policy Research wants to ...
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The Debt Tsunami Begins: First Baby Boomer Files for Social Security

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Kathleen Casey-Kirschling became the first baby boomer to file for Social Security retirement benefits today, prompting warnings from those in the know that both Social Security and Medicare are both desperately insolvent. A Fox News report excerpt tells part of ...
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SCHIP Poll

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The folks at Democratic Underground are encouraging each other to visit The National Center for Public Policy Research's new website covering SCHIP. We have a poll there asking the following: What should Congress do about SCHIP? Expand it Modify it ...
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The SCHIP/Frost Affair Continues; Paul Krugman Calls Me a Busybody

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I now have the dubious, but hardly unique, distinction of being the subject of an error-filled essay by the New York Times' infamous Paul Krugman. Subject: The SCHIP/Graeme Frost affair and whether adults on public assistance have a right to ...
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SCHIP: Fix What’s Broken

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Tom Blumer at Bizzy Blog says: How about we fix what’s broken in SCHIP and Medicaid before embarking headlong on an ill-advised expansion? President Bush was right to veto SCHIP; the minority in Congress will be right should they sustain ...
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