Jun 17, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Health care reform hit a serious setback Wednesday, with the Senate Finance Committee blowing its own deadline for a bill and the Health Committee breaking sharply along partisan lines — developments that place President Barack Obama’s August deadline for passing a bill in doubt. After weeks of relative calm on the issue, over the last 72 ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 18 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bring out ye dead! Thirteen cases of bubonic plague have been recorded in eastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, Health Minister Mohamad Hijazi told AFP on Wednesday, stressing the situation was under control. "Thirteen cases of the plague have been recorded in a village 30 kilometres (20 miles) away from Tobruk. Eleven people have already (been ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats on Wednesday took the first major step toward a sweeping overhaul of the health care system in over a decade, pushing legislation despite strenuous GOP opposition and uncertainty about its provisions and costs. "This is about as historic as it gets for all of us," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
AmericanThinker: J.C. Arenas With their decision to broadcast a primetime special that will highlight the Democrats' relentless pursuit towards government-ran health care and exclude the views of those whom oppose their effort, ABC has signaled they no longer believe in the concept of press independence and the public's right to choose. Once upon a time the press wasn't ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON - Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said. The over-the-counter products contain zinc, an ingredient scientists say may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell. The other products affected by the Food and Drug ...
Continue ReadingJun 16, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
The Note: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, called on President Obama and Democrats in Congress to "scrap the current [healthcare] bill and start over." McCain pointed to a nonpartisan cost estimate of $1 trillion over ten years for the major portion of healthcare reform suggested in a bill floated by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health Committee and said the ...
Continue ReadingJun 16, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The National Review: We haven’t lived in President Obama’s America for long, but already we are witnessing a strange new phenomenon: Previously apolitical figures and organizations find themselves demonized, and then forgotten, with the speed, fury, and transience of a summer thunderstorm. For most of his tenure at CNBC, Jim Cramer was a fairly apolitical creature. First ...
Continue ReadingJun 16, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON - The insurance industry won't be able to block a public health plan because most Americans realize they would be better off if the industry had competition, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday as congressional committees worked to shape legislation. In an interview with The Associated Press, Sebelius said that President Barack Obama does ...
Continue ReadingJun 15, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
PARIS (AP) - A Frenchman who underwent the world's first face and double-hand transplant in April after being horribly disfigured in an accident has died, hospital officials said Monday. The 30-year-old man died of cardiac arrest while undergoing a follow-up operation on June 8, according to Laurent Lantieri, the surgeon who performed the ground-breaking transplant near ...
Continue ReadingJun 15, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Breitbart President Barack Obama Monday warned America would go broke if it rejected healthcare reform, cranking up a hard sell on an issue crucial to his ambitious domestic plans and personal political prestige. Obama made a quick trip to his home city of Chicago to try to convince skeptical doctors of the merits of his ...
Continue ReadingJun 13, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Reuters By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday proposed an additional $313 billion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other programs to pay for healthcare reforms expected to cost about $1 trillion over the next decade. "I know some question whether we can afford to act this year. But the unmistakable truth is that ...
Continue ReadingJun 12, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of communities nationwide are at risk from a coal ash spill like the one that blanketed a Tennessee neighborhood last year, but the Obama administration has decided not to tell the public about it because of the danger of a terrorist attack. The Environmental Protection Agency, as part of an investigation opened ...
Continue ReadingJun 11, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Above:Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn, center, speaks on the passage of legislation that gives the government control over the production and marketing of tobacco products, Thursday, June 11, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Dodd, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Sen. ...
Continue ReadingJun 11, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Undertaking a new and aggressive push to enact health reform this year, President Barack Obama bluntly challenged Republican critics on Thursday to put forward their own plan to expand coverage to the uninsured and help struggling families afford care. "To those who criticize our efforts, I ask them, `What's the ...
Continue ReadingJun 10, 2009 21 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: President Barack Obama eats his vegetables and exercises every day — and he really wants you to do the same. From the White House garden to his picks for top health jobs, Obama is telling America’s McDonald’s-loving, couch-dwelling, doctor-phobic populace that things are about to change. Don’t be fooled by the presidential burger runs. Obama and Congress ...
Continue ReadingJun 9, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats at both ends of the Capitol accelerated their drive to enact health care legislation on Tuesday, outlining proposals to extend coverage to uninsured millions but omitting most details on plans for raising more than $1 trillion needed to cover costs. "We are going to be deficit-neutral—even—over five or 10 years," White House ...
Continue ReadingJun 9, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
keithhennessey Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy’s (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single Acrobat file (3.4 MB). Calling it the “Kennedy†bill is something of an overstatement. Senator Kennedy ...
Continue ReadingJun 7, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Breitbart By ERICA WERNER WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican Senate chairman whose involvement is key if there's going to be a bipartisan health care deal is responding angrily to President Barack Obama's latest comments on the issue. Obama, after months of standing back and leaving the details of health care legislation to Congress, inserted himself firmly into ...
Continue ReadingJun 3, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Obama and Layton Washington Times: The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party Jack Layton linked the future of his country’s universal health care system to President Obama’s public health care program in a Washington speech Wednesday. Many conservative groups have pointed to Canada’s universal health care system as a reason to keep the American health care system in ...
Continue ReadingJun 3, 2009 16 Comments ›› Erik Wong
YID With LID EXCERPT Too many people on the liberal side of the fence argue that illegal immigration is a racial issue. They believe that those of us who want to secure the US boarders are inspired by racism, trying to keep out Hispanics. Last year's story of the Hezbollah Mole in the CIA case (Nada ...
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