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 'executive order'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:32:12 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382754&cid=t_229997_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_1FLwXWsXw0%2F By Jim HarperPresident Obama’s “Regulatory Review” executive order, issued this week, has no effect on the regulatory environment that I can discern. It essentially encourages agencies to continue doing the thinking and analysis they are doing so poorly under existing law and executive decree. I called it “a cosmetic, symbolic effort” in the Washington Examiner and—you’ll get the backstory here—also speculated that it’s an effort to change the subject. “Regulatory review” has briefly turned the press away from the government’s huge, ongoing spending spree, and the pall of uncertainty that President Obama has cast over the economy with projects like his re-design of the American health care system. But don’t take ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382754 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:43:26 +0100 4382754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265682&cid=t_229997_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJr_njfecfxQ%2F By David RittgersThe House passed a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) yesterday, and it appears that the Senate will take up the measure sometime next week. Good. DADT should end. I’ve said so, and debated the issue with repeal opponent Stuart Koehl (posts 1, 2, 3, and 4). Most servicemembers I know (appropriate disclaimer here) already have a mindset of Don’t Ask, Don’t Care, and its time for official policy to catch up. We should note that a legislative effort is the right way to change the current policy. DADT is based on a law – 10 U.S.C. § 654 – enacted with the FY1994 National Defense Authorization Act. Some have argued (and here, and here) that President Obama could stop enforcing DADT by executive order. The President does have control over enlisted separations ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265682 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:40:28 +0100 4265682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2553006&cid=t_229997_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F7UyyRIzgbNo%2F The Obama administration performed another Friday afternoon Guantanamo news dump last week, indicating that it will probably maintain administrative military detention of combatants under a forthcoming executive order. This is unnecessary executive unilateralism. As Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith point out in today’s Washington Post, this is a debate that ought to be held in Congress. This would not be a tough push for Obama. The Obama administration already amended its claim of authority in a filing with the District Court for the District of Columbia, the judicial body sorting through the detainees remaining at Gitmo. Convincing Congress to ratify this decision should not be hard; the differences between the Bush administration’s “enemy combatant” criteria and... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2553006 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:31:33 +0100 2553006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2317515&cid=t_229997_114_f&fid=34646&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FHealthCareBlogLaw%2F%7E3%2FPRhrIwcAji0%2Fobama-makes-health-reform-office.html Yesterday, April 8, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order formally creating a new White House Office of Health Reform.The Washington Post provide additional information, including the complete text of the Executive Order and that former Clinton administration official, Nancy-Ann DeParle (White House bio) will oversee the office.The full text of the Executive Order:EXECUTIVE ORDERESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF HEALTH REFORMBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in the interest of providing all Americans access to affordable and high-quality health care, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1. Policy. Reforming the health care system is a key goal of my Administration. The health care system s... Health Care Law Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2317515 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:02:33 +0100 2317515 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2255994&cid=t_229997_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZ0ku5vOastI%2F Yesterday, President Obama coupled his lifting of an executive order banning federal funding for embryonic stem cell research with the signing of a memorandum directing “the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a strategy for restoring scientific integrity to government decision making.” In other words, at the very moment he was directly injecting politics into science by forcing taxpayers to fund research that many find immoral – and that could be funded privately – Obama declared that he wouldn’t politicize science. Don’t insult our intelligence. When government pays for scientific work that science is politicized. Yes, it could be argued that government not funding something is also political, but which is inherently more politicized, government f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2255994 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:38:30 +0100 2255994 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2256072&cid=t_229997_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F03%2Funtold-story-radical-obama-also.html We all know that President Obama rescinded the Bush funding restrictions for ESCR. But that isn't all he did. He also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007.What is that? Of course, the Administration didn't have the candor or courage to publicize this part of his nasty work, but the now dead order explicitly required funding for "alternative methods," such as the new IPSCs, which offer so much promise without the ethical contentiousness. For more on that late executive order, see SHS, "Bush to Fund Stem Cell 'Alternatives' Research.) Alternative methods are one of the few areas in which we can all row in the same direction, which I thought this president wanted to do.I can think of only two reasons for this action, for which I saw no advocacy either in the election or during the... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2256072 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:16:00 +0100 2256072