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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.
What is the corporate hierarchy structure at United Health Group Information systems (UHGIS) ? Am being offered a position @ UHGIS - would like to know the hierarchy to bargain better. Anyone from their Hyderabad or Delhi centers would be a great help.
Is Manager position at United Health Group Information systems (UHGIS) a good option? I'm being offered a manager position at UHGIS. Would ike to know the hierarchy structure at the company too.
Does anyone know if you can make more in Claims or Customer Service at United Health Group? Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. Thanks!
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
United Health Group Inc.? What do they do exactly?
Is this a waste of my health care dollars? United Health care group is paying their employees to show up at town hall meetings to disrupt the meetings. How is this benefiting me to use my health care money for their agenda. Isn't this abuse of my money. I do not pay them to pay their people for non-medical issues.
Why does the GOP cite The Lewin Group studies for all their talking points against health care reform? When it's a subsidiary of United Health Care, one of the biggest health insurance companies on the planet? Its like asking your toddler to babysit herself.
How can we stop PPO giants fr/fraud ie United Health, Ingenix when all do it - Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross Shield? Is any group in California working on closing them down or reforming laws to make them stop getting away with highway robbery of premiums to pay their top execs and avoid paying insurance claims for necessary health care? What's up with that?
Is this the real universal health care is such a bad idea? Here are the salaries of the top executives of a few medical insurance companies: Are these the millions of reasons why lies and scare tactics prevent people from hearing the truth about Universal Health Care? H. Edward Hanway, Cigna Corp. $30,160,000 ($82,360 daily) Ronald A. Williams, Aetna, Inc. $23,045,834 ($63,139) David B. Snow, Jr., Medco Health $21,760.000 ($59,616) Dale B. Wolf, Coventry Health Care, $20,860,000 ($57,150) Michael B. McAllister, Humana, Inc $20,060,000 ($54,959) Jay M. Gellert, Health Net $16,650,000 ($45,616) Stephen J. Hemsley, United-Health Group $13,164,529 ($36,067) Raymond McCaskey, Health Care Service Corp (BC/BS) $10,300,000 ($28,219) Angela F. Braley, Wellpoint $9,094,771 ($24,917) Michael F. Neidorff, Centene Corp $8,750,751 ($23,975) Mer: Actual Doctors and Nurses make as much in countries with universal health care and in some cases much more than the one's here in the US. These executives who purchase senators and lie to us lowly people are playing us all for idiots and believing their fables make us idiots! James: That is an ugly picture you paint and I do not believe that there is any truth to it, I have lived in countries where Universal Health Care is provided and medicine for a diabetic patient is readily available to anyone with diabetics. I don't know who furnish that nonsense and other nonsense but the list of the executives I provided is a good indication. I have received medical coverage in Norway, Canada and Denmark. I have also received care with Etna, Scott&White, NHP, Kaiser and others. The care in "socialized" countries was so superior to what I received here that there was no comparison.
Why do health insurance CEO's make so much money & provide such bad service? CEO's pay Cigna $25,839,777.00 Coventry Health Care $14,869,823.00 Health Net $3,686,230.00 Humana $10,312,557.00 United Health Group $13,164,529.00 Well Point $9,094,271.00 Is it the free market, they have to pay that much to get such great talent, or is it crony capitalism? Maybe thats the """""tax"""" we pay fr our for profit medical care system
Is This Why Health Care As Delivered By Insurance / Healthcare Companies Is So High? These amounts are from 2005, they've no doubt given themsleves several raises since then. * United Health Group CEO: William W McGuire 2005: 124.8 mil 5-year: 342 mil * Forest Labs CEO: Howard Solomon 2005: 92.1 mil 5-year: 295 mil * Caremark Rx CEO: Edwin M Crawford 2005: 77.9 mil 5-year: 93.6 mil * Abbott Lab CEO: Miles White 2005: 26.2 mil 5-year: 25.8 mil * Aetna CEO: John Rowe 2005: 22.1 mil 5-year:57.8 mil * Amgen CEO: Kevin Sharer 2005:5.7 mil 5-year:59.5 mil * Bectin-Dickinson CEO: Edwin Ludwig 2005: 10 mil 5-year:18 mil * Boston Scientific CEO: 2005:38.1 mil 5-year:45 mil * Cardinal Health CEO: James Tobin 2005:1.1 mil 5-year:33.5 mil * Cigna CEO: H. Edward Hanway 2005:13.3 mil 5-year:62.8 mil * Genzyme CEO: Henri Termeer 2005: 19 mil 5-year:60.7 mil * Humana CEO: Michael McAllister 2005:2.3 mil 5-year:12.9 mil * Johnson & Johnson CEO: William Weldon 2005:6.1 mil 5-year:19.7 mil * Laboratory Corp America CEO: Thomas MacMahon 2005:7.9 mil 5-year:41.8 mil * Eli Lilly CEO: Sidney Taurel 2005:7.2 mil 5-year:37.9 mil * McKesson CEO: John Hammergen 2005: 13.4 mil 5-year:31.2 mil * Medtronic CEO: Arthur Collins 2005: 4.7 mil 5-year:39 mil * Merck Raymond Gilmartin CEO: 2005: 37.8 mil 5-year:49.6 mil * PacifiCare Health CEO: Howard Phanstiel 2005: 3.4 mil 5-year: 8.5 mil * Pfizer CEO: Henry McKinnell 2005: 14 mil 5-year: 74 mil * Well Choice CEO: Michael Stocker 2005: 3.2 mil 5-year: 10.7 mil * WellPoint CEO: Larry Glasscock 2005: 23 mil 5-year: 46.8 mil * Wyeth CEO: Robert Essner 2005:6.5 mil 5-year: 28.9 mil
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?
United Health Care policy number? I have United Health care, and am playing football for Junior Varsity, but on my physical form, it asks for a policy number. I asked my mom, and she gave me a subscriber id, group number, and card number. Which do I use?
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.
How much is Patients United paying people to protest American's health care plan? Patients United, a front group maintained by Americans for Prosperity, is currently busing people all over the country for more protests against Democratic members. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the NRCC, has endorsed the strategy, telling the Politico the days of civil town halls are now “over.” http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/17222/coming-to-a-town-hall-near-you-political-disruptions-talking-points-and-grabbing-the-best-seats/
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?
