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Any one work(ed) for united health group? I just got hired at the insurance company (united health group) for billing/enrollment, and i will be starting in the next few days. it sounds like a decent job and good benefits. I was just curious if anyone reading this has ever worked for them or knows anything more about this company i should know?

Does united health group give an employment urine test? I have a job interview tomorrow and would like to know if united health group gives a urine test for employment.

where can i find the capital budget ofr united health group?

United Health Group? I have interview with united health group its a Insurance sales job. Do you know anyone who works for them and what question are asked in interview

Individual health insurance vs. group health insurance? I recently switch jobs and the company I will be working for offers a group health insurance plan that I feel is too expensive ($1035 per month for a family). I was thinking about purchasing a similar health plan from "United Healthcare" or "Aetna". I guess my question is, I originally thought group plans were suppose to be less expensive than purchasing a plan on your own. When I received a quote from "United Healthcare" it was between $350-450 per month. Any additional information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Who is disgusted by the united states health care system.? The united states is the richest country in the world I don’t know why they cant give everyone universal healthcare for Pete sakes Cuba has universal healthcare and they are a poverish country. I think its the lobby groups from the insurance companies that are keeping us from having universal healthcare. there shouldn’t be a price on a persons health shame on the government. all these people care about is profits and more profits I think its sick. all the candidates are all talk and no action they don’t have a plan to fix healthcare.

Should white women be considered a minority group in the United States? White women complain that they should be considered to a be a minority group because they have less economic and political power as men but dont they have more power than men in some areas. For one white women live longer than any group of people in the us and the majority of health care funding goes towards their issue. Secondly, all women are still not required by federal law to sign up for selective service when they turn 18 like men. Three, white women were more receive a lighter sentence for the same crime or be sentenced to death for capital crimes such as 1st degree murder because of their race and gender. Four, women tend to be favored more in child custody and divorce law. So if all my points are proven to be true why are white women considered to be a minority group like blacks, hispanics, and indians if they receive more special privileges like these groups?

What St. Louis companies allow you to work from home??? I have heard that United Health Group does after 6 months and even Enterprise. Any others?

Why do people come to the United States for health care? When they have the rest of the world to choose from? Visitors seeking U.S. health care fret over work By Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press GIBSONIA, Pa. — A bright girl with dark curls crowning her face, Matisse Reid has been sick all her life with a rare disorder that prevents her body from absorbing nutrients. She nibbles on beet salad for lunch, but Matisse's real meal — fats, nutrients and fluids — come from an intravenous line running from her backpack to a vein in her stomach. After six years of IV feedings, the pressure on her liver is becoming life-threatening and she is running out of usable veins. Often, she is doubled over with chronic pain and vomiting. After months of fundraising in their native New Zealand, Wayne and Jodee Reid, Matisse's parents, packed up their family of six and traveled 8,500 miles to Pittsburgh for a multi-organ transplant that could save their 6-year-old daughter's life. As they wait for a stomach, bowel and pancreas to become available, the Reids must draw from $260,000 they raised, money they are counting on to carry them through the years it will take Matisse to recover from her operation. Like other foreign families in the United States to obtain lifesaving medical care, the Reids are here on tourist visas, which do not allow them to find jobs. Families say that makes it more difficult to sustain themselves on the long journey of saving their children's lives, adding to their anxiety. "At the end of the day, we're just parents trying to do what's best for their children," Jodee said as Matisse, who is often in pain, played upstairs in the home they rent in this Pittsburgh suburb. The Reids arrived in Pittsburgh in January, expecting to spend about three years here for Matisse's operation and long recovery. But with the wait for the transplants expecting to take eight months to a year, they now realize they may have to stay closer to five years — and it's unclear whether the money they raised will be enough. If they spend only $60,000 annually — a tight stretch for a family of six — the money will run out in about four years. Often, coming to the United States is the only choice for families seeking complicated transplants, leaving people who have always worked dependent on charitable people and organizations. On rare occasions, they are forced to return home. "There's no provision whatsoever, even for humanitarian grounds, to allow these people to work," said Bruce Larson, director of the international personnel office at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., which treated about 8,000 foreigners last year at its hospitals, including several hundred children. The federal government does not track how many of the millions of people who come here on tourist visas are seeking medical care. Working with the Mayo Clinic and St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., said he plans to sponsor a bill that would grant work permits to parents of children who need more than six months of medical care. But it could get hung up in the bitter debate over immigration reform. Cohen wants to attach his bill to the broader reform legislation, which collapsed in the Senate in June. "I should hope it would have support. It's logical, it's humane," Cohen said. "I can't imagine anyone thinking this would be a security risk. It's just a humanitarian issue." Matisse was born on Christmas Day 2000 with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, a disorder in which the small or large intestines lose their ability to contract and push food, stool and air through the gastrointestinal tract. It affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States and is most common in children and the elderly. The cause is unknown but symptoms include severe bowel problems — from vomiting and diarrhea to chronic pain. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where Matisse is awaiting the triple transplant, treats fewer than 30 international patients a year. Years of lobbying convinced the New Zealand government to cover the $1.4 million cost of Matisse's planned transplants. Independently, the Reids also raised nearly $260,000 in donations to sustain Matisse and her three siblings — Rachel, 15, Kalani, 9 and Fraanz, 2 — during the years it will take Matisse to recover. "It's only the highly motivated or those with some resources to raise money to come to another country, whether it's England, France or the United States, can come," said Dr. George Mazariegos, director of pediatric transplants at Children's Hospital. "Right now the care is very disproportional to the need." Intestinal transplants have been done only about 1,300 times since 1989, nearly all in the United States, Mazariegos said. A study by a group of doctors in Columbus, Ohio, found that of eight children who underwent such transplants, two died a short while later. Of those who survived, the study found their lifestyles were significantly improved and at least three had normal bowel movements within 18 months. For the hundreds of foreigners who come to America every year seeking medical care, the issue of finances is ever present. Sometimes, medical care can take years, putting families in a financial bind. According to immigration attorneys, there are two alternatives for foreigners to receive work permits, and both are rarely effective. A family can open a small business. However, to ensure the business is viable they must invest at least $100,000. In this case, the owners of the business would have their visa status changed and they would get working papers. Getting hired by a research institute, such as a university, can also provide a work visa. However, there are just a few thousand such visas issued annually and they normally expire within days of the lottery. Non-profit research institutes, such as hospitals, do have an unlimited number of work visas that they can issue annually and a foreigner hired by such an institution could get working papers as well. Wayne Reid is a carpenter by trade and desperately wants to work — to keep busy and earn money for the family. He said he was offered under-the-table odd jobs but he refuses to do anything that might jeopardize his daughter's treatment.

Which Company would you rather work for? United Health Care Group? OR Ceridian's Tax Service?

Insurance question? If there difference between United Health Group and United Insurance Group company or they both the same

summerize thisinto 5 sentances? The first company chief executive to be convicted for tampering with stock-option awards was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison, one of a handful of corporate officials to face punishment for the once-widespread practice. The courtroom appearance by former Brocade Communications Systems chief Gregory L. Reyes, who was convicted last year on 10 securities fraud charges, refocused public attention on a scandal that touched off hundreds of government investigations and hastened the dismissal of top corporate executives. Securities regulators and federal prosecutors vowed to get to the bottom of stock-option abuses two years ago after media reports exposed their prevalence. Dozens of companies fired executives and ordered costly internal investigations. Lately, however, the backdating issue has been playing out with a whimper rather than a bang, with many cases quietly resolved. "When the government sends out 100-something subpoenas, it sets off a lot of activity, and it results in enormous costs to companies in terms of accountants and lawyers and restatements," said former prosecutor Matthew J. Jacobs, who has advised companies on how to address backdating accusations. "The thing we don't know is whether there are other shoes that are going to drop." Reyes, 45, took a remarkable fall from grace from his perch in Silicon Valley, where he led a prominent data-switch company, had deep family ties and owned part of the San Jose Sharks hockey team. Prosecutors singled out Reyes because of his substantial authority in doling out stock options, which rewarded favored employees with all-but- guaranteed large payouts. He must pay $15 million in fines but will remain free pending an appeal of the conviction, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said. "I'm sorry," Reyes told the audience in the San Francisco courtroom, according to the Associated Press. "There were many things I would have done differently." The Securities and Exchange Commission, which at one point had 160 open stock-option investigations, resolved many of them without bringing charges. Now only half that number of cases remain active, an agency spokesman said. The SEC has settled backdating accusations with six companies and has charged 29 executives with wrongdoing. In the largest such case, former United Health Group chief executive William W. McGuire in December agreed to surrender $468 million in cash and options to settle the SEC's backdating charges. "Whenever a corporate officer misleads investors about a company's performance by secretly backdating stock options, the integrity of our markets is undermined," SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said at the time. Options give company employees and officers the chance to buy company stock at a set price within a specific time frame. Backdating the awards can make them more valuable. The practice is not necessarily illegal but it can violate securities and tax laws if it is not disclosed properly to investors. Meanwhile, the Justice Department's marquee backdating prosecutions are simmering on the back burner. Comverse Technology founder Jacob "Kobi" Alexander fled to Namibia in 2006 and authorities are trying to extradite him to face trial in Brooklyn. The former general counsel at McAfee and the former president of Brooks Automation have been indicted and are fighting charges

