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Posted on 09/13/2009 8:14:15 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Human tissue can be taken for human-animal embryo experiments without consent (UK)
Telegraph UK ^ | 9-12-09 | Laura Donnelly
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:44:35 PM by blueglass
New rules coming into force next month will give scientists working on stem cell research access to samples of blood and tissue collected by NHS hospitals during biopsies and treatments, as well as to giant "tissue banks" which built up stores of material before the legislation was introduced.
Democrats stifle Republican health care plans
The Washington Examiner ^ | September 11, 2009 | Byron York
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:13:14 PM by Scanian
Rep. Tom Price, the Georgia Republican who heads the House GOP Study Committee, came to President Obama's speech Wednesday night itching to make a point. Price, who also happens to be an orthopedic surgeon, has often heard the president accuse Republicans of criticizing Democratic health care proposals while having no plans of their own. He expected Obama to do the same Wednesday night.
"We knew the president would at some point say something like, 'and the other side has no ideas,' " Price says. So Price and his Republican colleagues brought with them copies of the more than 30 health care reform bills they have proposed in the House this year.
Taxing High-End Health Plans May Pit Obama Vs. Labor Allies
IBD Editorials ^ | September 11, 2009 | JED GRAHAM
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:16:46 PM by Kaslin
President Obama will likely enjoy a warm reception when he speaks at the AFL-CIO convention on Tuesday, but Big Labor isn't happy about his latest idea for how to pay for a health care overhaul.
Obama's Health Care Plan: Put Up And Shut Up
Forbes ^ | 9/10/2009 | Shikha Dalmia,
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 11:40:12 PM by bruinbirdman
The president's speech was the policy equivalent of the middle finger.
For several months now, the American people--as if exhorted by the ghost of William F. Buckley (no particular hero of mine)--have been standing athwart the Democratic agenda of socialized medicine, yelling, "Stop!" But President Barack Obama showed them the policy equivalent of the middle finger Wednesday night.
Retail Health Clinics Move to Treat Complex Illnesses, Rankling Doctors
Wall Sreet Journal ^ | September 10, 2009 | Amy Merrick
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:25:50 AM by reaganaut1
Retail health clinics are adding treatments for chronic diseases such as asthma to their repertoire, hoping to find steadier revenue, but putting the clinics into greater competition with doctors' groups and hospitals.
Walgreen Co.'s Take Care retail clinic recently started a pilot program in Tampa and Orlando offering injected and infused drugs for asthma and osteoporosis to Medicare patients. At some MinuteClinics run by CVS Caremark Corp., nurse practitioners now counsel teenagers about acne, recommend over-the-counter products and sometimes prescribe antibiotics.
Obama makes healthcare pitch to the insured (Obama lies! Obama trying to end private insurance)
reuters ^ | 9/12/2009 | Patricia Zengerle
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:41:13 AM by tobyhill
President Barack Obama broadened his pitch for healthcare reform to Americans who have health insurance on Saturday, reminding them that they risk losing the coverage they have under the current system.
A Treasury Department report found about half of Americans under age 65 -- the age that the government Medicare insurance coverage starts -- would lose healthcare coverage at some point in the next 10 years, Obama said in his weekly radio address.
"If you're under the age of 21 today, chances are more than half that you'll find yourself uninsured at some point in that time. And more than one-third of Americans will go without coverage for longer than one year," Obama said.
Obama Administration Admits Heath Care Exchange will ELIMINATE Private Heath Care Options
MSNBC First Read ^ | September 11, 2009 | Mike Viqueira
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:28:11 AM by vg0va3
"The White House tonight is providing the below clarification on what the president's health-care proposals would mean..."
"Undocumented immigrants would be able to buy insurance in the non-exchange private market, just as they do today. That market will shrink as the exchange takes hold" but it will still exist and will be subject to reforms such as the bans on pre-existing conditions and caps.
Considering ObamaCare? Consider the NHS Horror Stories
Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 12 | Kim Dodge
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:03:00 AM by AJKauf
While the Obama administration has been denying that so-called death panels are planned as part of the public option, it is undeniable that these panels exist in the UK and have resulted in premature deaths for non-terminal patients:
President Obama on health bill: 'I own it'
Politco ^
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:33:28 AM by Sub-Driver
President Obama on health bill: 'I own it'
President Obama tells Steve Kroft in an interview airing Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CBS News' "60 Minutes: "I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it. ... So I have every incentive to get this right.”
