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9/11/2009 | Healthcare, Abortion
Susan B. Anthony List Press Call-Nationwide Poll-Abortion Coverage & Healthcare Reform
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Senator Leiberman: Jamming through health care 'a real mistake'
CNN Politics.com
Pushing a health-care reform package through Congress without significant Republican support would be "a real mistake" for President Barack Obama, Sen. Joseph Lieberman warned Sunday. Lieberman, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, said trying to "jam through" a package "that the public is either opposed to, or of very, very passionate mixed minds about" would be bad "for the system." He added, "Frankly, it won't be good for the Obama presidency."
8/21/2009 | Governmental Control, Healthcare
Obama: Republican conspiracy out to kill health reform
The Washington Times
President Obama took to the conservative airwaves Thursday to charge that Republican leaders are engaged in a vast right-wing conspiracy to kill health care reform in order to repeat the 1994 mid-term takeover of Congress, which followed the defeat of President Clinton's reform plan.
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'Talk to neighbors, spread the facts' on health care, says Obama
CNN
President Obama appealed Wednesday to faith-based groups to help garner support for his plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. President Obama speaks at the White House Wednesday. "I need you to knock on doors, talk to neighbors, spread the facts and speak the truth," he told religious leaders and reporters on a conference call that was streamed over the Web at faithforhealth.org. "This debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people," he said. "I believe that nobody in America should be denied basic health care because he or she lacks health insurance."
8/20/2009 | Healthcare
President Obama to Health Care Reform Opponents: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
ABC News
In a conference call with liberal and progressive religious leaders Wednesday afternoon, President Obama railed against those who were “bearing false witness” in the debate over health care reform. “I know there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness, but I want everyone to know what health insurance reform is all about,” the president said.
8/19/2009 | Healthcare
Obama to rally grass roots backers on health care
Breitbart
President Barack Obama will Thursday hold a live online and telephone strategy meeting to rally devoted grass roots backers as a backlash over his health reform plan spreads to liberal media commentators. David Plouffe, who ran Obama's triumphant 2008 election campaign, and now steers the Organizing for America supporter network, said Obama wanted to lay out his strategy and message, as controversy stalks his major reform plan.
8/11/2009 | Healthcare
Dirty Secret No. 1 in Obamacare
Town Hall.com
Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children." The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development."
8/3/2009 | Healthcare
NHS's refusal to fund cancer treatment costs mother £21,000
Telegraph.co.UK
For Barbara Moss, the photographs of this summer's camping trip to France will be particularly special.Two years ago, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and given less than five months to live. After chemotherapy failed to slow the disease's progress, doctors said that her only hope was a drug called bevacizumab, marketed as Avastin, which her local NHS refused to fund. When Mrs Moss, 53, cashed in her pension to buy the drug, she was also made to pay for other NHS care that previously had been free. Her story highlights a national debate on drug rationing that is about to reach fever pitch.
7/21/2009 | Healthcare
RNC chairman: Obama's health care is socialism
Associated Press
The chairman of the Republican Party on Monday called President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care "socialism," accusing the president of conducting a risky experiment that will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage. Michael Steele, in remarks at the National Press Club, also said the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and key congressional committee chairmen are part of a "cabal" that wants to implement government-run health care.
7/15/2009 | Healthcare
House Plans to Tax Millionaires to Fund U.S. Health-Care Plan
Bloomberg
House Democrats plan to fund the broadest U.S. health-care expansion in four decades by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, imposing a surtax of 5.4 percent on couples with more than $1 million in income. The legislation unveiled yesterday would place additional taxes on households with more than $350,000 a year in income and calls for further increases if the measure doesn’t hit a target for cost savings. The provisions are intended to raise $544 billion over 10 years. The plan drew fire from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s biggest business lobby. “The intention of this plan is to tax high-income households, but the real victims would be America’s small business owners,” the Washington-based group’s president, Thomas Donohue, said in a statement. “Since when does our great free-market country punish success?”