Who is the Lewin Group, the sole resource for Republican's "figures on health care?"? Do you think there is a reason the Republicans use an INSURANCE COMPANY as a resource for health care policy and numbers? The Lewin Group is an Ingenix company. Ingenix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, was founded in 1996 to develop, acquire and integrate the world's best-in-class health care information technology capabilities. For more information, visit www.ingenix.com. The Lewin Group operates with editorial independence and provides its clients with the very best expert and impartial health care and human services policy research and consulting services. OWNED BY UNITED HEALTH CARE Source - MSNBC news
What specific group (i.e. government) doesn't want the u.s to have free health care? I am writing an argumentative essay and my topic is: The United States should provide free health care for all residents of the country. I need to know who is in opposion of this and why. Is it the price? if so, will the federal taxes be raised or will budget cuts be made u guys didnt really answers my question and didnt really help me on my essay
Will private Health Insurance be "OUTLAWED" or wither on the vine? Absolutely NOT ! Another LIE ! Want to know who started this bit of misinformation? The Lewin Group, a consulting firm,,OWNED BY UNITED HEALTH CARE GROUP !! They stated an estimated 119 million people would switch to a public plan !! But the plan excludes those with employers plans,,so only 39million would choose the public plan. And those only if the health care costs privately would exceed 11percent of their income..AND, if cost became a factor, subsidies would be available to keep people to have health ins.. Wow,,doesn't that sound terrible ?? More later !! Anyone really interested in what the 'facts' and the 'lies are can get a copy of Grampa's Sept. AARP Bulletin,,and verify whats happening..So far, this three page description lists the truth of whats taking place.. THEY the BIGGEST SENIOR endorser,,HAVE READ the BILL,,and Have NO axe to grind with this issue..If you notice, they name United Health Care as a distortor! Check it out !! Golfer,,not if your new job HAS health care !! YOU read the plan. The govt plan is NOT to elilminate private health care, but to see that you have it! If your new job offers health care you get that..If there is NO health care available,,your employer has to pay 8 percent to the govt. and you pick up the rest of the premium..If your part is over eleven percent of your wage,,subsides are available.. Isn't that better than NO HEALTH CARE ?? And if we the people have to pay an extra usage tax or income tax or whatever tax..The right wanting to pay NO tax is why America is where we are today.. Look out,,your neighborhood bridge may fall down next week !! BUT,, you havent had to pay new taxes!! WATER SK To TRY and inform Brain Dead 'SHEEPLE' who blindly follow the right Republicans who get their marching orders from the right conservative talk show MISFITS !! I try not to influence but to educate..After that, its your own stupidity or intelligence which guides your decisions !!
What groups have supported and opposed social insurance for health care in the U.S? Historically in the United States, what groups have supported social insurance for health care, and what groups have opposed it? Why do you think this is the case?
Cat Section: United Pet Group Expands Recall? United Pet Group Voluntarily Expands Recall of Nutritional Supplements For Dogs to Include Additional Tablet and Powdered-Form Products for Dogs and Cats Because of Possible Salmonella Health Risk Consumers Contact: (877) 399-5226 Media Contact: Carey Phelps (770) 360-5292 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 2, 2010 – United Pet Group, Cincinnati, Ohio is voluntarily expanding its recent recall of its Pro-Pet Adult Daily Vitamin Supplement tablets for Dogs to include additional pet nutritional supplement products for dogs and cats due to possible Salmonella contamination. The list of recalled products is provided below. The Food and Drug Administration is aware of this recall. The recalled products are sold nationally at various retailers. The products include various United Pet Group Pro-Pet and Excel branded products for dogs and cats, and certain other private label brands of the same products. All of the affected products are in tablet and powdered form. These products are being removed from retail stores and consumers should immediately stop feeding these supplements to their pets. The affected products are those with expiration dates that include and are between "01/2013" and "06/2013." Products with expiration dates earlier than 01/2013 or later than 06/2013 are not included in this recall. The expiration date can be found imprinted vertically on the right side of the product label. Laboratory testing has revealed that some lots of some of these products may be contaminated with Salmonella. The company is recalling the additional products out of an abundance of caution. Pets with Salmonella infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some pets will have only decreased appetite, fever and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian. People who handle these products can become infected with Salmonella, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with them or any surfaces exposed to these products. Healthy people infected with Salmonella should monitor themselves for some or all of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Rarely, Salmonella can result in more serious ailments, including arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation, and urinary tract symptoms. Consumers exhibiting these signs after having contact with the product should contact their healthcare providers. Consumers who have purchased the affected products are urged to contact United Pet Group or the place of purchase for further direction. Consumers may contact United Pet Group at 1-877-399-5226, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm EST. Additional Details **ALSO - This is not the site I got the recall info from, but it does have a table of all the recalled products. I was using one of the products up until now so thank god I saw this. http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm217999.htm
The republicans keep quoting the Lewin group, Why? the "lewin group" is United health care one of the largest health insurance companys in the u.s.and repubicans (grassely bohner,gingrich and lots of others)keep quoting them wouldnt they be biased? i'm saying the Lewin group is Biased
Which Company would you rather work for? United Health Care Group? OR Ceridian's Tax Service?
If I file independent on my taxes, will I loose my insurance from UHC as my parents' dependent? I live in the state of Indiana and am currently on my father's group insurance from United Health Care. I know that Indiana will allow dependents to stay on their parents' insurance up to the age of 24 regardless of student status. I'm a student anyway, but I want to file independent on my taxes this year. However, I don't want to loose my insurance. Will my tax status affect my dependency on insurance?
Insurance coverage question? ok let me start from the beginning..... i wanna go to a dermatologist because i have an acne problem but idk if my insurance will cover b/c i've never use it before.... my insurance is United Health Group
Conservatives, help me understand your way of thinking.? I would like to know why so many conservatives think it is patriotic and/or funny to call the President of the United Sates a socialist, Nazi, killer, liar, and compare him to some of the most insane dictators of the 20th century that killed millions of their own people? Explain to me how you are standing up for America when you support a public official who calls the president a liar during an address to congress. I do not understand how you believe you are uniting the country by spreading hate, fear, and racism. You are entitled to your political beliefs as much as i am, but stop saying that you love this country by personally attacking people you do not agree with and by drawing a Hitler mustache on the Presidents picture. Also, explain to me why when the President and Liberals stand up for the citizens of this country instead of the corporations, they are Un-American socialists. Do you really care more about the profit margins of United Health Group than you do the health and well being of the people of this country? I would really like to get your honest opinions on this, so please refrain from any hateful or sarcastic comments. Thanks for that 'The Pen is Mightier.' Let me just point out why Liberals were calling Bush Hitler: Bush lied to the American people about WMD's in Iraq. He told us that the Al Qaeda was somehow in bed with Saddam Hussein. He spied on U.S. citizens by tapping their phones, reading their e-mails, and checking their library records. He would not tell us about the horendous actions that were taking place in Abu Graib or Gitmo. And one of my favorites, he lied to us about torture and kidnapping saying it did not exist. I think that the only person that should be compared to Hitler is Adolf Hitler. I was sick when the ultra left accused Bush of plotting 9/11 and comparing him to Hitler. So don't you dare call me a hypocrite.
