MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'axelrod'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:41:03 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366180&cid=t_288937_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGsheUxAwmCM%2F By Michael F. CannonThe House leadership plans to hold a vote, more or less, on the Senate health care bill this week.  President Obama says he wants to “ge[t] rid of many of the provisions that had no place in health care reform — provisions that were more about winning individual votes…than improving health care.”  White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Democrats will “take the pot-sweetening out of the process.”  Yet Democrats have decided to retain the Senate bill’s $300 million subsidy for the state of Louisiana, commonly known as the “Louisiana Purchase,” and other state-specific bribes pot-sweeteners. On ABC News’s This Week yesterday, Obama advisor David Axelrod argued that the “Louisiana Purchase” is not targeted sole... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366180 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:21:14 +0100 3366180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3363639&cid=t_288937_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fejo0EBSIEKk%2F By David BoazWhite House senior advisor David Axelrod continued the administration’s campaign against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision on ABC’s This Week: But thinking about Teddy Roosevelt, I wonder what he would think about a bill that essentially allows for a corporate takeover of our elections, or a court decision. And that’s what we’re dealing with here. Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don’t vote our way on this bill, we’re going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district. And that is a threat to our democracy. He was of course echoing and defending President Obama’s declaration in the State of the Union address: With all due deference to sepa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3363639 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:21:39 +0100 3363639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3204835&cid=t_288937_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fd8BAbrjpHac%2F By Michael F. CannonThe American people don’t want President Obama’s health care plan (see below). Massachusetts voters don’t want it. The White House knows that the people don’t want it.  In Ohio last week, President Obama said: the process has been less than pretty. When you deal with 535 members of Congress, it’s going to be a somewhat ugly process…when you put it all together, it starts looking like just this monstrosity. And it makes people fearful. And it makes people afraid. And they start thinking, you know what, this looks like something that is going to cost me tax dollars and I already have insurance so why should I support this. Yet Democrats still want ObamaCare to become law, and they are very close to making it happen.  If Speaker Nancy... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3204835 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:42:38 +0100 3204835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3108546&cid=t_288937_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FeKEEzSvEXNQ%2F Despite the defeat of two Senate amendments to health care reform that would have allowed imports from Canada and elsewhere, the Obama administration is pledging to make it possible anyway - but not as part of the legislation winding its way through Congress. The issue was raised by White House advisor David Axelrod this weekend after back-room intrigue surrounding the Senate amendment suggested the Obama administration backpedaled on a campaign pledge in order to secure the support of the pharmaceutical industry for the health care bill (see here). Drugmakers agreed to $80 billion in discounts as part of the deal, but objected to imports. “Let me be clear. The president supports…safe re-importation of drugs into this country,” he told CNN’s “State of the Uni... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3108546 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:21:45 +0100 3108546 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2790334&cid=t_288937_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fdavid-axelrod-speaks-about-epilepsy-in.html From The Utica Observer-Dispatch:Obama adviser speaks about epilepsy locallyAxelrod also touts healthcare reformBy ELIZABETH COOPERObserver-DispatchPosted Sep 12, 2009 @ 09:01 PMLast update Sep 12, 2009 @ 10:59 PMWHITESBORO —Amid the national debate on health care, a top White House adviser related his personal story about troubles his family encountered in getting care for a daughter with epilepsy.David Axelrod, a close adviser to President Barack Obama, was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, known as CURE, at Hart's Hill Inn Saturday evening. Axelrod's wife, Susan Landau, is one of the founders of CURE, and she has come to the Mohawk Valley in the past for CURE fundraisers, though Saturday was Axelrod's first visit. More than 700 people at... BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2790334 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:52:00 +0100 2790334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2691456&cid=t_288937_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3StSSqb6MVE%2F David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama, emailed me yesterday (along with perhaps several million others) to tell me about a new effort on Whitehouse.gov to dispel “rumors and scare tactics” from people opposing even more government regulation of the health sector. I think the opponents of expanded regulation have the better arguments on the merits. I was struck, though, by the effort that has gone into creating an entirely new section of Whitehouse.gov for a “Health Insurance Reform Reality Check,” complete with fancy graphics and videos. (I have modified one of those graphics to illustrate this post. Fun!) Meanwhile, the White House still hasn’t brought itself to do something that President Obama promised on the campaign trail: post bills online for... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2691456 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:37:31 +0100 2691456 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2306724&cid=t_288937_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJG-X0ffLFeA%2F So why would he talk like one? On Fox News Sunday this week, Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod spoke with Chris Wallace about nuclear non-proliferation, saying, among other things: [President Obama] wants in the next four years to lock up the loose nuclear weapons that are scattered around Eastern Europe, that could fall into the hands of terrorists. And, of course, that is the big threat. That’s why we have to step up the pace. This represents an existential threat and we need to meet it. Controlling any loose nukes is important, but the chance of them being used by terrorists is exceedingly small, and it is not an existential threat. For too long, U.S. national leaders have perpetrated the error of speaking about terrorist threats as “existential” when they are not. Ta... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2306724 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:05:45 +0100 2306724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1812848&cid=t_288937_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F09%2F22%2Fyes-there-is-evil%2F Just read it. All of it. Do it-c’mon, who loves you? We damage ourselves for self abuse, fun, to entertain you. Then I’ll be done with this ….for awhile. Be good and I’ll show you the pics of the winner of “Vote for Keywork win a date with….”and I’ll tell you the story of how I lost my [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1812848 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:34:10 +0100 1812848