7/2/2009 | Healthcare
Emotion, few details, in Obama's health care pitch
Associated Press
The health care changes that Obama called for Wednesday would reshape the nation's medical landscape. He says he wants to cover nearly 50 million uninsured Americans, to persuade doctors to stress quality over quantity of care, to squeeze billions of dollars from spending. But details on exactly how to do those things were generally lacking in his hour-long town hall forum before a friendly, hand-picked audience in a Washington suburb. The lingering questions underscore the tough negotiations awaiting Congress, the administration and dozens of special interest groups in the coming months. Lawmakers will return to debating the issue when they return from a one-week recess on Monday
6/26/2009 | Healthcare
President Obama Defends Right to Choose Best Care
ABC News
President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people -- like the president himself -- wouldn't face. A special edition of "Nightline" from inside the White House.The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News' special on health care reform, "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.
6/23/2009 | Governmental Control, Healthcare
House Democrats Have "Lots Of Potential Targets For Higher Taxes" To Pay For Government-Run Health Care.
The Associated Press
"House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage to reach the roughly 50 million that experts say are uninsured. Also under consideration are higher alcohol taxes, increases to the Medicare payroll tax and a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more ... The [other] tax options include: increasing the price of soda and other sugary drinks by 10 cents a can, applying a potential 2 percent income tax increase to single taxpayers earning more than $200,000 a year and households earning more than $250,000, a new employer payroll tax could target 3 percent of employers' health care expenditures, taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits above certain levels ... House Democrats planned to unveil a draft of their sweeping health care bill Friday ... The draft, being released at a news conference ... was not expected to mention the potentially unpopular tax options."
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Gender test spurs abortion fears
New Zealand Herald
A new test to reveal the gender of a fetus in early pregnancy has sparked a row over whether it will lead to sex-selection abortions. The American-designed IntelliGender test kit, which can be used from eight weeks after conception, went on sale in Australia last month. Its Australian distributor hopes to launch it in New Zealand within a fortnight. David Portnoy, managing director of Melbourne-based Early Image, said yesterday that he was negotiating with health products companies Douglas Pharmaceuticals and API to supply the kits to New Zealand pharmacies. He expected they would sell for about $125.
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World closer to swine flu pandemic
Reuters
A new virus has killed up to 149 people in Mexico and the World Health Organization moved closer on Monday to declaring it the first flu pandemic in 40 years as more people were infected in the United States and Europe. The WHO raised its pandemic alert level for the swine flu virus to phase 4, indicating a significantly increased risk of a pandemic, a global outbreak of a serious disease. ...Although the new flu strain has so far killed people only in Mexico, there were more than 40 confirmed cases in the United States, including 20 at a New York City school where eight cases were already identified. ...The swine flu is not caught from eating pig meat products, but several countries imposed import bans on pork from the United States. Stocks in companies such as airlines were also hit as investors worried about the impact on travel. Spain became the first country in Europe to confirm a case of swine flu when a man who returned from a trip to Mexico last week was found to have the virus. Texas health authorities confirmed a third case of swine flu at a school near the Mexican border and California said it now had 11 confirmed cases. The U.S. State Department and the European Union urged citizens to avoid non-essential travel Mexico and other areas affected by swine flu. ...Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said the outbreak was now suspected of having killed 149 people and warned the number of cases would keep rising.
4/23/2009 | Healthcare, Governmental Control
Democrats Move Closer to 'Fast Track' for Obama Health Care Plan
FOXNEWS
Democrats moved one step closer Wednesday to using a controversial budget procedure to speed passage of President Obama's health care legislation. House Democrats went on record again in favor of advancing the legislation while allowing only limited debate, which would hobble the ability of Republicans to wrest concessions on one of Obama's top domestic priorities. By a 227-196 vote, the House affirmed Democrats' plans to move health care legislation under rules that block Republicans in the Senate from being able to slow progress of the legislation -- or even stop it, through a filibuster. The vote came as senior House and Senate Democrats negotiated the issue in private talks on the 2010 budget. Republicans are passionately against the idea of putting health care on a "fast track," saying it is too important and too complicated to be rushed through Congress under rules permitting just 20 hours of Senate debate. As a practical matter, passing health care measures under fast-track procedures would give Democrats far more control over the details of the legislation. It would reduce the influence of not only Republicans but also conservative Senate Democrats. But it also would provoke howls of outrage from Republicans claiming that filibuster-proof reconciliation legislation is not intended to be used to pass sweeping measures such as Obama's health care overhaul, which they argue would drastically increase the size of government and the taxes needed to pay for it. It likely would mean that Republicans would abandon the health care effort and engage in scorched-earth tactics against it.
