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Republicans have been whining about not getting a seat at the table and being excluded from giving their ideas on health care reform. So, the President has invited the Republicans to join him at a health care summit on Feb 25th, which will be televised, so that they can offer their ideas to the American people and work with Democrats to publicly discuss the reform issues.
What’s the GOP response? “It’s a TRAP!“
Muslim nations shoulder a “devastating burden” of the world’s neglected tropical diseases, according to an article published Monday in the Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases journal.
The article, a combination of analysis and editorial written by the journal’s editor, Peter J. Hotez, shows that the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference account for 40 percent of the world’s infestations with intestinal worms.
Worm infestations, which are most common in children, can stunt their growth and make them too tired to stay awake in school. They can cause dangerous anemia in pregnant women and disabling pain in farmers.
Member countries also have 20 percent of leprosy cases and 21 percent of blinding trachoma.
At the same time, the article said, there is no school of tropical medicine anywhere in the Islamic world, even though several Persian Gulf nations are building top-tier universities.
A McClatchy feature article on the eight US states that allow insurance companies to designate domestic violence as a “pre-existing condition” for grounds to deny health care coverage.
“This is insane,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who’s been trying to convince Congress to address the issue for roughly a decade.
Murray said she couldn’t remember exactly when she first learned of it, but sometime in the 1990s she recalls a private conversation she had with a woman who broke down as she explained that she couldn’t flee an abusive relationship because her children were covered under her husband’s health care plan and she couldn’t get her own. Another woman told Murray that she didn’t report that she’d been battered because she feared losing her coverage.
Bob Corker, a Republican senator from Tennessee, insulted a former Canadian Public Health Minister by telling her that her country, which has universal health care, has a “parasitic relationship” with the United States because of its supposedly inferior health care technology:
During a hearing of the Special Committee on Aging, the Tennessee Republican told Canada’s former Public Health Minister, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, that her country is “living off of us” because they set lower prices for health care and “all the innovation, all the technology breakthroughs just about take place in our country and we have to pay for it.”
“It is not really our country so much is the problem, it’s sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us,” Corker said. “…You benefit from us, and we pay for that. And I resent that, and I want to figure out a way to solve that.”
Think Progress blogger Zaid Jilani notes:
Although attacking the Canadian and European health care systems is a common tactic for conservatives, the fact remains that these countries have been leading health care innovators time and time again.
Canada brought the world insulin, developed bone marrow transplantation, and conducts more lung transplant surgeries than the United States. Meanwhile, of the twenty most profitable pharmaceutical manufacturers, only nine are from the United States — the rest are from western Europe, Japan, and Israel, all of which have universal health care systems that Corker so is opposed to.
Paula Abdul appointed to Obama’s healthcare Death Panel. don’t worry – she was always the “nice one” on American Idol.
Trevino vs. Hayes on Al Jazeera English, on health care. who’s the anchoress???