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Health & Politics admin on 29 Sep 2009
GOP Health Plan Auctions Surgeries To Lowest Bidder
WASHINGTON (CAP) - Eager to recapture the edge in its ongoing battle with the administration over health care reform, congressional Republicans have unveiled their own version of the so-called public option that they claim will save money and provide instant relief to millions of uninsured Americans.
“We call it Let Us Help Us, and we think it will revolutionize the way we seek health care in this country,” Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), one of the initiative’s authors, told reports at a press conference today. “It embraces the essence of the free market system, without the oppressive hand of government regulation. No socialism! And the beauty is: anyone can be a part of it. Anyone can submit an ailment to be bid on.”
Let Us Help Us (LUHU) would create a healthcare auction house, where everything from simple dental procedures and mental health counseling to organ transplantation could be submitted and bid on. A person looking to have their gall bladder removed, say, could fill out an online form and have any number of bids to sift through within a matter of minutes.
“It’s like eBay for sick folks. This is a real neighbor helping neighbor system we’ve developed, and it could be a real boon to veterinarians, butchers and other professionals looking to make a few bucks on the side,” said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), another LUHU sponsor.
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Health & Politics admin on 18 Aug 2009
Kevorkian Tapped To Head Death Panel
WASHINGTON (CAP) - In a stunning reversal, the Obama administration today admitted that the so-called “death panel” against which Republican operatives have been railing for the past couple of weeks is still very much on the health care reform table. To underscore its commitment to the concept, a familiar face from the past has been elevated to the position of the nation’s first Death Czar.
“Dr. Jack Kevorkian has been a compassionate advocate for end-of-life issues for going-on-decades now, and I will be pleased to welcome him into my cabinet as this nation’s first Secretary of the Department of Conditional Aging (DCA),” President Obama announced at a short morning press conference.
While Kevorkian was not present at the conference, Obama hailed him as a man of “limitless integrity, technical proficiency, and just an American over-brimming with the right snuff [sic].”
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Health & Politics admin on 23 Oct 2008
ADA to Sue RNC
(FiniteTimes.com) - It’s become a campaign staple of McCain/Palin rallies. Amidst the hoarse cries of Terrorist!, Money spreaderer! and Kill him! arise the chants, starting low and building to an intoxicating frenzy: “Drill baby, drill. Drill baby, drill!”
It’s been one of the few aspects of the campaign that has consistently not exploded in McCain and Palin’s faces, but a lawsuit filed this week in DC Superior Court could well stifle the rallying cry and rob the campaign of one of its most potent, non-negative tools. Continue Reading »
Health & Politics admin on 26 Mar 2008
Hillary’s Health Care Memory Tilts Alzheimerish
As she struggles to address inconsistencies in her recent accounts on Bosnia, Northern Ireland and NAFTA, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is now facing a new assault on her veracity. CAP News has uncovered proof that her latest recollections dealing with her efforts to reform health care in 1992 might not be completely accurate.
“It was a war, it really was. We even had to set up a War Room in June of ‘93 to handle it,” Hillary Clinton told a gathering of the Indiana Young Republicans this week. “I remember going up to Capitol Hill to testify, and we circled the building a few times because they said roving bands of Congressmen had been known to frequent the area. We had to duck and make a mad dash for the main entrance, all while rotten vegetables rained down around us.
“It was pretty scary, but when it’s pretty scary, you send the First Lady,” Mrs. Clinton said. “Everyone at the White House knew that.”
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Health & Politics admin on 27 Nov 2007
Hillary Joins Borg Collective
The campaign of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today that the candidate has joined a Borg collective. The announcement confirms rumors that have been circulating since pictures showing Clinton as a Borg began appearing two weeks ago.
“A vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton is a vote for the collective,” said Clinton spokeswoman Marcia St. John from Clinton’s new big square campaign headquarters in New York City. “You’re not just getting one mind with Hillary, you’re getting a whole bunch of them, able to embrace all aspects of an issue simultaneously. Eat that, Barack.”
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Health & Politics admin on 02 Oct 2007
Bush to Offer SCHIP Alternative
In a move designed to counter criticism over its veto of a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Bush administration today announced plans to enact sweeping changes to the existing child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
“The question should not be Is our childrens getting gooder insurance through the government, but How can our childrens gets gooder private insurance, and I think the answer to that is simple: get a job,” President Bush told a group of kids at the Fort Meade, Daycare Division facility.
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Health admin on 26 Apr 2007
FDA Warns of Pet Food Snorting Danger
The tainted pet food scare that has resulted in the recall of some 5500 pet food-related products took an unexpected turn yesterday when officials at the FDA warned of a possible increased danger from “puffing.”
“In many instances the food used by so-called ‘puffers’ could be old because it’s been hoarded, or stolen from poor pets, or found in a dumpster, which is where you would expect to find a lot of these tainted brands,” said the FDA’s Dr. Stephen Henry. “We would urge teens not, I repeat not, to puff these products, as it takes an already dangerous activity and makes it even more so.”
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Entertainment & Health admin on 03 Jun 2006
Couric On-Air Breast Exam Nixed
Famous for the on-air colonoscopy she underwent a few years ago, Katie Couric had a couple more points she wanted to make on her final “Today” show broadcast Wednesday. But age - and gravity - intervened.
“She wanted to close out with an on-air breast exam,” said associate producer Sarah Fletcher. “Because of the nature of such an exam, her full breasts would have been exposed. Unfortunately she was having a bad tit day. The puppies just weren’t so perky.”
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Health & U.S. admin on 03 Apr 2006
Taliban Spinach-Spikers Prompt White House Food Wall Call
The spinach-E. coli outbreak currently sweeping across the country took an unexpected twist yesterday when representatives of the State Department and FDA pointed fingers at an unlikely source: the Taliban.
“In an effort to cut down on poppy production in Afghanistan, we convinced farmers to take up other crops,” FDA Assistant Secretary of Vegetables Hugh Lexor said at yesterday’s press conference. “One of those crops was indeed spinach. We are currently looking into the possibility that this Afghan spinach, manufactured under the name Qurapp Ai, is responsible for the recent E. coli situation.”
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