Thirty-six major corporations are being pressured by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (www.iccr.org ) to denounce the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s principled opposition to health care and climate change legislation. ICCR says that all of the targeted companies previously adopted “health care principles now at odds with Chamber lobbying efforts.”
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Whether or not you like it, Congress’ health care bill ultimately comes down to one question: How much faith do you have that a politically appointed committee in Washington, D.C., can determine what’s best? After last week’s Bay Bridge failure, Bay Area residents would do well to consider the obvious parallel. If the government can’t build a bridge that keeps us safe, can it really be trusted with the future of American health care?
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Strangely absent from today’s health care debate is a discussion of the patient/physician relationship. This is remarkable. We may soon witness the end of Hippocratic medicine in America.
As I neared the end of my medical training in the late 1990s, the words of Peter Singer, Princeton University’s Chair of Bioethics, haunted me. In his book, “Rethinking Life and Death,” Singer stated:
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Once major players in Washington, D.C., divide up our health and health care decision-making power, particularly the $2.5 trillion in annual spending, they will declare the crisis over and the nation’s health saved. Don’t believe them — just take a look at who wins.
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In his Sept. 9, nationally televised speech before a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama made news by saying that medical-malpractice litigation “may be contributing to unnecessary costs” in the U.S. health care system.
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OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
Many observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline and has yet to yield concrete achievements in peacemaking.
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In my story on congressional leaders resisting a formal rule requiring bills to be posted online for 72 hours, I left out a pledge by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to implement a three day waiting period before the House votes on health care reform legislation.
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