Charlie Rose with Orrin Hatch, Eric Cohen, George Daley & David Carmel; Dr. David Ho, Dr. Susan Zolla-Pazner, Dr. Seth Berkley & Dr. Nicholas Hellman (August 7, 2006)
If Orrin Hatch and John Kerry get their way, that is. The calls come in at all hours: patients reporting broken bones, violent coughs, deep depression. Prue Lewis listens as they explain their symptoms. Then Lewis -- a thin, frail-looking woman from Columbia Heights -- simply says, "I'll go to work right away." She hangs up, organizes her thoughts and begins treating her clients' ailments...
Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are pushing to get a provision into the health care bill that would mandate equal treatment for “spiritual healing,” such as Christian Science prayer treatments. Sens. John Kerry and Orrin Hatch are trying to get it inserted into the Senate bill, according to the Washington Post. Kerry’s spokeswoman, Whitney [...]
Now that the Senate will debate health care reform next week, the question is whether Senate Democrats can gain enough support to pass legislation. Senator Charles Schumer told Face the Nation , "Look, there are still many bumps in the road, discussions, arguments, disagreements. But I think now the wind is at our back. There's real momentum. And the good news here is we still have a very diverse...
Washington » As part of a day-long assault on the Democrats' health reform proposal, Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett repeatedly argued the legislation would cost too much and give too much power to the government.
Currently airing on C-SPAN2. The live stream is here if you want to watch but don't have C-SPAN2 on your cable/satellite system. (Or don't have cable/satellite at all.) As I write this, Orrin Hatch (R-1950) is talking about abortion, and my teeth are grinding together so hard I feel like I may spontaneously generate a new universe between my molars.
Sen. Orrin Hatch has been in the Senate for a while. Actually, 32 years, slightly longer than either of us have been alive. But he definitely has not been there since the very start.
Washington » Sen. Orrin Hatch ramped up the rhetoric against health reform after Senate Democrats unveiled their sweeping $849 billion proposal late Wednesday.
Orrin Hatch and John Kerry have provided for "health care" for scientologists. I wonder how that's going to be excused if and when health care reform refuses to provide for care opposed by the Roman Catholic Church?
Via Andrew Stuttaford at the Corner (via The Secular Right), the LATimes reports that the Healthcare Overhaul Bill contains a requirement that insurance companies “consider” covering Christian Science prayer treatments. Orrin Hatch is the genius behind it but John Kerry and the late Teddy Kennedy also supported it. This is so ludicrously stupid that it clearly [...]
A staffer for Sen. Orrin Hatch inadvertently shut down the Senate last week by slipping a letter into a bin inside Majority Leader Harry Reid's office.
I was going to write about how Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Kerry (D-MA) were trying to somewhat slimily slip a provision into the health care bill about paying for prayer-based health services, but then wouldn’tyouknowit, Steve Novella (who apparently does not need to sleep or eat or breathe) beat me to it. Besides [...]
Those who read this blog regularly will know that I am in favor of substantial health care reform -- especially the creation of an option for public health insurance. But that does not mean I am in favor of shelling out taxpayer funds (or forcing private insurance companies to pay) for any treatment that has not been scientifically proven to have medical benefit. It will be expensive enough to pay...
This is, to say the least, strange . Crazy enough that Hatch inserted it, odder still that Ted Kennedy and John Kerry supported it. But if passed, this will open the floodgates to every fringe group out there: Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering...
This is, to say a least, strange. Crazy enough that Hatch inserted it, odder still that Ted Kennedy & John Kerry supported it. But if passed, this will open a floodgates to every fringe group out are: Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of a most powerful members of a Senate, a little-noticed provision [...]
I’m an atheist, so I don’t really have a dog in this hunt, but this seems like a pretty ridiculous thing to ask the taxpayers to pay for: What do Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) have in common? A soft spot for Christian Scientists. The three senators have quietly inserted a provision into the Democrats’ healthcare overhaul that would allow...
Identity theft has become one of the major problems our nations face today. Law enforcement agencies are hard pressed to track down and capture the theives that steal 10 million identities per year. President Bush signed into law some...
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