The point is that people were more afraid to get ticketed than mutilated and killed by a train. My question is do we really want to put out any extra expense in saving morons who of their own free will want to challenge a train? I don’t know about you but I don’t. If you’re that stupid I don’t want you out free to also vote, drink, and drive a car. As far as I”’m concerned it’s natural selection to cull the herd of the stupid. Let “em go!

What ever changes they make will not go into effect for months and fear not, it will not be taken off the shelves. Those who are against this change point out that 80% of those who intenionally overdose are actually trying to commit suicide. There was also talk of selling it in one dose packages under their recommended dosages.

They want to pass new measures on 24 strong narcotic pain killers which would require doctors to be more responsible and knowledgable about what they are giving for what kind of pain and patient they are giving it to. Too many people are given too strong a narcotic for minor pain and becoming addicted. Others who are suffering severe pain are being under medicated.

At first I though this idea was insane, but I do agree with doctors having to be more educated about what they are giving to people. My suggestion would be having them use a program that would inform them at a buttons touch about reccomendations, side effects, and interactions.

These measures are a good idea if for no other reason than to have a middle solution to a mild warning and the total pulling of a drug off the market.

Now they are talking about High Fructose Corn Syrup. Some of this product is made with lye and some of this lye is made at plants with an old mercury technology. Now, it’s never occured to anybody till now to check for the mercury level in foods made with this. The person who checked found that about three in fifty-five brand names have foods that contain mercury.

Of course the FDA could care less. Their new standard answer is ” you’d have to consume more than is possible for a person to ever consume before any harmful effects would be seen “.  The real kicker on top of that is they have no answer when you ask how much do you have to consume before it becoms harmful. They usually have no idea what even a small amount will do and no or weak plans to find out. Thanks for the protection FDA.

It seems that the hospitals get a tax exemption for treating the non and under insured and the suit says they have been charging the same top rates to the non and under insured as those who are not eligible for those rates.

To be eligible a family of four would have to make less than 82,000 a year to qualify for dicounts and those who have  no insurance or are at twice the poverty level I believe are not supposed to be charged at all.

The hospitals have been ordered to repay those people from 2000 to present who were charged or overcharged.

The word is also that they haven’t been treating enough of those people to justify the tax exemption that they are getting.

I don’t think many people are aware of this. I always thought no hospital could turn you down for treatment if it was a matter of life or death. It seems you don’t have to wait until you’re at death’s door, which makes sense because it could save money. The more progressed a disease becomes the more has to be done and the more expensive the costs.

The Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care, which supports the law says that 11 other states have passed the law with no “pot shops” opening.

The Michigan law is very specific and has included many safeguards so that, this kind of thing won’t happen there, and to ensure that only severely ill people will be able to get it.

The Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Kids is the group that fighting the law, and it could quite possibly be squashed by these nuts, who obviously know nothing about pot. However if donations to these two organizations concerning the pot law are any indication of which has more support than the law will be passed, allowing the medical pot, by  $1.5 million to $125,500.

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This is shameful for a people that have always considered themselves so honorable. I realize that there are greedy bad people in every country who would do something like this to improve their profit line. However, when this kind of thing happens in the US, the government or some agency comes forward right away to make some kind of legislation so that it can’t happen again. China knows that it has a big problem with fake medication and food being sold and sickening people, they’ve known for a long time and first now they are taking it seriously.

Shame on you China, shame on you!

Women who have become pregnant due to rape or incest are not exempt from this law. Government should stay out of the affairs between women and their doctors. This law is being challenged as well it should be. This is nothing but a farce by right to lifers to place so much guilt on a woman that she would keep a fetus that she knows she cannot take care of, raise, or support. When such women are thus guilted into having the baby, then the government and the taxpayers complain that they have to support the child. Or when the child ends up abandoned or abused or even dead, they complain about why did the mother have the child in the first place. Make up your minds. I say that if you are that much against abortions put up or shut up.

The truth is, as I understand it, is that the law was meant for infants who would be abandoned, but the law was not written stating an age, so people assume that children or minors means anyone under the age of 18.

Last week a father dropped off 9 of his children ages 1 to 17. His wife had died in childbirth with their last baby and he could not face raising all these children alone so he left them at an emergency room. Since the law was enacted in July the state of Nebraska has had 16 abandoned children, including these nine. So that means besides this family they’ve had 7 others in the entire state and they are thinking about revising the law.

Maybe it’s just me, but 16 children does not seem like a lot to me when compared to the whole population of Nebraska.

The goal of this law was to protect children from being left in garbage cans to die, or being murdered by parents who couldn’t keep them. If they do change the law and put age limits on the children, what would have happened to this family of nine siblings?

As I see it either way they would have become a problem of the state as either murder victims, or wefare cases, or maybe even criminals because of lack of supervision.

That is the reality sometimes of having baby after baby after baby as the bush administration would have all Americans do, since they’ve been passing legislation about some birth control methods being the same as abortions, and their declaration that life starts when sperm meets egg.

In light of that the proper thing would be is for the federal government to fork over some funds to take care of these unwanted kids.

We’ll be tackling the tough issues of Universal Health Care, elderly care, baby boomers, and importantly enough … how to pay for it all.

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