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What In The HELthcare Has Passed?

Kathleen Milazzo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:55:26 +0000

About a month ago I heard on the news that Obamas new health care reform has passed Congress. Yeah?

I got a couple of facts out of what I heard but not much, so I decided to look around the net and find the plan itself. I was going to read it line by line and then translate it to English.

I thought I did find it, but most of it was lawyer speak. You know, blah, blah, blah, and a little bit of truth or fact. OK I thought, maybe that’s all there is to it. Yet now I’m still reading articles in the news about it and or parts of it are still being debated.

So did anything get passed? If so what and where can we read about it?

Changes In The WIC Program

Kathleen Milazzo — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:17:05 +0000

For those who may not know WIC stands for womens, infants, and childrens program. It’s from the federal government and is an excellent program for pregnant women and those that have children five and under.

In the past and currently WIC gives women coupons every month to get free formula, baby cereal, beans, cereal, juice and baby juice, milk, eggs, and cheese. Now for the first time starting October 1, women will also be able to get coupons for fresh fruits and vegetables.

The allowance will be $10 for breastfeeding mothers, $8 for women with children under 5 years old, and and $6 for pregnant women. It’s not a lot, but remember that WIC is a supplemental program, and this change will certainly help.

Good for you and thanks WIC !

Sick Nuts

Kathleen Milazzo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:00:08 +0000

It seems that the Peanut Corp. of Georgia knew about the contamination of the peanuts, but sent the product out anyway. The FDA knew about it and supposedly there was communication back and forth between them, but the nuts went out anyway.

Over 500 people were made ill, and eight died from the greed of this company not to lose product and profit. The problem here is that only a little is tested from a batch and at the time of testing the contamination might only be in one part of the batch. However it’s the same batch that is in contact with healthy nuts and through any touching or mixing will get into the rest of it. Once the product is tested and found to be tainted they retest and if a lab does not find a problem with the part they test then the product can be sent out.

To make matters worse, they believe it was sent out to three schools as part of a school lunch program.

It’s also been revealed that this same company has sent out peanuts mixed with metal fragments mixed in with a past batch.

The justice department is now trying to get into it and Obama is looking to replace the head of the FDA for this and many other violations.

England Strikes Again

Kathleen Milazzo — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:22:58 +0000

I thought it was bad enough that the English didn’t want to treat the elderly but now I am reading that they don’t want to treat the sick and dying. A man was dying of a brain disease, his doctors did not want to give him basic life support. I am talking about nutrition and hydration. He wants to live and the government says, it would put a strain on them. They also said if they give in to that, then dying people will want other lifesaving measures. What planet am I on? If someone is bleeding to death are they going to say,” Sorry you had your blood and you look like you’re gonna die anyway, so we’re not going to give you anymore, it would be a waste”. Is this what happens when government is involved in health care?

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