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Reporting at PennLive.com David Wenner writes that a “point system” proposed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health could leave an especially vulnerable population, people with disabilities, without the health care they need, when it comes to life-saving treatment for COVID-19. “Disability Rights Pennsylvania has filed a federal civil rights complaint,” the Philadelphia Inquirer added. This frightening proposal—“Interim Pennsylvania Crisis Standards of Care for Pandemic Guidelines”– is raising new questions about the prospect of medical rationing during the Coronavirus pandemic, a possibility already raised by assorted “bioethicists.” Under this disturbing system, those with higher scores because of pre-existing conditions would be...

Members of Congress must pay secret fees known as “party dues” to the Democratic and Republican parties to secure and maintain top committee chairmanships and assignments, newly uncovered internal documents reveal. The never-before-published lists are reprinted inside the new book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, written by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer. Senior congressional staffers say the committee price lists have long been rumored to exist but that few people on Capitol Hill have seen them, giving them an almost "mythical" quality. The book contains copies...

(2007-06-05) — A draft bill, making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week, borrows the idea of a point system from the proposed immigration reform bill and applies it to members of Congress to determine whether they may remain in office. The immigration point system would grade those who wished to move to the U.S. according to their education, job skills, ability to speak and read English, and family ties with U.S. citizens. The Congressional point system, however, would evaluate members of the House and Senate according to their stewardship of taxpayer dollars, commitment to enforce existing laws, actual results...