Obama: Status Quo no Solution on Health Care
NBC New York ^ | 9/12/09
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:33:36 PM by nickcarraway
President Obama took his health care pitch to Minneapolis, Minnesota Saturday where he sought to rally support for his overhaul and pledged to "call out" critics who he accused of spreading misinformation. Obama also said he will not waste time with those who think "that it's better politics to kill this plan than improve it." He said he could "not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now."
Earlier, Obama said in his weekly address he'd work to ensure that health care would be provided to any and all Americans in need of medical attention -- and that more and more families across the country were losing access to affordable services. "It's an anxiety that's keeping more and more Americans awake at night," Obama said. The president predicted that nearly half of all Americans under 65 years old will lose their health care coverage at some point within the next two years, citing statistics that showed about six million Americans lost their access to care over the past year.
Couldn't we fix the health care system by paying doctors less?
Slate ^ | Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009, at 6:33 PM ET | Christopher Beam
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 5:00:00 PM by eartotheground
President Obama has promised to pay for health care reform mostly by ridding the system of wasteful spending. The message is that reform will be painless: We're cutting the fat, not the meat. But what if your paycheck is part of the fat? More to the point: Does cutting back on wasteful health care spending mean that doctors will make less money?
Actually, let's split that question in two. The first is whether U.S. doctors are overpaid. The second is whether paying them less would save all that much. The answers, respectively: yes and no.
Obama warns against scare tactics over healthcare
Yahoo (Reuters) ^ | 09/12/09 | Matt Spetalnick
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 5:34:28 PM by P.O.E.
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned Americans on Saturday not to be tricked by "scare tactics" he accused his opponents of using as he went on the road to rally support for his drive to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system
ACORN Health Care Plan
Acorn ^ | Acorn
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:54:33 PM by Hanna548
This is ACORN's idea of what health care reform should be. I can't think of anything else to say;/
Times columnist David Brooks exposes “left” supporters of Obama health plan
World Socialist Web Site ^ | 12 September 2009 | By Joe Kishore
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:56:24 PM by ResistorSister
"Obama delivered the finest speech of his presidency," Brooks begins. "Best of all for those who admire the political craft," he continues, "was the speech's seductive nature and careful ambiguity. Obama threw out enough rhetorical chum to keep the liberals happy, yet he subtly staked out ground in the center on nearly every substantive issue in order to win over the moderates needed to get anything passed."
In other words, Obama's speech was bookended by lies and phony concern for the uninsured and the elderly, while the substance was thoroughly right-wing.
Lies, Dammed Lies and Health Care Statistics
Weekly Standard/The Lid ^ | 9/12/09 | The Lid
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:40:22 PM by Shellybenoit
The President and his liberal democratic supporters love to throw statistics out at their opponents, those 47 million without insurance that mysteriously became 30 million during the Wednesday night speech is just one example.
Obamacare supporters throw out numbers that try to show that the US Health care system is on the lousy side. For example the World Health Organization (WHO) rated U.S. health care 37th in the world in 2000, behind Andorra, Malta, Colombia, Cyprus, and Morocco and just ahead of Slovenia and Cuba. This is absolutely true. Of course included in the WHO methodology are ideological socialist type of ratings such as "fairness of pricing" and "responsiveness distribution"
When you look at pure survival statistics, what happens to people who get Ill, American Health Care is the best system in the world, despite what you will hear from the ruling party:
CALIFORNIA: Illegal immigrant health care costs state $1 billion annually
Contra Costa Times ^ | 9/12/9 | Karen de Sa - Bay Area News Group
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:55:17 PM by SmithL
The latest dust-up over President Barack Obama's health care-for-all mission — Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., angrily calling Obama a liar during a nationally televised speech — underscored conservatives' fears that illegal immigrants would benefit from efforts to expand coverage.
Obama says status quo no solution on health care
The Associated Press (hosted on Google) ^ | September 13, 2009 | Jim Kuhnhenn
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:55:00 AM by myknowledge
MINNEAPOLIS — President Barack Obama assailed critics of his health care initiative Saturday, seeking to grab the megaphone from his opponents and boost momentum in his drive for congressional passage of his chief domestic priority.
"I will not accept the status quo. Not this time. Not now," the president told an estimated 15,000 people during a rally that had every feel of a campaign event, right down to chants of "Fired up, ready to go!" and "Yes, we can!"
Days after urging Democrats and Republicans in Congress to come together, an invigorated Obama said his plan incorporates ideas from those on both sides and he promised to continue to seek common ground.
"If you come to me with a serious set of proposals, I will be there to listen. My door is always open," the president said.