Why are insurance stocks soaring? MSNBC host berates Democratic lawmaker over soaring insurance stocks By David Edwards Friday, December 18th, 2009 http://rawstory.com/2009/12/ratigan-berates-wasserman-schultz/ Excerpt: MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan shouted down Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) after she couldn't answer why insurance stocks have increased since major reforms have been stripped from health care legislation. The health care reform bill "does very little to bring real choice and competition to the insurance market place," explained Ratigan. "It does very little to reform the insurance monopolies. It does very little to create more choices for everybody in America for their health care but at the same time it mandates that everybody in America face penalties if they don't buy health care." "The result of that has been the following," continued Ratigan. "You know the monopoly scenario. I want you to take a look at the insurance stocks in this country on news of the creation of millions of new customers but the bill doesn't reform the monopoly structure." WellPoint stocks are up 12.6% since November 17. United Health Group, Aetna and Humana are also up significantly.
the group primarilyresponsible for maintainig peace and security in the united nations is the..? a.secretariat b.world health organization c.security council
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
College Application Help. Desperately.? Okay, so I'm really new to and confused about this whole college application process. I'm attempting to get into an ivy league school and need all the help I can get. GPA - 4.68 (unweighted) Taking - 5 or 6 AP classes in my senior year and took 2 in my junior year List of Extracurriculars: •Editor of the school newspaper •Executive Council member •Tutor/Peer Mediator •Went to Georgetown Leadership Conference •Teaching Guitar to younger children for 3 years •Organizer of Save Darfur campaign •Member of SADD club •Member of Stand Tall •Robotics Club •Champion Figure Skater •Gymnastics/Dance Student for over 10 years. •National Honors Society •Foreign Language Society •Play in school orchestra (violin and flute) •Dance team I don't know what information to put on the application or how many to put. Still doing: Job (do i even really need work experience for college?) Summer service/volunteer internship thing at United Health Group (mom’s work) Community Service Hours -Library -Hospital What other kind of stuff would put my application over the top or help my presentation for colleges. Oh, and I plan on being a psychiatrist, so for my undergrad I'm going to major in Psychology and minor in Biology. Something like that.
Representation of Asians in science and health fields? Are Asian-Americans considered to be from a "underrepresented" ethnic group? I know that Asian-Americans are considered to be part of the minority in the United States, but are Asians "underrepresented" in the sciences or in the allied health professions? I want proof why or why not Asians are underrepresented or not in health and science. NO wikipedia please. They have to be reputable sources.
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
Health care in the United States...? Before you read the question, I do know that this is a loaded question. I am looking for everyone's answers (to this question). Most people will concede that there is a problem with health care in the United States. General consensus (and statistics) shows that the population pays too much for health care. Insurance companies deny reasonable claims to save money when they shouldn't. Doctors and nurses are overworked and not (for the most part) paid based on performance. Preventative care doesn't hold as much importance, leading to more doctor visits down the road. Because of insurance companies, doctors and hospitals cannot give the care they would like to. Due to drug legislation (including recent bills passed) prescriptions are becoming extremely expensive. A drug can be sold at many times the production cost for a large profit (for the drug company). On the flip-side: Without drugs being expensive, companies have less want to spend so much in research and development. Remember that almost all statistics can be interpreted more than one way. For starters, see: http://www.who.int/ http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html My opinion: I believe we should look at the (much) more successful models of Canada, Britain, and France. Each is slightly different, but has benefits. Each is called social medicine, similar to how the US now has social firefighting (no more shields on houses) and social police (not so much guns for hire anymore). This is paid for by taxes. The amount that people generally pay towards health insurance would be, on average, the same in taxes. The difference would be that everyone gets care and there is no insurance company to deny claims. Why? There are no claims to deny. The government also cover all, or most of the cost of prescriptions. There can still be competition between drug makers and there would still be a profit to be made. It's just that now prescriptions are affordable for everyone. Are there downsides to this system? Of course. Nevertheless, I honestly believe that it's a better system than what we have now. The only drawbacks I've heard were mainly from the conservative groups. "It's Communist/Socialist." -So then, our police, firefighters, road-workers, etc. Communist policies as well? Then there was Giuliani with his whole cancer speech which was later found to be completely incorrect, and noted so by his aides. "Would you pay more taxes for this?" -For the assurance of health care? Of course! I would definitely stop paying insurance and just pay a higher tax. Our taxes are relatively low as it stands right now and there are plenty of taxes that can be abolished. "You would need oversight committees." -Yes. Is that such a bad thing? "You would have to wait longer to be seen." -Actually, it's quite the opposite as evidenced by the other countries with it. There wouldn't be half the crap that there is now so patients would be able to get in and out much more quickly. Again, what do you think? And please, let's keep this civilized and as informed as possible. They come here for better specialists I agree with. Overall, most doctors are paid more and trained better in the US. So, there are better ones here. And I don't think universal health care is failing in those countries due to the system. I think it has to do with the other problems in the government as well. Considering I'm also in health care, I see everything too. What I forgot to mention is that I DEFINITELY want to hear both sides of this. Being in health care, this is important to me and I've been reading news, statistics, and propaganda for both sides as well as seeing it up close. sgtpepper: Would you say that the VA's problems are due to the lack of sufficient funds? Would a generalized health care tax be enough to cover the problems faced there? Just thinking...
"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.
Health Insurance Scam? I want to get my own Health insurance plan and get off my companies group plan. I was looking at many different plans online and have talked to quite a few agents. I wanted a well known insurance plan like BCBS, Aetna ,or United health care. I found a plan that I really like. Its United Health One which is said to be a form of United health care. I spoke with the agent for about an hour and decided it was a plan I would like. I gave him all my information, including credit card info and banking info. I printed out my whole application and have a receipt for my first months payment. Now i'm freaked out that is a scam and not really insurance or something. Has anyone gotten insurance through an online application? Did you get the insurance cards? did your premium go up? all help with be appreciated. Thanks!
Why do BIG PHARMA and BIG INSURANCE love the health care bill so much? Martha Coakley's (Democrat candidate for Senate in Massachusetts) top fundraisers: * Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb * Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA * Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer * Steven Champlin, Duberstein Group: AHIP, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis * Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen * Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care * David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA. * Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health * Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis. * Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth * Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis. * Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE. http://www.businessinsider.com/healthcare-lobbyists-descend-on-massachusetts-to-save-the-60th-vote-for-reform-2010-1 some of her top fundraisers... They're all lining up to get her elected it seems!
Why do big pharma companies and insurance companies support the health care bill, libs? "Panicked Healthcare Lobbyists Descend On Massachusetts To Save The 60th Democratic Vote For Reform We've been following the special election in Massachusetts, where the GOP hopes to pull a surprise upset in the race to fill Ted Kennedy's seat. If they do pull it off, healthcare reform is instantly in trouble, as the Democrats drop below 60. But money is coming to the rescue of Democrat Martha Coakley -- healthcare industry lobbyist money, specifically. Tim Carney identifies several of her top fundraisers. Take a look at who they represent: * Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb * Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA * Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer * Steven Champlin, Duberstein Group: AHIP, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis * Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen * Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care * David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA. * Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health * Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis. * Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth * Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis. * Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE. Of course, this is how politics works. Lobbyists for various corporations and causes get involved wherever they can for candidates of both parties. But when you see all these big pharma (and insurance!) representatives coming with cash for a crucial vote, you know which side they're on." http://www.businessinsider.com/healthcare-lobbyists-descend-on-massachusetts-to-save-the-60th-vote-for-reform-2010-1 ArRo, they are last minute pushing the Democrat candidate in order for that Democrat to vote FOR the health care bill. Open your eyes. They want it to pass. Just like Obama is good buddies with Jeff Kindler from Pfizer. Corporatism at its best!!!
