policy

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• Why No White House Photo Op for Netanyahu?

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 600
  President Obama wil meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow. He had been playing hard to get. The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama would be meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister’s trip to Washington, ending days of uncertainty. An Obama ...
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• Larry Summers flunks Ec 10

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 137
  Preferring shorter workweeks to layoffs is first-term microeconomics; its implied by the diminishing marginal utility of income. Why isnt that obvious to Larry Summers?
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• Obamas health reforms clear hurdle

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • House of Representatives passes bill by slim margin • Democrat waverers given concession on abortion Barack Obama enjoyed the biggest victory of his presidency so far as he saw the House of Representatives vote through a bill over the weekend that would mark the greatest extension in US health coverage since ...
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• Electronic Medical Records: An Analogy For Meaningful Use

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  Fricking Brilliant.via Neil Versel *This blog post was originally published at Movin Meat *
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• Hope and Change: Progressive Radical Socialist Democratic Party–History Next Year!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 433
  Countdown to a Government Takeover of Health Care Obama: House Passage of Health Care ‘courageous  11 8 2009 Pence Appears On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace Health Care Bill Is Back Room Dirty Deals Health Care Bill Is Un Constitutional One Republican Tori Lieberman: If ...
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• A note about the recent elections (yes, we’re nuts)

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 557
  One core reality too-often ignored in post-election analysis:  the role of the economy.  Americans tend to vote their pocketbook in elections to Congress and the Presidency.This is nuts, on many levels.Who sets economic policy?How long between policy changes and results?How do policy-makers navigate?But at least ...
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• Science Weekly podcast: The sacking of Professor David Nutt and we relive the LHC emergency

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  We look at the sacking of the governments chief drugs adviser David Nutt. It came a day after he claimed ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol . We ask what role scientific advisers should play in politics. Read all our coverage of the Professor Nutt controversy . In the newsjam we discuss whether ...
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• A hope in Helmand | Theo Farrell

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  -Local governance is reestablished, schools rebuilt: Garmsirs success shows the way forward The news from Afghanistan has been grim. The collapse of the second round of the national elections; Hamid Karzai s government tainted by corruption; and, last week, five British soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan policeman in ...
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• Personal Medical Insurance Works With Prescription Medication Plans For Americans

  
  Health Fitness 4 Men — Authority: 148
  Personal medical insurance might be dreadfully high-priced and thousands of Americans are without prescription drug insurance because of that reason. There are entirely too patients that just can’t meet the expense of the monthly premiums. For a lot of persons, just buying a high deductible policy would be the way ...
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• Time to Open Up to Cuba

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 530
  A couple of years ago, I was invited to Cuba to speak at an International Wetlands Symposium. I applied for permission to attend from our federal government. After jumping through many hoops, I was on my way. I was eager to explore this mysterious place that most U.S. citizens are not allowed to visit. What I ...
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• Healthy Citizens and Healthy Economy Rely on Real Reform

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 530
  On Saturday, November 7, a majority of the House of Representatives made history by passing H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.Representatives who voted for H.B. 3962 deserve many thanks for abandoning extreme pressure from the insurance industry and standing up for citizens who do not wish to ...
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• Health care bill & the death of freedom

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 497
  From the Washington Examimer : That American citizens should be fined or even put in federal prison for refusing to purchase government-approved health insurance is as un-American as any idea we can imagine. But such a mandate is the very heart of the bill written behind closed doors by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Incoming — Authority: 129
  Not waiting to "get it right".... As the health care reform debate intensified, one strain of objection has centered on the "undue" speed and sloppiness of the reform effort.  We should slow down and get it right, opponents argue. Only we have been trying to get it right for decades and meanwhile the problems ...
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• Evidence based medicine?

  
  Voir Dire — Authority: 118
  If you can pry yourself away from C-Span and the healthcare debate for a moment, the NYT Magazine has an article this week that addresses, arguably, an even more fundamental aspect of medicine – how it’s performed and how care decisions are made. The recent rise in interest in “evidence based medicine” has ...
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• This bulldozing of nimbys must not become colonial | Julian Glover

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  A new planning body that puts the national interest ahead of local concerns is welcome, but must be closely watched I became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the country looked alike," wrote Richard Jeffries at the start of his entrancing but rarely read novel After London. He ...
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• Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question By SARAH LYALL November 7, 2009 LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. David Lightman with his daughter, who was denied admission to the Jews Free School because her ...
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• Social customer service

  
  Social Media Today — Authority: 690
  One of the more promising areas of focus for social business transformation is customer service. This week at e2.0 I attended a panel discussion of social customer service moderated by Clara Shih. It was an interesting discussion and I think there are some good solid practices growing up, enabled by some new tools. ...
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• Brian, I Hope You’re Wrong

  
  Sussex Green — Authority: 401
  On October 21, 2009 Brian Shields posted the following comments on his blog, The Mourning Constitution:My Sussex County Council Representative, Mike Vincent, has been flying under the radar…much like how he was elected unopposed to a Freshman term. He is, though, supposedly the swing vote on this Lingo ...
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• [Muzaq] E-Werk: Berlin Classics 1989-2009

  
  Incomplete-News.Com — Authority: 121
  or Berlin Mitte’s transformation since 1997.People who were into electronic music in the 1990’s do know the E-Werk rather well. That location has become known all over the world for its amazing parties, and as an experimental playground for what has later been named Trance. The E-Werk and the Berlin Tresor were ...
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• UK Independents front page Remembrance Day call for Afghanistan withdrawal

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 659
  By Steve Hynd It was inevitable that Remembrance Sunday would mean a lot of British soul-searching over continued military involvement in Afghanistan. That introspection was evident in national newspapers today, including in the London Times , where foreign correspondent Christina Lamb had a long and thoughtful ...
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