The Senate moved forward yesterday on debate of H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.

You read that right.

The bill being used as the shell for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) first attempt at a government takeover of health care is in the form of H.R. 3590, an unrelated tax bill.

They didn’t call him a liar. They said the information in his editorial was “totally inaccurate”. That’s very different matter from calling someone a liar.

Perhaps if one is slicing an apple of truth into slices of ambiguity that is so.

“Totally inaccurate” is arguably just the polite and lawyerly way of calling someone a liar.

Please excuse some of us and our more guttural at times ways of expressing our heartfelt views. It should be noted someone’s way of expressing does not necessarily change the core truth of a matter, even if the expression is distasteful or not fit for a courtroom.

Ironically, the court of American public opinion is far from behaving like a courtroom at all!

The White House page cites specific sections of the pending bill. It provides a link to the document. It also provides a link to the editorial.

Apparently they aren’t afraid of people reading the editorial, comparing what’s said there with what’s actually in the bill, and deciding for themselves how accurate Mr. Krauthammer’s statements are.

This article was in the NYT on 11/29/09 and I posted it on my fb page. You’ll appreciate it!

The lack of confidence in government has turned many older voters rightward. Younger voters have not followed. But even they will want results eventually.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/opinion/30douthat.html?_r=1

If so, I think they do it once a week for three weeks, and if it’s helpful, you can repeat it every six months. I understand that most people don’t feel the benefit until after the 3rd injection of the series (the first injection is a small amount, the second a larger amount, and the third the largest). If it works, it kind of feels like a pad has miraculously been inserted into your knee, providing relief. But it doesn’t last…. hence the periodic repeat series…

Malpractice insurance companies often take the most expensive way out of the situation. Rather than let a doctor settle, for example, they will insist on taking it to trial. That is one part of this practice that needs to be heavily monitored and somehow changed.

As a healthcare expert witness at one time, I hate to see damages capped because there truly are lifelong, serious damages that require money to deliver years of care. But there must be some way to improve the education of nurses (I can say that) and to strengthen peer review among docs.

I think I got us side tracked on this, though. Krauthammer is talking abt the cost of additional tests and procedures required in order to stave off potential medical malpractice suits, if I am understanding him correctly.

And the permanent nerve damage – holy cow (I’m using that in lieu of what words I could use). Just breaks my heart for your husband, and you!

I’m just shaking my head at not being able to switch ins., either. Sheesh.

Wow, IALT, no wonder you wanted to go to a corner and cry!

Thanks – I appreciate that.

Spectacular cases have been twisted by the press into appearing frivolous, it’s not true.