Anger regarding the health-care overhaul caused the number of serious threats against members of Congress to triple in the first quarter of this year, according to federal law enforcement officials.
April 24, 2010
From The New York Times: OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Ending the Slavery Blame-Game The debate over slavery reparations ignores Africans’ role in selling human beings. http://nyti.ms/cwZq1A
April 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Shortly after they were diagnosed with breast cancer, each of the women learned that her health insurance had been canceled. There was Yenny Hsu, who lived and worked in Los Angeles. And there was Patricia Reilling, a successful art gallery owner and interior designer from Louisville, Kentucky. Neither of these women… [Read more…]
April 23, 2010
Doctors have known that some cancer patients receive treatment for disease that may have disappeared on its own. But whether cancer screenings should be reduced before science has found a way to distinguish harmless tumors from bad ones has been a hotly contested issue. So on Thursday, when a provocative journal article suggested that the… [Read more…]
April 22, 2010
The results of a Pew Research Center Poll conducted last month are in and they show that a vast majority of Americans distrust their government. Specifically, the poll found that 76 percent of Americans believe government will do the right thing only some of the time or not at all. Only 3 percent surveyed believe… [Read more…]
April 22, 2010
From The New York Times: When Heart Devices Fail, Who Should Be Blamed? Doctors in a landmark medical device case ask who should be held responsible when a company sells flawed products. http://nyti.ms/9zeb64
April 22, 2010
From The New York Times: Benefit for Uninsured May Still Pose Hurdle Under the new health care act, some people with low incomes might face penalties if they don’t buy health insurance. http://nyti.ms/aNdjQt
March 22, 2010
Waterloo Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo
September 23, 2009
In this issue, Linzer and colleagues found that family practitioners and general internists report high levels of unhappiness about time pressures and practice pace, little sense of control over work conditions, and deficient organizational culture. Primary care as an indispensable set of functions will persist in one form or another; the challenge is to organize… [Read more…]
October 18, 2008
THREE weeks to Election Day and polls project a victory, possibly a big one, for Barack Obama. Yet everywhere, anxious Democrats wring their hands. They’ve seen this Lucy-and-the-football routine before, and they’re just waiting for their ball to be snatched away, the foiled Charlie Browns again. Remember how the exit polls in 2004 predicted President… [Read more…]
September 5, 2008
WASHINGTON — After climbing steadily for six years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million in 2007, to 45.7 million, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The drop was the result of growth in government-sponsored health insurance programs, officials said, most of them focused on children. At the same time,… [Read more…]
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