Occupy Healthcare

This looks like a good movement and I am going to get in and start reading their memos etc.  Lets see if this group can bring some solutions.  Thought I would share this here:

http://occupyhealthcare.net/

Eenie Meenie Found an Eggshell in the Rose Garden of the Republican Agenda

Dear GOP, Get Your Hands Off My Body

Clearly the debate on Abortion "rights" endures and will do so indefinate­ly as we live in a culture of narcissism and self interested discontent­. That said, our prosperity is a cornerston­e to all of our concerns. To disallow all abortions even those which are elective is to put a stumbling stone before the blind. The person's with a solid aversion to having their own child who have become pregnant for whatever reason must be offered the outcome that will ensure their health and prosperity­. To disallow abortion will only yield an unhealthy population and a population that does not care for its own future in terms of innate inner health among the women and families effected by such a sadly unwanted pregnancy. This is not likely going to be a limited experience in the day that we have indeed a stong liberal base of thinking in this nation. That said, all attempts to keep a fetus to term should be mandated as far as family counseling­. In the end, one must make one's own decisions as to their futures. This is liberalism and it is not a permissive or pacifist approach. So be healthy and consult your physician and indeed organizati­ons such as planned parenthood and psychologi­cal counseling­. The idea of late abortions should not be a valid option and one should make one's own decision in the early months of pregnancy. Our nation's health is the priority, though I suspect better conseling will yield fewer terminatio­ns of pregnancy. Thanks.
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The Power of Family Dinner to Fight Childhood Obesity

While our children's health is a matter of good concern. I must say that obesity is a condition that afflicts the most of our society and clearly it not the end all in our concern for a healthy lifestyle. If a child is physically able, one should be encouraged to exercise ACTIVELY his or her entire years until perhaps one has become a mature adult in the thirty some year age range in my thoughts. I do not think that our dietary obsessions are the most ugly of human activities nor do I think that our major concern should be for the aesthetics of our generation­s. That said, the linkage to diabetes and other health concerns is a very real and scary prospect and we should do all we can do to encourage healthy living in the younger generation­s. Exercise and diet are essential. To think that we are going to live on fast food at a fast pace and eat foods with high sugar contents and other major amounts of carbohydra­tes and processed foods is to consider that our priority is just on base wants and not the type of diet that yields a healthy mind and physical body. The school lunch programs are surely a place to begin of course. But that said, I would never starve a child of all of the food options and colas completely­. "A healthy citizen is a country's greatest asset" (Churchill­)
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Needed: Psychometric aptitudnal longitudnal studies

I must hereby report that I was once diagnosed by neuropsychiatric testing that I had a limitation in my own verbal abilities. Indeed, upon graduation from high school, I scored lower on the verbal portion of my SAT's. (My Mathematical scores were in a high score range). I must state that I would like to see some longitudnal studies established in America whereby select or voluntary participants are offered aptitude testing perhaps every 15 years or so to establish and confirm for them their own aptitudnal progress. I do think that little more attention is given to SAT and ACT scores that we take at age 17-18 other than to qualify the candidate for further training. In most cases, aptitudnal abilities are further considered upon the occupational aspirations of the candidate throughout his career after that time. I feel that we should be investing more in this role. Verbal abilities improve (ideally) with time. I must report that my own abilites today are exaggerated in comparison to where I was at age 17 or at age 24 when I took a neuropsychiatric battery. I predict that we might be able to have a more successful and focused society if we might reexplore aptitude testing, say at age 35-40.
People may become lax in their aptitudnal pursuits as well become complacent in occupation. In order to produce the most productive, educated and successful society, I do believe that further impetuses might be necessary to keep our population reading and pursuing further learning/skills/understanding/self assessment and self improvement.
Testing would give the individual a comparison to their progress at other times in their life. Individual counseling might be a good practicality. I do not believe that one must only rely on his or her employer to asssess his skills, strengths and weaknesses and cognitive capacities. Clearly a third party would offer impartial and creditable objective statistics on ones lifelong progress.
This only makes sense. After all that is invested in a young persons education from grades K to 12, why do we stop at the ACT and SAT as our aptitude indicators. (although for professional studies usually there is one more). I personaly think that our society needs to begin considering longer studies and educational enforcement for those who are in the adult stages of our lives.
Is this a realistic consideration? I for one must report that in todays job limited society, this would create jobs whereby peopel are needed to perform and administer these testing/evaluations. Likely this would fall under a scholastic aptitude department.
Neuropsychiatric conditions and minds are not static. An increased amount of measurements at a national level would yield a stronger work force, a more competitive scholastic enviornment, educational progress, increased personal satisfaction and perhaps a new group of leaders, teachers, workers and persons of capable hands.
Just a thought.

Winston Churchill

"There is not finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have".
- Winston Churchill