The Senate Health Bill: Federal Micromanagement of Health Insurance

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) giant new health care bill contains the same provisions as the other House and Senate bills to establish Federal micromanagement of all private health insurance. Like the others, the Reid bill would subject all private health insurance — whether purchased from an insurance company by employer groups or individuals, or provided through an employer or union self-insured plan — to detailed Federal regulation. These so called “insurance reform” provisions amount to a de facto nationalization of health insurance and they would produce that effect regardless of whether or not Congress creates another, new government-run health insurance plan. Benefit Control. Of particular concern to patients should be that the detailed benefits in their health insurance...

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Women's Orgasmic Capability

I've often written about the various orgasms women have: clitoral, g-spot, vaginal (general, with no pinpointed target zone) and anal. I've made a mission of conveying that there is no "better" or more "normal" orgasm; the one/s you have, however you have them, are normal  and the ones you aspire to are also exciting so long as you don't get hung up on judging the way you come, or don't. Still, even women with the best attitudes about pleasure sometimes wonder why she can have a vaginal orgasm just like that!  without needing extra stimulation from hands or vibes or fairy dust. They ask: what makes her so different from me? And I don't always have the answer. To many women's frustration, what we do know is that women are wired slightly differently from one another, built differently,...

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Obama, Democrats reassess health care

WASHINGTON — Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, a senior White House official said Wednesday, after President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative took a devastating hit with the Democratic loss of the Senate seat in the state of Massachusetts. Obama adviser David Axelrod said administration officials will take into account the message voters delivered Tuesday in electing Republican Scott Brown but declined to go farther. Questioned about the fate of health care legislation, Axelrod said, "It's not an option simply to walk away from a problem that's only going to get worse." The stinging loss Tuesday cost Obama the 60-vote Senate majority he was counting on to pass the far-reaching legislation. The outcome splintered the rank and file on how to salvage the bill, energized...

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