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SO CALLED “DEFENSIVE MEDICINE” ALSO LEADS TO EARLIER DIAGNOSES AND TREATMENT AND ACCESS TO ADVANCED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY…THIS COLUMN OFFERS A BAND AID FOR A GAPING WOUND…..MEDICARE IS A WELFARE LIKE ENTITLEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE REFORMED AND MADE MEANS TESTED WITH HIGHER DEDUCTIBLES FOR WEALTHY SENIORS..NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL….RSK

End ‘defensive medicine’ by going to a system like workers’ compensation.

March 23 marks the third anniversary of the passage of the most controversial legislation in a generation, the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare. As the federal law moves toward a more thorough implementation next year, states are grappling with the costs and obligations imposed on them, such as the need to establish health-insurance “exchanges” where low-income workers can obtain coverage.

Some states are also searching for ways, outside the scope of ObamaCare, to improve health care and lower costs. A promising idea that is gaining traction is to completely overhaul medical malpractice by kicking it out of courtrooms. Two states leading the way are Georgia and Florida, where lawmakers are considering repealing their medical tort system and replacing it with a medical-compensation board similar to those used for workers’ compensation. Bills for the Patients’ Compensation System have been introduced in both states.

Getting rid of the entrenched malpractice system could have a major impact on health-care spending because one of the biggest cost drivers is “defensive medicine.” Doctors tend to prescribe more tests and medicines and specialist referrals than necessary, all in an effort to protect themselves against malpractice accusations in the event that something goes wrong.

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MANY OF US WHO SUPPORTER THE WAR IN IRAQ WERE OUTRAGED WHEN A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN WON WITH A “SHOCKING AND AWING” VICTORY TURNED INTO A CIRCUS OF SENSITIVITY TO OUR ENEMIES KNOWN AS “THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT” AND A REFUSAL TO EVEN WHISPER THE WORD JIHAD….RSK

It was 1998, and Iraq and the U.S. were edging toward war.The Iraqi dictator, President Clinton warned that February, “threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all the rest of us. Some day, some way, I guarantee you, he’ll use the arsenal.” In October, the Iraq Liberation Act, which made regime change in Iraq official U.S. policy, passed 360-38 in the House and by unanimous consent in the Senate. In December, Mr. Clinton ordered Operation Desert Fox, a four-day bombardment of Iraq with the declared purpose of degrading Saddam’s WMD capability.
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, justifying the case for military action on the eve of Mr. Clinton’s impeachment.”
***Whatever else might be said about the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which began 10 years ago, its origins, motives and justifications did not lie in the Administration of George W. Bush. On the contrary, when Mr. Bush came to office in January 2001 he inherited an Iraq that amounted to a simmering and endless crisis for the U.S.—one that Saddam appeared to be winning.

American and British warplanes enforced a no-fly zone over northern and southern Iraq at a cost of $1 billion a year. The U.N.’s Oil for Food sanctions designed to “contain” Saddam were crumbling amid international opposition to its effects on the Iraqi people, even as the regime used the sanctions as a propaganda tool and as a vehicle to bribe foreign officials. Iraqi Kurds were in perpetual jeopardy, as Saddam demonstrated in 1996 when his Republican Guard took the city of Irbil and shot 700 Kurdish partisans.

Most seriously, after 1998 Iraq rid itself of weapons inspectors, meaning there wasn’t even a small check on Saddam’s ambitions to rebuild a WMD capability he had already proved willing to use. When the weapons inspectors finally returned to Iraq in the run-up to the invasion, they found Saddam playing the same cat-and-mouse games that had defeated them in the 1990s.

“No confidence can arise that proscribed programs or items have been eliminated,” chief U.N. weapons inspector (and avowed war opponent) Hans Blix reported to the Security Council in January 2003, adding that “the Iraqi regime had allegedly misplaced 1,000 tons of VX nerve agent—one of the most toxic ever developed.”

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A Paris suburb sends a message of ‘peace’ to the Mideast.

Last month the local council of a Paris suburb decided to send a symbolic message of peace to the Middle East—via a convicted Palestinian terrorist. Specifically, the leaders of Bezon voted unanimously to grant “honorary citizenship” to Majdi al Rimawi, who’s currently in prison for his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi.

The suburb’s official statement on the matter, written last week by Left Front Mayor Dominique Lesparre, makes no mention of the late Zeevi. The statement explains only that Bezon conferred the honor on Rimawi as part of its “strong tradition of peace, cooperation and solidarity with the Palestinian people” and its efforts in the “global movement for recognition of the Palestinian state.”

Mr. Lesparre’s statement describes Rimawi as a “resistant to the occupation of his country,” which is one way of putting it. Another way is that Rimawi, an operative of the old leftist-revolutionary Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was the mastermind of Zeevi’s assassination.

According to the Jerusalem District Court judges who convicted him in 2008, Rimawi supplied the gunmen with cash, weapons, fake identity papers, information about the minister’s whereabouts and an escape route after the deed was done. The ruling, by the way, was based mostly on the accounts of Rimawi’s co-conspirators. The court gave Rimawi life in prison plus another 80 years for Zeevi’s murder and several other attacks and attempts on Israeli civilians.

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Mr. Lesparre seems oblivious to Rimawi’s crimes. The mayor’s statement last week laments that “to date more than 4,500 Palestinians, including women, children and the elderly, languish, mostly without trial in Israeli jails, because, like [Rimawi], they resist the occupation and colonization of their country.”

