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Of Consuming Interest
Of Consuming Interest - 02/26/10
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Michael Sauvante who has a 30 year background in business and is the Executive Director of the Commonwealth Group. Sauvante was a senior information technology expert at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. Discusses Public Banking. Sauvante works diligently to expand to the other 49 States the model of the North Dakota State Bank and other compatible public banking models. The North Dakota Bank was formed in 1919 in response to its citizens experiencing great credit & financial problems similar to those currently experienced by the rest of the nation. The Bank provides direct loans, collaborative lending and acts as a Central Bank for the community banks of that State. It is not part of the FDIC, because the North Dakota State Bank is self-insured. North Dakota currently has a billion dollar surplus and has the healthiest economy in the US. See more information atwww.commonwealthgroup.net.
Of Consuming Interest - 02/19/10
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Robyn O'Brien is the Erin Brokovich of the Food Industry. She has a background in financial services, an MBA, and is the Founder and Director of Research of AllergyKids. Robyn authored "The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It." Discusses the genetical engineering of our food supply to increase profitability for Industry. In the US in1994 a synthetic growth hormone began to be injected into cows to make more milk. Governments around the World refused to do this because it has never been proven safe. Because the US is tied to a for-profit health care system, the US allows things into the food supply until they are proven dangerous. US has the highest rate of cancer Worldwide. Soy and corn are also genetically altered. Kraft and Monsato fund the food allergy non-profits.
Of Consuming Interest - 02/12/10
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Dr. Rema Laibow and Atty. Ralph Fucetola are Board Members of the Natural Solutions Foundation which can be accessed at www.healthfreedomusa.org. Dr. Laibow is a 1970 graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine who believes the key to good health is supporting the immune and other crucial body systems. Attorney Fucetola is counsel, teacher, health freedom advocate and vitamin lawyer. They discuss Senate Bill 3002 which seeks to import Codex principles into US law. Its companion, Senate Bill 510 attacks the US farming industry. These Bills are part of a conspiracy of a several pronged attack on our health, food and freedom. Codex daily reference value of nutrient levels would enable preventable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and obesity to flourish. They also discuss the WHO which receives a large portion of its funding from the Pharmaceutical industry.
Of Consuming Interest - 02/05/10
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Sally Fallon Morell is President of the Westin A. Price Foundation which is a world-wide organization dedicated to restoring nutrient dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. She is the author of "Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition & the Diet Dictocrats. Discusses going back to eating nutritional foods. Animal fats & cholesterol are not villians but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Senate Bill 510, the latest Food Safety Act, is designed to enhance the industrial food supply yet does nothing about on-site inspections of slaughter houses.
Of Consuming Interest - 01/29/10
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Ken Feltman was a Congressional lobbyist for 35 years. He is the former Vice President of the National Association of Manufacturers; and the former President of Radnor, Inc. Discusses Healthcare reform. We are at a crossroads in the healthcare debate. The President is not giving up amidst growing doubt for the existence of the requisite number of votes to get a healthcare package through Congress. Americans have a higher expectation for healthcare than most anybody else in the world. Americans think that if treatment is available, then everybody should receive the best available treatment. Most countries want to know how the bill will be paid before they give care. The question is whether Americans will accept that lowering costs will lower the standard of care. Currently 20% of the GNP goes into healthcare. Healthcare innovations are not integrated into the healthcare system. 15% of the population use 50% of healthcare costs.
Of Consuming Interest - 01/22/10
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James P. Gelfand is a Senior Manager of Health Policy for the US Chamber of Commerce. Discusses current health care debate and the effect of a Republican win of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. We were on the cusp of seeing President Obama's top agenda item passed. Now it's a guess as to what will happen. Nancy Pelosi will not try to pass the Senate Bill. Senator Obama recognized that people don't have health insurance because they can't afford it. Now the President supports a mandate. This change is based on the economics involved by including those with pre-existing conditions and preventing people from just opting into the plan on the day they become sick. Massachusetts state run health care plan has a problem with people dropping in and out.
Of Consuming Interest - 01/15/10
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Nina Owcharenko is a Senior Policy Analyst for health care at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies. The Heritage Foundation is a conseervative think tank promoting public policy & analysis based on free enterprise and limited government. Discusses current developments in the health care debate. We are now in the second year of the health care debate. The House & Senate bills didn't have overwhelming support, but they passed. The Bills are currently being rewritten behind closed doors in the White House. We will have to wait and see what's in it and what will be done with the difficult provisions for a public plan and an excise tax on high value plans.
Of Consuming Interest - 12/11/09
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Siobhan Reynolds is the Director of the Pain Relief Network. Pain Relief Network (PRN) was formed to oppose the Federal Government crackdown on the treatment of chronic pain. It is a network of pain patients, family members of people in pain, physicians, attorneys, and activists. Discusses Pain Relief Network's efforts in a 2007 Kansas case against a Dr. Schneider who was charge with killing 59 patients with pain medicine. The Judge cut the case down to 14 deaths. But the Prosecutor has gone after Reynolds and the Pain Relief Network and now both are bankrupt. The Sloan Kettering academic community is fighting to be able to fight pain. U.S. government is refusing to recognize that opiates duplicate a chemical found in our spinal cord. One doctor who was prosecuted for providing pain relief medicine, Dr. Ben Moore, committed suicide after pleading guilty to violating the Controlled Substances Act. This is a complex problem.
Of Consuming Interest - 12/04/09
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John Berlau is a journalist and author who is the Director of the Center for Investors & Entrepreneurs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been involved in matters of consumer choice for the last 25 years. It works at holding the government accountable by, for example, challenging the over-regulation imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley.
Discusses Health Care reform issues. Health Savings Accounts - the current discussions in the House & Senate contemplate not completely banning them but taxing & regulating health savings accounts out of existence. The cap will be $2500 per year. The House & Senate are also discussing limiting consumer choice for access to complimentary & alternative medicine. Over-the-counter drugs will not be eligible for insurance coverage. Congress seems to be moving towards imposing more expensive solutions on the public as opposed to less expensive solutions.
Of Consuming Interest - 11/20/09
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Robert E. Moffitt Ph.D. of the American Enterprise Institute discusses the complexities of Healthcare reform in Congress. A Healthcare Bill passed the House in a close vote. Senator Reid has added provisions of other Bills to create a 2,074 page Bill which is currently before the Senate. If the Reid Bill or a version of it passes the Senate, there will need to be a conference to reconcile the two Bills to make them into a Law. Both House and Senate Bills have employer and individual mandates. The Reid Bill includes a public plan through State based Health insurance exchanges. In the House Bill a public health plan will compete against a private health plan. The community health option will be geographically adjusted. And the rates for hospitals and doctors will be negotiated. There is the estimate that older and sicker enrollees may choose the public plan which would make the rates higher. The enrollment projected for this plan is 3-4 million Americans. The Senate Bill has a different public plan option.
