The News Review:
- Birth certificates to reflect NY gay-marriage move
- What are Obama’s health care plans?
- Southwest Airlines is on Baby Watch in Amarillo TX
- Dad said to owe $725000 in child support nabbed
- Mugabe’s Opponents Say Cholera Denial Shows ‘Madness’
Birth certificates to reflect NY gay-marriage move
The Associated Press
The decision which echoes similar provisions in states that allow gay marriages or civil unions is one of many changes since Gov. David Paterson ordered state agencies in May to respect out-of-state gay marriages. The state Health Department said Friday it had agreed to the change which came after a lesbian couple who are expecting a baby filed a lawsuit. The change would apply statewide except in New York City which is considering revamping its own birth certificate forms to accommodate same-sex couples. Under state law a woman’s husband is automatically deemed a parent of a child the pair conceives through artificial insemination whether or not he is the genetic father. Gay couples have complained about having to jump through legal hoops to secure equivalent parental rights. Carolyn Trzeciak and Nina Sheldon Trzeciak of Ulster County who got married in Canada in 2006 sued last month.
What are Obama’s health care plans?
Seattle Post Intelligencer
It’s hard to overstate the urgency of this work he said at a press conference announcing his pick of Daschle to spearhead health care reform. Over the past eight years premiums have nearly doubled and more families are facing more medical debt than ever before he said. Forty-five million citizens have no health insurance at all. And day after day we witness the disgrace of parents unable to take a sick child to the doctor seniors unable to afford their medicines people who wind up in emergency rooms because they have nowhere else to turn. A group representing 27000 emergency room doctors announced two days before Obama nominated Daschle that emergency rooms are already stretched beyond capacity that long waits for help are going to get longer that the state of emergency care is serious. The 2009 National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine concludes the overall grade for the nation is a C-minus with 90 percent of the states earning mediocre or near-failing grades. Millions of Americans have no alternative when they need care but to head for the nearest emergency room.
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Southwest Airlines is on Baby Watch in Amarillo TX
MarketWatch
TheGrand Prize Winner will be the mother of the first newborn baby born onDecember 12 2008 in Amarillo Texas at one of the two participatinghospitals; North West Texas Health Care System or Baptist — St. Anthony’sHealth System. Anthony’s Health System. In the event of a tie the winner will bedetermined by a random drawing officiated by representatives of SouthwestAirlines and representatives from the participating hospitals. Winners willbe selected on or about December 12 2008 and winners will be included inmedia coverage.
Dad said to owe $725000 in child support nabbed
San Antonio Express TX
Troy Lee Neel accused of owing almost $725000 in child support was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Thursday. Neel 43 had been living for years in Vanuatu a South Pacific island nation and was arrested by investigators with the U. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General after getting off a plane at Los Angeles International Airport. As of Wednesday Neel owed $724345 for his two children dating to November 1998 according to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Web site. That year Neel was ordered to pay $5000 a month in support a number based on his earnings as a professional athlete.
Mugabe’s Opponents Say Cholera Denial Shows ‘Madness’
Bloomberg
A United Nations health agency stood by its warning that thenumber of people infected may almost quadruple to more than60000 while a U. aid agency authorized new emergencyassistance for Zimbabwe. Mugabe made his comment in a nationally televised addresssaying cholera ?no longer exists? in the country and creditingthe.
