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...anything goes wrong, provide surgical intervention, either to complete the abortion or to stop heavy bleeding. "All this says is that physicians prescribing this should be good doctors," says Dr. Wendy Chavkin, an ob-gyn at Columbia School of Public Health. In 1998, when the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation polled family practitioners about their interest in using mifepristone once it was approved and available, 45% of doctors responding said they were "very" or "somewhat" likely to use it--even though only 3% of them had performed surgical abortions...
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey taken this summer, one in three gynecologists who will not currently perform abortions stated that they would definitely prescribe RU-486 once it became available. This seems to me an incongruous position to take. This one-third, who in most cases could with relative ease take the time to become certified to perform surgical abortions, have consciously chosen not to do so. And yet these same physicians are more than willing to prescribe a drug that produces the same effect...
...smelling rodents in the Clinton White House, such as The Nation's left-wing columnist Alexander Cockburn, point out that the presale assessment of the Elk Hills land was done not by the Department of Energy, as would usually be the case, but by a private firm, ICF Kaiser. And then, with a note of "gotcha," Cockburn throws in the fact that ICF Kaiser's chairman is former Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho...
...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...
...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...