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...Mark Thompson: Flights could begin as early as Thursday, but there's some concern over what sending a fighter escort would signal to the Chinese. These are legitimate flights in international airspace, and there's a feeling in some quarters that sending fighter escorts sends a signal that we think we're doing something wrong or hostile. They shouldn't need fighter escorts. Then again, you don't want to be the admiral who made that call if an EP-3 is shot down on Thursday. They may decide to have fighters nearby, but not actually escorting the surveillance plane...
...Mark Thompson: Pretty good, for the most part. If you sit down and look at how the cards were dealt, there was no choice here. Obviously lower down the ranks there may be some grumbling from people saying there should have been a harder line or that the plane should have ditched. But they didn't have a kid on that plane. The top brass is happy they were able to bring the crew home in one piece...
...While Bush's reasons may have been rooted in due diligence, the insurance industry took the pause as a gift, according to Angela Choy, field director for the nonprofit Health Privacy Project in Washington, D.C. "The insurance industry has waged a pretty intensive campaign to get the public and Thompson to view these regulations as a bad idea - and really pushed to get the government to change aspects of the regulations in their favor...
...They weren't particularly successful. While Thompson insists the regulations have been changed from the Clinton version, observers say that with a few exceptions, everything looks the same. One hot-button addition, which grants parents access to children's medical records (including information about abortions) is still under White House/HHS consideration. The federal law, Health Privacy Project's Choy explains, won't supersede preexisting state laws concerning abortion and minor notification; states that allow minors to have abortions generally maintain fairly strict confidentiality rules. "if there are state laws allowing a minor to legally obtain care without parental consent, then...
...mission to include the international spread of the disease, adding a State Department official to its staff, and will also be creating a task force on the international AIDS crisis co-chaired by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson. We are glad that Bush has moved, however belatedly, to establish an office to guide national policy on a dangerous and expanding health threat. We also hope that the emphasis on the international aspects of the AIDS threat foreshadows a serious effort to combat the global spread of the disease, which...