But he warned that he wouldn't waste time with people who have decided "that it's better politics to kill this plan than improve it." He also said he wouldn't stand by while special interests "use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are." And he warned, "If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out."
Congress Gears Up for Final Battle Over Health Care Reform[Democratic Negotiator Moving Forward]
FOXNEWS.com ^ | September 12, 2009 | FOXNEWS.com
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:22:46 AM by Son House
A top Senate Democratic negotiator on health care reform said he's moving forward with President Obama's chief domestic initiative next week -- with or without Republicans.
Obama delivered a nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday in which he embraced several Senate proposals and set a 10-year spending target of $900 billion. On Saturday, he again pressed his case for the need for reform, at a rally in Minneapolis, and he'll appear Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes" and is planning trips to New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Anger at economy won't derail Obama on health: WHouse
Yahoo ^
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:17:20 AM by Sub-Driver
Anger at economy won't derail Obama on health: WHouse 19 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – American anger at how much has been spent propping up the US economy will not persuade President Barack Obama to row back on his ambitious health care reform plans, the White House said Sunday.
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Washington on Saturday to attack Obama for his big spending and big government, accusing his administration of leading the United States down the road to socialism.
Baucus bill would destroy private health insurance: Increased regulations undermine competitiveness
Washington Times ^ | Sunday, September 13, 2009 | Editorial
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:29:38 PM by JohnRLott
Some breathed a sigh of relief that a new health care bill introduced by Sen. Max Baucus does not include government insurance. This solace is premature. The Montana Democrat's bill proposes new regulations that would doom the private insurance industry. . . .
Dr. Lawrence Hunter: KILL Healthcare Bill
The Substratum ^ | September 3,2009 | G. J. Merits
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:00:16 PM by opentalk
Dr. Lawrence Hunter of the Social Security Institute has a ringside seat of what is really happening in the ObamaCare negotiations and it is not anything like any of us would expect.
Health-Care Math -- ... a lot of dimes remain unaccounted for.
Washinton Post ^ | Sunday, September 13, 2009
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:01:42 PM by cc2k
Health-Care Math
Mr. Obama says he won't add one dime to the deficit, but a lot of dimes remain unaccounted for.
Intensive blare: Thousands blast ObamaCare at DC rally
New York Post ^ | 9/13/2009 | TIM PERONE, AP
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:47:09 PM by GVnana
An army of seething protesters took to the streets of Washington, DC, yesterday, slamming the president's health-care plan and ranting against runaway government spending in the largest demonstration since Obama took office.
The Republican Health Care Failure
AM560 townhall.com ^ | September 13, 2009 | Steve Chapman
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 3:21:21 PM by KeyLargo
The Republican Health Care Failure
Republicans fault President Obama for plans that would greatly expand federal outlays on health care, enlarge the federal role in the provision of medicine, doom private insurance and wrestle Aunt Sally into the grave. They have some valid points. But while they're heaping blame on Obama, they need to save a share for someone else: themselves.
His GOP critics in Congress, after all, have proposals to help the uninsured and curb health care costs. During his speech to Congress Wednesday, they waved their own bill at him. But for four years under President Bush, we had not only a Republican president but also a Republican Congress.
EDITORIAL: Baucus bill would destroy private health insurance--Increased regulations undermine..
The Washington Times ^ | September 13, 2009 | Editorial
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:11:49 PM by jazusamo
Some breathed a sigh of relief that a new health care bill introduced by Sen. Max Baucus does not include government insurance. This solace is premature. The Montana Democrat's bill proposes new regulations that would doom the private insurance industry.
The lion's share of President Obama's Wednesday address to Congress pushed Mr. Baucus' plan. Because a direct government takeover of health care sparked violent public protests, the new strategy is to take smaller bites out of private care. The president still promises more service for less cost with greater government involvement, which is impossible.
Curbing medical lawsuits: What Obama really means (Say What???)
CNN Money ^ | September 11, 2009: 2:08 PM ET | By Jennifer Liberto
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 6:41:39 PM by ImJustAnotherOkie
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- As President Obama turns up the heat on health care reform, one new and surprising detail to emerge is his pledge to tackle medical malpractice.
"I don't believe malpractice reform is a silver bullet, but I have talked to enough doctors to know that defensive medicine may be contributing to unnecessary costs," Obama said Wednesday night.
Obama: "Death Panels" Necessary to Control Health Care Costs
IsraPundit ^ | 9/13/09 | Bill Levinson
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 5:43:53 PM by Winged Hussar
President says independent panel of doctors, ethicists, and scientists needed to make "difficult" choices
Tort Reform: Remedy or Red Herring?
