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The US healthcare establishment has launched a series of television attack adverts using tragic stories from Britain's National Health service to contest Barack Obama's plans to contain the escalating cost of treatment and make it more accessible to the poor.In the broadcasts, by Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), Britons complain about waiting times, restrictions to operations and access to life-saving drugs on the NHS. A top British cancer specialist, Dr Karol Sikora, dean of the University of Buckingham's medical school and former chief of the World Health Organisation's cancer programme, also appears, warning that a state-run system strips patients of control over their healthcare. 'They lose control over their own destiny in the health system,' he says in the advert.Supporters of reform have accused CPR of conducting a scaremongering campaign on behalf of the medical establishment similar to one that sank the last attempt at reform by the Clinton administration 16 years ago

The US Congress must pass a 'strong' climate change bill before the global warming summit in Copenhagen this December if it is to have a chance of persuading China and India to sign up to a new treaty, says Bill Clinton

James Carville the man who masterminded Bill Clinton's first election victory has predicted the democratic Party will dominate american politics for the next four decades due to 'seismic shifts' in demographic voting patterns.

STATE department - The United States and Britain have made a joint call for an immediate end to hostilities in Sri Lanka and the evacuation of civilians from the last remaining stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels. The conflict was a major issue in a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and British Foreign [...]

The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War (Kindle Edition)By Bill Gertz Buy new: $14.82 customer rating: First tagged 'politics' by Thomas Customer tags: politics, bill gertz, clinton