America Needs 435 Real Americans to run for Congress - Health Care

Vegan diet reverses diabetes symptoms

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:54:09 -0400

(Reuters) People who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet, researchers said on Thursday.

Might be worth a shot...

Guess who the big loser is under Bush health plan

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:06:15 -0500

Heads up, Americans. The Bush administration is now greasing the skids for employers to drop your health coverage. This is a biggie.

Radical change was not the headline when the president unfurled his latest proposals for health savings accounts. It was presented mainly as a sensible-sounding way for people without medical insurance to buy it with pre-tax dollars, the same way companies do.

Bush's new HSA is actually a rocket-powered tax shelter dressed up as a sweet little program to help the uninsured. It would also undermine the traditional health coverage now offered by employers. (More on that in a minute.) And in case anyone still cares about deficits, it would cost the Treasury $156 billion in lost tax revenues over 10 years — more than wiping out any savings Bush hopes to achieve with his cuts in projected Medicare spending.

Demonically, the Bush proposal gives employers new reasons not to offer traditional health coverage, or any medical benefits at all. Indeed, the new health savings accounts could do to the traditional health plan what the 401(k) plan did to the traditional pension: Kill it off.

Congress doesn't even read the Bills

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:32:46 -0500

When the House debated the Medicare prescription drug bill, perhaps the most important legislation it considered in the 108th Congress, Members brought 59 amendments to the Rules Committee.... [They] allowed only one Democratic [Amendment] the Republican leadership was confident it could defeat.

In other words, on this bill, a bill that changed the fundamental structure of the federal government's largest health care program, the majority did everything it could to prevent the House from taking "clear positions" on "clear issues" related to Medicare reform.

We were very disappointed, but not surprised, to learn later that the bill would give the pharmaceutical companies billions of taxpayer dollars at the expense of America's seniors, and that Rep. Billy Tauzin, one of the authors of the Medicare bill, had negotiated a $2 million a year job for himself heading the drug industry lobby during the period the conference was producing its report.