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New Poll Suggests Slim Majority Favors Obama Plan
A new poll conducted by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation released Wednesday says that 51 percent of people favor the president"s health reform plan while 45 percent oppose it, CNN reports.
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Highly intelligent adults with Asperger Syndrome still have difficulties in day-to-day social interaction. These difficulties may be explained by "mindblindness", the idea that they are unable to predict what other people will do by thinking about their mental states, that is, their knowledge and beliefs. If this is true then why do people with Asperger syndrome pass all the standard tests of mental state attribution? Is the theory wrong or are the tests insensitive? This study reports evidence from eye movements, that adults with Asperger Syndrome do not spontaneously anticipate another person"s behaviour on the basis of that person"s mental state. This is in stark contrast with typical adults, and even young toddlers. Purchase zoloft to treat depression.
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University Of Maryland Dental School Helps Doctors, Nurses Halt Infant Tooth Decay
Across the state of Maryland, there are now doctors and nurses, freshly trained in pediatric dental health care, who can help stem an alarming number of 3-year-old children who arrive for their first dentist visit with teeth "just melting away."
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Schumer Preparing Strong Public Plan Option

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the key Senate Finance Committee and advocate for a government-run health insurance plan, said yesterday he would abandon all other possible compromises in favor of immediately creating a public plan that "would operate on "a level playing field" with private insurers," CongressDaily reports. Other proposals have included a plan that would establish health insurance co-ops with government seed money or "trigger" the creation of a public plan only if private insurers fail to meet certain targets for containing costs and improving access. Schumer"s office said he was preparing an amendment to the Finance Committee"s bill, which is expected as early as next week, suggesting that the bill will include one of the other alternatives designed to seek bipartisan compromise. "Schumer"s announcement is a potential blow to bipartisan efforts on the Finance Committee, where some Republicans prefer, if not fully support, the co-op proposal," CongressDaily reports (Edney, 7/1). It"s not just Republicans who may be unsettled by the push for the public plan. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., a four-term senator who caucuses with the Democrats, told home- state reporters this week, "If we create a public option, the public is going to end up paying for it. That"s a cost we can"t take on," the New Haven Independent reports (Bass, 7/1). Some liberal Democrats are also troubled - that the talked-about public plan compromises, including Schumer"s, are too weak. "We haven"t yet applied enough pressure to get done what has to be done," David Himmelstein, a single-payer advocate and cofounder of Physicians for a National Health Program, told the Christian Science Monitor. Single-payer reform has not gained traction in either the House or Senate, but some liberal congressmen have stated that it is their preference. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., for instance, introduced a bill to create one such plan (Francis, 6/1). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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