Tag: politics
Blog Posts (80)
December 14, 2012
Operation Delirium
Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D.
Joining the long line of examples of concerning human subjects research experiments is a profile in The New Yorker (December 17).…
July 14, 2012
Even 12-Year-Olds Understand Healthcare Reform
If you want to know how easy and intuitive it is to understand the individual mandate, watch this video with Peter Ubel and his son, Taylor Greeno, who discuss why healthcare reform is good for everyone.…
June 28, 2012
Waiting for the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare? Read AJOB.
As the nation waits on pins and needles for SCOTUS’ decision regarding Obamacare, take a few minutes to bone up on the ethics of healthcare reform and governance with AJOB’s Special Issue on healthcare reform.…
April 10, 2012
Caplan on Prescription Drug Abuse
Today Art Caplan, in his MSNBC column, discusses the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in this country. But his conclusions would have a chilling effect upon physicians.…
February 1, 2012
Gingrich on IVF: Bad for Families, Bad for Bioethics
Scientists, reproductive specialists and andrologists had better prepare. If Newt Gingrich has his way (and wins the Presidency), he will have a whole new world in store for science and medicine.…
October 10, 2011
Saving the USPS by Cutting Healthcare Costs?
What does the postal service have to do with healthcare? Sure, the USPS delivers medical supplies to individuals and organizations. But that is not the connection that the nation’s postmaster general is making between healthcare and the viability of the postal service.…
October 3, 2011
Doth My Doctor Protest Too Much?
Is there a limit to how far physicians can go in their social or political activism? Ford Vox, writing in The Atlantic, suggests that perhaps there is.…
April 7, 2011
Women's Health Shouldn't Be Partisan--But It Is!
As Donna Shalala writes on the Huffington Post today: “health of our women should not be a partisan preference”, but as we all know the politics of women’s health continues to plague access to reproductive health services, equitable access to health services generally, and more broadly remind us that there is still a critical gap between males and females in regard to health in our country.…
October 26, 2010
Zeke Emanuel Takes the Cake
When he’s not changing the face of U.S health policy or being a provocateur in the academic literature, can you guess what Ezekiel Emanuel is doing in his down time?…
April 8, 2010
The Presidential Commission: The Member Analysis
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI) had its membership announced yesterday–and frankly, I am apprehensive about the future of the commission.…
News (34)
February 7, 2013 1:21 pm
White House defends drone-war killing of Americans (Yahoo)
The White House on Tuesday defended targeted assassinations of Americans thought to consort overseas with terrorists as “necessary,” “ethical” and “wise,” as the Obama administration faced fresh questions about its sharply expanded drone war.
January 18, 2013 11:52 am
White House answers Death Star petition: No (Yahoo News)
Build this Death Star, we will not. That’s the message from the White House in an official response to a petition urging President Barack Obama to build the moon-sized planet-killing space station from Star Wars.
December 14, 2012 6:09 pm
Freedom from Earsplitting Ads: The CALM Act Goes Into Effect (Daily Finance)
After 12 months of waiting for the rules to go into effect, Americans will finally begin to enjoy the benefits of the CALM Act, which takes effect today. Congress passed the law — which requires the FCC to prevent ads from being louder than the programs they accompany.
December 11, 2012 2:42 pm
North Carolina barred from issuing "Choose Life" license plates (Yahoo)
A federal judge has permanently blocked North Carolina from issuing an anti-abortion specialty license plate, ruling that offering plates with a “Choose Life” slogan without an alternative supporting abortion rights is unconstitutional.
November 9, 2012 3:36 pm
Ethics in Play, Voters Oust Incumbents Under Scrutiny (New York Times)
In races around the country, an unusually large number of lawmakers facing charges of wrongdoing were unceremoniously ousted from their jobs on Tuesday — which is quite rare, because more than 90 percent of the incumbents seeking re-election to Congress typically return for another term.
October 19, 2012 6:51 pm
Research Firm Reaped Stem Cell Funds Despite Panel's Advice (LA Times)
StemCells Inc. has had rather a charmed relationship with California’s publicly funded stem cell program, with some $40 million in awards approved this year. Co-founded by an eminent Stanford research scientist, the firm ranks first among all corporate recipients of approved funding from CIRM, despite only collecting about $1 million a year from licensing patents and selling cell cultures.
June 28, 2012 9:50 am
Health Care Reform and Health Care Stakeholder Disputes: Can We Identify Common Ground? (Medical Futility Blog: Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.)
Panelists at Marquette University to speak about healthcare reform: Dr. Arthur Derse, MD, J.D., Institute for Health and Society Medical College of Wisconsin, Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Director, Medical Humanities Program, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine.
April 30, 2012 1:14 pm
Healthcare’s foreign invasion (Salon)
Approximately 15 percent of all healthcare workers and 25 percent of all physicians in the United States were born and educated elsewhere. This means that 1.5 million healthcare jobs are “insourced,” occupied by foreign-born, foreign-trained workers brought into the United States on special visas earmarked for healthcare jobs. This number is 50 percent greater than the total number of jobs in the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry.
April 25, 2012 11:39 am
Obamacare collapse would put employers in charge (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, don’t look to government for what comes next. Employers and insurance companies will take charge. They’ll borrow some ideas from Obamacare, ditch others, and push even harder to cut costs.
April 23, 2012 5:50 pm
Assisted human reproduction and the law (CBC News)
An air of confusion surrounds Canada’s rules governing fertility issues, such as assisted human reproduction. Although the federal government passed a law in 2004 that tackled a wide swath of the socially and ethically controversial issues surrounding reproduction, covering everything from human cloning to payment for sperm, the law hasn’t lived up to expectations.