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During the Obamas' visit to the Children's National Medical Center this week, one young patient asked Sasha Obama whether anything would change for their first celebration of Christmas as the First Family. "I don't think anything will be very different," Sasha said. She may be right. The Obamas spent a quiet Christmas in Hawaii last year, staying in their rented house on Christmas Eve and visiting with soldiers stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Christmas Day. They may miss singing carols and reading the Christmas story in the book of Luke, at least in a formal church...
Opponents contend the tax would unfairly target middle-income women, threaten the confidentiality of patient reports and lead to a surge in people traveling to other countries for wrinkle-zapping procedures. (See pictures of facial yoga...
Another concern is that the tax would open up a Pandora's box that would probably pit doctors against bureaucrats over what is considered cosmetic and what is reconstructive. "For example, I do a lot of breast reconstruction, so when I'm treating a cancer patient's normal breast and putting in a lift to match the reconstructed breast, is that elective or is that reconstructive?" says Saltz. "Now, who's going to make that decision? Is it going to be a bureaucrat or a tax person that's going to tell me or my patient that they have...
Then there's the confidentiality issue. "If this is a tax, then one would assume the IRS is going to be involved - and so are they then going to be auditing our patient billing? And therefore how do we maintain patient confidentiality under that circumstance?" says McGuire...
...defend Harvard’s library,” said Hamburger, an outspoken regular about the libraries at Faculty meetings. “If the Library is the heart of the University or at least one of its vital organs, then we have to imagine that the patient is in critical condition and intensive care...