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...
I had a question about annual deductibles....? I had 2 medical procedures done in the same year (2 months apart). I had been on the insurance for a few years (United Health Care Group). They are having me pay in full for the 1st x-ray (statement says they are counting it towards my annual deductible) and then they are paying in full for the 2nd identical x-ray at the same IN-NETWORK hospital stating that it's a covered expense. I phoned UHC & they say both procedures were under the correct limits to be covered but when the case is reviewed it comes back as my responsibility. Both instances were filed under the hospital billing side. I just don't understand why they decided to pay for one & not the other. I have spoken with other United Healthcare Members that have had the same situation occur & they also don't understand UHC's methodology of selecting when to charge an identical covered in-network procedure (in the same business year) towards the annual deductible.
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!
Does America need more of this from their private health-care insurers? Ex-executive accuses insurance giant of 'purging' customers " In his testimony and during an interview with CNN, Potter described how underwriters at his former company would drive small businesses with expensive insurance claims to dump their Cigna policies. Industry executives refer to the practice as "purging," Potter said. "When that business comes up for renewal, the underwriters jack the rates up so much, the employer has no choice but to drop insurance," Potter said. CNN obtained a transcript of a 2008 Cigna conference call with investors in which company executives use the term "purge." But in an e-mail to CNN, Cigna spokesman Chris Curran denied the company engages in purging. "We do not practice that. We will offer rates that are reflective of the competitive group health insurance market. We always encourage our clients to compare our proposed rates to those available from other carriers," Curran wrote. Cigna had revenue of $19.1 billion in 2008, according to the company Web site." " "They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns. They'll say what people want to hear," Potter says. "It's how they operate. You cannot trust these guys." Potter is also taking aim at some of the TV commercials aired by groups opposed to changes. One such ad caught Potter's eye. Run by the conservative organization Patients United Now, the ad says that "now, Washington wants to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S." "Sometimes you'll see misleading information. And sometimes you'll see outright lies, like that [ad] is," Potter said, referring to the spot." http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/02/insurance.purging/index.html
If Obama pays your bills for you, will you support his Health Care Deform plans? The UAW will! http://www.detnews.com/article/20090824/AUTO01/908240361/1148/rss25 "The United Auto Workers is urging its members to back efforts in Congress to reform health care coverage, citing a provision that includes $10 billion to defray the medical costs of union members and others in retiree group health care associations." Blagojevich couldn't have done it better.
Why would a Right-Wing Group Trick British Women Into Appearing In an Anti-Reform Ad? Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, began running a commercial attacking the British health care system. The TV ad runs through “tragic stories” of British citizens who it portrays as being against government-run health care such as the National Health Service (NHS). Furious Kate Spall and Katie Brickell claim that their views on the NHS have been misrepresented by a free market campaign group opposed to Mr Obama’s reforms in a bid to discredit the UK system. CPR’s ad campaign is one of many misleading attacks being used by American conservatives against the United Kingdom’s single-payer health care system, which is so popular that even Conservative Party politicians unambiguously endorse it.
Anyone ever switch health insurance while pregnant? Only in the good ol USA do we have to stress about how in the world we're going to afford medical bills.. I have United Healthcare right now but they do not offer maternity coverage at all unless Im on a group plan. That is not an option for me because my work doesn't offer insurance. I've checked into BCBS but would they consider being pregnant a "pre-existing condition". I have a call in to a rep and am waiting for a call back but I'm just looking for advice or experiences pleeease. Thanks
To those who say we will not be force to buy health insurance..? please explain this to me? this comes from the library of congress website, from the actual bill that was passed. `(i) PENALTY NOT TO APPLY WHERE FAILURE NOT DISCOVERED EXERCISING REASONABLE DILIGENCE- No penalty shall be assessed under subparagraph (A) with respect to any failure during any period for which it is established to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the employer did not know, or exercising reasonable diligence would not have known, that such failure existed. `(ii) PENALTY NOT TO APPLY TO FAILURES CORRECTED WITHIN 30 DAYS- No penalty shall be assessed under subparagraph (A) with respect to any failure if-- `(I) such failure was due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect, and `(II) such failure is corrected during the 30-day period beginning on the 1st date that the employer knew, or exercising reasonable diligence would have known, that such failure existed. `(iii) OVERALL LIMITATION FOR UNINTENTIONAL FAILURES- In the case of failures which are due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect, the penalty assessed under subparagraph (A) for failures during any 1-year period shall not exceed the amount equal to the lesser of-- `(I) 10 percent of the aggregate amount paid or incurred by the employer (or predecessor employer) during the preceding 1-year period for group health plans, or `(II) $500,000. `(D) ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF FAILURE PRIOR TO ASSESSMENT- Before a reasonable time prior to the assessment of any penalty under this paragraph with respect to any failure by an employer, the Secretary shall inform the employer in writing of such failure and shall provide the employer information regarding efforts and procedures which may be undertaken by the employer to correct such failure. `(E) COORDINATION WITH EXCISE TAX- Under regulations prescribed in accordance with section 324 of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, the Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury shall coordinate the assessment of penalties under this section in connection with failures to satisfy health coverage participation requirements with the imposition of excise taxes on such failures under section 4980H(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 so as to avoid duplication of penalties with respect to such failures. `(F) DEPOSIT OF PENALTY COLLECTED- Any amount of penalty collected under this paragraph shall be deposited as miscellaneous receipts in the Treasury of the United States.'. Please to all defend this and tell me this is not a form of government intervening in everyday life? i am 28 i have not needed medical help for over what...NEVER...it should be by age if you are over say 45 you should have to buy this..why 45..higher risk of heart attack, so on and so forth.
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.
