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[From longhand notes by Dr. Jane Orient, with her editorial comments in red type in brackets.] After 15 minutes of anticipation, greetings, and applause, Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress began about 8:15 […]
In a meeting with some directors of the Pima County Medical Society in May, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) said that his “health care reform” plan was the one with the best chance of passage. It […]
If “democracy” means a nationally televised speech by the Leader, the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars by pressure groups, and a frenzied process of voting on a short deadline, then this is a […]
Provisions of the plan: Obama promised that you could keep your health plan—but the “tri-committee” House bill, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” (H.R. 3200), assures that this will not be possible. Unless your […]
A number of countries report lower infant mortality than the U.S., but it has nothing to do with the source of payment for medical care.
At the Oct 23 town hall meeting, the administration of Down East Community Hospital gave everyone a first-hand demonstration of sham peer review. Its prime hallmark is that the accused is presumed guilty from the […]
Volume 65, No. 4 April 2009 THE ISSUE IS FREEDOM The defining issue for Americans is freedom: not equality, efficiency, quality, power, security or even prosperity. Freedom, Henry Grady Weaver’s “mainspring of human prog-ress” did […]
Just at the deadline for responding to the AAPS action to intervene in lawsuits challenging the Provider Conscience Clause, the Obama Administration started rulemaking to rescind the Clause completely. This signals the intention of the […]
Volume 64, No. 12 December 2008 THE MORNING AFTER Euphoria about “change” explodes across the television screens and front pages and at least the coastal and heavily urbanized parts of the land. Huge crowds hitherto […]
A middle-school teacher at the Urban Community Leadership Academy in Kansas City, Mo., was suspended for posting a YouTube video of a slogan-chanting drill squad. The video features 10 black male students in 8th or […]
