This time last year, I wrote about Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck’s (D – Salt Lake – District 24) HB 144, a bill that allowed medical language interpreters into hospitals so that those who speak little to no English can understand the medical procedures they (or those they love) will have.
Thankfully, this bill passed, and Representative Chavez-Houck [...]
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Bills to Watch: HB 144 – Medical Language Interpreter Amendments, R. Chavez-Houck
Bills to Watch: HB 196 – Tobacco Tax Revisions, P. Ray
This time last year, I was complaining about Representative Paul Ray’s (R-Clearfield-District 13) attempt to raise taxes on tobacco in the state. Well, I am back to complain again.
Now, to be fair, Ray’s bill, HB 196 – Tobacco Tax Revisions, is a more toned down version of last years bill. This does not mean, however, [...]
Matheson ensures challenge in 2010
It seems as though Representative Jim Matheson has ensured an intra-party fight at next years state Democratic convention with his promised no vote on HR 3962 – the front running heath care reform bill going before the House Saturday.
In the past, I have been understanding of Representative Matheson’s tenuous position as Representative of the Second [...]
How to Kill our Republic – Part II
In what is, by far, the most disrespectful act I have ever seen towards any President – Representative Joe Wilson’s shouting of “You Lie!” at President Obama as he addressed the nation in the halls of Congress:
This only goes further the point I made in my last post regarding the slow death being brought upon [...]
Listen to Superman
With the health debate pressing on, it is becoming more and more apparent that the talking heads on both sides simply wil not listen to each other.
So lets ask the All-American Superman what he thinks of the evils of welfare and health services:
Published in 1952, the principals still hold: desease does not know income levels, [...]
Why I hate to Swallow: The Case for Healthcare Reform
Last Thursday, as I was chatting with a friend on line, I started to notice myself feeling worse and worse. What started as a slight cough earlier in the day rapidly progressed into a headache, chills, body pain, a fever, and fatigue – in short, I got sick. The worst of the symptoms [...]
Bills to Watch: H.B. 144 Medical Language Interpreter Act – R. Chavez-Houck
I have developed this terrible sore throat and deep cough that wont seem to go away, so, naturally, I went into the doctor to get it checked out. Unfortunately every single doctor I went to spoke Creole, you know, the language they speak in Louisiana and is a mish-mash of about 20 different languages [...]
Bills to Watch: S.B. 119 – Hospital Emergency Room Task Force – C. Buttars
Well it was bound to happen, I have to discuss a bill proposed by Chris Buttars (R – West Jordan, District 10). Surprisingly, this bill isn’t, in and of itself, too bad.
S.B. 119 is a bill would create a task force to evaluate the patients that come into the emergency room of a hospital. [...]
