We are at a crossroads in health reform efforts. Additional curbs aimed at teen smoking, adopting so called smart cards for Medicaid recipients, and the standardization insurance plan language was also on the GOP agenda. In a question and answer period, Milwaukee pediatrician, Carl Eisenberg, MD, reminded the GOP leader of the medical profession's growing belief that domestic violence should also be ranked as a public health issue. The state's judiciary can be a mysterious branch of the legislative process. Judges don't get lobbied by interest groups in the same way the legislative and executive branches do.
Communication comes in other forms.
The amicus brief. The court needs all the help it can get. Justices do not have a great amount of name recognition. To prove her point, Justice Abrahamson asked physicians who they thought the three most known judges in America are. That is pretty much the national response, she noted.