Category: Health
What Health Negotiators Are Arguing Over Now
No happiness in the House Writing for the Hill, Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young are reporting on a growing problem in the health care negotiations: Some House Democrats believe their states would get shortchanged in the overhaul of the nation's ...
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Quote of Note: Secret Deals Are No Way to Plan a Ski Trip, Let Alone a Health Care System
"Under wraps. Behind closed doors. Backroom deals. These phrases crop up again and again in reports of the Democrats' health care legislation. Would you go along with any plan that had these sinister signs swirling 'round it? Would you even ...
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Three Questions for the Congressional Leadership
Washington, DC: Are you "open," "honest," and "ethical"? These three questions to the Congressional leadership form the crux of a new paper released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington. The paper, "Bad Faith & Broken ...
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Bad Faith & Broken Promises: Accountability and Transparency Casualties of Health Care Debate, by Matt Patterson
On election night 2006, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took note of her party's sweeping electoral victory and proclaimed, "Democrats promise to work together in a bi-partisan way for all Americans!"1 Instead, Congressional Democrats have consistently locked ...
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British Government Health System Leaves Boy Legless
Take a look at the pictures of the nine-year-old boy in the story "Meningitis robbed Edward Bright of his legs... then NHS took away his new ones" from Britain's The Sun newspaper, and tell me again that Congress is on ...
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Abortion: A Key Economic Factor, by Mychal Massie
Abortion: A Key Economic Factor by Mychal Massie (bio) There is a real economic toll related to abortion, but it's not something Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or the Congressional Black Caucus complains about. In fact, they all support abortion. To ...
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We Should Listen to Massachusetts, by Matt Patterson
Irony after irony piled up on January 19 as Republican Scott Brown pulled off his near unthinkable victory over Democrat Martha Coakley to become the junior senator from Massachusetts.1 For one, the seat Mr. Brown will now occupy has been ...
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ObamaCare – All the Hallmarks of a Scam
A couple of summers ago, I moved from New York City to Washington, D.C. Now, finding a new home long distance can be a tedious and enervating task -- train rides to unfamiliar cities, cab rides in unfamiliar neighborhoods, lots ...
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We May Know Why Conservatives Were Locked Out of ABC’s Health Care Programming in June (Aside From ABC Being Liberal)
Last June, ABC allowed President Obama to pitch his health care proposal in a special edition of ABC's Primetime hosted by retiring World News anchor Charlie Gibson and (now incoming anchor) Diane Sawyer. Obama was given additional airtime to pitch ...
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Following Analysis of ABC News Health Care Advertising, Group Says ABC News Should Worry Less About Its Anchors and More About Its Integrity
ABC News should focus less on the retirement of Charlie Gibson and his replacement by Diane Sawyer and more on integrity, says the National Center for Public Policy Research, which just completed an advertising review of ABC's nightly World News ...
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