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POPSHealthy Monday: Canada Joins Meatless Monday Movement Could this happen here in the biggest meat consuming countries in the world? Don’t we care enough about our health to cut meat out of our diets at least one day a week? Most of our health costs stem from eating red meat. Most of our food costs stem from feeding cattle. Doesn’t it make economic as well as heatlh sense to cut down on our red meat consumption? Red meat again linked to cancer risk: http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Red-meat-again-linked-to-cancer-risk-Study How to reduce your red meat consumption: http://www.causecast.org/news_items/8699-how-to-reduce-your-red-meat-consumption The growing case against red meat: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1887266,00.html
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POPSGuaranteed Health Care in Iraq – But Not for U.S. According to the American political right-wing, government-guaranteed health care is good for Iraqis, but not good for us. They decry even a limited public option for us, but gleefully imposed upon the Iraqis what they label here as "socialism," with much Democratic Party member support. We have (thus far) sacrificed more blood to wrest Iraq from tyranny than we lost on 9/11. And, the total money spent in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is more than the funding required to guarantee minimally decent health care for U.S. citizens. The most senior members of the Republican establishment - and some Democrats like Max Baucus (D-MT) - have gladly spent more taxpayer funds to ensure health care as a Constitutional right in Iraq than they are willing to spend to give us any level of guaranteed coverage. Can someone please explain why our government favors the health care of Iraqis over its own citizens?
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POPS40 million? 15 million? Which is it? Smith concludes: The number of Americans who are poor, sick, and uninsured for a lengthy period of time is a relatively small number, about 4 million individuals, adding that the 46 million figure also includes about 12 million illegal aliens. Now this leads me to another question. If 4 million is the more accurate number, then the cost of $1.2 TRILLION seems even more exorbitant! We can’t find a way to help 4 million Americans so they can get health care without spending $1.2 TRILLION! There is absolutely no way to justify this kind of spending for just 4 million people, especially in light of the many alternative plans out there like the Republican plan and the plan by Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey.
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POPSFive Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
I am tired of wading through the inflammatory claims designed to scare people into thinking the government is out to rob us blind and turn us all into socialist puppets. These manipulative tactics are not conducive to debate and are designed to hijack the legislative process to fulfill the needs of selfish interests. If any politician cannot debate this issue with truth and honesty and with respect for their opponents and the democratic process then they need to be identified and removed from their positions. Those participating in this despicable charade dare not claim themselves to be American for it besmirches the spirit of our founding fathers and denigrates their intended ideals for this nation. Lies are the tools of desperation and should be brought out into the open along with their underhanded perpetrators. There are valid fears of socialism when the government begins taking over the means of production but valid meaningful debate needs to take place to prevent it.
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POPSFast Food Industry’s 7 Most Heinous Concoctions The American fast food industry, in its attempt to survive at the expense of our health, has come up with some creative gastronomical mashups that not only play on our weakness for artery-hardening, sugar-saturated, taste-bud tantalizers but also keeps the U.S. health care system fat with wasted spending. The best way to ‘reform’ this country’s health care system is to stop feeding it with our extremely unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles that leads to heart disease, cancer, stroke, COPD, diabetes, etc. We like the convenience of fast food, but we can force fast food chains to come up with healthier fare by educating ourselves on what a healthy diet actually consists of, and what it doesn’t. Trust me, a healthy diet is not offered at fast food restaurants. Education and a desire to live a longer healthier life is key.
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POPSEmployment and Insurance: What’s the Connection? The problem with insurance being tied to employment is that small businesses are not offered price breaks due to economies of scale. Small businesses are paying a proportionately higher cost than larger companies. And because of the growing number of uninsured Americans, cost shifting inevitably occurs. Additional health care costs are passed on to whoever is paying the bills – be that businesses or taxpayers. We taxpayers, businesses and individuals are paying to care for the uninsured, and we’re doing it in the most expensive way possible. As long as people continue to fall through the gaps, those who cannot afford healthcare through their employer or are unemployed, there will be a greater need for public policy to define a solution. Public policy should not be the only answer but instead should work with private industry to find a solution to cover all Americans.
