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Senator Reid's bill passed the Senate before Christmas (60-to-39 party-line vote)  now it must be reconciled with the House version   H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (vote of 220-215).

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Jane Hamsher from FireDogLake, a progressive blog has an interesting blog from a few days ago which helps to articulate the deepening divisions on the so-called left. She includes a section of a letter that Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation Magazine has been promoting to the progresive movement which says;

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Dear Senator,

On behalf of our organizations and the millions of people we represent, we strongly encourage you to oppose the “individual mandate” in the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.” Our groups and members may disagree on what are the best solutions to our health care problems, but this unprecedented coalition of organizations from across the political spectrum agrees that forcing individuals to buy insurance from private companies under the threat of fines is not the reform we need.

This week various center-left organizations and individuals came out against the bill that Senator Reid has been pushing in the Senate to reform medicine.

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Its well known that true conservatives and libertarians oppose the present day medical reform efforts in both the U.S. House and the Senate. Now, they are joined by progressives who are also now opposing these efforts specifically in the Senate. Some of the reasons for the opposition are different across the political spectrum but there seems to be growing agreement that the present day attempts at medical reform are not supportable.

Recent Blog from TakeBackMedcine:

I am blogging (almost daily) at Take Back Medicine   As someone who support individual liberty, real free markets and restraints on the corporate state, I oppose all the measures so far introduced in both the House and the U.S. Senate as part of efforts to do comprehensive healthcare reform. 

Medical Privacy & Secure Flight

I will be laying out a bit of history and then the present day issues at hand when it comes to both medical privacy and secure flight and then offering a grade to date for President Obama’s Administration on both issues. The historical context and comparisons between Administrations is important but I will also be basing my grade not just on comparisons between Obama, Bush and Clinton but on what is appropriate for a Constitutional Republic based on the sovereignty of the individual.