What's your thought about #1 having a Health-Care Program, and #2 Should Illegal Aliens be included? Liberals Seek Health-care Access for Illegals By Stephen Dinan Fearful that they're losing ground on immigration and health care, a group of House Democrats is pushing back and arguing that any health care bill should extend to all legal immigrants and allow illegal immigrants some access. The Democrats, trying to stiffen their party's spines on the contentious issue, say it's unfair to bar illegal immigrants from paying their own way in a government-sponsored exchange. Legal immigrants, they say, regardless of how long they've been in the United States, should be able to get government-subsidized health care if they meet the other eligibility requirements. "Legal permanent residents should be able to purchase their plans, and they should also be eligible for subsidies if they need it. Undocumented, if they can afford it, should be able to buy their own private plans. It keeps them out of the emergency room," said Rep. Michael M. Honda, California Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Mr. Honda was joined by more than 20 of his colleagues in two letters laying out the demands. Coverage for immigrants is one of the thorniest issues in the health care debate, and one many Democratic leaders would like to avoid. But immigrant rights groups and the Democrats who sent the letters say they have to take a stand now. President Obama has said he does not want health care proposals to cover illegal immigrants. The bill drawn up by Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, excludes illegal immigrants from his proposed health care exchange. Mr. Honda and his allies, though, say illegal immigrants should be allowed to pay for insurance if they can afford it, even if it comes through a government-established exchange. As a generally young, healthy part of the population, illegal immigrants could help reduce overall costs for those who buy into health exchange plans, the lawmakers said. The Democrats' letters, however, do not issue ultimatums or threaten to withhold support for the bills if their requests aren't met. The National Council of La Raza launched its own "flood their voice mail" campaign last week to put pressure on Mr. Baucus to expand coverage in his proposal to include all legal immigrants and to drop verification language in the legislation that would prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining coverage. Mr. Honda told The Washington Times that he's not pushing for illegal immigrants to gain access to taxpayer-subsidized benefits. "That's an argument that's been done already," he said. Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, said proposals that include government coverage for illegal immigrants leave him incredulous. "If anybody can, with a straight face, advocate that we should provide health insurance for people who broke into our country, broke our law and for the most part are criminals, I don't know where they ever would draw the line," he said. Mr. King, who opposes Democrats' health care plans in general, said illegal immigrant access in legislation "would be a poison pill that would cause health care to go down" to defeat. Twenty-nine Democrats signed on to the letter on legal immigrants, while 21 signed the letter on covering illegal immigrants. Although the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus signed the legal-immigrant letter in their capacity as CBC officials, they signed the other letter as individual members of Congress. Under the 1996 welfare law overhaul, Congress restricted most federal benefits to longtime holders of green cards - those who have been in the country at least five years. But Democrats chipped away at that rule when they reauthorized the State Children's Health Insurance Program earlier this year and allowed states to cover all immigrant children and pregnant women, regardless of how long they've been in the country. In their letter, the Democrats said health care costs are much lower for legal immigrants than for native citizens. "Immigrants are part of our families, our communities, our economy, and contribute to the fabric of America," they wrote. "It is simply wrong that their taxes would pay for public health insurance programs to which they are not allowed access." Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/liberals-seek-health-care-access-for-illegals/
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?
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.
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...
Clinton and Obama's Health Care Plans? Hillary's would make it manditory that every person in the United States purchase health care. Obaman"s would make it only manditory that you must cover all your children. My question is now about Religious Groups such as the Amish who do not believe in insurance will they be forced to purchase it. If not is that fair?
How much are liberals spending on heralthcare reform campaigm? New health reform group to spend $40 million Email Print RSS New York Times, July 3, 2008 A national advertisement by the newly formed group Health Care for America Now will take on insurance companies and argue for comprehensive, affordable healthcare in the United States. Health Care for America Now, an umbrella group of labor unions, healthcare organizations and liberal activists, announced it would spend $40 million to promote affordable healthcare. Seeing they always like to complain about insurance spending on campaigns, let's talk about what they are spending to try and push trough their agenda
Do you agree that the following are lies intended to stop health reform? Lie #1: President Obama and Congressional Democrats are seeking to “nationalize” health care, which will result in “socialized medicine.” The Truth: Fear-inducing buzzwords such as “nationalization” and “socialized medicine” are not accurate descriptions of Obama’s health care approach. In reality, Obama and Congressional Democrats are advocating that health care remain primarily in private hands, but that the government should design a "health insurance exchange" and “public option” to cover most of the estimated 46 million uninsured. In addition, Obama is promoting new regulations to reduce escalating health care costs, guarantee the portability of insurance policies, and limit the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage simply because of preexisting conditions. Lie #2: "Universal health care” is overly bureaucratic and results in a “government takeover” of health care. The Truth: The U.S. is the only country in the industrialized world that does not have some form of universal health care. But “universal” is not synonymous with a “government takeover.” Though some countries such as Great Britain and Canada have indeed nationalized major components of their health care systems, other countries such as Germany and the Netherlands have found ways in which to cover everyone while also retaining a strong private insurance system. In this regard, Obama and a majority of Congressional Democrats have endorsed a relatively moderate approach designed to reduce bureaucratic red tape in both private and public health care institutions. Under such a plan, no one will be compelled to switch from his or her insurance company to a public option. Lie #3: Health care reform will result in the rationing of care, thus depriving people of important medical services. The Truth: Insurance companies are actually the ones who are currently rationing health care in the U.S. Every day, countless thousands of Americans are denied payment for needed operations and treatments by health insurance companies. In contrast, there is nothing in any of the major Democratic proposals that would ration care. This is simply another scare tactic designed by conservative special interest groups to forestall any major reform of the system. Lie #4: Health care reform, as proposed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats, will supply illegal immigrants with health care coverage. The Truth: The main House bill, HR 3200, actually bans the coverage of illegal immigrants. According to Section 246 in the bill, any type of health insurance exchange or public option would forbid payments "on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States." Lie #5: Health care reform proposals endorsed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats will mandate “death panels” for elderly patients, thus encouraging euthanasia. The Truth: There is absolutely nothing in any of the bills before Congress that would provide for death panels or euthanasia. What HR 3200, Section 1233, actually states is that Medicare would be required to pay doctors for consultations with patients about "advance care planning," such as living wills, hospice care, etc. The American Medical Association, which has endorsed the Democratic approach to health care reform, has noted that such consultations would be strictly voluntary and not result in any type of rationing of care or euthanasia for seniors. Lie #6: Democratic proposals for health care reform include a provision that would allow the U.S. government to access patients’ bank accounts and related financial records. The Truth: Section 163 of HR 3200 entitled "Standards for financial and administrative transactions" requires the government to set "comprehensive, efficient and robust" rules for electronic transactions, thus reducing expensive and duplicative paperwork. This is one of several provisions that are designed to cut administrative costs and red tape in the health care bureaucracy. This provision only covers companies involved in medical billing and not individual patients. Lie #7: The U.S. cannot afford any new, expensive government programs that will fuel the deficit for years to come. The Truth: Currently, the U.S. has the most expensive health care system in the world. Every year, health care costs continue to rise, while insurance companies raise premiums and other out of pocket expenses for average consumers. Health care costs result in sixty percent of all bankruptcies in the US. One major reason why health care is so expensive is due to the approximately 46 million Americans who are uninsured that tend to visit emergency rooms for even minor ailments. As the most expensive place to receive care, ERs drive up the cost of health care in general. With universal health care, ER visits would almost certainly decline, thus saving huge sums of money. Maintaining the status quo will only fuel the federal deficit since health care inflation is having a dram
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...
