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	<description>Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues.</description>
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		<title>How Can We Make It Clearer? When Will Anyone Notice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is staggering:


(See link for larger version.)
The graph is a ranking of industrialized countries by per-capita healthcare expenditures. The average figure is $2,986/year; Finland and Spain come in a little below that, and Australia and Sweden are a little above. Canada spends about $1,000 more per person per year than the major-nations average; free-wheeling Switzerland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2010/01/13/how-can-we-make-it-clearer/</link>
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		<title>Fetus Christmas-Tree Ornaments . . . . (Oy vey! . . .)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest entry in the &#8220;creepy personified fetus&#8221; category: the &#8220;Feti&#8221; &#8211; weird/cutesy Christmas-tree ornaments shaped like tiny embryos at about the 6-8 week stage (bulbous head, no digits, visible tail). As is usual with this genre, they sport adult-appropriate personal characteristics, including clothes, personal possessions, and in one case a moustache. You can buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/12/14/fetus-christmas-tree-ornaments-oy-vey/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Love Them for Who They Are Now&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Penn Jillette &#8211; magician, activist, raconteur, and all-round interesting character &#8211; posts this YouTube video in which he passes on what he says is the best advice ever given for relating to your elderly or incapacitated parents.
It is.

Thanks, Penn.
(See here for a similar observation from an equally-surpising source.)
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		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/11/28/love-them-for-who-they-are-now/</link>
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		<title>RNC to Women: Being a Republican Doesn&#8217;t Mean We Don&#8217;t Still Hate You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, much has been made this week of the fact that the Republican National Committee, throughout its longstanding berserker campaign against women seeking control of their own bodies, has in fact been providing comprehensive healthcare insurance to its own employees &#8211; including female employees &#8211; for almost 20 years. Many fingers were pointed over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/11/13/rnc-to-women-being-a-republican-doesnt-mean-we-dont-still-hate-you/</link>
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		<title>Insurance Companies: Greatest Profits Lie in Blocking Access Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs has just issued a helpful report for the insurance industry, identifying the profit potential for them in various likely outcomes of the current healthcare access reform initiative. Their conclusion: the best thing for the insurance companies is no reform at all, followed by the weakest possible reform; the worst thing for them is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/11/13/insurance-companies-greatest-profits-lie-in-blocking-access-reform/</link>
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		<title>Terrorist Crusade Parades Itself Openly &#8211; Who Will Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The AP reports that Scott Roeder, the terrorist who killed Dr. George Tiller, publicly and in cold blood, last May, has openly confessed to the crime and justified it with the usual religious-radical gibberish about &#8220;unborn children&#8221;. In the article, he explicitly equates fetuses with independently-living persons and claims that killing to prevent abortion is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/11/09/terrorist-crusade-parades-itself-openly-who-will-care/</link>
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		<title>Historical Juncture Turned into Anti-Woman Hatefest by Congressional Republicans, With Democrats Lighting the Torches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At this moment, debate is proceeding on the House votes on the landmark healthcare bill. I haven&#8217;t blogged about it, because, frankly, it was overwhelming and I didn&#8217;t know what I could say that would help. (The Democrats&#8217; stealth approach to bill-crafting, while possibly politically astute, made it hard to get a clear handle on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/11/07/historical-juncture-turned-into-anti-woman-hatefest-by-congressional-republicans/</link>
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		<title>Religious Rightist Renounces All Icky Healthcare, Achieves Purity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former healthcare clinic administrator in Texas today announced that she had quit her job, joined a far-right anti-healthcare group, and dedicated herself to harassing other women to prevent them from receiving surgery and other forms of &#8220;icky&#8221; healthcare, after seeing a video of an appendectomy that she didn&#8217;t like.
I just thought I can&#8217;t do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/11/02/religious-rightist-renounces-all-icky-healthcare-achieves-purity/</link>
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		<title>National Coming-Out Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is National Coming-Out Day (one day after President Obama promised yet again to repeal the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy and work toward fuller equality for all people, and yet again did nothing tangible about it).
I don&#8217;t have much to say about that, except to offer support and the wish that the homophobia that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/10/11/national-coming-out-day/</link>
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		<title>Low-Significance Sample Sizes: An Ethical Loophole?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post today breaks an original story on a long-running scandal at Columbia University Hospital, in New York, regarding lack of informed consent on a risky blood-volume-expander study. Heart-surgery patients were recruited into a study involving a new formulation of a volume expander that had been known to cause severe bleeding in its existing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/10/07/low-significance-sample-sizes-an-ethical-loophole/</link>
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