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Time for sowing: Eccl. 11:4, which I paraphrase as, “Quit trying to forecast the weather, and get to work!”

I found this article through Rixa, about midwives angling for a place in health care reform:
U.S. Maternal and newborn charges totaled $86 billion in 2006, 45 percent of which was paid for by Medicaid. The federal government is already footing a huge portion of the U.S.’ maternity-care bill, and these midwives think they can help [...]

As I mentioned in the previous post, the House health care bill has a bizarre little bit about freestanding birth centers buried in it. I was surprised to come across it when I was skimming the bill. Now I see why it’s there: Midwives are much cheaper than obstetricians. Birth centers [...]

I skimmed some of the House version, and “There are a lot of things in this bill that I don’t understand.” [--obscure reference to a Gordon Korman book]
Some of the things I did understand I found quite amusing:
P. 21, on mandated coverage for children:
Well baby and well child care and oral health, vision, and [...]

Instapundit says it well:
If representation is the basis on which laws bind the citizen, then why should citizens regard themselves as bound by laws that their representatives haven’t read, or, sometimes, even written yet?

We took TLG for his two-month checkup (actually he is almost three months old). He is over 15 lbs now–he is following the 85th percentile for weight on the WHO Growth Charts (the best growth charts to use for breastfed babies; formula-fed babies have a different growth trajectory). No wonder it is getting [...]

I have my book project pretty well outlined, but I was having a very hard time when I started turning the outline into prose. Then I figured it out: I don’t just need the points from the outline, I need the transitions from point to point to point. Now things are moving [...]

Meredith inspired me to find a pretty little vase, and go out to pick some wildflowers to put in it. There’s a nice patch of sweetpeas down the road. So nice to have fresh flowers in the apartment!
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A while back MFH received a present from above: someone threw out a bunch of [...]