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Against Medicare
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Against Social Security
The Wedge Strategy
This is a copy of the
insiders
document that lays out the strategy that was
used to get Intelligent Design into America's
schools.
Regardless of its subject matter, The Wedge
Strategy is an eye-opening example of strategic
planning and tactics needed to win the culture
wars. And it reveals why the Democrats are
losing--they do not have think tanks that produce
this kind of practical, cohesive, reproducible insights:
How to Win the Scientific War
Against Evolution
War Against the Poor
NEW: Bush New Rules
Force States to
Curb Welfare Rolls
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, June 27 — The Bush administration
plans to issue sweeping new rules on Wednesday
that will require states to move much larger numbers
of poor people from welfare to work. The rules, drafted
in response to a budget signed into law by President
Bush in February, represent the biggest changes in
welfare policy since 1996, when Congress abolished
the federal guarantee of cash assistance for the
nation's
poorest children.
War Against Health Care & Research
NEW: Excommunication
Is Sought for
Stem Cell Researchers
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Scientists who engage in stem
cell research
using human embryos should be subject to
excommunication from the Roman Catholic
Church, according to
a senior Vatican official.
Abortion Rights in Latin America
For proof that criminalizing
abortion doesn't
reduce abortion rates and only endangers
the lives of women, consider
Latin America.
Tax burden shifts to the middle
New report could roil presidential campaign
By Jonathan Weisman
Since 2001, President Bush's tax cuts have shifted
federal tax payments from the richest Americans to
a wide swath of middle-class families, the Congressional
Budget Office has found, a conclusion likely to roil the
presidential
election campaign.
Is There a Legal Tie-in
Between Abortion and
Corporate Power in the U.S.?
By Katherine Yurica.
November
11, 2005
Bush Forces a Shift In Regulatory
Thrust Drops Protection Against TB
By Amy Goldstein and Sarah Cohen
WashingtonPost Staff Writers
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Tuberculosis had sneaked up again,
reappearing
with alarming frequency across the United States.
The government began writing rules to protect 5
million people whose jobs put them in special
danger. Hospitals and homeless shelters, prisons
and drug treatment centers -- all would be required
to test their employees for TB, hand out breathing
masks and quarantine those with the disease. These
steps, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
predicted, could prevent 25,000 infections a year
and
135 deaths.
Moralists at the Pharmacy
Scattered reports suggest that
a growing number
of pharmacists around the country are refusing to
fill prescriptions for contraceptives or morning-after
birth control pills because of moral or religious
objections. Although the refusals are cast as important
matters of conscience for self-described "pro-life"
pharmacists, they have the pernicious effect of delaying,
and sometimes even denying, a woman's access to
medications that may be urgently needed. This is an
intolerable abuse of power by pharmacists who have
no business forcing their own moral or ethical views
onto customers who may not share them. Any pharmacist
who cannot dispense medicines lawfully prescribed by a
doctor should find another
line of work.
Prescription for Injustice
By FLORENCE A. RUDERMAN
THE current push by some pharmacists
for a right not to fill certain prescriptions
awakens memories of 1954, when my father
was dying of cancer. I was a graduate student
in New York, but I returned to my home in New
Haven, Conn., to be with him. As the end drew
near, his suffering became intense, the pain harder
and harder to control. He was being cared for by
an extraordinary doctor: Seymour Lipsky, then
chief of hematology at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Dr. Lipsky did not have a private practice, but he
had volunteered to take care of my father, telling
us to call him whenever we felt we needed him.
When we called, he
came to the house.
GAO Report Finds
side-stepping of procedures
and
objectivity in denying morning-after-pill
or emergency contraceptive in the F.D.A.'s
rare and unusual process. PDF
File
Bush Budget Calls for Cuts in Health
Services
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 - President Bush's budget
for 2006 cuts spending for a wide range of public
health programs, including several to protect the
nation against bioterrorist attacks and to respond
to medical emergencies, budget documents show.
Faced with constraints on spending
caused by record
budget deficits and the demands of the war in Iraq,
administration officials said on Friday that they had
increased the budget for some health programs but
cut many others, including some that address urgent
health
care needs.
