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 'domenici'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:02:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4175671&cid=t_205143_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fsg6VpRicAgY%2F By Daniel J. MitchellI’ve already commented on the proposal from the Chairmen of President Obama’s Fiscal Commission (including a very clever cartoon, if it’s okay to pat myself on the back). Now we have a similar proposal from the so-called Debt Reduction Task Force. Chaired by former Senator Pete Domenici and Clinton Administration Budget Director Alice Rivlin, the Task Force proposed a series of big tax increases to finance bigger government. I have five observations. 1. Notwithstanding a claim of $2.68 trillion of “spending cuts” during the 2012-2020 period, government gets a lot bigger during the decade. All of the supposed “cuts” are measured against an artificial baseline that assumes bigger government. In other words, the report is compl... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4175671 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:51:16 +0100 4175671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1883309&cid=t_205143_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2F16%2Fan-interview-with-senator-pete-domenici-on-mental-health%2F You may not recognize the name, but Sen. Pete Domenici was the driving force behind getting the mental health parity and addiction equity act of 2008 passed. Without his timeless efforts on this bill, I’m not sure we would’ve had parity this year. This interview, published on Friday in TIME, is a nice background piece about the bill and Domenici’s efforts on it over the years. I found it interesting, because it gives a little bit of his take on what it took to get it passed and his reaction to it finally passing: You know, I’m going to be dead-honest with you, it dragged on so long that I didn’t act like I normally would have. I wasn’t like me. I [usually] get excited, passionate, but I didn’t have any of those feelings because I was thinking it... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1883309 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:05:49 +0100 1883309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1850976&cid=t_205143_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2F03%2Fmental-health-equality-finally%2F Since the 1990s, legislators in Congress have been pursuing the end of discrimination for people with mental illness by health insurance companies and employers. Even after they passed historic legislation (at the time) in 1996 to end this discrimination, health insurance companies found ways to subvert the intent of the bill and still discriminate against the people they covered if they had a mental health issue. On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $700 billion bailout bill (263 to 171), which included the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. This Act (which we reported on earlier), a compromise that’s been years in the making, mandates that all employers with more than 50 employees offer mental health coverag... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1850976 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:10:47 +0100 1850976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432794&cid=t_205143_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F286825440%2F Lawmakers yesterday introduced legislation designed to speed the development of new, safer therapies for brain and nervous system disorders and injuries, which affect an estimated 100 million Americans and costs an estimated $1.3 trillion annually to treat, Scientific American reports. The National Neurotechnology Initiative Act (NNTI), which has bipartisan support, calls for $200 million in federal funds to be set aside annually to research potential treatments and to establish an info clearinghouse from federal agencies to help coordinate efforts, the mag writes. The lawmakers charge a lack of coordination has impeded development of treatments for brain-related illnesses. The funds would also go toward coordinating the work of 16 NIH branches that study brain-related injuries as well as ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432794 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:28:22 +0100 1432794