Independent Study Project - Health Care Survey? Dear Yahoo Answerers: Here is the survey I told some of you I would post. It is a direct copy from last year's Independent Study project, and I thought if I could get some of you to take it that would be a huge help in continuing the research I plan to do. I realize some of these questions may be personal, and if you do not feel comfortable answering them period I complete understand. However, if you would prefer to answer privately through my email, feel free. Thanks for your help! Health Insurance Around The World: This survey is for a student Independent Investigation. It is designed to help me learn about what people know, their concerns, and opinions about health care systems. Even if some questions make no sense to you, it is preferred that you answer these questions on your own without asking other people. I am hoping to get people of all ages to take this survey, so I can hopefully see a pattern as to which age groups and people are aware or not aware of health insurance flaws. If you have any comments before or after, please write in the space below. Thank you for taking this survey! 1. Are you an adult (over 18)? 2. Does your family have health insurance? 3. If your family does have health insurance, what company? 4. Do you think that the United States has problems in their health insurance systems? 5. Have you ever heard about health insurance policies/issues before? If yes, where? 6. Who do you think has health insurance in the United States? 7. In France, the poorest of its people receive free health care. It is payed for by taxes. Would you be willing to pay these taxes in order for the United State's poorest people to get free health care? 8. In Spain, if you are not eligible for public health care then you are practically required to apply for private health insurance. You may not be let in the country without it. Having private health care allows you to skip waiting lists and to receive treatment faster than those with public health care. A large amount of public healthcare is free or low cost, however it does not mean it is all free and waiting for treatment may be involved. It comes to the tradeoff of whether you want forced private healthcare with no waits, or if you prefer public healthcare. This almost ensures that Spain's residents all have healthcare, but not at the same cost and quality of treatment. Does this healthcare system appeal to you? 9. If you were in charge of the United State's healthcare system, what would health care system would you strive for? How would you get the money for this health care system? 10. Are you content with health care systems in the United States? 11. What worries you the most? just fyi: xopshhaaox@yahoo.com
Why is it La Raza Demands Obama's Health Reform Plan Cover Illegal Aliens? On Monday, June 15, the National Council of La Raza (La Raza), an open borders advocacy group, issued a statement calling upon Congress to ensure that illegal aliens are given health benefits if and when Congress considers health care reform. La Raza's statement "strongly urge[d] President Obama and Congress to make every effort to ensure that health care reform reaches all communities" in the United States, and stressed that "one out of every three uninsured persons and roughly 40% of all uninsured children [in the United States] are Latino," and demanded "health care reform that makes coverage affordable and accessible for everyone — all families and all children." La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguía used the statement to emphasize that "everyone in the U.S. should contribute to a new health system," and that "Latinos [would] accept their responsibility" to contribute to a new health care system and "will pay their fair share for the health coverage they need." While the statement does not reference illegal immigration specifically, or distinguish between legal and illegal aliens, it does express concern that adding new, expensive verification and documentation procedures for immigrants would "severely restrict access to health care coverage." (La Raza Press Release, June 15, 2009). Specific research has shown that many illegal aliens lack health insurance and represent a disproportionate share of the United States' uninsured population. The Pew Hispanic Center's recent report, A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States, found that 59% of illegal aliens in the United States had no form of health insurance in 2007, and that 45% of illegal alien children were also without health coverage in 2007. It also found that even the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens were insured at the low rate of 25%, and that there was a significant disparity between the volume of uninsured illegal aliens and the volume of uninsured U.S. citizens and other legal residents. (Pew Hispanic Center Report, April 14, 2009). Pew's information has support in federal statistics: data collected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Census Bureau for the same time frame show that approximately 33.2% of the foreign-born population in the United States (a category which does not differentiate between newly naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, and illegal aliens) were uninsured in 2007, and that almost 10 million foreign-born non-citizens lacked health insurance in 2007. (DHS Fact Sheet, February 2009). (For more information on how illegal immigration is financially impacting the U.S. health care system, see FAIR's Legislative Updates for April 13, 2009, and April 20, 2009). http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=20785&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1721#1
Why isn't the beef recall in California in more news headlines? I mainly read my news online, so I don't know about major newspapers, but I only noticed the California beef recall when it was on the yahoo most searched list. It should be on all major headlines!!! This is the food we EAT! Here is a portion of the FDA press release: WASHINGTON, June 3, 2007 - United Food Group, LLC, a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 75,000 pounds of ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. The problem was discovered through sampling done by the California Department of Health Services and the Colorado Department of Health, in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the course of an investigation into illnesses. The ground beef products were produced on April 20 and were shipped to retail distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Utah.
Which class is most relevant to the field of medicine and psychology? I asked this question twice before, but I forgot to put in class descriptions. Here are my class choices: Biological Anthropology/Archaeology: Using critical thinking skills, students explore the scientific approaches to surveying and understanding biological differences in past and present human populations. Topics include the study of bone, anatomy, and archaeological techniques used by modern scientists to uncover the past. This course includes career explorations, field trip opportunities, and hands-on laboratory investigations. Sociology: Sociology 1 is concerned with human groups and factors that unite or divide them, including culture, values, social groups, social stratification, population, the family, socialization, propaganda, and social institutions. Focus is on the impact of change on mores, norms, and customs. In Sociology 2, emphasis is placed on the application of the basic concepts of social change to American institutions, particularly education and the family. Research papers focus on community or on-site research. This course acquaints students with the discipline and history of philosophy. Major philosophers and their works are studied with focus on such issues as the nature of the universe; the basic moral and intellectual superstructure of society; good and evil; free will and determinism; and the relationship of a person to other individuals and to the state. Current trends in philosophy are studied as well Family Life and Human Development: Students develop a greater understanding of how family relationships and human sexuality have an impact on individual health and society. Topics include interpersonal relationships; economics of family life; responsibilities of marriage and parenting; pregnancy prevention; pregnancy and childbirth; and sexually transmitted infections. Which class would be most relevant and second most relevant? The third description is PHILOSOPHY
Why is it impossible for a Bipolar I diagnosed person to get health insurance? I am a 26 year old, fully functioning, working, female adult who just happens to have a Bipolar I diagnosis that I got at the age of 21 while still in college. It so happens that I was on my parents healthcare until the age of 23, and then was uninsured. I have had several high paying jobs with group benefits since then, but I recently quit the last one to return home to help an ailing family member with a family business. Because it is a company of under 6 people, there is no group insurance plan. I have money and am proud that I earn my own wages. I have NO problems paying ridiculous amounts for health insurance, provided that they will cover prescriptions and everything but co-pays. My current insurance plan is crap and will not cover any psychiatric treatment, will only cover regular medical expenses (broken arm, stitches, etc) after I've paid $500 out of my own pocket, and no prescriptions. I have applied (and been denied) for health insurance already from: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana, United, and a couple of other major health insurance agencies. They all reject me immediately because of the Bipolar I diagnosis. I have appealed this rejection a few times because I have never been hospitalized as an inpatient, I have never hurt myself, etc. It seems very unfair to me that they randomly reject me without viewing my case file. My psychiatrist is even willing to write a letter on my behalf and I have had insurance agents personally appeal to underwriting, to no avail. I have had NO problems with my disorder since I've been medicated, which was December of 2003. Any suggestions here? I really need health insurance... at some point I'd like to have children, and nevermind the fact that I just want to be covered in case of emergency. Thanks! Some additional details: I *did* qualify for COBRA and paid it, the last payment they did not receive in the mail so they cancelled me. I appealed it several times and lost it. My state does have a high risk pool but I was told I did not qualify. Any more information on this is appreciated. I make too much money to qualify for Medicare or prescription assistance. Thanks!
