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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2009
You wouldn’t think so listening to Washington pundits and August recess politicians. According to a recent Rasmussen poll,
Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% rate it as poor.
These figures reflect a significant increase [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2009
The reason? Says The New York Times:
The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday. The unusually large scale of the industry’s commitment [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2009
Seriously folks, this is getting out of hand. Don’t people know that we work for them, not they for us?
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2009
The Bioethics.net blog reports that University of Wisconsin bioethicist R. Alta Charo has accepted a one-year renewable post as senior advisor to the Office of the FDA Commissioner. Charo is an outspoken proponent of abortion and human embryonic stem cell research.
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.