Should Insurance Companies Be Outsourcing Your Health Care? In the U.S., health care costs are getting so high that some businesses and insurance companies are starting to eye the potential savings of outsourcing health care. "It's just one of the many ways in which our world is flattening," said Arnold Milstein, chief physician at New York-based Mercer Health & Benefits who's researching the feasibility of outsourcing medical care for three Fortune 500 corporations. "Many companies see it as a natural extension of the competition they've faced in other aspects of their business." Blue Shield of California and Health Net of California is now offering lower-cost policies allowing members to seek medical care in Mexico. Florida-based United Group Programs, which sells self-insurance policies to small businesses, offers a plan that sends patients to Bumrungrad International hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. It says the plan will save employers more than 50 percent on major medical costs and slash employees' out-of-pocket expenses to zero. AP http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/05/business/AS_FEA_MED_India_Outsourcing_Health.php

"Universal Health Care"--a humongous lie? People are desperate to believe that a government-run health care system will be a good thing. No matter what you assume, or are led to believe,to be true, the facts prove that the government does not run the health care programs is has now. Both Medicare and Medicaid are actually run by the same private insurance carriers who routinely deny claims for both everyone. Here is the official list of "Intermediaries": SECTION II PART A INTERMEDIARIES AND PART B CARRIERS ......................................................................... 15 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION......................................................................................15 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA......................................................................................15 ARKANSAS BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD...........................................................................................18 FIRST COAST SERVICE OPTIONS, INC. .......................................................................................................20 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF GEORGIA, INC. ..............................................................................21 ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES INC ....................................................................................................22 ADMINASTAR FEDERAL INC........................................................................................................................23 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS, INC. ................................................................................23 ANTHEM HEALTHPLANS OF MAINE INC...................................................................................................24 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MISSISSIPPI ....................................................................................25 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NEBRASKA.....................................................................................26 ANTHEM HEALTH PLANS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, INC.............................................................................26 EMPIRE HEALTHCHOICE ASSURANCE, INC. ............................................................................................27 HEALTHNOW NEW YORK INC.. ...................................................................................................................28 NORIDIAN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY...........................................................................................29 GROUP HEALTH SERVICE OF OKLAHOMA, INC. .....................................................................................30 HIGHMARK INC. .............................................................................................................................................31 TRIPLE-S, INC. .................................................................................................................................................32 PALMETTO GBA, LLC....................................................................................................................................33 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF TENNESSEE....................................................................................35 TRAILBLAZER HEALTH ENTERPRISES, LLC.............................................................................................35 UNITED GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC ....................................................................................................37 INTERMEDIARY AND CARRIER DIRECTORY http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContractingGeneralInformation/Downloads/02_ICdirectory.pdf The British system is, as one would expect, reflective of British thinking: there is a class system in Britain and this could not be more evident than in the way they finance health care. They do it through a payroll deduction scheme. This means, of course, that only the workers pay for the entire cost of the health care system while the wealthy, who usually do not earn wages, and whose investment income is not subject to payroll deduction, escape.

What product is in the most demand in the United States of America today? What product or group of products is/are the best seller in todays market place. Weather it be food, health products, drinks, clothes, computers, transportation, communication, or anything and etc...

Which Job should i take? Im currently working at Ceridian's Tax Services and i just got a promotion to a higher rank position (Mail Room Represenative), which i will be making about max is $13/hr with comprehensive benefits. Also on my own time i've been going to school for Pharmacy Technician for 3 years, and just got my license recently. I applied for a job at United Health Care Group for Pharmacy Technician, and they are going to hire me with $15-$16/hr with comprehensive benefits. Right now i im in need of money financially. Which one will be better for my future? which will look good on my resume. Im not sure about the reputation between the 2 places, but i think they both are good.

For those with United Heathcare, HELP where do you find the policy number? I need to fill out a financial aid application for my child and it asks for my health insurance policy number. My card doesn't list a policy number. It only has: Subscriber number Group number and Card number WHICH one is the policy number?! Thanks in advance!

Why are Democrats mad at Bush for giving free health care to those that need it? Late last week, the Bush administration announced plans to curb the practice of states putting already-insured and non-needy children on the rolls of a federal program that subsidizes health insurance for uninsured and needy children. Democrats were outraged. “This is a political attempt by the administration to try to intimidate states,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D., Ill.) told the Washington Post. The Democratic Congress had just passed two versions of a bill to let states expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to children in families making three and even four times the federal poverty level ($60,000 to $80,000 for a family of four). With his new rules and his veto threats against their bill, President Bush is spoiling their plans. But aside from the feigned outrage always involved in politics, why are Democrats be so unhappy about dedicating federal money only to those who need it, and not to those who don’t? In most parts of the United States, a family of four making $60,000 is doing pretty well and doesn’t need a handout or even a “hand up.” The answer is that Democrats in Congress do not just want the government to cover the needy and uninsured. They want to legislate incrementally until they have established universal or near-universal taxpayer-funded coverage, beginning with children. This is not the paranoid idea of a few conservatives, but a plan outlined in an April 9, 1993, memo from Hillary Clinton’s health-care task force. The memo, which became public later only thanks to lawsuits forcing sunshine rules on the task force, was previously mentioned in a Washington Times report ten years ago, when the SCHIP program was first created. The memo describes three possible methods of implementing universal health coverage. The first two involve a state-by-state phase-in of plans that involve state and federal government funds and employer mandates for the working uninsured. But “Option 3” would have implemented a similar program by population group, beginning with children and expanding from there. The proposed name for the program, Kids First, had deeper meaning than one might suspect: it was the front end of a plan that would later cover everyone. The memo states that: Part I Kids First is really a precursor to the new system. It is intended to be freestanding and administratively simple, with States given broad flexibility in its design so that it can be easily folded into existing/future program structures. Part II of this proposal involves the development of purchasing cooperative (PC) structures and the actual phase-in of all other population groups within the PC system. The memo also laid out a timeline: By January 1995, all employers were to be mandated to purchase health insurance for their employees’ children. By July 1997, all employers would have been required to purchase health plans for the employees themselves. By January 1998, self-insured adults would have been required to buy policies under the same “purchasing cooperative” structure. The state would then roll into the system children on other government programs besides Kids First, and then perhaps even “early retirees with benefits.” This grand plan never came to pass because HillaryCare failed. But although Kids First is different in many ways from SCHIP (which has no employer mandates, for example), the political strategy is the same. It fits perfectly with Democrats’ current legislative attempt to expand the program to wealthier families. It does not fit at all with the Bush administration’s new rules, announced last week. These would, under most circumstances, bar SCHIP for children in families making more than 250 percent of the poverty level (according to 2007 poverty guidelines form the Department of Health and Human Services, that’s a family of four earning $51,625 a year). The administration’s new rules seem pretty reasonable — even tame. They would make states insure 95 percent of poor children (below 200 percent of the poverty level) before diverting their federal grants on the middle class (above 250 percent). Critics note that no state has put 95 percent of its uninsured children on SCHIP, but this would suggest that states have failed their mission, not that they should start giving handouts to people who can easily insure their own children. In order to prevent non-needy families and their employers from dropping private coverage and putting children on the dole, the administration will also require non-needy children to be uninsured for a year before they are eligible for SCHIP. If the income threshold for SCHIP already sounds high for a family of four, it is more so for larger families. My father provided a pretty good life to our family of seven on his comfortable but modest university professor’s salary. He says he never even thought of going on welfare — but maybe he should have. Even Bush’s new “draconian” SCHIP rules would have allowed all five of us kids to go on government health insurance, as long as Dad was making $77,725 or less. The Democrats’ plan would have covered us all on a $93,000 salary, or even (had we lived in New York State) $124,000! (I have trouble imagining my own mother as a six-figure welfare queen.) The Democrats’ SCHIP outrage, while perhaps politically savvy (who could oppose insuring children?), has nothing to do with the real problem of those poor and uninsured. There are several ways the government could make insurance affordable — President Bush has proposed a generous health-insurance tax deduction, and others have proposed a repeal or circumvention of burdensome state0insurance mandates that massively inflate prices. But the Democrats’ expansion of SCHIP into the middle class is not a solution to any existing problem. It is welfare for those already faring well, and with an eye toward expanding government in the future.

Is hate speech legal in the United States? So many individuals and groups justify their hateful words by the first amendment. But is there any kind of law that prohibits hateful speech? Also, are there any laws that prohibit threats to a person's health or life?

