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...prices than they would in bulk, driving up costs for the government. It is simply nonsensical that Medicare has far less ability to negotiate drug prices than the Veterans Health Administration or Medicaid. We are also disappointed by the amount of power the pharmaceutical industry, which vehemently opposed the repeal and spent thousands on the effort to shoot it down, still wields on Capitol Hill. To some legislators, special interest groups are apparently more important than the good of elderly Americans. Since Medicare recipients are such an enormous group of customers, we understand that the repeal might impact the pharmaceutical...
...Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization seeking the repeal of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, was honored with the second annual Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy Leadership Award on Saturday...
...repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ will be a watershed event for gay citizens much like racial integration was for African Americans,” Osburn said during the banquet...
...tell’ doesn’t make sense,” Meehan, chairman of the House Armed Services Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations, said at a Washington, D. C., press conference yesterday. “It is long past time that we act to repeal it,” he added. Meehan’s bill, the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, was first introduced in 2005 and is supported by more than 100 Democratic co-sponsors and three Republicans. The Defense Department’s policy prohibiting openly gay individuals from serving in the armed forces was first...
...grandmother. In June 1977, reacting to a modest gay rights ordinance adopted in Dade County, Florida, former beauty queen and Christian activist Anita Bryant mounted a campaign called, slyly enough, “Save Our Children.” Bryant and her SOC called for the repeal of the ordinance, which was the first in the country to grant protection in housing, public accommodations, and employment to people based on their “affectional or sexual preference.” With 69 percent in favor of repeal, the ordinance died. The HRC seems to think that Snickers is trying...