Bioethike

You really need to read Allen’s full analysis of H.R. 3200 (July 14, 2009) at his Favorite {fvrit} Blog. A snippet:
Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be [...]

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Seriously, just when you thought the “cash for clunkers” program had blown a gasket, Congresspersons allocated $2 billion today to keep ‘er running. From The New York Times:
[The] House voted 316 to 109 to shift $2 billion from the Energy Department’s loan fund into the clunker program. Democrats were joined by all the Republicans in [...]

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The New York Times is reporting that the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted last night 30-28 to approve an amendment, offered as a “compromise,” that essentially sets government policy regarding abortion in the House’s version of the health care bill.
The proposal, offered by Representative Lois Capps, Democrat of California, was supported by most Democrats [...]

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I just couldn’t believe this. The LA Times is reporting that the government’s $1 billion program to revitalize the car industry by offering federal rebates of up to $4,500 for folks trading in their fuel-inefficient vehicles as they purchased new eco-friendly models has exhausted its resources. Now, the Feds are trying to find more money [...]

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Here’s a clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaking (???) to CNN’s John King about abortion coverage in the health care bill (July 26, 2009):

HT: National Right to Life’s blog.

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LifeNews.com reporting:
The House of Representatives will not hold a vote this week on a bill for a government-run health care system that pro-life groups oppose because it would include abortion funding [...]

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Perhaps so, according to this piece from Reuters. iPSCs are induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made from adult cells yet behave like embryonic stem cells. iPSCs do not require the destruction of embryos and, since they are the patient’s own cells, are not likely to be rejected.
Ordinary cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem [...]

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President Obama and Congressional Democrats, who were hoping to pass sweeping health care legislation through both houses before the August recess, apparently have become more flexible on their timetable and now hope to pass legislation by the end of the year. The New York Times reports:
Mr. Obama emphasized the need to reach a final agreement [...]

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Perhaps so, suggests this editorial from Investor’s Business Daily:
It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, [...]

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Today’s The New York Times leads with more on the health care bill making its way being bulldozed through Congress. Not atypically, The Grey Lady casts its story line as a partisan feud between people-loving Democrats and cold-hearted Republicans, who rebuff the proposed legislation. Oh, it is SO much more than that.
Yet, at least the [...]

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