How would a traffic-free urban playground, go over in Chicago? NYC Experiments With Traffic-Free Urban Playground NEW YORK - In Paris, they call it La Plage, or the beach. And in Bogota, Colombia, it's Ciclovia, or bikeway. For six hours Saturday in New York, it was called Summer Streets: Nearly seven miles of Manhattan that were stripped of traffic, creating a weekend playground for bikers, walkers and loungers. "Bellissimo!" declared Antonio de Lucia, a tourist from Caserta, Italy, who read about the event and decided to walk about three miles from his Chinatown hotel to a friend's Times Square restaurant — with more than 90 pounds of luggage. An hour into his hike, he was smiling as he sauntered up a stretch of Park Avenue awash in cyclists, pedestrians and in-line skaters. One man on a bicycle swooped down a sloped section of the avenue yelling "whee!" at full voice. "It's a moment of truth for this city. People are participating — New Yorkers are united with their city," said de Lucia, a 29-year-old business consultant. Bike-loving celebrities Lance Armstrong and David Byrne are helping Mayor Michael Bloomberg launch the experiment. It emulates similar initiatives in cities around the world in aiming to create a livable, ecologically gentle urban environment. The 6.9-mile, car-free route started at the Brooklyn Bridge and ended to the north at East 72nd Street, with links to Central Park and other open spaces. It included stretches of Park and Lexington avenues and is set to be repeated for the next two Saturdays, starting at 7 a.m. The idea is simple, in the words of the city's official Web site: "Play. Run. Walk. Bike. Breathe." Fitness, dance and yoga classes were offered at a central stage along the route, with additional exercise and health activities hosted by community groups at certain cross streets. Bike rental facilities were available along the route, including learn-to-ride lessons for adults. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_on_re_us/summer_streets;_ylt=Alhg9uqWOMQDAD.DzeBFu80DW7oF
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!
Insurance question? If there difference between United Health Group and United Insurance Group company or they both the same
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.
Did Democrat's forget about Terrorism attacks in the United States? 1980s • 1980 March 15 Armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN. • 1980 June 3: Bombing of the Statue of Liberty. At 7:30 PM, a time delayed explosive device detonated in the Statue of Liberty's Story Room. Detonated after business hours, the bomb did not injure anyone, but cause $18,000 in damage, destroying many of the exhibits. The room was sealed off and left unrepaired until the Statue of Liberty restoration project that began years later. FBI investigators believed the perpetrators were Croatian terrorists seeking independence for Croatia from Yugoslavia, though no arrests were made. • 1980 July 22: Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian exile and critic of Ayatollah Khomeni, was shot in his Bethesda, Maryland home. Dawud Salahuddin, an American Muslim convert, was apparently paid by Iranians to kill Tabatabai.[14] • 1981: Michael Donald was randomly selected to be lynched by two Ku Klux Klan members. He was beaten, had his throat slit, and was hung. • 1982 January 28: Kemal Arikan, the Turkish Consul-General in Los Angeles, is killed by members of the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide. • 1982 May 4: Turkish Honorary Consul Orhan Gunduz was assassinated in his car in Somerville, Massachusetts by the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide. •1983 November 7: U.S. Senate bombing. The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombs the U.S. Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. • 1984 In what is believed to be the first incident of bioterrorism in the United States the Rajneeshee cult spreads salmonella in salad bars at 10 restaurants in The Dalles, Ore., to influence a local election. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized.[15] • 1985 October 11: Alex Odeh, a prominent Arab-American, was killed by a bomb in his office in Santa Ana, California. The case is unsolved, but it is thought the Jewish Defense League was responsible. [edit] 1990s • 1990 November 5 Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan,New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Qaeda. • 1993 February 26: First World Trade Center bombing killed six and injured 1,000. • 1993 March 10: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida, was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of the year before. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Dr. Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. • 1993 August: Dr. George Tiller was shot outside of an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas in August of 1993. Rachelle Shannon was charged with the crime and received an 11-year prison sentence. • 1994 The Earth Liberation Front since its founding that year has committed more than 1,200 acts of vandalism and arson in the U.S., causing more than $200 million in damage to property that they believe is being used to injure animals, people, or the environment. The FBI has classified the group as the top domestic terror threat. Because they do not target people they have objected to being categorized as terrorists. • 1994 March 1: Rashid Baz, a Lebanese national opens fire on a van carrying members of the Lubavitch Hasidic sect of Jews, killing one and wounding several others. The attack took place on the entrance ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge. • 1994 June 29: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot outside of an abortion facility in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings, received a death sentence, and was executed September 3, 2003. • 1994 December 30: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed when two separate abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts and Norfolk, Virginia were both attacked on December 30, 1994. John Salvi was later convicted. He committed suicide in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. • 1995 April 19: Oklahoma City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people-including children playing in the building's day care center. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols launched the attack in protest of the US government. • 1996 July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Atlanta Olympics. One person was killed and 111 injured. • 1996-2001 The Animal Liberation Front engages in arson attacks against meat-processing plants, lumber companies, a high-tension power line, and a ski center, in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, California, and Colorado. • 1997 February 24: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel [16] • 1998 January 29: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, died when his workplace was bombed on January 29, 1998. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result. •1998 July 24: A gunman storms the United States Capitol and fatally wounds two United States Capitol Police officers. • 1998 October 23: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot dead at his home in Amherst, New York on October 23, 1998. His was the last in a series of similar shootings against abortion providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Dr. Slepian's murder after finally being apprehended in France in 2001. • 1999 April 20: Columbine High School Massacre: Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before committing suicide. [edit] 2000-present • 2001 September 11: September 11, 2001 attacks. • 2001 September 18: November - 2001 anthrax attacks. Letters tainted with anthrax kill five across the United States. The case remains unsolved. • 2002 July 4: Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, kills 2 Israelis and wounds 4 others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. The FBI concluded this was terrorism, although they found no evidence linking Hadayet to any terrorist group.[17] • May 2002 Mailbox Pipe Bomber: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. • October 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks: During three weeks in October 2002 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured 3 others in Washington D.C, Baltimore, and Virginia. An earlier spree by the pair had resulted in 3 deaths in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, California, Arizona, and Texas to bring the total to 16 deaths.
Which political group do I belong to the most? I know little about politics in America but there are certain ideals I believe in. I'll list my beliefs and you can direct me to the most valid political party. I feel that there should be a national health care plan for all Americans for free. I feel that less restrictions and more research should be done on stem cells and human cloning. I feel that church and state should be completely separated and all religious propaganda should be removed from US currency while removing "under God" from the pledge of allegiance (reverting it to its original form before being changed by a religious group). I feel that there should be no wars started by the United States without just cause and complete backing by the United Nations. There should be more focus on space exploration and colonization. There should be no more drilling for oil and the US should back research into alternative fuel sources like solar, electricity, and hydrogen instead of leaving the research up to the oil and auto companies (conflict of interests?). Does any of this make sense? Which political group do I most closely identify with? Thank you. I forgot to mention that I feel that all woman should have the right to abortions up to a certain point.
