Sick Nuts
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.
Well, Here We Go Already
If the federal government mandates that all Americans have health insurance, two health insurance industry leaders say that they will insure everybody regardless of disability or illness.
They further say that people will wait until they are very ill before getting insurance unless the government requires it. This is said to be in-line with what Obama wants. The only difference is that Obama wants to start slow only madating coverage for children for now, whereas the insurance leaders want it to include adults too.
Of course the insurance industry wants everyone to be forced to join them. Money, money, money! The fact remains as one of the uninsured I can tell you, I have no more money now for insurance than I did before Obama was elected. So what’s in our future now? An army of homeless, hungry, but medically insured people?