National Health Issues

obesity

In my opinion our over wieght youth is a major problem. We need to teach nutrition is school and the lunches should not be catered...bring back the cooks in the lunch room. Make sure meals are nutritious and good tasting. Children are what they live...if you put vegies and dip out instead of chips and dip you'll be suprised at how they go for it. So put kids on alert cut out the constant junk food and get them outside playing....throw those games away!!!!!!

HIV..... we have  come so far in slowing it down, now we need to defeat it!

COST OF HEALTHCARE!!!  Even with health insurance, the costs are high, especially the cost of medication.  What other business could do what the pharmaceutical companies can do?  One month a particular medication is $152.00...the next month it is $167.00!!!  That's only ONE of many.  Another was priced at $77.00 in January 2008 and now is costing $104.00!!!  I believe I'm like many other people.  My income hasn't increased at all.  The government needs to be able to negotiate rates and costs with healthcare entities, just as other countries do.  Thank you!!!

Health Insurance and Prescription Coverage for all Americans at an affordable rate.  Have no "pre-existing conditions" clauses allowed in order to get insurance.

Affordable Health Insurance for a pre-condition when you inherit $20,000 and are either forced to leave Medicaid, but still receiving Medicare retirement benefits.  Or not leaving Medicaid and spending it down on funeral savings and a qualified used car.  However, maintenance, insurance, state license and city sticker fees, and gasoline eat up social security benefits.  This appears to be a no win situation.

Can you offer suggests to hide your assets, like an out-of-country savings account?

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Joan C. C.

All comments I see here are true.

Another reasons health care is so high is because insurers are in the business to make money PERIOD!! However they are not too smart when they "play doctor" themselves and are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to prevent paying medical bills per insurance policy requirements. Ex: My husband's work comp insurance company paid $53,500 in attorney bills to try and prevent paying $15,000 in medical bills, that was for plaintiff's attorney, God only knows what they paid the defense side let alone survellience officers. All the while having every proof possible from many sources that his condition was permanent and total.

Another and very important issue is this, insurers are willing and do pay (at higher rates) health care providers, who are NOT trained and who do not have the time to provide services or techniques, to in turn hire those who ARE TRAINED and STATE LICENSED instead of paying those trained, state licensed providers directly for services prescribed by treating physicians. Does this make sense to you? 

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the US.  It kills 440,000 Americans each year.  That's more deaths than AIDS, alcohol, car crashes, illegal drugs, murder, and suicide, combined.  8 out of 10 smokers begin smoking as children.  Most of these children are addicted to nicotine before they can vote or sign a legal contract.  Some  solutions?  FDA authority over tobacco products, funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs at levels recommended by the CDC, comprehensive smoking bans in all states, and ending displays of cigarettes in places frequented by children (grocery stores, pharmacies, convenience stores, gas stations, etc.).  Reducing smoking rates will have the greatest impact upon the health of Americans.