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Is Big Pharm the major reason for funding contraceptives that doesn't require generic medicines?
Drug companies will be able to market "branded" contraceptives at premium prices, knowing that women are free to choose the most expensive, designer product because it will cost them the same as the cheapest generic.
and another point that no one seems to be asking but should be obvious:
This gets us to a broader question: how the definition of insurance has lost any meaning in the context of American health care. Insurance, traditionally defined, is meant to protect us from the risk of unexpectedly incurring catastrophic costs. Car insurance, for example, protects us against collisions, but doesn't cover our purchase of wiper fluid or gasoline. Homeowner's insurance doesn't cover the cost of air conditioning. And yet, now, we have a federal law that forces health insurance to cover something that is even cheaper than gasoline or air conditioning.
Follow the money...headsup ft
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Sounds like a Harrison Ford movie: All Israeli planes will now carry anti missile systems.
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The Naked public square: Stanley Fish in the NYTimes points out that Santorum's arguments are not crazy.
also headsup FT
...commentators have advised Santorum to read the Constitution, urged him to become familiar with the pronouncements of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and chastised him for “bashing … the Constitution’s mandate that there should be separation between church and state.”
Well, if that’s the Constitution’s mandate, I guess a number of Supreme Court justices and A-list legal academics have somehow missed the message.
In Wallace v. Jaffree (1985), Justice William Rehnquist called the “wall of separation” a “metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging” and “should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”
Justice Potter Stewart frequently complained that decisions based on a doctrine of strict separation display a hostility to religion and threaten to establish a “religion of secularism.”
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The correct way to dispose of a Koran is to burn it, so why the apology?and why the outbreak of violence?
We all know that it's man made, and the press magnifies it to make it sound like all Muslims hate America, but is it a conspiracy to remove the US from Afghanistan?
Nah...I don't think Obama is that smart, alas.
Besides, if the US leaves, so will the NGO's, and then who will the Afghan gov't officials steal from to get rich?
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a Poem on English as she is spoken: an excerpt
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)...
headsup Hieropraxis
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