Health Leaders Seek Consensus
Over Uninsured
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, May 28 - At a time when
Congress has been torn by partisan battles,
24 ideologically disparate leaders representing
the health care industry, corporations and unions,
and conservative and liberal groups have been
meeting secretly for months to seek a consensus
on proposals to provide coverage for the growing
number of people with
no health insurance.
U.S. Health Plans Include One
With Catholic Tenets
By MILT FREUDENHEIM
The Bush administration has
broken new
ground in its "faith-based" initiative, this time
by offering federal employees a Catholic health
plan that specifically excludes payment for
contraceptives, abortion, sterilization and
artificial insemination.
The new plan, announced last
week, combines
two White House priorities. It is part of a $1 billion
project seeking to involve religious organizations
in all types of federal social programs. At the same
time, the plan is a new form of coverage - a health
savings account combined with high-deductible
coverage - that is being promoted as a centerpiece
of President Bush's health
care policy.
U.S. Scientist Says Anti-mad Cow
Measure Ignored
January 2, 2004
By Maggie Fox, Reuters
WASHINGTON — A U.S. scientist
said Tuesday
a simple treatment combining high pressure with
heat could neutralize the proteins that cause mad
cow disease, but federal officials had shown little
interest
in it.
Bush Embraces Some Regulations as
Election Approaches
By DAVID E. SANGER
CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 30 — The Bush administration's
twin moves on Tuesday to ban the dietary supplement
ephedra and the sale of meat from cows that appear to
be sick on the way to the slaughterhouse underscores a
simple White House maxim these days: with an election
approaching, even a president who came to office assailing
government regulation cannot do too much to
protect
consumers.
War Against Medicare
Medicare Law Hurts
Cancer Patients The new
Medicare payment system has
caused some cancer doctors
around the country to drastically
reduce the services they provide
in their offices. Hundreds of
oncology practices affected.
The Medicare Bait and Switch:
Seniors Pay More While
Pharmaceutical
and Insurance Company Profits Soar:
Outstanding analysis of the new
prescription drug deal
that threatens seniors.
Confusion Is Rife About
Medicare Drug Plan as Sign-Up Nears
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 - Enrollment in the
new Medicare drug benefit begins in three
days, but even with President Bush hailing
the plan on Saturday as "the greatest advance
in health care for seniors" in 40 years, large
numbers of older Americans appear to be
overwhelmed and confused by the choices
they will have to make.
Contempt for Congress:
Medicare Bill Fraud
The Washington Post in
an historical
editorial exposes the Medicare fraud
and its cost to America's seniors.
Survey Finds Elderly
Nix New Medicare Law A
new
survey suggests that the number of
Medicare beneficiaries with negative
views of the new prescription drug law
far exceeds the number with positive views.
Bernstein Research reports that most
employers will see the
Medicare Bill
as a heaven-sent opportunity to reduce
expenses by dropping coverage.
Experts
Foresee Revolt by Elderly
Over Drug Benefit
President Tells Insurers to Aid
Ailing Medicare Drug Plan
By ROBERT PEAR
With tens of thousands of people unable
to get medicines promised by Medicare,
the Bush administration has told insurers
that they must provide a 30-day supply of
any drug that a beneficiary was previously
taking, and it said that poor people must
not be charged more than $5 for a covered
drug. The actions came after several states
declared public health emergencies, and
many states announced that they would
step in to pay for prescriptions that should
have been covered by the federal
Medicare
program.
Medicare Premiums to Jump
a Record 17% By Johanna
Neuman
In the largest increase in the history of Medicare,
insurance premiums paid by elderly and disabled
patients for routine care will rise 17% next year,
the Bush administration
said Friday.
Prescription Drugs
The Medicare Savings Mirage
Drug Cards Dissected
The potential for "Bait
and Switch" is enormous.
Bush Takes
Seniors For a Ride:
Bush promised seniors
that the new
drug discount card would save them
10 to 25% off the cost of all drugs.
