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House Members Continue Bickering Over Reform
Hope is fading in the House on voting on reform before the August recess as Democrats bicker over details, Roll Call reports: "Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Friday that Democratic leaders may push off the health care bill until September if they can"t get it finished within the next two weeks."
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Oregon Gov. Signs Sex Education Bill; Tenn. Rep. Withdraws Bill To Give Parents Record Access
The following summarizes recent action on reproductive health-related legislation in two states.~ Oregon: Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D) on Tuesday signed a measure (H.B. 2509) that requires school districts to provide students in all public elementary and secondary schools with medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education courses, KOHD.com reports. The law stipulates that schools emphasize the best way for students to prevent pregnancy and reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections is to practice abstinence and that the best approach for adults is to engage in mutually monogamous relationships with partners without STIs. In addition, the law requires that students be given current, statistically based information about the efficacy of all methods of preventing STIs. The measure also requires that sex education courses include instruction on the benefits of delaying pregnancy until after adolescence, as well as information about the characteristics of an emotionally and physically healthy relationship. The law directs schools to provide students with information on state laws related to young people"s rights and responsibilities with regard to childbearing and parenting (KOHD.com, 6/2).~ Tennessee: State Rep. Tony Shipley (R) on Tuesday withdrew from consideration a bill (H.B. 1762) he sponsored that would have given parents full access to their children"s medical records, the AP/Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. Under the measure, physicians would have been required to provide written results of any tests or procedures performed on minors upon request from their parents or guardians. The measure could have jeopardized about $6.5 million in federal family planning funding that is attached to privacy requirements, according to legislative analysts (AP/Chattanooga Times Free Press, 6/2).
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Frank, Dodd, Grassley Speak Their Minds

News outlets are searching out interesting quotes from players in the health reform debate. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, remains on the fence about several provisions in a Democratic plan, The Washington Post reports: "Winning over the Senate Finance Committee"s ranking Republican would represent a major coup for Democrats and a rare defection from the GOP party line for Grassley, a populist at heart but a loyal Republican according to his voting record. ò€¦ Not even Grassley can tell where he eventually will end up, but he is making the most of the attention he is getting from the White House. Over lunch with Obama last month, the senator complained that certain Environmental Protection Agency pollution policies were harming Iowa farmers. He has since met with several senior White House officials and is negotiating a visit to his state by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson" (Murray, 6/19). CongressDaily focused on Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn: "As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee wrapped up a second day of public wrangling over a 600-page health overhaul, the panel"s Democratic leader said bipartisanship isn"t his top priority. "My goal here is to write a good bill. My goal is not bipartisanship," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who is chairing the markup proceedings while HELP Chairman Edward Kennedy undergoes treatment for brain cancer. "That can help you write a good bill, but it is not an end in itself"" (Hunt, 6/19). ""Certainly, stalling it is not helping it at this point," Dodd said. "My job is to be fair and to keep the process moving forward,"" Dodd told Dow Jones Newswires (Yoest, 6/18). On the House side, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said he agrees with Obama that there are some places in Europe where single-payer systems work, CNSNews.com reports: "As prime minister of Britain, "Margaret Thatcher considered it a great attack on her when people said she was trying to pick apart health care," said Frank. "Britain goes way beyond a single-payer. That"s socialized medicine. Scandinavia, much of Western Europe," have a single-payer system that works" (Lucas, 6/19). Even as the interim communications director for the White House, Anita Dunn is focused on health care, The Washington Post reports in a separate story. ""As we like to say, if it was easy, somebody else would have done it," Dunn says. Dunn started out in Democratic politics in the late "70s, and she is well liked by the media and politicians for her no-nonsense, self-effacing style" (Romano, 6/19). 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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