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...state's lone Democrat in Congress; fears that a public option would undermine private insurers...
...task force cited enhanced analysis of the risks and benefits of screening as the reason for the new guidelines. But the recommendations went straight to the heart of the emotionally charged debate over the Democratic-sponsored health care reform legislation that is working its way through Congress. Republicans like Representative Marsha Blackburn charged that "this is how rationing begins. This is the little toe in the edge of the water." No one was more surprised, or less prepared, for the uproar over the new guidelines than the advisory panel itself. As a result, the merits of what the group...
Both bills in Congress would set up new institutes to organize and fund more comparative-effectiveness research, ostensibly to help guide health care policy. (The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has already authorized $1.1 billion for the field.) And yet as Diana Buist, a researcher at Group Health in Seattle who received some of the stimulus funding, says, "[Comparative-effectiveness research is] a hard sell. It always has been." According to a 2007 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the topic, "Some experts believed that less than half of all medical care is based...
...rape (he was acquitted) and corruption (the charges were dropped) was fit for office. So many African liberation movements have gone from triumph to tyranny, hope to corruption. Even with the saintly figure of former leader Nelson Mandela in the wings, would Zuma and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), do the same? (See pictures of South Africa after 15 years of ANC rule...
...public-service initiatives have also given him insights into the lawmaking process in Washington: A bill that calls for 250,000 volunteers to serve in a domestic Peace Corps program is the result of efforts by Khazei, who worked closely with Senator Kennedy in pushing the bill through Congress...