American health care system outperforms the socialized systems in Europe? "A new study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden shows that the American health care system outperforms the socialized systems in Europe in getting new medicines to cancer patients. The difference saves lives, and the existing Western European systems force people to die at higher rates from the same cancers, although the Telegraph buries that lede. The researchers studied Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and the US, as well as 19 European countries, with a total population of 984 million, and looked at access to 67 newer cancer drugs. They found that the proportions of female cancer patients surviving five years beyond diagnosis in France, Spain, Germany, Italy were 71 per cent, 64 per cent, 63 per cent and 63 per cent respectively. In the UK it was 53 per cent. Among men the proportions still alive at five years in the same countries were 53 per cent, 50 per cent, 53 per cent and 48 per cent. Again in the UK it was lower at 43 per cent." The survivability rates beyond five years of diagnosis in the United States are far in excess of all of these socialized countries with socialized medicine. Here's the point, though, and it takes a while in the story for it to show up. Here's the reference in the story about the American system. "Dr. Nils Wilking, a clinical oncologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said: "Our report highlights that in many countries new drugs are not reaching patients quickly enough and that this is having an adverse impact on patient survival. Where you live can determine whether you receive the best available treatment or not. To some extent this is determined by economic factors, but much of the variation between countries remains unexplained. In the US we have found that the survival of cancer patients is significantly related to the introduction of new oncology drugs.' ... The proportion of colorectal cancer patients with access to the drug Avastin was 10 times higher in the US than it was in Europe, with the UK having a lower uptake than the European average." United States health care saves more lives than socialized medicine, and yet socialized medicine is one of the building blocks of the Democrat Party's agenda, particularly Mrs. Bill Clinton's agenda. Now, it's the same thing with tax revenue that we were just discussing. If current tax rates are producing record amounts of revenue and rapid economic growth, why would you change it? If the US health care system is the best in the world, despite its flaws -- if it's the best in the world and people who come down with deadly diseases survive much longer here because of access to drugs much sooner and much cheaper than people who live in socialized countries have access to it -- why in the world would you change it? Well, there's a simple answer. Socialists want control. They want as much control over us as they can get. It's about power. It's about enlarging the State. It's about making you dependent, and that eliminates your threatening their power. The less wealth you have, the less mobility, freedom, the less of a threat you are to their power. This is liberalism through and through. Now you might ask: "How come so many average Americans are liberals and they're willing to give up this power?" Because they're dupes. I'm talking about the leaders. I'm talking about the people in Washington. I'm talking about the think tank leaders. I'm talking about the special interest groups. Liberals in this country, these doofuses that write the hateful comments on Internet blogs, they're just unhappy people in general. They want everybody else to be miserable with them anyway. They're probably jealous of people who do better than them and they want those people taken down a peg or two. They want everything the same. Everything the same. No inequality. No inequity. They want outcome of results. They're sickos and they're miserable and they're unhappy and they want everybody to join them in that. But you talk about ideology? Liberals believe this and conservatives believe this. It's really very, very simple. Conservatives believe in individual liberty and freedom and ambition so that people can become the best they can be, because it is believed that the greatest society and the greatest culture, the greatest country, is achieved by the greatest number of people pursuing excellence. Liberals don't have that faith in people and they don't want that kind of freedom. They want to be in charge. They want to have the power and they want people dependent because that is what enriches them in every which way you can imagine.

American health care system outperforms ? "A new study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden shows that the American health care system outperforms the socialized systems in Europe in getting new medicines to cancer patients. The difference saves lives, and the existing Western European systems force people to die at higher rates from the same cancers, although the Telegraph buries that lede. The researchers studied Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and the US, as well as 19 European countries, with a total population of 984 million, and looked at access to 67 newer cancer drugs. They found that the proportions of female cancer patients surviving five years beyond diagnosis in France, Spain, Germany, Italy were 71 per cent, 64 per cent, 63 per cent and 63 per cent respectively. In the UK it was 53 per cent. Among men the proportions still alive at five years in the same countries were 53 per cent, 50 per cent, 53 per cent and 48 per cent. Again in the UK it was lower at 43 per cent." The survivability rates beyond five years of diagnosis in the United States are far in excess of all of these socialized countries with socialized medicine. Here's the point, though, and it takes a while in the story for it to show up. Here's the reference in the story about the American system. "Dr. Nils Wilking, a clinical oncologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said: "Our report highlights that in many countries new drugs are not reaching patients quickly enough and that this is having an adverse impact on patient survival. Where you live can determine whether you receive the best available treatment or not. To some extent this is determined by economic factors, but much of the variation between countries remains unexplained. In the US we have found that the survival of cancer patients is significantly related to the introduction of new oncology drugs.' ... The proportion of colorectal cancer patients with access to the drug Avastin was 10 times higher in the US than it was in Europe, with the UK having a lower uptake than the European average." United States health care saves more lives than socialized medicine, and yet socialized medicine is one of the building blocks of the Democrat Party's agenda, particularly Mrs. Bill Clinton's agenda. Now, it's the same thing with tax revenue that we were just discussing. If current tax rates are producing record amounts of revenue and rapid economic growth, why would you change it? If the US health care system is the best in the world, despite its flaws -- if it's the best in the world and people who come down with deadly diseases survive much longer here because of access to drugs much sooner and much cheaper than people who live in socialized countries have access to it -- why in the world would you change it? Well, there's a simple answer. Socialists want control. They want as much control over us as they can get. It's about power. It's about enlarging the State. It's about making you dependent, and that eliminates your threatening their power. The less wealth you have, the less mobility, freedom, the less of a threat you are to their power. This is liberalism through and through. Now you might ask: "How come so many average Americans are liberals and they're willing to give up this power?" Because they're dupes. I'm talking about the leaders. I'm talking about the people in Washington. I'm talking about the think tank leaders. I'm talking about the special interest groups. Liberals in this country, these doofuses that write the hateful comments on Internet blogs, they're just unhappy people in general. They want everybody else to be miserable with them anyway. They're probably jealous of people who do better than them and they want those people taken down a peg or two. They want everything the same. Everything the same. No inequality. No inequity. They want outcome of results. They're sickos and they're miserable and they're unhappy and they want everybody to join them in that. But you talk about ideology? Liberals believe this and conservatives believe this. It's really very, very simple. Conservatives believe in individual liberty and freedom and ambition so that people can become the best they can be, because it is believed that the greatest society and the greatest culture, the greatest country, is achieved by the greatest number of people pursuing excellence. Liberals don't have that faith in people and they don't want that kind of freedom. They want to be in charge. They want to have the power and they want people dependent because that is what enriches them in every which way you can imagine. END TRANSCRIPT Read the Background Material... CaptainsQuarters: US Health Care Saves More Lives Than Socialized Medicine

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Cancer Health Disparities...?? All too often cancer’s burdens are far heavier on the “medically undeserved” people than the general population; the “medically undeserved” being: the poor, the uninsured, and ethnic minorities. Cancer health disparities, as the NCI defines them, are “differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of cancer and related adverse health conditions that exist among specific populations groups in the United States.” The NCI’s goal is to eliminate these disparities to allow the undeserved part of the population to reap the benefits of the huge amount of progress that has been made in the preventing, detecting, diagnosing, treating, etc. of cancer. They plan on reaching this goal by studying/identifying the issues that add to the disparities, and making partnerships and collaborations with organizations to address and solve them. HERE'S THE QUESTION: Describe why, or if you feel it is a good thing that the government is conducting this research on cancer disparities...

Do liberals really believe those bogus health care scare stories and that bogus 47 million figure? I mean really. Time to get educated. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/business/04view.html?ex=1351832400&en=f118898ca72c3199&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Infant Mortality Rates: "The health system in the United States gives low birth-weight babies slightly better survival chances than does Canada’s, but the more pronounced difference is the frequency of these cases. In the United States, 7.5 percent of babies are born weighing less than 2,500 grams (about 5.5 pounds), compared with 5.7 percent in Canada. In both nations, these infants have more than 10 times the mortality rate of larger babies. Low birth weights are in turn correlated with teenage motherhood." 47 Million?? "Of course, millions of Americans have trouble getting health insurance. But they number far less than 47 million, and they make up only a few percent of the population of 300 million. Any reform should carefully focus on this group to avoid disrupting the vast majority for whom the system is working." If you answer by saying "I thought cons didn't believe the NYT", it will brand you as a child.

