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Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approves Fiscal Bill Without Abstinence-Only Funding
The fiscal year 2010 Senate Appropriations Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee spending bill approved on Tuesday by voice vote does not include funding for abstinence-only programs, CQ Today reports.Subcommittee Chair Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said that when the full committee marks up the bill on Thursday, it will not include funding for abstinence-only sex education. The bill will provide money for comprehensive sex education programs, which can include teaching abstinence. The recently approved House version (HR 3293) takes a similar approach. CQ Today calls Harkin"s support for defunding abstinence-only "another nail in the coffin" for the programs, which had grown during President George W. Bush"s administration. According to CQ Today, since taking control of Congress in 2007, Democrats have been "slowly bleeding the program," saying most research has shown that abstinence-only programs are "ineffective at ensuring teen chastity."The subcommittee approved the bill"s funding table, which would provide $163.1 billion in discretionary funding. The amount of discretionary funding is $1.6 billion more than President Obama requested, $2.1 billion more than the House bill and $3.2 billion more than the fiscal year 2009 spending bill (Wolfe, CQ Today, 7/28).
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MBE For Chief Executive Of Infertility Network UK
Clare Lewis-Jones, Chief Executive of Infertility Network UK (I N UK) and More to Life, the largest national charity providing help, support and information to those suffering the effects of infertility, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen"s Birthday Honours List for her services to healthcare.
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A Selection Of Editorials And Opinions

Healing The Hospitals The Baltimore Sun Hospitals are the latest casualties of the economic crisis. As their investment incomes tumble, hospitals" already stretched operating budgets are being squeezed even further (Michael Jhin, 6/23). U.S. Health Care Is Not Inferior The Denver Post The most annoying claim in America"s health-care debate? Easy. It"s the repeated charge that the U.S. gets inferior results despite spending much more on health care than other countries (Vincent Carroll, 6/23). Something For Nothing The New York Times The problem with the [Senate committees" health reform] plans is that they don"t do much to change the underlying incentives, and consequently don"t do much to control costs (David Brooks, 6/23). Ten Lessons For National Health Care Reform The San Francisco Chronicle In addressing the health care crisis quickly and boldly, national leaders would do well to heed the lessons that California"s health care debate offers (Melissa Rodgers, 6/23). Deficit Politics Driving Health Care Timetable Politico [T]he financial crisis and the government"s stimulative response have brought back deficit politics and endangered both the timing and the substance of health care reform (John Fortier, 6/23). Where Battle Line Is Drawn On Health Care The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune A public plan is a nonstarter. So why is the president pushing it? For leverage (Peter Nelson, 6/22). Tobacco, Public Health, and the FDA The New England Journal of Medicine The FDA has been given broad authority to regulate tobacco products. We believe that this historic legislation can have an unparalleled positive impact on the health of the American public (Gregory Curfman, Stephen Morrissey and Jeffery Drazen, 6/22). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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