Public Congress

Abstinence may be a lovely ideal but it’s a lousy public health policy. In the U.S. the whole of our popular culture promotes sex but we don’t talk about it in realistic ways with our young people, HIV is spreading rapidly among married women in low-income countries because their older or promiscuous husbands bring it to the marriage, and rape is increasingly used as a weapon of war. So why the U.S. reliance on abstinence for HIV prevention and is there hope in terms of legislation in the new Congress?

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I liked most of the speech, loved part of it, disliked one bit. Do we have the compassion needed to make Health Care Reform a reality?

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This week, President-elect Barack Obama addresses the job loss that our nation continues to endure and offers solutions to the challenges we face. For more information, visit http://change.gov.

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President Obama updates the press in Kailua, HI regarding the recent attempted terrorist attack. December 29, 2009

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Former California Congressman Victor H. Fazio reflects on the state of Congress, citing lessons drawn from his own long career. He uses the current health care debate as a lens through which to examine the institution. Series: Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley (IGS) [1/2010] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 17548]

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Mr. Williams drops off to sleep for a few minutes to find himself confronted with a world in which Congress has been suspended and federal authority dissolved.

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TheNRCChttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/thenrccNewsMSNBCCookFull12, 18, 09Charlie Cook: The Dems Can Lose The House In 2010

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President Obama Address to Congress & Nation

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Hundreds of New Orleanians will come together to shape final decisions about the city’s Unified New Orleans Plan at the last Community Congress on Saturday, January 20th. Housing, flood protection, public services, and infrastructure are among the topics that will be addressed in the plan that will be presented for feedback at the Congress. Planners at the meeting will also present how public priorities from the December 2nd Community Congress have shaped the development of the plan.

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He did say he’s about change?
Please: Only O’bama supporters respond.

Because that was not what he was elected to bring in.

I am always amazed how many Americans seem not to be aware about the issues with healthcare relying on FOX and other sources to spread misinformation about the healthcare system of the USA and those abroad.

First of all, Obama wants to make insurance more available to all. And change the system so that it is cheaper, and also so that the insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that which works in Holland and Switzerland where private companies are involved in providing insurance. The second Guardian link has an insurance executive talking about how his company and others like it push up costs, buy out politicians and refuse to pay out when people are ill. Obama wants to change that.

Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well.

Third, Obama campaigned on reforming the healthcare system. He said he wanted to make insurance more available and he was elected by the American people to do this.

FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage.
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet.
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage.

Last of all if you do not like the policies that Obama was elected to bring in, he can always be voted out of office in 2012.