That’s it. Final solution.
Fix the health care system with one simple bill that eliminates the requirement that all Medicare participants be 65 years-of-age or older. Just open Medicare for everyone.
Problem solved.
Get over it already. If the Republican-coveted insurance companies want to survive, they’ll have to be competitive.
Personally, I don’t think they have it in them.
So, forget about them.
Open Medicare for everyone.
Problem solved.
I learned recently that tap water is more regulated than bottled water. I had never thought twice about reaching for a plastic bottle, and always tried to make sure the plastic bottle ended up in the recycling bin.
It turns out there may be reason to be concerned about the bottled water industry. Members of Congress, at any rate, have questions.
An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation of almost 200 popular bottled water brands found less than 2 percent disclose the water’s source, how the water has been purified and what chemical pollutants each bottle of water may contain. Just 2 of the 188 individual brands EWG analyzed disclosed those three basic facts about their water.
Full report found here: http://www.ewg.org/health/report/bottledwater-scorecard
Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research, discussed the findings of the 18-month long study in testimony today before a congressional oversight hearing on the gaps in government regulation of the bottled water industry.
Some of the more interesting discoveries were that mainstream brands such as Sam’s Club and Walgreen’s scored relatively high marks, while waters marketed as elite, including Perrier, S. Pellegrino and the Whole Foods store brand, flunked because they provided almost no meaningful information for consumers.
Why the glaring lack of disclosure? Houlihan said that bottled water companies enjoy a regulatory holiday under the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which give beverage corporations complete latitude to choose what, if any, information about their water they divulge to customers. [emphasis added]
Beverage corporations get to choose what, if ny, information about their water they divulge to customers?
This sentence stood out on the EWG Web site:
None of the top 10 U.S. domestic bottled water brands label specific water sources and treatment methods for all their products.
My solution? Drop the bottle and fill up a glass at the sink.
Few filmmakers define an era, a genre and a place like John Hughes did with his ’80s comedies often set on Chicago’s North Shore.
He may not have been a critic’s darling, but his name became synonymous with a brand of comedy in which young, rebellious, yet good-at-heart characters battle an establishment that seemed to rankle the filmmaker as well. Films such as “The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Home Alone” took on an iconic status, all while his productions revitalized the local film industry and launched scores of careers.
A reclusive figure who in recent years lived in part on a farm in Harvard, Ill., Hughes, 59, died Thursday of a heart attack while walking in Manhattan, his spokeswoman Michelle Bega said. She said the filmmaker was visiting family in New York.
The man launched so many careers. But, in many respects, his death represents the end of an era. And so young.
Sorry to see him go.
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