With the health care bill dragging into its second year of debate, there is talk from house leader Nancy Pelosi that a “procedural action” called Deem and Pass may be used to move the health care bill through the House. Half vote and half procedural action, the Deem and Pass action – otherwise known as the “Slaughter rule” – has raised blood pressures on both sides of the aisle, but unless you are a career politician, deem and pass can get more confusing than no fax payday loans very quickly. So here’s the basic primer on deem and pass for all the non-politicians out there. (more…)
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What Is Deem And Pass?
18/03/2010 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Global Environmental News · Health Care · Politics
Tagged: deem and pass, green collar rap, Health Care, pelosi, Politics
Calls To Tax Junk Food Gain Ground
09/03/2010 · Leave a Comment
Los Angles Times:: Karen Kaplan- With increasing vigor, public health experts and think tanks are calling for extra taxes on foods and drinks that are heavy in calories and light on nutrition. New York Gov. David Paterson proposed an 18% soda tax last year as a budget-balancing measure, only to abandon it three months later in the face of stiff public opposition. Lawmakers in at least five other states have gone on the record in support of the idea.
Junk-food taxes are often mentioned as a way to help fund a restructuring of the healthcare system, though no one in Congress has endorsed them.
The notion is catching on with the general public, however. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll last month found that 55% of respondents favored a tax on unhealthful snack foods, up from 52% in April. Support for a soda tax rose to 53% from 46%.
And 63% of those who opposed the idea said they would change their minds if the revenue were used to fund healthcare reform and combat health problems related to obesity.
A report this summer from the Urban Institute said such taxes are needed to ensure that rising obesity rates don’t cause the average American life expectancy to fall for the first time in history. (more…)
Categories: Food · Global Environmental News · Health Care
Tagged: Food, green collar rap, health, junk, tax
Anthony Weiner Fights For You and Me
25/02/2010 · Leave a Comment
Wednesday morning, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn, N.Y. was repeatedly chastised by House decorum masters for correctly and quite passionately asserting that the Republican Party is a “wholly-owned subsidiary of the health insurance industry.”
He even made a correct (and all-too-rare) public side-note that certain members of his own Democratic Party are also highly indebted to the insurance industry, and are equally responsible for the piecemeal, one-step-forwards-three-steps-backwards approach Congress has taken when it comes to health care reform.
Categories: Global Environmental News · Health Care
Tagged: anthony weiner, green collar rap, Health Care, inspiration
First Lady’s “Let’s Move Program” comes to Philadelphia
19/02/2010 · Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiC_bdiXw0
AP PHILADELPHIA—First lady Michelle Obama is set to visit Philadelphia as part of her efforts to curb childhood obesity.
The first lady will visit a North Philadelphia elementary school on Friday. Obama will discuss steps the city has taken to address the problem of so-called “food deserts.” Those are poor communities where it’s hard to find stores with healthy foods.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack will accompany the first lady on her visit.
Categories: Food · Global Environmental News · Health Care · education
Tagged: education, Food, health, inspiration, michelle obama
Go Red For Women:: Help fight heart disease
05/02/2010 · Leave a Comment
Choose to be a leader. Inspire friends, family and coworkers to wear red and speak up about heart disease — our No. # 1 killer — on National Wear Red Day!
But building awareness shouldn’t be confined to just one day. Consider organizing a Wear Red Day on any day you like. Plan one at your office, in your community, or even in your home. Just sign up and download the tools from our Wear Red Day Kit to get started. You’ll even get your very own free Go Red For Women pin to let the world know you’re fighting to raise awareness of heart disease in women.
Get started today!
Categories: Global Environmental News · Health Care
Tagged: american, association, go, green collar rap, health, heart, red, women
Los Angeles Council Curbs Pot Dispensaries
27/01/2010 · Leave a Comment
AP
The Los Angeles City Council gave final approval Tuesday to an ordinance that will close most medical-marijuana dispensaries in the city.
The ordinance, which passed 9-3, caps the number of dispensaries at 70 and provides guidelines that will push the clinics out of neighborhoods and into industrial areas. More than 130 shops that registered before a 2007 moratorium could also be allowed to stay open if they comply with the rules.