Experts say the cards don't guarantee
seniors anything and may cost them more
Fraud Kicks in
Ahead of Medicare Drug
Discount Federal officials
have already detected evidence
of fraud in the marketing of
drug discount cards under the
new Medicare law Signed into
law weeks ago by Pres. Bush
GAO Rules Medicare Videos
Were Illegal
An investigative arm
of Congress ruled that
Bush administration violated federal law by
producing and disseminating television news
segments that portray the new Medicare
law as a boon to the elderly.
War Against Social Security
Bush Targets Social Security
for privatization and
dismantling. Having won
his battle to begin to eliminate the Medicare
Program, Bush and the GOP go for their
real
objective: eliminate Social Security.
Spearing the Beast
By PAUL KRUGMAN
President Bush isn't trying to reform Social Security.
He isn't even trying to "partially privatize" it. His
plan
is, in essence, to dismantle the program, replacing it
with a system that may be social but doesn't provide
security. And the goal, as with his tax cuts, is to
undermine the legacy
of Franklin Roosevelt.
Gambling With Your Retirement
By PAUL KRUGMAN
A few weeks ago I tried to explain the logic
of Bush-style Social Security privatization:
it is, in effect, as if your financial adviser
told you that you wouldn't have enough
money when you retire - but you shouldn't
save more. Instead, you should borrow a lot
of money, buy stocks and
hope for capital gains.
Many Unhappy Returns
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The fight over Social Security is,
above all, about what kind of society
we want to have. But it's also about
numbers. And the numbers the
privatizers use
just don't add up.
Social Security Lessons
August 15, 2005
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Social Security turned 70 yesterday. And to almost
everyone's surprise, the nation's most successful
government program is still intact. Just a few months
ago the conventional wisdom was that President Bush
would get his way on Social Security. Instead, Mr.
Bush's privatization drive flopped so badly that the
topic has almost disappeared from national discussion.
But I'd like to revisit Social Security for a moment,
because it's important to remember what Mr. Bush tried
to
get away with.
The Secret GOP Social
Security Play Book.
The Yurica Report obtained
a copy
of the actual GOP Congressional
guide to Senators and Representatives
on how to sell "Reforming America's
Social Security System for Future
Generations." It reveals what words
they must use: "Personalization" not
"privatization." Appeal to youth, quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffoer, offer an
alternate reality! This is a large PDF
File.
Don't miss it.
Social Security Solution:
Make the Old Work Until Death
By JOHN TIERNEY I realize
I'm being impolitic.
Americans now feel entitled to spend nearly a third
of their adult lives in retirement. The problem isn't
that Americans have gotten intrinsically lazier.
They're just responding to a wonderfully intentioned
system that in practice promotes greed and sloth.
Rudderless with Rove on Social
Security
By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor
Clift
President Bush managed to alienate
just about
everybody with his latest proposal to reform and
modernize the Social Security system. Progressive
indexing is a fancy term for cutting benefits for
anyone earning over $30,000, which is 70 percent
of the working population.
For Bush, a Long Embrace of
Social Security Plan
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - The conservative economists
and public policy experts who trooped in to brief George
W. Bush on Social Security not long after he was re-
elected governor of Texas in 1998 came with their own
ideas about how to overhaul the
retirement program.
Benefit Cuts Would Offset Account Gains
White House Explains The Proposal Further
By Jonathan Weisman
The White House offered further explanation of President
Bush's Social Security proposal yesterday, detailing how
contributions to new personal investment accounts would
be offset by dollar-for-dollar reductions in Social Security's
guaranteed
benefits.
Participants Would Lose Some Profits
From Accounts By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Under the White House Social Security plan,
workers who opt to divert some of their payroll
taxes into individual accounts would ultimately
earn benefits more than those under the traditional
system only if the return on their investments
exceed the amount their money would have
accrued under
the traditional system.
Government Use of Propaganda,
Social Security
SSA Altered Communications to Undermine
Public Confidence
Prepared for Rep. Henry Waxman
Monday,
February 28, 2005
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