United... a new political party/policy? well, it's not so much a party as a way of thinking... you can still be a Republican or Democrat, and be in the United Party... I propose a group/way of thought where we put the major issues that the parties differ on behind us, at least long enough to work on the issues that we can ALL (for the most part) agree need to be adressed... Some of the issues that could be addressed (graned, this is all new and subject to change): 1. Terror... we need to keep up the war on terror, and need to take a more pro-active stance in dealing with terror related countries... especially those with heavy pro-al-queda links 2. Welfare reform... it's highly needed in some sort of way... there are several ideas floating around on how to make it more effective, but regaurdless, doing something to fix the problem, at least a little, is better than the current problem... 3. Health care... it's in shambles... and costs are ncreasing at a very fast rate... perhaps a government plan focusing on creating more competition in the health care arena... which would lower prices... what do you guys think... these are just some ideas... granted, some of these ideas are already in partial play, but I'm talking about gathering together a group of people that want to change things for the better despite their differences... My best answer in this question could be an idea for welfare reform... just a thought: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnHgE75UxsTU4tHdRNxdHTrsy6IX?qid=20060811103540AAz5FbV a health care idea from netjir from a previous post: There is a crisis in health care; and that crisis is that we spend $700 billion a year on it and it grows by 4.5 to 5% each year. Its phenomenal in size. What is the solution? More taxes, universal health care, and bureacracy - NO. The solution is competition. Our government needs to force feed the industry more people (training, education, more nurses, doctors, etc). Then and only then will "costs" level off. The industry (particularly the unions) don't want this but society should demand it. netjir's original post was here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ats5r0YNLjMz3fLcBxRas5Xsy6IX?qid=20060812153032AAZKLUV any other issues... maybe education... maybe stem cells... what other issues? any ideas? wiegraff13: yes and no... I don't think you see the "heated" arguements as much over health care and welfare reform... like you do with abortion and gay marriage... and I think that there is a middle ground where CLEAR improvements can be made... granted, the improvements aren't IDEAL to either party, but still overall better for the nation and taxpayers john_stolworthy: I agree completely... and that's what this is really about... getting the people that agree with these issues to come together... get past the partisan bickering on subjects that may not be able to be resolved, but do it in an orderly manner... with one voice...

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Confusing, how is US medical treatment is the best? When US insurance companies send patients to Bangkok for treatment! "United Group Programs, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based company that sells self-insurance policies to small businesses, is already offering a plan that sends patients to Bumrungrad International hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. UGP says the plan will save employers more than 50 percent on major medical costs and slash employees' out-of-pocket expenses to zero. " http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/04/health/main2153345.shtml I have heard it on NPR today and could not believe it! hey jake you probably live in the state which requires auto insurance. Do you choose it or is it mandated to you? Do not you think the can be a similar approach in healthcare? It is not all black and white as you think! hey J D . Facts have a liberal bias, do not you know? I trust NPR over FOX and facts are facts... Now let me get it straight ! You are saying insurance companies are steering customers to inferior health service? Wow!

Give ten things that you believe would make a perfect society? Here are my ten things 1.) racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity mixture - people from different races, ethnic groups, and cultures uniting together in harmony contributing to the perfect society. 2.) high speed internet 3.) free education 4.) affordable health-care 5.) mandatory recycling of all things from glass to paper to plastic 6.) solar powered / electric society. The use of gas would be minimal or non-existant. The majority of the country would be powered by solar and electric energy 7.) all organic foods and drinks no chemicals 8.) A justice system built on the success of the justice system in other nations. (if cameras help to reduce shoplifting in another country it can help in mine 9.) Mixture language - I would create a language for my society that has elements of most other languages, This will make it easier to learn other languages. 10.) Mandatory disease testing. The best way to eradicate diseases is to test and study it.

Editing help......??? If you have a few minutes to spare, could anyone please, please help me edit my paper. For many years, people have been debating how medical insurance should be paid: Whether private payment or government payment or some combination. Private payment means one would pay for ones own insurance. Government payment would mean the government pays for ones insurance. If the government were to pay for ones insurance, it would limit ones abilities. Also, Government already has to cover Medicare, Social Security, Government housing, the Federal Housing Committee, and the collapse of the Financial Institutions. To a lot of thoughtful people, the only way to fix the health insurance crisis in the United States is to get the federal government to cover everyone. In most states, individuals can be denied coverage for any number of reasons, so it is wise to request and compare more than one individual health insurance quote. The extra short-term effort that's required to apply for individual medical insurance plans is easily worth the long-term savings. If one is insuring ones family, as opposed to just oneself, there are some additional considerations to take into account. Even if one does receive coverage through an employer-sponsored health plan, one should consider the cost-saving benefits of switching to a family medical insurance policy or moving some of your family members off of your group policy into a family policy. Most Americans receive their health coverage through some type of group health insurance. Although large corporations with hundreds or even thousands of employees have the bargaining power to negotiate with medical insurance companies for custom health plans for their workers, the small business owner must still research options and compare prices from multiple providers. Since small business health insurance offers guaranteed coverage to all employees in a given company, it can be difficult and time consuming for a small business owner to find the best policy. Most major colleges and universities require their full-time students to have medical insurance. While many of these same schools also offer their own student health plan, it is wise to explore his or her options. Typically the school will provide the minimum requirements that a health policy must meet in order to waive coverage under the school's policy. As a senior over 65, one is likely covered under some combination of Medicare plans. Changes in recent years to the federal government's medical insurance program for seniors has created a complex system with rigid enrollment timelines. Currently, we have a mixed system, where the government heavily intervenes in health care. In Canada and Great Britain, they have fully governmental health care systems, but a black market of private medicine exists. The government regulates which drugs are available on the market, through the FDA and through the agencies that fight its War on Drugs. Currently, drug companies are granted monopoly privileges called "patents" that give them the exclusive right to sell their drug for 17 years. A few years ago, Congress passed legislation which actually outlawed the importation of cheaper drugs from other countries and prohibited the federal government's health insurance programs (such as Medicare and Medicaid) from negotiating for lower prices. This provision was repealed by the Democrats after they won control of Congress. Britain, Canada, Japan and a number of other rich countries do so, and they each spend less money on health care than the United States does. They also do not have major companies, like General Motors, flirting with bankruptcy in large part because of the cost of health benefits Health insurers made $100 billion in profits last year, and industries of that size are just not legislated out of business, said Jonathan Gruber, an economist. The party that controls the White House and Congress also opposes the idea. Republicans have their own utopian notions, which generally involve letting loose the free market for Americans to demand better care on their own. The discussion has basically been paralyzed for years. In the meantime, the problem has grown worse. In the United States, forty-six million people lack health insurance, according to the most recent estimate, up from thirty-one million in 1987. Massachusetts changed the terms of the debate. Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, and the State Legislature, controlled by the Democrats, reached a deal to cover almost everyone in the state. The plan will cut the cost of health insurance for families that do not have it and make it free for many poor families. The state will also require every resident to have insurance or face a stiff fine. The plan breaks free of the usual ideological shackles by dealing with both of the big reasons that nearly one- sixth of the U.S. population lacks insurance. One, many people cannot afford it. Two, some who can afford it imagin

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How hard is it really to immigrate to the US legally? this is an excerpt from a news article in Austin today. "The group gave a list of five measures they'd like to see pursued, proposals to repeal in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, prohibiting sanctuary cities and that commercial drivers license tests be given only in English. "We expressed our concerns that some very important bills, are being blocked," state Rep. Leo Berman, R-said in a story in Wednesday's Tyler Morning Telegraph. Meanwhile, protestors marched to the State Capitol from City Hall pushing for immigrant rights. They say they want a plan that allows illegal immigrants living in the United States to live here legally and permanently. "I think there should be a sanction or something to help immigrants cross easier, because its pretty hard just to get a visa to come over to visit, let alone work." should we be forced to allow this? is it racist to expect people to follow the rules and pay taxes like everyone else to recieve health care and education benefits? what if we made them do a year in Iraq to get amnesty?

Another Texas Gov. Rick Perry costly Snafu??? Here's what the president of my college/employer just wrote: " On Friday, June 15, Governor Rick Perry vetoed $154 million in funding allocated to community college group health insurance. The cut will take effect in the 2008-09 fiscal year and will result in a $3.8 million (approximately) reduction in state appropriations for Collin College. In his veto, Governor Perry stated that community colleges had falsified their appropriation requests submitted to the Legislative Budget Board. We absolutely take strong issue with this allegation. To date, no evidence supporting the Governor’s claim has been released. All 50 Texas community college presidents have united in making the Governor and the media aware that this action will be fiscally devastating to community college students and the economic future of Texas. " Bottom line: this means that my paycheck which currently has over $600 in deductions for insurance will now make it over $900 per month taken out of my paycheck... ...This means, that in the county I live in, the average household earns over $73,000. My hubby and I earn under $44,000, and barely make ends meet. I’m nearly 50 yrs old, and am of a very hard age for any future new employment. With this taking effect, my take home per month will be under $850 per month. My car payment (which is needed because it accommodates my hubbys wheelchair) is over $500 per month. I will be forced to take on a third job, since I already work two! Governor Rick Perry of Texas did NOT get my vote because of other issues: Immigration, Trans-Texas Cooridor, and the Forced immunization of our daughters. Now THIS! He is the ultimate idiot and is set out to destroy those who are already working with wages under the poverty line! What is your spin on this guy???? What is your spin on his veto???? ...What none of you understand is that the insurance continues as paid (for me) after retirement. That is why people remain working here with minimum wages. Perry is ONLY penalizing the community colleges and he refuses to show "proof" and there are no lawsuits....because it's still has to go to the house to override his veto (if possible). Glad you're young and able to earn lots of money ahead of you. I'm in the Autumn of my earning years. 062907 8:23a I liked Strahorn, too! Anyone but Perry, since he just rode in on the coattails of Bush, and anyone appointed I always have my doubts about their character and ability to do the job...

