By Ezra Klein, So, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer, Congressman Clyburn, Chairman Miller, Chairman Rangel, Chairman Waxman, Leader Reid, Senator Durbin, Chairman Baucus, Chairman Dodd, Chairman Harkin, Rahm Emanuel, Phil Schiliro, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and President Obama walk into a room… Wait, have you heard this one before? Actually, you probably haven’t. Yesterday’s health-care meeting ran from…
The House- and Senate-passed health reform bills are based on the plan set out by President Obama in his campaign and shapedduring the legislative process. As a result, they have substantial similarities that will greatly facilitate the final step of developing an agreement on a bill for the President’s signature. Both bills: Provide…
The House- and Senate-passed health reform bills are based on the plan set out by President Obama in his campaign and shapedduring the legislative process. As a result, they have substantial similarities that will greatly facilitate the final step of developing an agreement on a bill for the President’s signature. Both bills: Provide…
By Dana Milbank, The president pro tempore of the Senate, 92-year-old Robert Byrd, shot his finger into the air to signal his “aye” vote. “This,” the West Virginia Democrat called out strongly from his wheelchair, “is for my friend Ted Kennedy.” That was very much the story of the massive health-care legislation that finally cleared…
By Dana Milbank, The president pro tempore of the Senate, 92-year-old Robert Byrd, shot his finger into the air to signal his “aye” vote. “This,” the West Virginia Democrat called out strongly from his wheelchair, “is for my friend Ted Kennedy.” That was very much the story of the massive health-care legislation that finally cleared…
By GINA KOLATA, Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just published on the genesis of cancer. “He took the paper and held it over the wastebasket and said, ‘What do you want me…
By GINA KOLATA, Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just published on the genesis of cancer. “He took the paper and held it over the wastebasket and said, ‘What do you want me…
By: Anne Schroeder Mullins, Nancy Brinker is steamed. As the founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, Brinker has been dragged back into a debate she thought had been settled long ago. “I’m mad that we’re talking about mammograms again,” Brinker says. “This, to me, seems to be a very stupid thing…
By: Anne Schroeder Mullins, Nancy Brinker is steamed. As the founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, Brinker has been dragged back into a debate she thought had been settled long ago. “I’m mad that we’re talking about mammograms again,” Brinker says. “This, to me, seems to be a very stupid thing…
By TARA PARKER-POPE, If someone invented a pill to cut a cancer risk in half, would you take it? Who wouldn’t? Apparently the answer is millions of women — people like Cindy Birkhold of Sarasota, Fla. The pill is tamoxifen, and Ms. Birkhold, now 52, was considered an ideal candidate for it: she tested positive…
