In return, Reid made it clear that he expected their support for the broader healthcare bill, according to four sources in the meeting.
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Reid also asked that doctors ease up on demands for medical malpractice reform during the upcoming healthcare debate.

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For a clear outline as to why you shouldn't believe that 45,000 people die each year because they don't have insurance, read the blog entry by John Milloy, publisher of "Junk Science" on last week's report in the American Journal of Public Health.

Forget that the authors are blatantly biased members of the "Physicians for a National Health Plan."

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On Thursday, September 17, 2009, I was web-surfing and searching Google news hits on the September 12th March on Washington and health care reform when I found information about a conference call between Doctors for America," the White House "Office of Public Engagement" and doctors like me who somehow found out about the conference call.

When I started writing up my notes from the call, it finally occurred to me that – even though there was no attempt at disclosure - there might be a connection between "Doctors for America," and "Organizing for America."

I was right. Not only that, but John Podesta's Center for American Progress funded them.



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The next time you hear about anthropogenic global warming or global climate change, demand to see the data. It no longer exists.


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Academic mind experiments that do not draw a line between what is acceptable and what is condemned by the authors understandably will be interpreted by others as at best, neutral, at worst, in support of condemnable acts.

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Rep. Cuellar told us that he voted in favor of Planned Parenthood funding yesterday because they give care to “mothers” and he does everything he can do to support mothers. (I suggested that we go to any PP office today and that I bet no mothers come out of the building.)

The people of Guadalupe County- maybe 100 to 150? - turned out to protest the health bill and tax and cap. There were some tough questions about gas prices and about whether private insurance will survive.

People laughed when Cuellar said the bill is “revenue neutral.”



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I don't expect perfect this year, but I'd sure like to have more options than Pelosi, Rangel, Waxman and Kennedy seem to allow. And, like many other Americans, I'd be more reassured if the Speaker and the House Ways and Means Committee would agree to sign up for the "public option."
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Here in New Braunfels (at the public library, as announced in the News), our host and "advocate planner" Dona Evans, told us that the purpose of the meeting was to support President Obama's "plan".


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From the Japan Times,
Grants of $23 million awarded last June by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state's stem-cell funding agency, show that researchers are embracing iPS cells. Of 16 grants awarded, eight went to teams developing new iPS cells and five to groups comparing iPS and embryonic cell types. Just three went to scientists proposing to work solely with embryonic cells, according to the San Francisco-based agency.

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Texas Medical Association doesn't support conscience

This TMA press release/"Alert" is a shallow statement which ignores the history and facts behind the ruling and addresses the right to conscience as though it is dependent on circumstances and can be "rescinded."

The individual right not to act is called "Liberty."

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