If he believes that, it’s worth wondering why the town doesn’t go ahead and offer them all honorary citizenship and permanent residency. Not all 4,500 can be serving life sentences, surely, and a few might well enjoy a home outside Paris once they’re released.

http://melaniephillips.com/the-press-has-been-the-last-bastion-of-a-free-society-until-now Share on linkedinShare on facebookShare on twitter There must surely be many who are mystified by the Prime Minister’s pistols-at-dawn challenge to Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband today over the issue of press freedom. Last week, David Cameron shocked his colleagues by abruptly ending cross-party negotiations over the implementation of the Leveson proposals for […]

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MEMRI has the transcript:

Abdallah Al-Khilaf: First, we’d like to show you a fatwa, which appeared on the Lions of Sunna Internet forum. One Wahhabi wrote: “Dear Sheik, may Allah grant you martyrdom and black-eyed virgins in Paradise, I wanted to commit a martyrdom operation. I turned to Sheik Abu Dimaa Al-Qassab, who told me that they had invented a new and unprecedented form of martyrdom operations – explosive capsules are inserted into your anus.

“In order to train for this method of Jihad, you must consent to being sodomized for a period of time, so that your anus becomes wider, making room for the explosives.

“My question is whether I am permitted to allow one of the mujahideen access to my anus, if my intentions are honorable, and the purpose is to train for Jihad by widening my anus.”

The sheik praised Allah and said: “In principle, sodomy is forbidden. However, Jihad is more important. It is the pinnacle of Islam. If sodomy is the only way to reach this pinnacle of Islam, then there is no harm in it.

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On Monday, the 33rd Knesset approved the government that was finally forged by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Some politicians were rejoicing, others seething with resentment. But all were considering the arrangements for and implications of U.S. President Barack Obama’s imminent arrival in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

The King David Hotel has been brimming with activity, getting dozens of suites ready for the “royal” entourage; the 15,000-strong police detail is gearing up to guard against security breaches; streets and highways are being cleared of cars and closed off; the foreign press is descending en masse from all corners of the globe and provided space in which to set up their computers, microphones, and cameras; the local media have been promoting the coverage they will devote to the hot event; menus are being planned, speeches crafted, and the newly crowned Miss Israel — an immigrant from Ethiopia — is excitedly awaiting the gala dinner at President Shimon Peres’ house, where she will be introduced to her counterpart, Mr. America.

And all this is in spite of Obama’s decision not to address the Knesset. Indeed, he claimed that the purpose of this trip was to “connect with the people.”

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ON YOM KIPPUR 1973 ANWAR SADAT AND HAFEZ ASSAD BOMBED ISRAEL IN A SURPRISE ATTACK WHICH COST THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES…AFTER SERIOUS INITIAL SETBACKS ISRAEL GAINED GROUND AND NATURALLY THE WORLD SHRIEKED FOR A CEASE FIRE….SADAT WAS A DEVIOUS SNAKE WHO WENT TO ISRAEL AND BARKED HIS DEMANDS TO A PLIANT PARLIAMENT AND A SLAVISH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA. AS A RESULT HE GOT BACK THE ENTIRE SINAI WHICH CONSTITUTED 92% OF ALL TERRITORIES WON IN 1967. INSTEAD OF TELLING HIM THAT THE “WEST BANK” WAS NONE OF HIS DAMNED BUSINESS A COWED ISRAEL , PUMMELED BY JIMMY CARTER AGREED TO FUTURE “AUTONOMY” FOR THE WEST BANK ARABS….THE REST IS HISTORY…..SAD HISTORY….RSK

Anwar Sadat, a man deemed by many in the West to be a moderate Arab leader, as a young man wrote the following words to his idol, the leader of the Third Reich, (whom he assumed was still alive and in hiding after the war):

In September 1953, several news wires reported that Hitler was still alive. This report caused enormous excitement in the Arab and Muslim world, where Hitler is idolized. The official Egyptian regime-controlled weekly, Al Musawwar, asked prominent Egyptians the following question in response to the report:

“If you wanted to send Hitler a personal letter, what would your write to him?”

One of those questioned was Colonel Anwar el-Sadat. Sadat responded with the following open letter to Hitler:

“My dear Hitler,

“I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. Even if you appear to have been defeated, in reality you are the victor.

“You succeeded in creating dissensions between Churchill, the old man, and his allies, the sons of Satan [the Americans].

“Germany will win because her existence is necessary to preserve the world balance. Germany will be reborn in spite of the Western and Eastern powers. There will be no peace unless German once again becomes what she was. The West, as well as the East, will pay for her rehabilitation – whether they like it or not. Both sides will invest a great deal of money and effort in Germany, in order to have her on their side….

“We will not be surprised if you appear again in Germany or if a new Hitler rises in your wake.”

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ANWAR SADAT WROTE A TRIBUTE TO HITLER PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES….IN 1953
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PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY NEWSPAPER RUNS PRO-HITLER OP-ED
Israel’s supposed peace partners in the Palestinian Authority have been promoting Hitler again. The PA official newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jedidah has run an op-ed suggesting that Nazism was an honorable ideology that would greatly have benefitted the planet had it prevailed in World War II. “Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law,” wrote Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher, just before President Obama is set to visit the region. “Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics … Hitler hated alcohol … These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels’ wings …”

The op-ed also stated that al-Qaeda did not commit the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Instead, it blamed the Freemasons, as well – of course – the Zionists.

Despite this latest evidence of Palestinian unwillingness to deal with the reality of Jewish presence in the Middle East, President Obama is widely expected to pressure Israel for concessions in pursuit of yet another abortive peace process.

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http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3631/dutch-government-bds Allowing taxpayers’ money to flow once again to websites such as Electronic Intifada, which propagate anti-Semitism, would be a clear indication not only of the Dutch government’s unwillingness to fight anti-Semitism, but of its willingness to support it. Last November, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, leader of the Dutch Liberal Party, exchanged his coalition […]