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...time when 46 million people lack health insurance and rising premiums outpace the growth in wages, healthcare required far-reaching reform. Left to the status quo, more and more Americans would lose coverage due to soaring costs, and system inefficiencies restricting the quality of care would engulf the industry. And with retiring Baby Boomers mounting additional stress on providers, the situation called for bold and decisive action. This legislation puts America on track to solve these pressing issues by insuring 32 million people and enacting consumer protections that will counter the host of problems plaguing the system...
...This new student gathering place is finally sized for our student body,” McCrossan said. “It will allow us to take better care of our students...
While the link between birth weight and obesity has previously been investigated, this study is the first to look at weight gain in the first few months of life and brings into question the effectiveness of current health care policies, which are largely aimed at school-age children...
...There is increasing evidence that rapid changes in weight during infancy increase children’s risk of later obesity,” explained lead author Elsie M. Taveras, a professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and Pediatrics at HMS and co-director of the One Step Ahead clinic at Children’s Hospital Boston, in a HMS press release. “The mounting evidence suggests that infancy may be a critical period during which to prevent childhood obesity and its related consequences...
...fact not surprising to anyone who has followed the healthcare reform battle in the last year is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now signed into law, managed to pass through both chambers of Congress without a single Republican voting “Yea.” In comparison, another landmark bill passed 75 years ago, the Social Security Act of 1935, passed the House 372 votes to 33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. Thirty years later in 1965, the Medicaid and Medicare amendments were added with a House margin of 307-to-116, with 70 Republicans...