No one is sure how many pot clinics there are in Los Angeles—the best estimate is somewhere between 800 and 1,000—and the ordinance will likely meet resistance from clinic owners.
More than 600 medical-marijuana dispensaries have opened in the city over the past 10 months, despite the moratorium. The shop owners took advantage of a loophole that allowed them to open while awaiting city approval.
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Tagged: ap, green collar rap, Health Care, los angeles, medical marijuana
Food Makers Quietly Cut Back on Salt
12/01/2010 · Leave a Comment
Amid rising government pressure and consumer concern, food makers are taking a new tack in their long-running effort to sell products with less salt. Instead of offering foods labeled as low salt that few people eat, they are gradually reducing the salt from some of their most popular items—and not making a big fuss about it on the label.
By next summer, ConAgra Food Inc.’s Chef Boyardee canned pasta will have decreased its sodium by about 35% over the course of five years without a word on the package. Campbell Soup Co.’s original flavor of V8 100% vegetable juice also silently dropped its sodium by 32% over eight years.
For decades, new reduced-sodium products often had dramatic reductions of at least 25% from their original version to meet government regulations on advertising sodium declines. Those products often tasted different, and sales typically were slim.
So food makers in recent years have adopted a new strategy: decrease sodium so slowly that customers don’t notice it
Categories: Food · Health Care
Tagged: back, cut, Food, food makers, green collar rap, health, salt
H1N1, Mercury, Squalene and Formaldehyde
04/12/2009 · Leave a Comment
The FDA’s website lists mercury, squalene and formaldehyde among some of the ingredients in the swine flu H1N1 shot. Click on this link to find out about what scientists have found about mercury’s damaging effects on the brain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UT7_S… ..Research the ingredients yourself. There is a program preventing all lawsuits due to vaccine injury. Anyone who has been injured cannot sue. Although Dystonia is a less prevalant disorder, autism rates in America’s children have skyrocketed. 1 in 150 children in America are diagnosed with autism. Mercury has been proven to cause nonsocial and uncontrollable behavior in primates. Scientific studies has proven mercury poisoning causes neurological damage. Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.[1] The disorder may be caused by other factors such as infection, poisoning (e.g. lead poisoning) or reaction to drugs, particularly neuroleptics or can be hereditary. Long term testing on the possible side effects of the H1N1/ swine flu shot has not been done. The h1n1 swine flu shots are being given out freely in schools in America.
Always research the ingredients of vaccines before you make your decision.
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Tagged: dystonia, flu shot, green collar rap, H1n1, mercury, poison
Health official answers readers’ questions on H1N1
23/11/2009 · Leave a Comment
Since this is the time of the season that we are likely to get sick. The following are reader-submitted H1N1 questions with answers supplied by Dr. Alissa Ackelson, infectious diseases director of Infection Control, Genesis HealthCare System
Q: Does UV light kill the H1N1 virus?
A: Ultraviolet light illuminated on surfaces at the proper wavelength can degrade some viruses. However, in order to be effective, the surface of any object has to be readily accessible to the light. This means that the undersurface of the chair, table, doorknob, etc., would not be reached by the light, and therefore, it would not be disinfected. Additionally, ultraviolet light cannot be used on skin. Therefore, there are very few places where the use of ultraviolet light would be practical or useful. Studies have shown influenza virus can survive on surfaces and can infect a person for up to eight hours after being deposited on the surface. Frequent hand washing will help decrease the deposition of virus on the surfaces to help kill the virus picked up on your hands. It also is advisable to try to avoid frequent touching of the eyes and mouth.
Q: Is the H1N1 vaccine FDA safe to get and has anyone who has received it died or gotten sick from either the shot or the mist?
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Categories: Health Care · education
Tagged: answers, facts, green collar rap, H1n1, health, questions, swine flu
MoveOn Threatens to Push Primary Opponents to Dems Voting Against Health Plan
10/11/2009 · Leave a Comment
A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.
MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million in contributions to fund primary challenges against “any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,” according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.
Moveon.org has reportedly raised $3,578,117 in contributions to fund primary challenges against ‘any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,’
The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will “face an enormous backlash from the grassroots.”
The group also highlights a letter from Democracy for America, the nation’s largest progressive political action founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, which urges Senate Democrats to strip committee chairmanship from “any Democrat who filibusters health care.”
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