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...President Obama struggles to pass healthcare reform in the U.S., Europe has worked hard to make health insurance part of "the basic social contract." The human-rights vision of the Council of Europe has also led to the abolition of the death penalty in all 47 member states. It has created monitoring mechanisms, such as our Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhumane or Degrading Treatment. Members of this committee regularly visit prisons or places of detention in all member states to check if governments are ill-treating prisoners or detainees. The Council of Europe campaigns to fight other...
...rush to pass the health care bill, in the Washington Post...
...Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush? ... If the bill is so unpopular that it must be passed long before Election Day, could there be a problem with the legislation? ... If you can't run on the strength of the laws you pass, then either you shouldn't be running or you shouldn't be passing...
...allowed just five hits and one walk—the only free pass issued by a Crimson pitcher on the day—and departed the game in the sixth with a 3-2 lead...
...most desperate Americans and bureaucratic nightmares costing millions of dollars for the necessary paperwork to retroactively apply benefits. Bunning and Coburn both make a valid point: it is hypocritical of Dems to not practice what they preach on the deficit, and this would be the fifth unpaid bill to pass thus far this year. But making the point on the backs of the most needy is probably the wrong way to go about it. Especially when it underscores Democrats' complaints about GOP obstructionism on even the most pressing of issues. "I think Americans - a majority of whom have someone...