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POPSPelosi and Hoyer’s Message is Health Care Reform Has Taken Up Too Much Time to Not Pass Now ‘We have come too far to change the package now’. This is the message Pelosi wants to pass on to the American people. This is how Pelosi would run this country? What the American people want does not matter, once the government puts so much time and effort into a bill it needs to just pass because they don’t want to feel they have wasted their time?!? Do we need any more reason why this woman has no business in the position she holds? No wonder 51% of the American people fear their government more than they fear their health insurance companies.
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POPSProtesters demand justice for man injured at health care town hall Tea Party member starts brawl in town hall during health debate, gets injured and is now asking for donations for health bills because he has no insurance. Maybe this is how they think all Americans should pay their health care bills. Instead of putting an 'unfair' hardship on the poor health care providers, thereby cutting into their profits, we should instead ask for donations.
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POPSHealth Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists In the Senate, both parties have outsourced health care legislation to six Finance Committee lawmakers. The group recently announced it is rejecting essential provisions like a public insurance option that surveys show the public supports. Meanwhile, seven mostly Southern House Democrats have been threatening to use their Commerce Committee votes to gut any health care bill, regardless of what the American majority wants. This, however, isn’t about the majority. These lawmakers together represent only 13 million people, meaning those speaking for just 4% of America are maneuvering to impose their health care will on the other 96% of us. Census figures show these politicians represent exactly the kinds of districts whose constituents would most benefit from universal health care. So why are they leading the fight to stop—rather than pass—reform? Because when tyranny mixes with legalized bribery, constituents’ economic concerns stop mattering.
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POPSAmericans to rally in DC for a Single Payer Healthcare System It has been estimated that 80% of American citizens want single payer healthcare, aka universal healthcare. Obama and those politicians with deep ties to pharmaceutical companies and for-profit health insurance interests are against it. Is the United States a democracy, for the people and by the people? Or is it a money making venture to benefit only the wealthy class? Are we powerless to have our representatives vote the way we want them to? What is best for this country, maintaining a profit for big Pharma and for-profit health insurance or getting affordable healthcare to American citizens? Be sure to check out the video at the end of the clip for a great rundown on how single payer healthcare will benefit all of us.
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POPSSen. Landrieu To Get Nelson Treatment Over Health Care Reform Another case of money overriding public interest. Ethics in Congress, not in our lifetime. It's literally unbelievable that when you have polling that shows that the public supports a public option for health care by enormous margins (83-14%) Congress wastes time debating it.
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POPSAmericans Testimonials Backing Canada's Health Care System Nationalized health care system of Canada is not even being considered here in the U.S. Why? Because congress and insurance companies are too deeply embedded in each others pockets. Listen to the arguments from doctors, big Pharma and private insurance. They care more about their financial interests than getting people to participate in the health care system, many for the first times in their lives. What we need is a hybrid system. Every American should at least have access to annual check ups (this can be subsidized by government based on your ability to pay). After that, we should be able to participate in which ever plan is available whether it is government run or private. This would create competition and hopefully help keep cost of private insurance down. I may be naïve in thinking this could work but we should not be forced to participate if we don’t want to.
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POPSDoctor critical of Baucus promotes single-payer plan The fight to get Congress to consider a single-payer health provider system is as much an indictment against the press as it is against Congress. Congress refuses to look at what many doctors say is better alternative because the private health insurance system would require too many reforms to make it more accessible to the very people they are supposed to be helping. Adopting single-payer system would cut too deeply into their piece of the pie, or possibly eliminate it. For the press to take its lead from the president and congress negates freedom of the press. Sure they have Freedom of the Press to print whatever they want, unfortunately they print only what they want. They don’t report everything the public wants to know about. This underscores my main complaint against the press.
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POPSHidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/Me This is particularly troubling because of the rapid rise of antibiotic-resistant microbes, an inevitable consequence of the widespread use of antibiotics as feed additives in industrial livestock operations. than 350 professional organizations have called for greater regulation of antibiotic use in livestock. The Infectious Diseases Society of America has declared antibiotic-resistant infections an epidemic in the United States. The FAO recently warned that global industrial meat production poses a serious threat to human health. This article contains some very interesting and scary facts we all need to know. I really am not of an alarmist nature, but I urge everyone to read this.
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