Health Insurance

On February 13, 2010 Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall appeared on Fox News to discuss his bill (soon to become law) – the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act, and the unconstitutionality of the Federal Government to require citizens to have health insurance. The bill protects an individual’s right and power to participate or to decline to participate in a health care system or plan. The bill prohibits any law that will infringe on an individual’s right to pay for lawful medical services. The bill further prohibits the adoption of any law that imposes a penalty, tax, or fine upon an individual who declines to enter into a contract for health care coverage or to participate in a health care system or plan.

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2009 Remix of the hit song “Unemployed Lover” by Jackson Wyld

Video created & directed by One Noize Entertainment

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Unemployment rate increase to four-year high

As of June 2007 Unemployment rate went from 7,295,000 to 8,933,000 in June of 2008

Child Hunger has risen to an alarming rate globally

Soaring Oil prices threatens inflation + unemployment

Gas price have risen to a 38% increase

Exxon’s profit in 2007= $40.6 billion
Shell’s profit in 2007= $31.3 billion
Chevron’s profit in 2007= $18.7 billion
BP’s profit in 2007= $20.8 billion
Conoco Phillips profit 2007= $11.9 billion

Stock prices plummeted downward in America, Europe and Asia. It is the worst global financial crisis in decades.

Congress passes a historic $700 billion bailout plan.

U.S national debt is ten trillion and continues to rise.

U.S. foreclosure activity increases 75% in 2007

U.S. foreclosure market reports 2,203,295 foreclosure filings

National banks going bankrupt

Home owners insurance premium increases 50%

Many children DO NOT have health coverage, more than 9.4 million American CHILDREN are uninsured

1 out of 150 children are diagnosed with autism

Cancer is the second leading cause of death among chidlren between the ages of 1 and 14

Health insurance companies sky rocket their prescription drugs making patients pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars

Doctors, drug companies, hospitals, and insurance companies are profiting from the fact that the healthcare system in the U.S. is the most expensive in the industrialized world.

Patients in the U.S. pay higher prices for hospitals, four times more per day, and higher prices for drugs, 60% to 70% more, than those in other industrialized countries. Together, this overspending amounts to $281 billion annually

Federal government spending of $2.8 trillion consumed 26% of the economy in 2006

The U.S government is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan

Cost of War in 2003= $48 billion
Cost of War in 2004= $59 billion
Cost of War in 2005= $81 billion
Cost of War in 2006= $94 billion

320,000 service members reported injuies from mild concussions to severe head wounds

Girls as young as 12 are KIDNAPPD and GANG-RAPED by soldiers using them as entertainment and rewards for bravery

About 200,000 children have been ABDUCTED, TORTURED, and SEXUALLY abused before being recruited to fight in Africa’s long-running civil war

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com

We talked last week about a new report on preterm births the leading cause of death in newborn babies worldwide.

Each year an estimated thirteen million babies are born too soon. More than one million of them die as a result of their prematurity. Yet experts say many early births can be prevented.

The report came from the March of Dimes and the World Health Organization. Christopher Howson is the vice president for global programs at the March of Dimes, a nonprofit group. He says there are a number of simple, low-cost interventions that can improve the chances of a full-term birth.

Mister Howson said: “We should treat malnutrition in women both before and during pregnancy. We should treat infections that increase risk. We should monitor pregnancies carefully for signs of trouble. And should that baby be born preterm, we should care for that baby by providing a package of interventions that have been shown to be tried and true and very effective.”

For example, there are programs in Africa that teach the skin-to-skin method, also known as kangaroo care. Mothers learn to carry preterm babies in front instead of the traditional African way of carrying a baby on the mother’s back. Skin-to-skin helps keep a preterm baby warm and makes it easier for the baby to breastfeed.

Most preterm births take place in Africa and Asia. But rates in the United States have increased by more than one-third in the last twenty-five years.

Alan Fleischman is the medical director of the March of Dimes. He was among a group of medical experts who met in Washington, D.C., in October.

The group met to develop a plan for dealing with the problem in the United States. Doctor Fleischman says there is concern especially about rising numbers of what are known as late preterm births.

Those are the babies who are born between thirty-four and thirty-seven weeks of pregnancy. They are responsible for seventy-two percent of all premature births in America.

The rise of these births may be linked to increased use of drugs to start or speed up labor and more births by Cesarean section. Doctor Fleischman says the group strongly advises against these interventions before thirty-nine weeks unless medically necessary. The experts also say doctors need to work with pregnant women to do a better job of estimating exactly when a pregnancy began.

And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report.

(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 26Oct2009)

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The nation’s health insurers offered Tuesday to stop basing people’s premiums on their health and extend coverage to all Americans regardless of pre-existing conditions – provided that everyone gets insurance. The suggestion from Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, marked the first time the insurance industry has made such a proposal. In return, however, they want a system similar to the one that now exists only in Massachusetts, in which all residents are required to get insurance. Insurers want the federal government to help those who cannot afford private insurance with subsidies or tax breaks. The proposal marked one of the first concrete steps forward in overhauling the nations health care system. To view more Street Talk videos or to post a comment go to: www.wmal.com.

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http://www.GetHealthQuotes.net Kaiser Permanente Mid Atlantic Insurance – Compare Kaiser to180+ health insurance companies. Free quotes!

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2/2 Republican lawmakers remained staunchly opposed to using the federal government to regulate health insurance. Published with ‘written permission’ from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belong to democracynow.org the only independent news media in the United States and Canada.

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Here are ways to deal with most of the things that are wrong with our health care system, none of which will cost the taxpayers any money at all. (Please watch both parts before commenting.)

Restore consumer-controlled health care: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114

Make your health insurance more affordable: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/113

Protect and Improve Health Savings Accounts: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/116

End onerous health care regulations: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/105

Sources:

Parente, S. et al, “Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Insurance,” Final Technical Report for DHHS Contract HP-07-024, http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/08/consumerresponse/report.pdf

Brook, R. et al, “The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults,” R-3055-HHS, http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R3055.pdf

Ruwart, Mary J., “Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression” (Second Edition)

Bovard, James, “Shakedown: How the Government Screws You From A to Z”

Angell, Marcia and Arnold S. Relman. “Prescription for profit,” The Washington Post 2001 Jun 20; Sect. A:27.

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Here are ways to deal with most of the things that are wrong with our health care system, none of which will cost the taxpayers any money at all. (Please watch both parts before commenting.)

Restore consumer-controlled health care: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114

Make your health insurance more affordable: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/113

Protect and Improve Health Savings Accounts: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/116

End onerous health care regulations: http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/105

Sources:

Parente, S. et al, “Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Insurance,” Final Technical Report for DHHS Contract HP-07-024, http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/08/consumerresponse/report.pdf

Brook, R. et al, “The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults,” R-3055-HHS, http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R3055.pdf

Ruwart, Mary J., “Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression” (Second Edition)

Bovard, James, “Shakedown: How the Government Screws You From A to Z”

Angell, Marcia and Arnold S. Relman. “Prescription for profit,” The Washington Post 2001 Jun 20; Sect. A:27.

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As the debate over healthcare in the US intensifies, Barack Obama, the US president, is set to give a televised speech on Wednesday to sell his plan to a divided US public.

Obama’s speech to the US congress is expected to offer more details about his plan to overhaul the $2.5 trillion US healthcare system. More than 46 million Americans are currently without health insurance.

But the president will face a tough job to convince Republicans, conservative groups, and some Democrats that his plan is the right way forward. Rob Reynolds reports.

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manoftruth asks “Will God bless us?”

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