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Morons and Others with Vested Interest Lead Charge to Keep Logic Out of Medical Decision Making

By On May 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

Now the morons are back with a vengence, this time to fight against President Barack Obama’s plan to spend one billion dollars on research to evaluate the effectiveness of different medical treatments. God forbid that coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery should be found to have no effect on long-term survival for 97% of patients with heart disease, or that prostate and breast cancer have no effect on mortality.

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Obama Healthcare Plans Unlikely to Get Much Traction

By On March 25, 2009 · 9 Comments

President Barack Obama’s administration is rolling back into universal healthcare land just like Hillary Clinton tried to way back when. We’ll see if he can survive the shark infested waters any better than she did.

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LOLCats Invite Obama to Dance in Honor of Whistleblowers

By On March 17, 2009 · 4 Comments

He always kind of reminded me of a cat, anyway.

But this just in, the always mischievous Senator Charles Grassley (kind of like out lolcats!) has written a letter to President Barack Obama that says:

One thing I’ve asked every president since Ronald Reagan to do is to hold a Rose Garden ceremony honoring whistleblowers.

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Republicans Try to Block Audacious Move to Inform Healthcare Treatments Based on the Evidence

By On February 16, 2009 · 11 Comments

In a sign of their undying loyalty to drug and device makers the Republicans have declared their opposition to a plan to add a billion dollars to the stimulus package to study the relative cost and effectiveness of different treatments for chronic conditions, a plan which President Obama is expected to sign tomorrow. I simply had to [...]

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