What If Liberals Wrote the Bill of Rights? Bill of Rights (Liberal Version) Amendment I There shall be no show of respect for any Christian religion, or people who believe in a Christian religion, or Christian-based holidays, and no one who professes belief in any Christian religion shall be considered fit for any government position or office. No law shall abridge the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people, peaceably or otherwise, to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, unless that speech, that press or those people are in support the actions of Republicans, or in condemnation of the actions of Democrats, or might be construed as giving offense to anyone. Amendment II The military and police being the only forces necessary to the security of the State, the right of the common people to keep and bear arms shall be removed, weighed down with restrictions and regulations until private citizens can no longer own anything that might be used as a weapon. Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace, be regarded as necessary to maintaining that peace. When at home, soldiers of any rank are to be considered disposable, interchangeable, dull-witted robots, who can be instantly trained at need, and considered dangerous, uncontrollable, dull-witted barbarians bent on murder, rapine and torture when overseas. As a group, American soldiers are to be lauded and pitied, but individually, reviled. Amendment IV The right of all people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against any searches and seizures shall not be violated without a court-ordered warrant, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by the kind of evidence of wrongdoing that could only be gathered with a warrant, and the warrant must precisely describe the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Personal security shall be considered inviolable for American citizens, foreigners living in America, and foreigners living elsewhere. Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, because crimes are the fault of society, and not the individual. Republicans and Conservatives, on the other hand, shall be deemed guilty upon indictment by a grand jury, or even upon accusation of wrongdoing. No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, unless that person show evidence of Conservative thinking. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, unless that person shall be unborn or mentally incapacitated, or otherwise be deemed useless to the State, or a burden. Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation, public use being defined as anything that might benefit the State in some way, including higher tax revenue from said property. Amendment VI In all prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial in the media, and later, if necessary, by jury. Guilt shall be determined by the extent of public outcry that can be created over the nature of the crime, but reduced by the level of celebrity status enjoyed by the accused. The word of anonymous witnesses and experts may be used as evidence in the media trial. If a person found guilty of a crime is able to claim disadvantaged status -- meaning non-white, non-Christian, non-male, poor or homosexual -- that person shall have the right to full and open public sympathy by celebrities and members of the media, unless that person happens to be Conservative or Republican, both of which are forbidden to members of disadvantaged groups. Amendment VII The right of trial by jury shall be preserved for captured opponents during time of war, who shall be accorded all the rights and benefits of American citizens in addition to the disadvantaged person status, which shall automatically be granted to all "enemies" of America. Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted, not even curtailment of any freedoms or rights whatsoever. Those held for committing a crime shall be afforded luxuries in entertainment and food to make up for the injustice of being incarcerated, as well as the right to at least one book deal. Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, especially the unquestionable rights of abortion, tax-paid health care and gay marriage. Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the Judiciary, who shall have the power to overturn decisions made by vote of the people, amend the Constitution and even change the meaning of the words written herein at will and without recourse by the people.

would you elect me president of the united states? Economy 1.Create thousands of jobs 2.Increase global trade but not depend on it 3.Tax all businesses including casinos 4.Make states may a small tax as a safety valve 5.Require that all states put a tax on their goods. 6.Invest in a plan to help poor people get into jobs to help make money 7.Tax businesses that do anything with the united states 8.Drop the tax on required goods like food 9.Make sales tax higher on alcohol and cigarettes Education 1.Make teachers go through training every two years to keep teachers up to date 2.Make sure that schools have the right technology like TV’s, smart boards and things of that nature 3.Make sure text books get updated every two years to make sure that kids are getting the right updated information 4.Make sure that students classrooms are under a certain number pertaining to the number of kids in a school 5.Require that all kids take a P.E class until they graduate from college Safety 1.Require that people who committed a first and second degree murders have a minimum sentence of life in prison and a maximum sentence of death sentence 2.Make police go through a short training every 1 ½ to 2 years to make sure that they are well trained and up to date with things 3.[gangs] ages 12-17 a minimum sentence of 1 year to a maximum of 5 years in prisonages 18-21 a minimum sentence of 6 years to a maximum of 18 years in prison Ages 21 and up a minimum of 9 years in prison to a maximum of life or death 4.Require that cities have more patrol over more of an area 5.Put cameras in places where police cannot see 6.Build more 911 call centers in more areas 7.Make sure that inmates are more to themselves rather than in huge groups which can cause more of a problem 8.Require that all inmates seek mental counseling Energy and environment 1.Make every house in America put 2 or more trees in their front or backyard 2.Invest in a 5 billion dollar plan to find more renewable energy 3.Put a tax on companies that make a lot of pollutions Health 1.Give free health insurance to people who make a yearly salary of $27,000 a year and lower 2.Give cheaper health insurance to people who make between $28,000 and $29,000 a year 3.Give free health insurance to kids ages 0 months to 5 years old 4.Require that everyone has health insurance 5.Make people who do not have health insurance more money than normal as a penalty 6.Make sure that all kids have a check up before they start a new grade 7.Invest in a 10 billion dollar research plan to find a cure for cancer 8.Invest in a 10 billion dollar research plan to find a cure for aids/hiv Technology 1.Build more telephone towers for wireless devices 2.Provide wifi throughout the united states 3.Build bullet trains that take you places at a faster speed Immigration 1.Let anyone come to the United States and work if they have a temporarily pass. This would increase more workers and allow people from anywhere like Mexico to come here and have a pass that would allow them to work until they decide they want to become citizens 2.Require that all immigrants learn English. But keep to their traditions but at the same time stay to our American tradition 3.Make all immigrants go through a background check 4.Allow immigrants to driver cars if they have been in the united states with a pass and a working job 5.Create a pass that allows immigrants to come here and be normal citizens but the pass would expire every year and will have to be renewed and pay a $100 dollar fee until they become citizens 6.If immigrants are caught being here illegally but has not caused trouble will pay a heavy fine of $2000 dollars. 7.If any illegal immigrant gets exported. They will now be allowed to come to the United States for 5 years. And they may not try to be a citizen for 7 years. Retire 1.Allow people who retire there full funds that they deserve and not allow them to get cut back by the government 2.Allow people who have been retired to get a bonus if they have worked a minimum of 20 years in the same state job or government job. Poor people 1.Invest in a fund that will build more centers that provide shelter and food for poor people 2.Allow poor people who have been on the street a chance to restart there life. By letting them attend a community college for free and give them a starting job 3.Make all poor people to restart there life or go to jail please! help me! out! im doing this for an assignment. for me! lol but any suggestions? or anything i missed out! i know i did..i just dont know what

