With Little Health Sector Cash Supporting Her GOP's Snowe Backs Finance Committee Bill
The Senate Finance Committee today passed its translation of comprehensive health concern reform behind weeks of marking up the bill. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine was the only Republican to vote in favor of the measure. She has also collected less cash from the health sector than a ...

UK Health News 10/14/2009
Nice backs minimum pricing on alcohol to cut harmful drinking – The Guardian 13th October 2009“The government’s expert advisory body on medical treatment is recommending imposing minimum prices on alcohol love a means of combating “hazardous and harmful drinking”.Draft proposals put o ...

Karmic Rewards: Privacy & the Public Figures Behind Oklahoma HB 1595
As Kristen reported last week the Statistical Reporting of Abortions Act (passed in Oklahoma last spring) is being challenged in court on the grounds that it covers more than one subject and thus is a violation of the state constitution. Since Kristin already did such a great job summarizing th ...

The Baucus Bill Spending Vortex
The House and Senate are clearly divided through how to pay for the massive new spending commitments the federal government is taking on.Right now House and Senate Democrats are meeting behind closed doors to figure out who they will tax and how much they can cut Medicare to meet what will be a ...

Matt Constantine named public health director
The Kern County Board of Supervisors appointed Matt Constantine like the permanent director of the Kern County Public Health Services Department Tuesday.Constantine previously director of the Environmental Health Services Department had been interim public health director since August.