From congressional hearings, press briefings, and assorted heath care events in Washington, D.C.
Pardon the paraphrase of the late Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), the Grammy-winning orator who eventually lent his name to a Senate Office Building, but health reform last week focused on billions and billions of dollars. Where will they come from? How will we spend them?
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Posts Tagged as ‘Biden’
July 13, 2009
A billion here, a billion there: Soon you’re talking real money
January 21, 2009
A Witness-to-History Protection Program
from the Internationl Symposium on Endovascular Therapy in Hollywood, Fla.
In an insular meeting room at a medical meeting it’s often easy to ignore what’s going on in the world outside. Not so on January 20. As the late-morning session was starting, the chairman said that in response to popular demand he’d interupt the series of talks at about noon to show an internet stream [...]
November 1, 2008
These results just in…
Emergency room physicians are backing Barack Obama, according to the results of the truly sweet, but unscientific Presidential Jelly Bean Poll. When asked to pick a red or blue jelly bean out of a bowl and “vote” for the candidate of their choice, 810 attendees at the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency [...]