How about now (politicians) follow this example? Costa Mesa's illegal-immigration crackdown highlights the fears of many Activists worry that the city's enforcement of federal laws would affect more than just those guilty of serious crimes. By Jennifer Delson, Times Staff Writer January 30, 2007 In a city that has clashed loudly and publicly over immigration laws, the arrest of Marcelino Tzir Tzul underscored the worst fears in Costa Mesa's Latino community. The 37-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala was picked up for riding his bicycle on the wrong side of the street, brought before a federal agent at the city jail and then shipped to a federal lockup to await his likely deportation. For months, Latino activists had worried that Costa Mesa's decision to become one of the nation's first cities to enforce federal immigration laws would result in people such as Tzir being swept off the streets. "This is exactly what we feared," said Amin David, who heads Los Amigos of Orange County, a Latino advocacy group. But others, including the mayor of Costa Mesa, applaud the crackdown, even if it means that people who have committed minor crimes are caught in the process. "I believe illegal immigration is wrong. It's breaking the law," said Mayor Allan Mansoor, an Orange County sheriff's deputy. During a three-week period in December, 46 Latino men picked up in Costa Mesa were taken to the Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster to await deportation hearings. Half were held on misdemeanor charges. Tzir, who came to this country illegally in 2005, was headed to work on a chilly January morning when his luck ran out. A religious man who kept a Bible by his bed and three cheap suits in a closet for nightly church services, Tzir had come to Costa Mesa to send money home to his wife and three children. Wearing work boots and a blue sweatshirt stained from the previous day's work, Tzir rode his blue mountain bike down Placentia Avenue, through the heart of the town's Latino community. When he turned left on Hamilton Street, an officer stopped him and told him he was riding on the wrong side of the road. He also didn't have a bicycle license. Without an ID, Tzir was taken to the city jail, where a federal agent recently assigned to the city determined he was in the country illegally. Before he could alert family or friends, he was shipped to the lockup in Lancaster to await a deportation hearing. "The sin I committed was to enter this country illegally," Tzir said in a recent jailhouse interview in Spanish. "I regret the pain I have caused my family, but I will leave with my head held high because I know that all I did here was to work hard." Although Tzir's crime was minor, many of those swept up in Costa Mesa in December were arrested on serious charges. Of 20 arrest records the city was able to provide, most involved men in their mid-20s charged with crimes such as selling drugs and burglary. One involved a 19-year-old accused of having sex with a minor. Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said one man had an arrest record in five states and had been deported three times. Another had drug convictions and had been deported five times, she said. Wendy Leece, who was recently elected to the City Council, said having the agent in the jail would make the community a safer place. "There are a broad spectrum of crimes being committed," Leece said. "Maybe some are misdemeanors, but they are lawbreakers." By the time Tzir was able to call his wife, news of the ongoing crackdown had drifted through the city's immigrant community. Rumors about immigration raids and tips on avoiding the police spread. "Do the police want to pluck people off the streets like him when there are so many people who commit real crimes?" wondered the Rev. Oscar A. Ramirez of Iglesia Fuente de Amor (Fountain of Love Church) in Costa Mesa, where Tzir taught Bible classes. Others in Costa Mesa — where the immigration debate has colored local elections, drawn the attention of groups such as the Minuteman Project and become the fodder of national talk radio — see no shame in someone such as Tzir being picked up and ultimately deported. "The law is the law, and we need to enforce it, not here and there. They are all criminals the minute they step across the border," said Jason Mrochek, director of the Federal Immigration Reform & Enforcement Coalition, which runs anti-illegal-immigrant protests throughout Southern California. Tzir said he felt reluctant to sneak into the United States and did so only because of a pressing need for money. In Guatemala, he was a nurse in a rural health center outside Quiriguá, a small town best known for its Mayan ruins, where he dispensed prescription medicines, helped deliver babies and tended to the injured. He earned a college degree in health and studied the Bible so he could become a minister. When his employer cut his salary from $782 to $339 a month, he and his wife feared the money wouldn't be enough to make ends meet. "I felt all the doors closed to me, and I needed quick relief," Tzir said. Tzir's wife called a relative in Costa Mesa for help. The relative, who worked as a nanny in an Orange County home and declined to be identified because she also is in the country illegally, said she decided to pay a smuggler $14,000, which she had saved, to bring Tzir, as well as her own son, to Costa Mesa. When he arrived in Costa Mesa, Tzir said he found work quickly, pulling in about $400 a week. "He was motivated by the opportunities in this country," said roommate Marcos Roa, 53, a waiter in a Costa Mesa restaurant. "He dreamed of bringing his wife and children here." At first he lived with a relative but later moved into an aging apartment complex on Hamilton Avenue, where he paid $225 a month to share a bedroom. He cooked his own food, read the Bible and books on the English language, and spent four nights a week at the Iglesia Fuente de Amor, an Assemblies of God church, where once a week he taught Bible classes. Rudy Sandoval, a fellow Guatemalan who hired Tzir to install hardwood floors, said they spent much of their free time talking about the Bible and their faith. "He was serious. No liquor. No smoking. No women," said Sandoval's wife, Elma. "Not even a curse word." The night before he was picked up by police, Sandoval said, Tzir talked about how much he missed his family, saying, "What am I doing here? I've got to go home." Costa Mesa Police Chief Christopher Shawkey, a former Phoenix police commander recently named to the city's top police post, said his department was simply enforcing the law as it always had. "No dictate has been issued …. We're not going to change our enforcement policies because of this," Shawkey said. "We need to remain consistent." Shawkey said he called the Orange County Human Relations Commission to determine how to alleviate fears about the federal agent, but no decisions have been made. "I would hope that the community would still have trust in the Police Department," Shawkey said. For local Enriqueta Monterroso, who said she entered the United States illegally eight years ago, the crackdown has awakened memories. "I feel like I did in my last days in Guatemala when we thought the army would arrest us for any little thing," she said. Tzir, who is expected to remain jailed until his likely Feb. 13 deportation date, said he realized it was wrong to sneak into the United States. But, he said, the issue was far more complex than that. "There is no question that I broke the law," Tzir said. "But it's very clear that immigrants are the motor of the most powerful economy in the world. Immigrants have a value. They do what Americans will not do."

would you vote for me as president of the united states? so i know i alrady asked this question! but i changed my plan just a tad to see what people think can i please get a straight answer! THANKS!! example: yes i think that you should blah blah blah ____________________________________________ Economy 1.Create thousands of jobs 2.Increase global trade but not depend on it 3.Tax all businesses including casinos 4.Make states may a small tax as a safety valve 5.Require that all states put a tax on their goods. 6.Invest in a plan to help poor people get into jobs to help make money 7.Tax businesses that do anything with the united states 8.Drop the tax on required goods like food 9.Make sales tax higher on alcohol and cigarettes 10.Lower taxes for everyone by lowering the tax rate and cutting back on things that are not needed 11.Have off shore drilling so we don’t pay billions of dollars on oil in other countries Education 1.Make teachers go through training every two years to keep teachers up to date 2.Make sure that schools have the right technology like TV’s, smart boards and things of that nature 3.Make sure text books get updated every two years to make sure that kids are getting the right updated information 4.Make sure that students classrooms are under a certain number pertaining to the number of kids in a school 5.Require that all kids take a P.E class until they graduate from college 6.Require that all high school kid take a terrorist class so that they are well educated on the problems that we are facing. Because the more you know about something the less you are going to be afraid of it Safety 1.Require that people who committed a first and second degree murders have a minimum sentence of life in prison and a maximum sentence of death sentence 2.Make police go through a short training every 1 ½ to 2 years to make sure that they are well trained and up to date with things 3.[gangs] ages 12-17 a minimum sentence of 1 year to a maximum of 5 years in prisonages 18-21 a minimum sentence of 6 years to a maximum of 18 years in prison Ages 21 and up a minimum of 9 years in prison to a maximum of life or death 4.Require that cities have more patrol over more of an area 5.Put cameras in places where police cannot see 6.Build more 911 call centers in more areas 7.Make sure that inmates are more to themselves rather than in huge groups which can cause more of a problem 8.Require that all inmates seek mental counseling Energy and environment 1.Make every house in America put 2 or more trees in their front or backyard 2.Invest in a 5 billion dollar plan to find more renewable energy 3.Put a tax on companies that make a lot of pollutions 4.Put solar panels on every major building that consumes a lot of power. Because even just a little bit of something is better than nothing 5.Increase the amount of wind powered energy Health 1.Give free health insurance to people who make a yearly salary of $27,000 a year and lower 2.Give cheaper health insurance to people who make between $28,000 and $29,000 a year 3.Give free health insurance to kids ages 0 months to 5 years old 4.Require that everyone has health insurance 5.Make people who do not have health insurance more money than normal as a penalty 6.Make sure that all kids have a check up before they start a new grade 7.Invest in a 10 billion dollar research plan to find a cure for cancer 8.Invest in a 10 billion dollar research plan to find a cure for aids/hiv Technology 1.Build more telephone towers for wireless devices 2.Provide wifi throughout the united states 3.Build bullet trains that take you places at a faster speed Immigration 1.Let anyone come to the United States and work if they have a temporarily pass. This would increase more workers and allow people from anywhere like Mexico to come here and have a pass that would allow them to work until they decide they want to become citizens 2.Require that all immigrants learn English. But keep to their traditions but at the same time stay to our American tradition 3.Make all immigrants go through a background check 4.Not allow illegal immigrants to drive 5.Create jobs passes for immigrants and living areas that are cheap for them 6.If immigrants are caught being here illegally but has not caused trouble will pay a heavy fine 7.If any illegal immigrant gets exported. They will now be allowed to come to the United States for 5 years. And they may not try to be a citizen for 7 years. Retire 1.Allow people who retire there full funds that they deserve and not allow them to get cut back by the government 2.Allow people who have been retired to get a bonus if they have worked a minimum of 20 years in the same state job or government job. Homeless people 1.Invest in a fund that will build more centers that provide shelter and food for poor people 2.Allow poor people who have been on the street a c actually taxes would not go up becuse i would tax more of higher businesses instead of people. and i would put a higher tax on goods like alcohol and cigerettes

United States History Exam? 20. During the late 1800s, women from which of these groups were most likely to work outside the home? older married women women in the South uneducated women young single women 21. Which was a result of the Spanish-American War? Cuba became a Spanish protectorate. Puerto Rico and Guam were made unincorporated U.S. territories. Spain admitted it had blown up the Maine. The Philippines won independence from foreign rule. 22. The United States followed a policy of expansionism in the late 1800s because European nations were eager to sell rights to their colonies. many Americans were demanding high-quality foreign goods. U.S. factories needed foreign laborers. the nation sought more markets for its goods. 23. The building of the Panama Canal was important because it helped stabilize the economies of Latin American countries. improved relations between Colombia and the United States. facilitated movement between Atlantic and Pacific ports. promoted European investment in the United States. 24. President Roosevelt's progressive record included all of the following except conservation of forest land. break-up of several trusts deemed harmful to the public. regulation of food and drugs. establishment of the Federal Reserve System. 25. Which belief was held by most Progressives? The government should be more accountable to its citizens. Housing and health care should remain private. The government should protect agricultural interests. The government should never intervene in unfair business practices. 26. Which was a major contributor to Woodrow Wilson's winning the presidency in 1912? a split between northern and southern Democrats Taft's decision not to run for a second term Roosevelt's splitting the Republican vote the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs 27. Which event sparked World War I? the sinking of the Lusitania the German-French dispute over Alsace-Lorraine Russia's quest for a warm-water port the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne 28. Which of the following was a major factor in the United States' decision to enter World War I? Britain's naval blockade of Germany Germany's unrestircted submarine warfare Vladimir Lenin's rise to power in Russia France's fall to the Central Powers 29. The government increased control of the economy during World War I by filing a record number of antitrust suits. enacting price controls and rationing. overseeing war-related production. forbidding any unions to strike. 30. Many senators opposed American entry into the League of Nations because they feared it would weaken the country's independence. they disapproved of its other member countries. they wanted stronger promises of support from other countries. they had already approved the Versailles Treaty.

