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October 2009

October 08, 2009

Trimming the deficit via health care reform?

The latest health care proposal is touted as saving the government money: A health-care reform...

October 07, 2009

The caps on chromosomes

It's Nobel Prize season, a time to salute good scholarship and, even more, to marvel...

October 02, 2009

Do you have “Cadillac” health insurance?

To help fund the proposed health reform measures, lawmakers are thinking about imposing a stiff...

October 01, 2009

Health care reform as a barrier to abortions?

I posted about this possibility before, but now pro-abortion folks are getting nervous about health...

September 2009

September 16, 2009

A cleaned-up Health Care Reform proposal?

So would you support this bill? The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday...

September 16, 2009

Forcing people to buy insurance

Lawmakers now are worried about the consequences of requiring everyone to buy health insurance. That...

September 10, 2009

Obama’s Health Care Speech

Here is the President's speech to Congress in which he makes his case for Health...

September 03, 2009

Euthanasia British style

A scandal is breaking out in England over revelations that the National Health Service has...

September 01, 2009

The Christian origins of health care

Christianity Today reviews Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity by Gary Ferngren, a book...

August 2009

August 27, 2009

Does the health care plan cover abortion, or not?

Even the different factcheckers are getting confused about this critical question. The answer turns out...

August 26, 2009

Half of Americans will get swine flu and 90,000 will die?

The White House is putting out dire warnings about swine flu: Swine flu may infect...

August 26, 2009

Spanish doctors will go to jail rather than be “fetal executioners”

Spain has no conscience clause that would exempt physicians who do not believe in abortion...

August 25, 2009

Co-opt the Health Care Reform bill to restrict abortions?

The House health care reform bill tries to work around the law that forbids taxpayer...

August 24, 2009

But would the Health Care bill be constitutional?

That is a question that surely deserves consideration, doesn't it? In the Washington Post, two...

August 20, 2009

High deductible, plus money to pay the deductible?

Yesterday's post about Whole Foods C.E.O. John Mackey's ideas for free-enterprise-based health care reform spurred...

August 20, 2009

The British health care system

Both advocates and critics of a government-run "single payer" system look to the example of...

August 19, 2009

Free Enterprise Health Care Reforms

Here are some ideas for health care reform from John Mackey, the CEO of Whole...

August 17, 2009

Controversial stuff dropped from health care bill

Congress is listening to at least some of its constituents' concerns. Senate Bill Will Not...

August 14, 2009

The pro-life Kennedy

What was missing in virtually all of the media tributes on the death of Eunice...

August 13, 2009

Controlling health care costs

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson notes the intrinsic conflict between increasing access to health insurance...

August 12, 2009

Section 1233 of the Health Care Bill

Washington Post editorial page staffer is not right-winger and he himself has a Living Will,...

August 11, 2009

Psychologists may now help gays resist their attractions

The American Psychological Association has had a bad reputation among conservatives, among other reasons for...

August 10, 2009

Health-care debate

Let's look at a range of opinions about the proposed health-care reform bill. First, columnist...

August 05, 2009

The “public option” would pay for abortion

The government-run insurance plan that would compete with private carriers in the proposed health care...

July 2009

July 30, 2009

The House has a health care bill

House Democrats have reached an agreement on a health care bill, though it won't be...

July 29, 2009

iPS cells as alternative to embryonic stem cells

Here is a new word for you: iPS cells (induced pluriponent stem cells), which work...

July 28, 2009

Hospital insists pro-life nurse help with abortion

A pro-life nurse was coerced and manipulated into helping commit a late-term abortion against her...

July 28, 2009

We are getting what we pay for in health care

We are spending more than ever on health care. But we are also getting better...

July 23, 2009

Mandatory health insurance

In the health care debate, lawmakers from every party have apparently reached consensus on at...

July 02, 2009

Health Care Rationing is N.I.C.E.

One Eternal Day assembles material from a number of sources on how nationalized health care...