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Health reform ‘public plan option’ equals more taxpayer bailouts
As President Obama lays out his budget over the next few weeks, no area will likely be more contentious than health care. At his press conference on March 24th, the President admitted, “the biggest driver of long-term deficits are the huge health care costs”. The President is right: long-term health care costs have the potential to cripple our economy. Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress, however, should take a deep breath and look around. The American people are saying enough to reckless bailouts, enough to spending our children’s and grandchildren's future, enough to creating new government spending programs that will, however well-intentioned, cost more than the rosy projections splashed across our televisions, computers, and newspapers. ..Yet, several components of the plan proposed by the President and the Democrats in Congress should give every American who believes in the adage “my health belongs to me” cause for serious concern. First, mandatory electronic health records that give government unfettered access to private health data for ‘research’ purposes without consent or notification- by 2014. Second, a board of experts will determine whether your care or treatment is ‘worth it’. Third, the rule making authority to block you from getting care that strays from the party line of what is ‘acceptable’. Those are the parts of the plan that have already passed and have been signed into law as a part of the stimulus bill. The next piece in the puzzle of the government takeover of your health is cloaked in the soothing term “public plan option”. Do not be fooled. The plan is merely another government program waiting to be bailed out by taxpayers, and their children.
2/12/2009 | Healthcare
Gene therapy offers hope of cure for HIV
The Independent
Doctors have succeeded in ridding a man of the HIV virus by giving him a bone marrow transplant in what they claim is the closest treatment yet to a cure for the disease. The remarkable case gives new impetus to the development of gene therapy for HIV which could ultimately replace the need for expensive and toxic antiretroviral drugs. Instead of taking drugs for life, HIV sufferers might instead have a one-off treatment that would leave them virus-free. The 42-year-old American had been infected with HIV for a decade. He was treated with antiretroviral drugs in Berlin, where he lives, for four years to hold the disease in check, but then developed leukaemia. Since being given a bone marrow transplant two years ago, he has not taken antiretroviral drugs to control HIV and has had no resurgence of either disease. He is believed to be the longest HIV-free survivor who was previously treated with antiretroviral drugs. Full details of the case are published for the first time today in The New England Journal of Medicine. An editorial in the journal says it "places further emphasis on gene therapies" for HIV, adding: "The case paves the way for innovative approaches that provide long-lasting viral control with limited toxicities for persons with HIV infection."
11/10/2008 | Healthcare, Homosexuality
Condoms Trump Abstinence in Obama Global AIDS Policy
Bloomberg.com
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will reverse U.S. family-planning and AIDS-prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education, a public-health adviser said. Public-health policies of President George W. Bush's $45- billion PEPFAR program have brought AIDS drugs to almost 3 million people in poor countries such as Rwanda and Uganda, more than under any other president. Still, requirements that health workers emphasize abstinence from sex and monogamy over condom use have set back sexually transmitted disease prevention and family planning globally, said Susan F. Wood, co-chairman of Obama's advisory committee for women's health. ``We have been going in the wrong direction and we need to turn it around and be promoting prevention and family-planning services and strengthening public health,'' said Wood, a research professor at George Washington University School of Public Health in Washington.
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McCain moves to middle on health care
Politico
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is proposing a greater federal commitment to people without health insurance on Tuesday, suggesting that states set up non-profit risk pools to help Americans who are denied coverage or can’t afford it. The federal government would help fund them, with McCain’s health-policy experts providing a ballpark estimate of $7 billion a year. “Cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance would … be a crucial step in ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations, and the dominance in the market of only a few insurance companies,” McCain says in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla.
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