God’s Warriors Not So Proficient In HTML, Photoshop

The above is the official website of the Million March 4 God, an event apparently so important the organizers decided not to get a real website or spellcheck anything. The event will be officially introduced tomorrow at Independence Mall. (The march will take place in DC, though.)

The MM4G is organized by Joel Cody, who was also part of the Guardian Angels, Live Aid and Hands Across America, all other equally annoying events and groups. The Daily News summarizes the event as encouraging a law to mandate insurance for handguns, pushing to require annual mental health checks for guns — these previous two planks have about as much chance of happening as I have being elected Pope — and asking churches to provide in-house medical care.

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Penn Students Apparently Treated By Inept Loudmouths

As you may have seen me write on the site, or inferred from my constant bashing of the University, I am a not-so-proud Penn alum. (I’m sure they ain’t too fond of me, either.) But during my time at Penn, I think I only went to student health twice, which was pretty impressive since I had mono for half my senior year.

Okay, anecdotal lead over. The student health building is likely to move away from the hospital to 36th and Market, along with increased capacity and a better entranceway. (It takes a new student approximately 45 minutes to find the stupid side entrance to student health.)

Oh, and also, the HIPAA violations are expected to happen a little less frequently.

The Market Street building would feature a design more conducive to a medical setting, featuring “much less confusing” offices, said SHS Director Evelyn Wiener. She added that the proposed location would boost the number of appointments SHS can handle and “be much more respectful of privacy and confidentiality,” a concern that many students have voiced.

Ha ha! We’re sorry we’re discussing your super mutant form of the clap loudly with each other. But it’s just so damn funny!

Change of address likely for SHS [Daily Pennsylvanian]
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Some Frank Reporting From KYW 1060

As you may have heard, Ed Rendell wants to buy prescription drugs for the entire state. Or something like that. He wants to expand healthcare for the poor and needy. Or something like that. But before he does any of that, he wants to make drugs cheaper. Not for you or me, though. (We’re not that lucky.)

Rendell wants to streamline the current programs and save money on how much the state pays for prescription drugs. You might wonder why this hasn’t been done before. And KYW 1060’s David Madden explains why:

This plan has been proposed before but fell victim to budget negotiations (translation: lobbyist pressure). If the plan is implemented as proposed in October, it could save the state about $94 million a year.

Ohh, those wacky lobbyists. What won’t they think of next?

Pa. Seeks ‘Preferred Customer’ Rates from Drug Companies [KYW 1060]

‘Bulletin’: Pennsylvanians Don’t Even Want Health Care

When Ed Rendell announced his initiative to offer healthcare for everyone in Pennsylvania, I was wondering how The Bulletin was going to spin it. Obviously, the paper would be against it, because it might make taxes higher or help poor sick kids or whatever. But how would they spin it so that they, the conservatives, weren’t being callous?

Why, by calling him a socialist and saying that, in reality, Pennsylvanians don’t want health care!

In is a fact, however, that hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania are without health insurance, and some percentage of that group is without through their own choices or volition.

Dissecting Rendell’s ‘Eddycare’ [The Bulletin]