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Spinning the Polls
By: John R. Graham
6.30.2009
Perhaps humbled by its shellacking for hosting and broadcasting the Obama-infomercial on Wednesday, ABC and its collaborators at the Washington Post put a very different spin on a health-reform poll that has essentially the same results as the New York Times' one a few days ago. While the Gray Lady promoted the notion that the American people are ga-ga for a so-called "public option" for health insurance (actually a swamp of new federal bureaucracies, if Sen. Kennedy's bill is any indication), the WaPo/ABC folks are close to pushing the panic button on the plan for a government take-over:
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Robert Reich on Public Option
By: John R. Graham
6.26.2009
President Obama and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, whose biographies indicate zero experience in the private, wealth-producing sector of society, believe that they can launch a new "public" health plan to "compete" against the private sector. They claim that this will keep private insurers "honest." It's an interesting position for a President who also claims that he is not interested in running a car company. Imagine if he proposed a new Government Motors, in order to keep Toyota and Honda honest! What's so unique about health insurance, that it needs government "competition," an idea repellent in other areas of American life?
Medicare's costs
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Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 7.1.2009
SACRAMENTO – The governance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell institute, is inadequate to protect the interests of taxpayers and CIRM’s own goals, according to Stem Cell Research: Strengthening Governance to Further the Voters’ Mandate, a June 25 report from the Little Hoover Commission, a state watchdog agency.
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Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients
7.2.2009
This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. A novel treatment called Herceptin, though, is offering hope. When combined with chemotherapy, studies indicate that it lowers the risk of breast cancer relapse by about 50 percent. And a new bill in Washington could ensure that treatments like Herceptin continue to be developed.
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"Better" Health Care?
By: John Stossel on 7.1.2009
President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch.
In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth.
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