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  • But the president scored on at least one point: most say that Obama's plan would not lead to senior citizens or seriously-ill patients dying because a government panel would prevent them from getting medical treatment.

    CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans 2009

  • This led to my going to Brackenfield General Hospital, where I discovered, as I expected, that the seriously-ill casualty was the man I had been told to find.

    Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

  • And for seriously-ill people, this just isn't good enough.

    CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2009 2009

  • Hidden behind the intense and almost daily focus on the rare negative effects of a few approved medications, is the far greater loss of life caused by an inefficient, outdated, and out of touch regulatory system that puts the real-world risks faced by seriously-ill patients a distant second to the “data” they endlessly accumulate in hopes of defending themselves against those backseat drivers.

    Accelerating Progress Against Cancer: Randy Pausch and Anna Tomalis, R.I.P. 2009

  • The Working Families Time to Care Act would expand New York's existing Temporary Disability Insurance program to cover family needs like leave for either parent to care for a newborn child or a newly adopted child or a seriously-ill family member.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Perez 2007

  • The Working Families Time to Care Act would expand New York's existing Temporary Disability Insurance program to cover family needs like leave for either parent to care for a newborn child or a newly adopted child or a seriously-ill family member.

    Family Leave Roundtable on Long Island - Today! Steve Perez 2007

  • Monday or face being fired while soldiers staffed hospitals and private ambulance services moved seriously-ill babies to private facilities.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The Working Families Time to Care Act would expand New York's existing Temporary Disability Insurance program to cover family needs like leave for either parent to care for a newborn child or a newly adopted child or a seriously-ill family member.

    Family Leave Roundtable in Schenectady - Today! Steve Perez 2007

  • The Working Families Time to Care Act would expand New York's existing Temporary Disability Insurance program to cover family needs like leave for either parent to care for a newborn child or a newly adopted child or a seriously-ill family member.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Perez 2007

  • To stop him, security police were forced to kidnap the seriously-ill Congress of SA Students member, drug him and then execute him with a shot to the head before burning his body.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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