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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 12/20/2008
A Bad Rule
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by hilzoy From the Washington Post : "The Bush administration yesterday granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to provide care that violates their personal beliefs, setting off an intense battle over opponents' plans to try to repeal the controversial measure. (...) ...
eschatonblog.com - 12/23/2008
Still Really Bad
— eschatonblog.com — Housing market still horrible. WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of existing homes plunged 8.6% in November to a... seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.49 million, from a revised 4.91 million rate in October, according to the National Association of Realtors. ... (more) Still Really Bad

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White-Collar Welfare
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Hilzoy disagrees with the new "health worker protections" implemented by Bush: The rule (pdf) covers not just employees who refuse to perform a medical procedure they find objectionable, but to those who refuse to refer people to others who do provide such services. It would, for instance, protect people who not only refuse to perform abortions themselves, but who refuse to tell their patients who else might provide one, where to get the morning-after pill, etc. (See p. 106.) And as the Post notes, it would prevent organizations whose mission is to ...

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