Townhall.com ^ | September 13, 2009 | Ken Connor
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:43:26 AM by Kaslin
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." Charles de Montesquieu
In the ongoing debate over health care reform, critics on the right are increasingly citing the lack of tort reform as a major deficiency of the current proposals floating around the halls of Congress. Instead of focusing on truly conservative solutions to our nation's mounting health care crisis, Republican lawmakers and pundits are playing the same old song-and-dance?blaming ballooning health care costs on trial lawyers. This red herring tactic is a classic example of politicians trampling principle in pursuit of politics. In this case, Republicans moonlighting as "conservatives" seek to use tort reform to shield corporate malefactors (who also happen to be their financial benefactors) from full accountability for their wrongdoing. In so doing, they are undermining a bedrock principle of our nation's justice system.
Gibbs talks race, public option and Palin
Politico/CNN video ^ | September 13, 2009 | Eamon Javers
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 6:16:17 PM by greyfoxx39
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, appearing on CNN"s State of the Union Sunday morning, said President Obama does not think opposition to him is racially motivated, a claim made in Maureen Dowd's Sunday column.
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"The goal of the public option is to provide choice and competition," Gibbs said. "As the president said, he prefers the public option, however he said that what's important is choice and competition."
Obama Criticizes Republicans for Blocking Health Care Bill
FOXNEWS ^ | 09/13/09
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:58:15 PM by Doogle
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said he is confident Congress will pass "a good health care bill," as months of rancor over reforming the nation's health care system seemed to be easing Sunday, with the White House playing down an immediate role for a government insurance option.
Obama plans to 'own' healthcare reform (Obama on 60 Minutes)
The Hill ^ | 09/13/09 07:00 PM ET | Tony Romm
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:05:48 PM by Jean S
President Barack Obama on Sunday dismissed the suggestion that this year’s healthcare efforts are a replay of what happened in the 1990s, saying lawmakers today are actually closer than ever to reforming health insurance.
But Obama also staked his personal claim in the evolving debate, suggesting to CBS’ “60 Minutes” that an unsuccessful reform could come to define his presidency.
“You know, I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it,” Obama said in the interview. “And if people look and say, ‘You know what? This hasn't reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 percent, insurance companies are still jerkin' me around,’ I'm the one who's going to be held responsible.”
'I'm going to get health right': Barack Obama
The Australian ^ | September 14, 2009 | Brad Norington
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:14:38 PM by myknowledge
BARACK Obama has ramped up his sales pitch to win public support for US health reform, declaring he wants to remain President for a while and would accept personal blame for failure.
As part of a media blitz to try to outgun loud opponents of his plan to extend health insurance to millions of uninsured Americans while also cutting costs, the US President said he wanted to "own" the health package that was eventually passed.
"I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails," Mr Obama said in an excerpt from a US 60 Minutes interview to be aired today.
"That doesn't work. You know, I intend to be President for a while and once this bill passes, I own it. And if people look and say, 'You know what? This hasn't reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 per cent, insurance companies are still jerking me around', I'm the one who's going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to get this right."
Just days after a passionate speech to a joint session of congress to make the case for his health plan, Mr Obama devoted his weekend address to the subject and travelled to Minneapolis for a campaign-style rally in front of more than 10,000 supporters.
Health care changes could impact primary care doctors
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090913-NEWS-909130326 ^
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:39:06 PM by kcvl
For almost three decades, Dr. Charles Pinkerton has practiced medicine in Portsmouth as a primary care physician. Since he arrived in 1980, he has seen the best and the worst of the health care system up close and his diagnosis is sobering.
"I'm very concerned about the future and the way things are going," he said.
There are plenty of issues at play in his wide-ranging survey of what affects him and his patients — they include inadequate Medicare reimbursements, bureaucratic fighting with health insurance companies and demoralizing, regular hikes in medical liability insurance premiums.
But one of his top concerns for the future is one that doesn't usually make headlines in the health care debate, but it may prove be the most important determining factor in the success of whatever reform bill is passed in Congress — a nationwide shortage of primary care physicians like himself.
Obama says he's expecting 'good health care bill'
Yahoo / AP ^ | 8/13/2009 | STEVEN R. HURST
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 10:11:34 PM by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said he is confident Congress will pass "a good health care bill," as months of rancor over reforming the nation's health care system seemed to be easing Sunday, with the White House playing down an immediate role for a government insurance option.
At the same time, Obama was critical of Republican opponents who he said were trying to block an overhaul of the nation's heath care system for political gain.
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