What would happen if Medicaid was eradicated? "In 2002, Medicaid enrollees numbered 39.9 million Americans, the largest group being children (18.4 million or 46 percent). It is estimated that 42.9 million Americans will be enrolled in 2004 (19.7 million of them children) at a total cost of $295 billion. Medicaid payments assist nearly 60 percent of all nursing home residents and about 37 percent of all childbirths in the United States." " Medicaid is also the program that provides the largest portion of federal money spent for health care on people living with HIV. Typically, poor people who are HIV positive must progress to AIDS before they can qualify under the "disabled" category. More than half of people living with AIDS are estimated to receive Medicaid payments." Even the AMA wants to expand coverage to the 47 million uninsured. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17952.html

Is this another reason to stop funding the United Nations? An Islamic charity with ties to Al Qaeda and the T UNICEF Partners With Islamic Charity Linked to Terror Groups http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366319,00.html UNICEF= the United Nations’ Children’s Fund. According to UNICEF, it will be teaming with the charity’s domestic Saudi branch to “promote children’s rights, health, equality and education,” in the oil-rich kingdom — but the organization has been doing more than just charity work. -Read link..the Saudi "branch" DOES ( INDIRECTLY ) fund the terrorists ! "The U.S. Treasury Department has designated the IIRO’s branches in the Philippines and Indonesia as terrorist entities for funding and supporting terrorist groups that have killed hundreds in East Asia. The Philippine branch was founded by Usama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, Muhammad Jamal Khalifah, and has long had ties to Al Qaeda. The U.N. itself says that both the Indonesian and Philippine branches of IIRO are tied to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and has singled them out for an asset freeze, arms embargo and travel ban on mem

Universal health care? Let's look at this for what it is... Baby boomers. When they were young, credit card interest was tax deductable. This changed because too many of them were taking advantage of it. Prior to this, it was taboo to use credit except for homes and perhaps automobiles. They have proliferated on having a large voting voice of common interests, driving up CEO salaries, etc... A college degree used to guarantee a very good salary, but sadly not these days. Now you need an MBA. This seems as if it was another way of keeping the baby-boom generation in the high-end jobs. Now that the baby-boomers are nearing retirement, is it just one more thing they are all going to jump aboard? As they age, their medical costs are going to sky rocket, and they don't want to pay for it. Do they want you, the next generation, to pay for it? No conspiracy theory, just an analysis of such a large voting group with common interest. Is it fair, or should we unite and make them pay back into the system?

some pro McCanns have said that how could a mother kill her child? Well !!! This is an piece taken from an article by a journalist Lisa Lascody called When Moms Attack. I was shocked and horrified while watching the news coverage recently about the woman in Texas who beat her children to death with rocks. This is not the first time I have heard about a mother killing her kids, in fact, there seems to quite a few of these cases in the news lately. I remember the high profile cases of Susan Smith and Andrea Yates as well as a few others that did not garner as much media attention. While doing some research for this article, there was another horrible child murder. A young couple in Texas strangled and then decapitated their three young children. I began to wonder how many killer moms were out there. So, after a bit of online research and remedial statistical analysis, I found the surprising answer. It is called "maternal filicide" which is a fancy way of saying child murderer and it happens over 600 times each year. That number seemed ridiculously high to me so I doubled checked with the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics and the FBI Crime statistics. They verified that mothers kill their own kids over 600 times per year! That puts a pretty frightening face on the group calling itself the "Million Mom March". I wonder how many of those mothers are ticking time bombs? What sets them off and how can we protect their children? I know of at least one of those anti-gun moms who committed murder. She even spoke out against gun violence at the first Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Then, a few months later, she shot and killed a boy. Now, she didn't kill her own child, but she did murder the boy she thought had shot her son. It turned out she got the wrong guy and shot an innocent person. What that group needed to be pushing was self control not gun control. Perhaps, after reading the rest of this article, they will see the dangers within their own group and switch their efforts to mother control. Gun control groups love to use the phony statistic of "13 kids per day die from firearms each year". Most of you reading this article know that number includes suicides, accidents and homicides. It also includes children up to 19 years old as well as crime-related deaths. So, if a police officer shoots and kills a 17-year-old armed robber that is counted as one of the "13 kids per day". I decided to do a little comparison between the number of kids killed by their mothers and the number of children killed with a firearm. I only used kids under the age of 5 for this comparison because they had their own special statistical category called infanticide. Plus, not too many kids under 5 are in gangs or committing suicide so the results would not be skewed. Children under the age of 5 in the United States are more likely to be killed by their parents than by anyone else. FBI crime stats show that in 1999 parents were responsible for 57% of these murders. Even though women commit less than 13% of all violent crime, they are responsible for about 50% of all parental murders. These killer moms almost never use a gun to kill their kids. They prefer a more hands-on approach like beating, drowning, shaking, strangling or suffocation. Others will resort to poisoning, stabbing or exposure to the elements. Less than 20% of the cases involved a parent shooting their child to death. (US Dept. of Justice Study, 1988) In 1999, there were 613 homicides of children under the age of 5. Of these homicides, only 73 were killed with a firearm while 351were killed by a parent! Of the 73 children killed with a firearm, about 20% of those were committed by one of the parents. So, that brings down the number down from 73 to 59. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1999) That is 351 cases of parents murdering their kids compared to 59 firearm-related homicides in one year. To be fair, I have been mainly discussing mothers. Since around half of all the parental murderers are mothers, that number is about 175. Still, those numbers are staggering. The numbers seem to indicate that kids have much more to fear from their own mothers than from most gun owners. In fact, legal gun owners are only responsible for less than one percent of all crimes. I am not anti-mother and I don't want to ban motherhood, but I do support reasonable mom-control laws like background checks, licensing & registration, waiting periods and a limit on the number of children one mother can raise. After all, isn't it worth it if it saves just one child?

Help me with this health please? Definitions A. Test used to measure flexibility B. The elasticity of muscle groups C. Test approved by the president of the United States D. Measures muscular endurance E. Measures muscular strength F. Measures coordination G. The ability of muscles to perform work over time H. The capacity of muscles to generate amounts of force in a short period I. The body's ability to do several different tasks at one time J. The ability of the heart and lungs to be active over a long period of time 9. Presidential Fitness Test (1 point) 10. Muscular endurance (1 point) 11. Muscular strength (1 point) 12. Cardiovascular endurance (1 point) 13. Flexibility (1 point) 14. Coordination (1 point) 15. Curl-ups (1 point) 16. Push-ups (1 point) 17. Sit and reach test (1 point) 18. Shuttle run (1 point)

Would you support my campaign and vote for me based on this platform? Would you support my campaign for Governor and vote for me based on this platform? Space is limited here so this will have to be condensed, but the message should be easy enough to understand. Please do not respond to this unless you are a registered voter and serious about being an active party to changing government. This would be the foundation of my platform. Government intervention in our public lives, excessive taxes, and political corruption at state and local levels CAN be stopped with the WILL OF THE PEOPLE standing behind a candidate that will lead the way. YOU would be my most powerful resource to change the way government is managed, dismantle some parts of it, take it AWAY from corporate strongholds, and give it BACK to the people of the United States. I do not believe in lobbyists or special interest groups of any kind. I simply believe in what the MASSES want. The means to obtain our goals would be simple with the use of the Internet, a phone, and by doing NOTHING! We won’t have to wait for the end of a term of an elected official to see results. Our goals can be achieved virtually overnight. I will keep the public informed of obstacles and progress through a weekly radio address and web site. Let’s look at two examples of what can be done about excessive prices and it IS simple regardless of any political or corporate argument you might hear. PROBLEM: The high cost of fuel. DEMAND: The public wants the price dropped from $3.00 to $2.00 PUBLIC SOLUTION: Pick three corporate sponsors that sell gas. Let’s Hess, Shell, and BP for an example. These are CORPORATIONS! Use the Internet and your phone to contact everyone you know and tell them to do NOTHING at these places of business. This won’t be a one-day boycott not to buy gasoline. This will last until gas prices come down. Don’t buy gas there. Don’t stop there for a pack of cigarettes or a loaf of bread. DON’T GO THERE FOR ANYTHING for AS LONG AS IT TAKES to get gas prices down. PROBLEM: Frivolous government spending. DEMAND: The public wants it stopped. PUBLIC SOLUTION: Email, call, or write your State Representative, Senator, and Congressman and tell them to start cutting their budget, PERIOD. Give them a time frame and demand a WEEKLY progress report. Demand they cut their government salaries in half. Demand they give up their health care benefits that are paid for by the public, policies the public can’t afford for them selves. Demand a 25% cut in their total budget within 90 days. Don’t stop sending emails, making calls, or writing letters until the budget is reduced and if you don’t see results, demand the politician to abdicate them self from their position. Don’t be afraid to rebel! Support and elect a candidate that will close the door to special interest groups and take an active part with you in dismantling a government that serves itself instead of the people.

