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+====The Cures Act will pass now in lame duck with fragile support and tight calendar==== |
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+McIntire 11/17 Mary Ellen McIntire covers health policy and politics for Morning Consult, Morning Consult, 11/17/2016, "Upton Says Cures, Mental Health Nearly Ready for Floor Vote", https://morningconsult.com/2016/11/17/upton-says-cures-mental-health-nearly-ready-floor-vote/ |
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+Congress will likely vote on a medical innovation bill that will include mental health legislation |
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+Democrats want to get done, but mental health is on the list." |
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+====Try or die to get it in done in the lame duck session and maintain fragile bipartisan compromise support- otherwise Trump kills the bill==== |
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+Kaplan 11/10 (Sheila, reporter for STAT News, Trump's victory is a likely roadblock to medical 'cures' package, https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/10/21st-century-cures-donald-trump/) |
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+It would be tough to cite any legislation that lawmakers have devoted more time to |
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+know, in a lame-duck session, until you get there." |
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+====Policing reform like aff is a Democratic priority==== |
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+Bohl 11/12 ~~Ryan Bohl, Ryan Bohl studied international relations and Middle Eastern history and politics at Arizona State University. He worked for five years in the United Arab Emirates, traveled to Egypt and Bahrain during the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprisings and moved to Qatar in 2013. November 12, 2016, "What Democrats Did Wrong and What We Must Do Now", http://atlanticsentinel.com/2016/11/what-democrats-did-wrong-and-what-we-must-do-now/~~ VM |
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+Democratic feminists painted the choice between Hillary and Trump as a choice between misogyny and |
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+voters, African American voters and, astoundingly, Hispanic voters as well. |
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+====CURES will pass but if Obama tries to get last minute Democratic priorities like the plan it will be de-railed==== |
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+Graham 16 (Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, 9/22, "A Health Care Legacy Moonshot for Obama," http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/09/22/a-health-care-legacy-moonshot-for-obama/~~#4c1a69f96b6a) |
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+President Obama has an opportunity to win a positive legacy in health care. Although |
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+Democratic priorities," would ensure a positive health care legacy for President Obama. |
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+====Cures Act is key to biotech innovation which solves disease==== |
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+Lo 16 Andrew W. Lo, PhD, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Tomas J. Philipson, PhD, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy and The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago, Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, Samaritan Health Initiatives Inc, Houston, JAMA Oncol. 2016;2(1), "Health, Wealth, and the 21st Century Cures Act",17-18 |
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+Americans are increasingly apprehensive about our future, so it is inspiring when Congress produces |
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+investors, and other stakeholders, and is just what the doctor ordered. |
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+====Disease causes extinction.==== |
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+Yu 09 Victoria, "Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate," Dartmouth Journal of Undergraduate Science, May 22, http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate |
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+A pandemic will kill off all humans. In the past, humans have indeed |
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+could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain (10). |