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 'congressman'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5062226&cid=t_317063_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FFGsoGrS2IEA%2F I’ve argued that the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill does not end “too-big-to-fail”, that is the belief that certain companies are implicitly backed by the government because policy-makers are unlikely to let said institutions actually fail. By naming some companies as ”systemically important” — as required by Dodd-Frank — the government is actually sending a signal as to who is likely to be bailed out. As evidenced by regulators’ behavior during the financial crisis, the prime beneficiaries would be the creditors of these companies, as even when shareholders and management suffered, creditors generally did not. This should allow such firms to borrow at a cost lower than firms not deemed systemically important. Given this funding... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5062226 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:53:37 +0100 5062226 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190151&cid=t_317063_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwheres-my-government-provided-healthcare%2F2010.11.22 Freshman Republican Congressman Andy Harris, who was elected on a promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), is outraged that he’s going to go a whole month before his government-provided health insurance kicks in. From Politico: A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1st –- 28 days after his Jan. 3rd sw... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190151 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:00:00 +0100 4190151 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4139289&cid=t_317063_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F11%2F05%2Fpatrick-kennedy-on-mental-illness-and-treatment%2F This year’s Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy focused on the question of how to help veterans — centering on the National Guard and reservists — reintegrate within their community when they come home. The Guard and reservists have an especially difficult time, because they are outside the usual military structure of benefits and services (although more recently, some benefits have been extended to them because of the extended fighting in the two wars the U.S. has been engaged in in Afghanistan and Iraq). The two-day meeting presented views, personal stories and data on three main themes of veterans’ “reintegration” — within the family, the workplace and the community. It also offered the opportunity to learn about dozens of great se... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4139289 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:15:53 +0100 4139289 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3610325&cid=t_317063_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVskwISe_qlE%2F By Jim HarperI haven’t taken much interest in the growing story about the possibility that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) was offered a job to entice him out of the primary race against incumbent senator Arlen Specter. If true, this apparently is illegal. But does anyone think horse-trading like this does not happen in politics all the time? Perhaps someone was gauche enough to name the price of the horse, and perhaps someone didn’t know enough to keep his mouth shut about it. But it’s pretty much a law of physics that an entrenched group of politicians at a remote level of government is going to divvy up the emoluments the public has ceded to them. A law to the contrary may aspire to some ideal of good government, but its effect is only to hide what is going on. Only if you pret... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3610325 Fri, 28 May 2010 17:26:29 +0100 3610325 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800468&cid=t_317063_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fhave-we-become-a-nation-of-narcissists%2F What do rapper Kanye West, tennis star Serena Williams, and Congressman Joe Wilson have in common, besides lots of publicity over their recent public outbursts? It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to conclude that all three individuals placed their momentary emotional needs over the feelings and wishes of others — and that they failed to play by the proverbial rules of the game. Though their intrusive behavior may be rationalized as “off the cuff” or “from the heart,” the fact remains that each of these individuals performed a calculation over a period of seconds, minutes, or perhaps hours: they calculated that their anger or resentment was more important than the decorum others expected of them. Sure, we all “lose it” from time to time, and impolite outbursts have pro... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800468 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:27:01 +0100 2800468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473204&cid=t_317063_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fj28OcieqtwE%2F Today Congressman Spencer Bachus, along with several of the Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee, offered a plan for reforming our financial system and ending future government bailouts of the financial sector At the heart of the financial crisis has been the Federal Reserve’s willingness to invoke its powers under Paragraph 13-3 of the Federal Reserve Act to bail out firms like Bear Stearns and AIG — all without a single vote from Congress or any form of public debate. Almost 10 months after the initial AIG bailout by the Fed, there is still no plan for resolving that firm, and no strategy for recovering the taxpayers investment. While some might pretend that the Fed puts no taxpayer funds at risk under the use its 13-3 powers, it is the American taxpayer who u... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473204 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:41:03 +0100 2473204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2287239&cid=t_317063_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F03%2F18%2Fcongress-aims-to-combat-%25e2%2580%2598nature-deficit-disorder%25e2%2580%2599%2F Midweek Mental Greening Despite my thoughts about how some technological advances can help boost your mental health, ideally I think it’s best for people to spend as much time outdoors as possible. New friend requests, message alerts, and the hum of a computer can’t hold a candle to fresh air, sunlight, and the smell of newly cut grass. Is this why, after it won in the House but failed to pass overall last year, the “No Child Left Inside Act” is getting ready to be reintroduced to the House and Senate? Perhaps. That, and the idea (or fact, depending on who you’re talking to) that America’s children are becoming increasingly detached from the outside (i.e. natural) world – they’re coming close to or already suffering from “Nature-Deficit Disorder” – according to a rec... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2287239 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:56:52 +0100 2287239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2090223&cid=t_317063_136_f&fid=36051&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FCancerCommentary%2F%7E3%2F8jxY2TEZ0GE%2F Former Republican congressman and father of a daughter who is a 27-year survivor of leukemia is now battling his own cancer - although doctors don’t yet know what type it is. He had been complaining of hip pain, but the athletic Kemp hsa had aches and pains before, through his career as a Buffalo Bills quarterback and in his sports activities, like tennis. We”ll try to keep up-to-date with the story. A friend of mine  had her cancer diagnosed when she went in with hip pain, so it’s not uncommon. ~~~~~   Tags: former buffalo bills quarterback jack kemp, former congressman jack kemp, jack f kemp, jack kempShare This (Source: Cancer Commentary) Cancer Commentary blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2090223 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:36:47 +0100 2090223