GOP in Medical News

Nurses Decry 'Cruel Ruse' of GOP Health Plan

Patient Care Will be Degraded by End of Health Coverage OAKLAND, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Geri Jenkins, RN, co-President of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association -- which is America's RN Union -- issued the following statement in reaction to the release...

'Building the New Majority' Launches Grassroots GOP Effort in New Jersey

Grassroots Organization Formed to Identify, Develop and Empower Local Leaders; John Crowley to serve as Honorary Chairman PRINCETON, N.J., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Building the New Majority is a new organization in New Jersey created to build a grassroots network across the state to i...

Applying the Obama Test to Healthcare: SimplyWell Cited as Top 10 Best Practices by Center for Healthcare Transformation

...was the Greater Omaha Packing Company, Inc. (GOP). gop has annual sales of nearly $1 billion and is ranke...ationally. Since implementing SimplyWell in 2001, gop has experienced significant improvement in employe...e national average. As part of their future plans, gop is opening an onsite clinic staged with qualified ...

DNC: Bush-McCain Alert - President Touts Bush-McCain Health Care Agenda in Oklahoma

..., He Seldom Bucks His Own Party." "Over the years, Sen. John McCain has publicly condemned Republican Party leaders and occasionally voted against the gop on selected issues. But an Arizona Republic analysis of his Senate votes on the most divided issues in the past decade shows that McCain almost never ...

The Obesity Society Hails Republican Platform; Forum Set for Sept. 2 to Continue as Planned

...abee, Thompson, Clegg in St. Paul SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gary Foster, President of The Obesity Society applauded the gop Platform Committee's action, stating: "The growing awareness of the obesity epidemic is leading to new strategies at the national and local levels as ...

Komen Travels to Republican Convention to Raise Awareness of Breast Cancer Issues

...eatment for the uninsured and underinsured. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070122/NYM084LOGO ) Komen for the Cure's presence at the gop convention is centered around Komen on the Go(TM), a mobile experience that educates and engages people of all ages in the breast cancer movement wher...

U.S. Healthcare Professionals Speak Out on Universal Healthcare and the Presidential Candidates' Platforms

...increasing the use of generic drugs, and capping maximum damages awarded for malpractice. The most popular measure for healthcare professionals on the gop side seems to be capping maximum damages awarded for malpractice, while a majority of the reported Democrats chose capping profits of the insurance co...

Texas Eldercare Poll: 57 Percent Less Likely to Back Local Legislator if They Oppose Medicaid Rate Boost

... 18% West Texas 56% 25% 19% East Texas 63% 17% 21% Voter I.D. Solid gop 47% 25% 28% Broad Independent 59% 22% 19% Solid Dem 67% 18% ...

FRC Action Praises John McCain's Pro-Life Comments

... WASHINGTON, April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council Action applauds gop Presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his comments on Tuesday from Villanova University supporting the pro-life platform of the Republican Pa...

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/March 24, 2008 Issue (on newsstands Monday, March 17)

...mps have exaggerated their claims against the other on foreign policy issues, a mutual bloodletting that can only benefit John McCain, the presumptive gop nominee. http://www.newsweek.com/id/123488 BUSINESS: "Making Airline Travel Feel Less Like Torture" (p. 56). National Correspondent Daniel McGin...

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/January 28, 2008 Issue (on newsstands Monday, January 21).

...p. 22). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes that President Bush has left the gop in a precarious state. But the party's candidates can learn much from his f... is too late to reinvent the party's core beliefs," writes Thomas. "But the gop candidates can embark on a more humble mission: to show, in effect, some hu...

DNC: Rudy Shows Again He's Out-of-Touch With America's Priorities

...blematic Republic Drug Plan. As recently as 2006, Giuliani praised the 2003 gop prescription drug bill. [Club For Growth Press Releases, 5/14/07] Prescription Drug Bill Heavily Tilted Towards Drug Companies. In 2003, the gop forced through Bush's prescription drug bill, a $100 billion giveaway to th...

Latest Edition of Ripon Forum Highlights Schwarzenegger's Leadership on Another Challenge Facing his State - Health Care

...can Party was born in 1854 -- Ripon, Wisconsin. One of the main goals of the Ripon Society is to promote the ideas and principles that have made the gop -- and America -- great. These ideas include keeping our nation secure, keeping taxes low and having a federal government that is smaller, smarter and...

Voters Deserve to Know: Would Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson Stand with Bush and Veto Children's Health Care?

... immunization rates. President Clinton vetoed this gop budget bill. [Senate CQ Vote #584, 11/17/95; DPC L...alth Care for Children. McCain voted for the 1995 gop budget that would have repealed guaranteed coverag... hospital care for poor children. In addition, the gop proposal in the 1995 budget to block grant Medicai...

Ad Campaign Targeting Republicans On Medicare Prescription Drug Program

... A $500,000 television and radio ad campaign blaming gop lawmakers for not seeking lower prices for the Medicare prescription drug program has been launched by the// Association of Trial Lawyers of America o...

The National Governors Association Releases Guidelines For Outbreak Of Bird Flu

...t, Janet Napolitano said, "Our rule of thumb here is plan for the worst, and hope for the best. And the planning has to happen now." She and Minnesota gop Governor Tim Pawlenty are leading the NGA's effort to get states ready on the looming threat. It was explained that the government and the medic...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...said at a rally-style press conference in the Capitol. "The time is upon us. It's now or never." Republican leaders were still pressing wavering gop conservatives to vote for the bill, which carries a 10-year price tag of $395 billion. Conservatives have balked at the price tag, arguing that the me...