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Global Health Security at Work
United Airlines Adopts the Walmart Welfare Model
United Airlines has an ounce or it’s being reported that they will announce actually in October that they’re going to take their gate agents the people who take you take it when you get on the plane and at these are people who are unionized and make you know in the neighborhood a forty to[…]
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HHS OCR – Your Health Information, Your Rights
Your health information, your rights. Whether your health information is stored on paper or electronically, you have the right to keep it private. Those rights are protected under a law known as HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA gives you important rights. First off, you have the right to see or get[…]
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Healthcare Should Not Be a For-Profit Business, says Jesse Ventura
Pharma is corporate healthcare and I don’t believe that healthcare should be a for profit business. And unfortunately with pharma it totally is. Like this bozo – that pill that AIDS patients needed and this bozo raises the price from $12 a pill to what was it – $900 or something ridiculous. Well there you’ve[…]
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Food Stamps are Affordable; Corporate Welfare is not!
here’s it another another point that I share with you republicans are outraged frankly for all the wrong reasons this this past Friday five billion dollars just in time for Thanksgiving right just in time for Thanksgiving five billion dollars was automatically slashed from the federal food stamp program affected elisa 47 million Americans the[…]
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Making Health Easier: Healthy Changes Start in Preschool
Inhale. Exhale. Again. Inhale, exhale one more time. Inhale okay, we’re ready to start our day. My name is Claudia Mendoza and for the past five years I’ve been working with preschoolers. Child obesity it’s a problem in the U.S. and it’s a growing epidemic, but what worries me the most, it’s something that could[…]
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Guideline 3: Nutrition Services
Introduction to the Public Health Preparedness Capabilities (101)
One of the nation’s key preparedness challenges has been determining appropriate state and local public health preparedness priorities. To assist state and local public health departments in their strategic planning, CDC developed 15 capabilities to serve as national public health preparedness standards. CDC’s Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning now[…]
Continue ReadingMilton Friedman on Healthcare and the Poor
Milton: Yes, Ma’am. Woman: Dr. Friedman, you mentioned that eighty percent of the people in the country are covered by private insurance plans. I’m curious as what your proposal would be to cover those who presently are not covered, and those who truly cannot afford at this point, because they are below the so-called poverty[…]
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