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 can we learn if our insurance is part of AIG group? Seems AIG is a group of insurance companies all over the world. Is the US the only country bailing out AIG? They used the American name, but not an American company. As I see it. I think the American people are being made fools of. These banks we are bailing out are all over the world. Just who is the US bailing out/supporting? Will AIG be in control of the Health Care if the US gets a health care plan? Who can we ask that will tell us the truth about these things? I don't want to support the entire world. I have not seen any other country helping the United States with anything. Why do we keep supporting other countries?
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Is being an Atheist or a Christian a product of mental strength and health, or weakness and malignancy? Do people chose Atheism or Religion because they worked to attain it, or because they couldn't do anything else? In Islamic countries, if you decide yourself Atheist or worse than multiple-axe murdering, [*Bleep!*] er of underaged eithergenders... a CHRISTIAN... daddy will prove to you that abortion is totally legal and retroactive to the age of ninety! You cannot get out of the state religion in some countries, except feet-first. When the state religion of the Soviet Union was Atheism, this guy applied to emigrate to the United States. people stopped him on the street: "Excuse me- but why would you want to leave the Soviet Union?" The fishmonger, wrapping fish, "But why do you want to leave the Soviet Union?" The news vendor, "Why do you want to- ?" 3am. Knock on the door. Postman, "But why do you want to leave the Soviet Union?" Guy answers: "Because in America, they do not deliver your mail at 3am.!" I was born into Christian religion in England. as a sign of independence that year, I was not baptized with an Oyinbo colonial name. Many of us got born into totally sucking religions, because there was no room at the inn. It is not an excuse. Being born in the wrong religion is a good excuse to die young. Being born in the right religion but the wrong sect is like buying a ticket to the Titanic, and being stuck with the group that doesn't get to go in a lifeboat. I was raised Orthodox Anglican (Episcopalian), that means that I was nineteen before I ever heard that JESUS IS ALIVE. Very *Duh!* If you asked me, "Did Jesus rise from the dead?" I would have said, "Yes. So?" If Jesus is ALIVE, we can access his Power! I was going to die at 20, because I was taught that his Healing Power was merely legendary, and if I was allergic to antimalarial drugs, and they had less and less effect on the disease, and more and more on ME, that was TOO BAD. I was just gonna have to DIE. Within two months after I was Born Again, I learned I could heal myself calling on Jesus' Name and trusting in God's Healing Promises. It was not until several years later that it occurred to me that what I did was completely impossible to nine out of ten Christians. I was to find myself wading through legions of... well, scum churchgoers, who had no business being in the same neighbourhood as a church, never mind being a member. These people did not know what they were talking about, nor what they were doing. At this time, as I write this my deputy-boss, a pastor, is regaling us with a Tale of Power, of a Christian who saved his life through the ESP application of the Holy Ghost, that warned him that armed robbers had sabotaged his generator, and were about to kill him when he stepped outside to fix it. He tried to move to open the door, and Something would not let him. He was guided to a window, where he saw one of them, with his gun in his hand, covering the door. At this time, his grandmother is on her possible deathbed, with oxygen. All HIS Faith is good for, is telling stories. I have seen him and others leave others to die, without even TRYING to use their faith to save their lives. when their children are sick, they have to bring them in for treatment, because they have no power to heal them. the other day, our boss and her husband- also Pentecostals, were in a panic because they thought their kid had been kidnapped. Actaully, her sister had brought her HERE to the Health centre, but neither of them *SENSED* that. They even called in Security. Yet she makes fun of my advanced teachings on development and control of Holy Ghost Powers. Yuppies like them, rejected Jesus while getting their degrees, and once they obtained the career and Partner of their choice say, "NOW, Jesus, I an READY to serve you with ALL MY HEART...!" Only- it DOESN'T work. God and Jesus do not accept "Sloppy Seconds" type of worship. These people will NEVER accept that all their elaborate services and rituals are IGNORED by God. REAL worship is a LOT of EFFORT, that cannot even be initiated without certain HEARTFELT beliefs, and HIGH INTELLECT. A hypocrite will say, "WHY should I MEMORIZE The Gospel of Jesus? WHy do I NEED to remember EXACTLY what Jesus said on ever occasion?" A REAL Christian has already answered these questions without hearing them. Many people try to boast: "I USED TO be a Christian, but I WAS TOO SMART for that RUBBISH-!" That statement gains a lot of sympathy with other Unbelievers, who will like to think of themselves as "too smart for Yahweh!" It is relatively RARE to find an Atheist who has memorized significant portions of The Bible. There are more of them than Christians like to think. But it is amazing that Christians have NO RESPECT for someone who can recite entire passages disproving their pet doctrines. If it was one of THEM, they'd say, "Yea, verily, GOD IS IN HIM!" But if it were someone who didn't believe as they did, it would be, "Well, THE DEVIL can quote scripture, too, you know!" As if they were so somehow better than Satan, by being ignorant. Atheism from true intellectual superiority is rare. The truth is usually that the Unbeliever does not have the self-discipline to humble themselves to obey instructions from God relayed through people whom they consider their inferiors, and may never have even read The Bible with aview to obeying these instructions themselves.
So do you really think some sort of government funded health care plan is the way to go ala Obama?...? So people have health insurance... now whos gonna treat em? http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters/us_doctors_usa_survey.html Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey Couple of snippets... The survey adds to building evidence that not enough internal medicine or family practice doctors are trained or practicing in the United States, although there are plenty of specialist physicians Health care reform is near the top of the list of priorities for both Congress and president-elect Barack Obama, and doctor's groups are lobbying for action to reduce their workload and hold the line on payments for treating Medicare, Medicaid and other patients with federal or state health insurance. Actually yes, i DID read it, if you had any sort of reading COMPREHENSION, that was a blurb from a few, and not the general consensius. nor does it mean it will decrease their workload. try READING the whole thing yourselves. Kthxbai
Which class will better prepare me for college? Sociology: Sociology 1 is concerned with human groups and factors that unite or divide them, including culture, values, social groups, social stratification, population, the family, socialization, propaganda, and social institutions. Focus is on the impact of change on mores, norms, and customs. In Sociology 2, emphasis is placed on the application of the basic concepts of social change to American institutions, particularly education and the family. Research papers focus on community or on-site research. Biological Anthropology/Archaeology: Using critical thinking skills, students explore the scientific approaches to surveying and understanding biological differences in past and present human populations. Topics include the study of bone, anatomy, and archaeological techniques used by modern scientists to uncover the past. This course includes career explorations, field trip opportunities, and hands-on laboratory investigations. Family Life and Human Development: Students develop a greater understanding of how family relationships and human sexuality have an impact on individual health and society. Topics include interpersonal relationships; economics of family life; responsibilities of marriage and parenting; pregnancy prevention; pregnancy and childbirth; and sexually transmitted infections I am considering majoring in either medicine, psychology, or biology. Which class do you think would be most important?
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!
Medica Insurance carriers and gastric bypass surgery.? I heard that Medica insurance carriers who work at united health group can only get this procedure through a certian clinic in minneapolis. I was wondering if anyone who carries medica knows how to get approved for WLS ?
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
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
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."
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
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.
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?
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
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)
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."
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.
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.
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.
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