Reducing Health Care Costs Is Not a Partisan Issue!

Alice Rivlin: The future of the country depends on controlling our debt and deficit; and reducing the cost of health care spending is part of the solution. 


This is not a partisan issue.

On May 4, the Campaign 2012 project at Brookings held a discussion on health care reform, the fifth in a series of forums to identify and address the 12 most critical issues facing the next president. David Nather of POLITICO Pro moderated a panel discussion with Brookings experts Alice Rivlin, Ross Hammond, Thomas Mann and Mark McClellan. Read more at http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/0504_campaign2012_healthcare.aspx

Senator Jeb Bradley to NH police chief: "Medical marijuana works. We know it."!

Interesting blog post from New Hampshire last month:

By special request, from the NH Senate Health and Human Services Committee's public hearing on SB409, "relative to the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes," 3/8/2012, Committee Chair Senator Jeb Bradley responds to testimony by Enfield Police Chief Richard Crate. Despite the recalcitrant Chief Crate's refusal to compromise with reality, or Constitutionality, the committee subsequently voted 5-0 to recommend the bill's passage.


So just how did Senator Jeb Bradley discover how medical marijuana works? See the entire hearing at: http://bikerbillnh.blogspot.com/2012/03/barbarians-feeling-some-resistance.html  I agree with the author who says: "presuming the authority to somehow deny natural pain relief to peaceful people who are suffering is barbaric."