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Group Files Petition Over Enforcement Of Regulations In Adult Film Industry To Prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation last week filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court asking "the court to order the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to enforce regulations that require condom use in adult-film production or take other reasonable steps to stem the spread of disease," the Los Angeles Times reports (Yoshino, 7/17). In the petition, "the group claims that in the month since an actress tested positive for HIV, the county Department of Public Health has done little to address what it considers to be a serious health threat" (AP/San Jose Mercury News, 7/16). In a statement released last week, the department, said, "The county continues to strongly support state legislation and the regulatory role of the [California Division of Occupational Safety and Health] as the most appropriate means to regulate the practices in the adult-film industry that expose performers to unnecessary and preventable occupational risks of acquiring and transmitting these diseases," adding, "The department does not believe that litigation is the best means to deal with this issue" (Yoshino, 7/17).
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A Selection Of Editorials And Opinions

Wrong Way On Health Reform Washington Post The trouble is that what"s being promoted as health-care "reform" almost certainly won"t suppress spending and, quite probably, will do the opposite (Robert J. Samuelson, 6/15). The "Public Plan" Would Be The Only Plan Wall Street Journal In reality, equal competition between a public plan and private plans would be impossible. The public plan would inexorably crowd out private plans, leading to a single-payer system (Scott E. Harrington, 6/15). Reform Measures Should Not Weaken Our Health Care Chicago Tribune Is it the goal of some individuals to eventually wipe out all private insurance plans and house all health care under the umbrella of the federal government? These types of government-controlled systems already exist in other countries, and all have stories of patients who had to wait months to see specialists (Donald J. Palmisano, 6/15). Deluded On Health Care Chicago Tribune The Clinton plan lost partly because Americans were not willing to accept that you can"t have it all. From everything that has occurred since then, it"s apparent they are still unwilling (Steve Chapman, 6/14). GOP Should Favor Health Overhaul Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nine of the 10 Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee have sent a letter to the Obama administration rejecting a public plan option, much less a single- payer system, in the coming debate over health care reform. As a Republican, a health care executive and former chairman of the Republican Party of Jasper County, I believe this is a mistake, technically and politically (Jack Bernard, 6/14). Something"s Got To Give In Medicare Spending New York Times Medicare expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget, yet the Obama administration is proposing that we start by spending more now so we can spend less later. This runs the risk of becoming the new voodoo economics. If we can"t realize significant savings in health care costs now, don"t expect savings in the future, either (Tyler Cowen, 6/13). Is More Care Better? New York Times In sum, the evidence for regional variations in the United States and in other countries is strong, and every study indicates huge levels of inefficiency in health-care spending. 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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