are all Commercial weight loss diets similarly effective?!? Commercial weight loss diets are all similarly effective at 6 months, and those with support are more effective at 12 months, according to the results of the randomized BBC "diet trials" reported in the June 3 issue of the BMJ. Participants in these trials were filmed as part of a BBC television series. "Most adults in the United States diet at some time, and trends in the United Kingdom are similar," write Helen Truby, MD, from the University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, and colleagues. "Long term success rates are poor, with 50% of weight loss being regained within one year. Although commercial diets provide consumers with a plethora of choice, data on their comparative efficacy are limited." Using a community-based sample of otherwise healthy overweight and obese adults, this 6-month, multicenter, unblended controlled trial compared 4 popular commercial weight loss programs with a control group. These diets were the Slim-Fast plan (a meal replacement approach), Weight Watchers pure points program (an energy-controlled diet with weekly group meetings), Dr Atkins' new diet revolution (a self-monitored low carbohydrate eating plan), and Rosemary Conley's eat-yourself-slim diet and fitness plan (a low-fat diet and a weekly group exercise class). Primary endpoints were changes in weight and body fat during 6 months. Compared with the control group, all diets were associated with a significant loss of body fat and weight during 6 months, but outcomes in the 4 diet groups did not differ significantly from each other. Intent-to-treat analysis revealed that average weight loss was 5.9 kg, and average fat loss was 4.4 kg during 6 months. Although the Atkins diet resulted in significantly higher weight loss during the first 4 weeks, it was no more or less effective than the other diets by the end of the study. At 12 months, 158 participants (54% of the original sample) returned data, and only 58 (45%) were still compliant with their assigned diets (9 to Atkins, 20 to Weight Watchers, 9 to Slim-Fast, 20 to Rosemary Conley). More participants in the unsupported programs (Atkins diet and Slim-Fast) withdrew than in the supported programs (P = .04), and weight rebound after the initial 6 months was higher in the unsupported programs. All diets resulted in a clinically useful weight loss of around 10% after 12 months in participants who had kept to their original diet. "Clinically useful weight loss and fat loss can be achieved in adults who are motivated to follow commercial diets for a substantial period," the authors write. "Given the limited resources for weight management in the NHS [National Health System], healthcare practitioners should discuss with their patients programmes known to be effective." Study limitations include varied compliance with each diet, small number of participants, and effect of media interest on motivation to meet goal weights and patients' expectations of weight loss. One of the authors has disclosed receiving consulting fees for serving on the scientific advisory panel of Slimming World. In an accompanying editorial, David Arterburn, MD, MPH, from the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle, Wash, notes the high costs of some commercial diets and the low rate of ongoing compliance with the assigned diets at 1 year. "The challenge to researchers in obesity is to take weight loss studies, especially those involving commercial programmes and private funding, to the next level," Dr Arterburn writes. "'Diet Trials II' would serve us best by evaluating long term health outcomes, cost effectiveness, and novel strategies of improving adherence and weight maintenance. Such strategies might include economic incentives for participants and researchers collaborating with employers and healthcare providers."

Noble conservatives: Ever heard of the Carlyle Group ? Clients are mainly Chinese Corp & daddy Bush runs it. 4Gas Holding B.V. --- ACIS Holdings Limited Apteka Holding ZAO--- Asahi Security Co., Ltd. AsiaEC.com, Ltd.--- Banque de France Beru AG -- BFinance -- Boto International China Pacific Life Insurance Co., Ltd. China Real Estate Network -- Chiusa Chongqing Polycomp International Corporation Hispanic Teleservices Corporation-- Kito Corp. Huaya Microelectronics Limited -- Hyundai Communications & Network Legend Natural Gas -- Oriental Trading Company Pacific China Holdings -- Pacific Telecom Cable, Inc. Pacific Tower -- PanAmSat Corporation Panasas, Inc. -- Shanghai Anxin Flooring Co., Ltd. Taiwan Broadband Communications Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd. --United Defense Industries, Inc. Frontier Drilling ASA -- Health Central Network, Inc. Heritage Health Systems, Inc. -- Colin Medical Technology Corporation Yes, I am an idiot http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/portfolio/portfoliolink-2320.html The answers proof that most of the so-called conservatives in Y/A does not represent the typical real Christian conservative......but a group of greedy crooks sitting in an office somewhere in the USA....probably working in a Chinese Corp.

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Could I please get some feed back on this paper? APA format, How is the writing, Should it have more info etc. Modern day slavery also known as “human trafficking.” Traffickers look for individuals who are poor, unemployed, or families that are in high debt, mainly women and children in certain countries. Victims are convinced with false promises of a good job and a better way of living, and then forced to work under abusive and inhuman conditions. Victims of trafficking are brought into the system through several means. Most victims of trafficking today come from three populations. First, parents may sell children to traffickers in order to pay off debts or gain income. Second, runaways or other displaced persons may be picked up by traffickers. Third, people who are seeking entry to other countries may be picked up by traffickers, and typically are misled into thinking that they will be free after being smuggled across the border. Definitions may very base upon that cultural variation of the crime. In the United States, when people think of human trafficking, they often refer to the illegal practice of migrant smuggling. They picture illegal immigrants from countries like Mexico or China arriving into the United States by way of freight trailer or cargo boat in search for job opportunities and freedom. Human trafficking is defined as sex trafficking in which commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or in which the person forced to perform such an act is under 18. The recruitment, transportation, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force or fraud, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary hard labor, high debts owed, or slavery. Men, women, and children worldwide were bought, sold, transported, and held against their will in unsafe and abusive conditions. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing forms of commerce and crime throughout the world. While men, women, and children are trafficked throughout many countries into forced labor situations in sweatshops and agricultural sites, the majority of victims are women and children trafficking into the sex trade for the purpose of prostitution, sex tourism, pornography and other sexual services. Most recent Department of States estimates indicate that 700,000 to million women and children are trafficked each year across the world, 50,000 of them into and within the United States (Chauang, J., 2006). The International Organization for Migrations (IOM) estimate the rate could be much higher, stating that as many as two million men, women and children were trafficking across borders in 2001 (IOM website, 2003). Illegal aliens look for the help of “traffickers” to be transporter into another country, mainly the United States. Traffickers, work in small, large, or highly organized groups, arranging for everything from transportation to fake identification, visas, passports and work documents for the aliens. While the conditions of transportation may be unknown, “smuggled” aliens knowingly and willingly enter the destination country to work or find work, they agree to being smuggled. However, a smuggling relationship may allow the opportunity for the smuggler to alter the relationship to trafficking. Persons who seek the help of smugglers often become victims of trafficking, in the destination country or en route. When victims have never consented to being smuggled are either kidnapped or deceived with false employment offers. Traffickers make a profit between seven billion and ten billion dollars a year globally, and it is know as the third largest source of illicit trade, behind guns and narcotics. According to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, the intelligence community predicts that revenue from trafficking “will outstrip the illicit trade in guns and narcotics within a decade.” (Chauang, J., 2006). History Early trafficking efforts focused on white slavery. In 1904, the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic was created, although very few countries signed it. In the following decades, the focus on trafficking continued to be on women and children who were sold into prostitution. The first concerted international effort to combat trafficking came in 1949, with the U.N. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. Like other such conventions before it, the document focused on the trafficking of women and children for prostitution. The U.S. at the same time was undertaking its own efforts to combat global human trafficking. In 2000, Congress passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (also referred to as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act), the first U.S. law to comprehensively address the various aspects of human trafficking. The act included measures to help those who were trafficked and to increase punishment for traffickers, as well as to bolster other countries' efforts against trafficking. President Bill Clinton (D, 1993-2000) signed the act in October 2000, hailing it as "the most significant step we've ever taken to secure the health and safety of women at home and around the world." With regard to dealing with those who have been trafficked, the law represented a turnaround in policy. Previously, those found working illicitly were treated as criminals. The 2000 act changed that, treating those people as victims of a crime and seeking to help rather than punish them. Under the act, victims can be given a special visa, called a T-visa, allowing them to stay in the U.S. for up to three years if they would face hardship upon deportation. In return, the victims agree to assist in the investigation and prosecution of the traffickers. (As of March 2004, 448 victims of trafficking had been granted a T-visa.) The U.S. has also cracked down on Americans who may contribute to trafficking abroad. For example, Congress has passed legislation under which Americans who travel overseas to frequent child prostitutes, known as "sex tourism," can be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. And the Defense Department has also established a "zero tolerance" policy toward U.S. servicemen who may contribute to human trafficking overseas. In addition, individual states have also begun to pass human trafficking legislation. Texas and Washington State were the first two states to pass such legislation, and Arizona and California are considering similar legislation. Reference Chuang, J. “Beyond a snapshot: Preventing human trafficking in the global economy.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 2006, pg. 137. International Organization for Migration, 2006. http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp.