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Admin, Dems Face Challenge In Showing Voters What Reform Means For Them
As health reform proposals emerge from congressional committees, partisan fighting boils and the president wades into the debate with a series of televised addresses, news reports turn to an unanswered question. "What"s in it for me?" asks David Leonhardt, the New York Times business columnist. "On the subject of health care reform, most Americans probably don"t have a good answer to the question. And that, obviously, is a problem for the White House and for Democratic leaders in Congress," he writes.
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Roll Call reports that lobbyists feel Senator Edward Kennedy"s absence: "With the health care reform debate in full tilt, it"s fair to assume that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is the key player in producing the final version of the Senate"s package. But with HELP Chairman Kennedy (D-Mass.) largely absent because of his battle with brain cancer, it"s not business as usual at the committee. The HELP Committee has certainly played a role in health care reform, but it has largely been a staff-driven process, according to health care lobbyists."
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Vets Say Badger Culling Is Necessary To Tackle TB

Badger culling is necessary in certain circumstances to tackle the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), according to the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and British Cattle Veterinary Association (BCVA). This week the BVA"s Council approved the new policy position adding the veterinary profession"s voice to the ongoing debate on bTB. Earlier in the year BVA President Nicky Paull welcomed the announcement of a pilot badger cull in west Wales. The BVA has now updated its bTB policy to more strongly state the case for humane, targeted and managed culling in specific areas where badgers are regarded as a significant contributor to the persistent presence of bTB. The BVA"s policy also states that the current Government strategy for bTB control is inadequate and calls for simultaneous control measures in both cattle and badgers and other wildlife and susceptible farmed species. Commenting, Nicky Paull, President of the BVA, said: "Bovine TB has an unacceptable impact on animal health and welfare and has the potential to be a risk to public health. Yet the current strategy for dealing with it is inadequate. "Where I practise in Cornwall vets and farmers are desperate for effective measures to help us get on top of this inexorable disease. "Veterinary surgeons take an active role in surveillance, diagnosis and treatment of disease and we know that the only way to control bTB is through simultaneous and coordinated measures across all susceptible species. "In no way does our new policy position detract from the continued focus on cattle-to-cattle spread, within both the veterinary profession and the farming community, which continues to play a key role in attempts to control the disease. "But the BVA believes that humane, targeted and managed culling of badgers in some areas will be necessary if we are to reverse the increasing prevalence of bTB." British Veterinary Association


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