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7/27/2010 | Economy
Obama urges passage of small business initiatives
The Washington Post
President Obama on Tuesday urged lawmakers to move forward on a series of Democratic initiatives before they leave next week for their summer break, saying voters "sent us here to represent their interests, not our own."
His comments came after an hour-long, Oval Office meeting with congressional leaders from both parties. Obama called the meeting "productive," but in his remarks, he repeatedly accused the Republicans of blocking legislation for political gain.
"We shouldn't let America's small businesses be held hostage to partisan politics," Obama said as he makes a continuing effort to portray Republicans as the party of big corporations and Wall Street firms.
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Opposition Mounts Against ObamaCare Tax Provision
OneNewsNow
Business advocates are hoping Congress scraps a tax provision in the health care overhaul law that they say is overly burdensome to smaller companies.
So far, Senate and House Republicans have pushed for repeal of this specific provision of the health care bill. Even Democrats asked that the Internal Revenue Service move cautiously in enforcement of the provision.
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Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care
New York Times
Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.
Even as the new coalition government said it would make enormous cuts in the public sector, it initially promised to leave health care alone. But in one of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.
Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.
7/26/2010 | Global Warming
Cap-and-trade tabled...for now
OneNewsNow
A climate-change skeptic is welcoming news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided he doesn't have enough votes to pass a measure capping greenhouse gases.
James Taylor, senior fellow for Environment Policy at The Heartland Institute, considers Reid's decision a victory because carbon-dioxide restrictions would be very costly, forcing up the price of electricity as well as other goods and services. Plus, he tells OneNewsNow, it would accomplish absolutely nothing regarding the world's climate.
"In China alone, just during the next ten years, they will add enough carbon-dioxide emissions to totally cancel out the U.S. -- even if we eliminated all of our carbon-dioxide restrictions tomorrow," he comments. "So it doesn't really matter what we do in terms of climate even if global warming is a problem."
7/22/2010 | Healthcare, Governmental Control
Obama's Electronic Health Records Czar: HIV Status and Abortions Need Not be Included
CNS News
Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said on Tuesday that patients can choose to omit procedures such as abortions and positive HIV tests from the electronic health records (EHR) that every American is supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year.
Blumenthal's office, a subdivision of the Department of Health and Human Services, was created by the stimulus law specifically to generate the standards and regulations that will govern the federally mandated use of EHRs.
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Phil Clements
Managing Director, Center for Christian Business Ethics Today, LLC.Phil Clements is the managing director of the Center for Christian Business Ethics Today, LLC. Phil has been a leader in the business community for over 30 years. In 2003, Jack Templeton, a fellow board...
