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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
Politico reports that the 1,502-page Chairman’s Mark, the Finance Committee reviewed and approved version of the “America’s Health Future Act of 2009,” has been filed. Next up will be the consolidation of the Finance Committee’s bill with the one proposed by the Senate’s Health Committee into one bill to be considered by the full Senate. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
The latest Rasmussen poll of likely voters (contrasted to many MSM polls of US adults) shows 54% oppose, while 42% support current health care proposals. Seniors are against, 59% to 36%. 55% oppose the “Baucus bill’s” annual $750 penalty for not having health insurance.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2009
The New York Times and other major news outlets are reporting that the Senate Finance Committee passed 14-9 the centrist-leaning $829 billion “Baucus bill,” the toned-down Senate version of Obamacare. The President praised Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Me), the lone Republican supporter of the bill, saying, Senator Snowe has been extraordinarily diligent in working together so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
The New York Times reports today on a myriad of problems associated with in vitro fertilization. Seriously folks, the risks–not to mention the troubling moral issues–of this type of emotional appeasement are far, far too great. Better to accept the Lord’s will and to adopt children who are already here. From the article: While IVF [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2009
As part of my masters program in health care ethics at Creighton University, my class was asked to present brief remarks to a hypothetical congressional committee regarding one aspect of health care in view of vulnerable populations. Here’s my stab at it: Madam Chair, members of the Committee, my name is Robert C. Baker. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2009
Life News is reporting that the Senate Finance committee will vote on the pro-abortion Baucus bill later this week.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2009
Looking, as the President said, all “spiffy” in their white lab coats, 150 doctors were invited to the Rose Garden yesterday to lend support to Obamacare. The only thing is, well, many of the doctors forgot their coats, so the ones you see them wearing were handed out by presidential staff before the address.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2009
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine interview, National Institute of Health’s director Francis Collins was queried about stem cell research. His response is telling in what it lacks: he fails to mention proven results using adult stem cells: Steinbrook: What will the results of stem-cell research mean for human health? Collins: My crystal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2009
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Amendment X, US Constitution Part of the warp and woof of our American political experience is that we enjoy a republican, that is, representative form of government [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2009
Again, this is a poll of registered voters, not all adults. Interestingly, 80% (Democrats, Republicans, and independents) would support deregulating the insurance industry so that companies could solicit and offer insurance outside of their states. Perhaps that might sweeten the pot? You can find Fox News’s analysis here.
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
