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...moniker given to last weekend’s tension-filled testimony by Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Randy Wolf. Just as at the reactionary height of the Cold War, Congress has taken up an issue sure to arouse passions in an effort to gain a measure of publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize the moral high ground in the affair and elevate the image of government at the expense of baseball players who have been hamstrung by mistrust...
Those numbers clearly indicate that the threat of steroid use has already declined due to the presence of testing. Furthermore, baseball significantly beefed up its policy this off-season, adding penalties for positive tests, starting with 10-day suspensions for a first offense. The threat of a suspension, and the public ignominy that would necessarily accompany it, will undoubtedly further diminish the minimal percentage of tests that were returned positive last year...
...also petitioned Medicare to cover immunoglobulin treatment for Pemphigoid patients who failed to respond to steroid treatment or suffered serious side effects from that treatment...
...Medicare officials approved limited funding for cases where patients had not responded to treatment or were too sick to try the less effective steroid therapy...
...make it through the current season [without intervention]." But Congress probably won't act too fast--it rarely does--so expect more hearings, say House reform-committee members. Some members want to call more players and perhaps baseball trainers to prove that baseball has long known about the steroid use. Rather than single out baseball, the House might try to create broad steroid restrictions for all sports or adopt the tough Olympic standard...