Stupak Amendment

http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/07/stupak-amendment-passes-64-dems-ask-for-primary-opponents/

So a woman's alleged right to privacy while killing the unborn baby within her requires taxpayers' money? Whenever anyone asserts a "right to privacy" for something, will it require taxpayer funds? I need to start studying my own "rights to privacy".

Business Owners' View of Healthcare Reform

The readers of the Phoenix Business Journal tend to be business owners, since it is a vital resource for following developments in the Phoenix business community, keeping track of which businesses are biggest in specific industries, etc. Hence, there are significant proportions recognizing the need to lower costs, introduce tort reform, or the sheer complexity of the healthcare system ("Can't just pick one"). Here we see someone identifying the second problem (malpractice litigation), which feeds the first (costs), whereas Congress & the Omessiah claim to be able to fix costs without tort reform. And, perhaps most important, only 22% see universal coverage as the top priority (not a significant lead over other problems/factors, and quite different from the perspective of labor unions, unemployed, career politicians, etc. -- parties unacquainted or unconcerned with the prices businesses pay to cover their employees).