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Senate Health Care Bill Would Allow Insurers to Limit Coverage for Seriously Ill Patients
Washington - A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates.
The legislation that originally passed the Senate health committee last summer would have banned such limits, but a tweak to that provision weakened it in the bill now moving toward a Senate vote.
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Michelle Duggar delivers 25-week, 1lb 6oz baby by C-section
Mom and baby Josie need our prayers. From ABC News, within the hour:
Michelle Duggar, star of the TLC reality show 18 Kids and Counting has given birth to her 19th child in an emergency C-section.
New baby Josie Brooklyn, born Thursday evening, weighs 1 pound 6 ounces and is in stable condition at the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, TLC reports.
TLC reports "Michelle is resting comfortably" while Josie Brooklyn stays at the neonatal intensive care unit, and that "the family is grateful for all the prayers and well wishes during their recovery."
Duggar's baby was not due until March, but TLC is reporting that Duggar went into the hospital early suffering pain from a gallstone.
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The Eyes Have It With Adult Stem Cells
UK scientists report successful adult stem cell treatment of 8 patients with Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency, a painful, blinding disease that requires long-term, costly treatment. Corneal cloudiness has been estimated to cause blindness in 8 million people (10% of total blindness) worldwide each year. Professor Majlinda Lako, a member of the UK team, said:
“This research shows promise to help hundreds of people regain their sight. These exciting results offer a new treatment and hope for people with LSCD.”
Professor Robin Ali of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London noted:
“The Newcastle team has obtained some very impressive results in patients following stem cell transplants to repair the surface of the cornea. It is hugely exciting to see that a type of stem cell therapy can now be applied routinely to treat a form of blindness. These results also provide us with further encouragement to develop stem cell therapies to repair the retina in order to treat conditions such as age related macular degeneration.”
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Adultery & Murder: Game Over For Tiger Woods: Abortion, Love Child, Sex Tape Now Added To The Mix
The Tiger Woods soap opera may be getting near its end as Tiger Woods' sponsors are fleeing due to reports that as well as fathering a love child, Tiger also arranged an abortion for one of his mistresses. Oh, and last but not least, there may be a sex tape as well. The reports come from The National Enquirer, hardly a great source of correct news, but likewise the Enquirer did break the cheating scandal to begin with, so they obviously have good sources when it comes to Woods. The Magazine also hinted that the abortion story could be more, saying that “There is more than one woman out there who could come forward.” Woods has previously been reported to practice unsafe sex.
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U.S. House Okays Taxpayer Funding For Abortion In Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON - Congress took an important step toward granting the nation’s capital more control over its own affairs Thursday as the House voted to remove a measure that bars the city from using local tax money to help low-income women pay for abortions. The legislation would also allow the city to legalize medical marijuana — a move that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in a referendum in 1998 — and to continue to finance needle-exchange programs. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat and the city’s nonvoting member of the House, said the bill’s passage represented a major breakthrough for home rule (Isa.5:20). Removing the rider that barred financing for abortions was especially important, Ms. Norton said, because it “has created severe hardships for low-income women in the District.”
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What, no Planned Parenthood "Choice on Earth" cards this year?
It's getting late for Planned Parenthood to begin promoting its annual "Choice on Earth" holiday cards, but the abortion behemoth hasn't done so yet this year, hm.
Could it be the gross gimmick was a financial loser? Or perhaps PP decided it can't handle any more negative publicity at the moment and prefers to lay low?
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