Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AMA working with 44 states to take away smoking rights.

I always thought Robert Wood Johnson was a company that made sex toys out of natural materials.

No Promote, means ADVOCATE. and Advocacy regardless of your position, is what Republican Democracy is about, Control, is decidedly wrong, and when the State is moving that way, that is where the Battle is.

Look at it this way. The Foundation has no actual Vote. You do. In my mind, I would bet that there are still enough smokers, and people that support the right of people to do as they will, to get politicians back in line.

But looking to deprive others to their right to advocacy is not how we win arguments.

He's dead as a doornail

That is news to me. I am pretty sure I saw him quoted in the papers just several days ago, and If I am not mistaken, (And most assuredly I am not) I saw him on the Sidelines at Jets Training camp two weeks ago...

You really are uninformed.

Look, by attacking the First amendment exercises of am guy that primarily dedicates his energy to helping people that need it get, and stay healthy, you are only going to make your selves look as bad as the real NicoNazis, further diminishing any political credibility and capital that would be better spent focusing on the governamental apparatus...

Don't be fooled. Among other things, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation bankrolled HillaryCare. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons found extensive evidence about its state activities during discovery when it sued the Clinton Administration to prove that the task force meetings were illegal.

One of the ten largest foundations in the country, the RWJF funds lifestyle control activities. It also funds state programs designed to make single-payer care a reality, create dossiers on everyone via the immunization registeries, create school-based health care centers that require parents to sign away their right to see their children's medical records, enlarge Medicaid, and generally herd everyone into HMO style care run by bureaucrats. Its past president greatly admired European health care. The Foundation typically works by giving state executive branches grants that require people at the agency to work on getting legislation passed. It created TennCare, Kentucky Kare, and the delightful health care system in Minnesota among other things. It has been extremely active in Oregon and Maryland. Both of those states have single payer initiatives on the ballot.

Lately it has been moving its activities to less easily traced centers, like University foundations. If you have one of those severe alcohol oriented lifestyle control programs at your state university, RWJF is likely behind it.

For some documentation on the Foundation's activities see the Capital Research Center, http://www.capitalresearch.org/. Search on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, read the articles, and you'll know what you are up against.

That's his son RWJ IV

Robert Wood Johnson's sense of personal responsibility toward society was expressed imperishably in the disposition of his own immense fortune.

He left virtually all of it to the foundation that bears his name, creating one of the world's largest private philanthropies

Their search engine returns a blank page.

Yes, and IV currently is the face of that organization....

"Yes, and IV currently is the face of that organization.... "

And he should be ashamed of himself.

In my previous job I was coerced by my employer to get involved in writing a grant for some idiotic program by a socialist pediatrician (that is until it comes to fee reimbursement). The politics involved in getting it accepted were unbelievable. All the way up to a support letter from Duct Tape Concannon. Bottom line, they wouldn't approve the grant unless we collected data supporting single payer health.

That's his son RWJ IV

Robert Wood Johnson IV is doing his own part to rid New Jersey of smoke by making sure that the NY Jets suck.

Thank you for your info

I don't suppose all you hypocritical bastards are giving up your MICROSOFT pcs because the Gates Foundation is one of Planned Parenthoods biggest suporters....But then again, ripping the unborn screaming from the womb is different than not being allowed to ingest a little nicotine in a hospital...

Wrong issue, wrong thread....... plenty of anti abortion threads on this site.

Thats Herms fault, currently.

Woody did his part, doling out big cash for Chrebet, Martin, Testaverde, and Mawae.

"This grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University to hold the National Conference on Children and Society to assess the prospects for achieving universal health coverage for children in the United States. Planned in the wake of the failure of President Bill Clinton's health care plan, "First Steps for Children: Strategies for Universal Health Insurance for the Nation's Youth" sought to explore the social and political conditions necessary to enact legislation addressing health care coverage for children. The conference, held October 3-4, 1996, at Columbia University, drew 64 attendees plus 22 panelists and presenters. In total, 53 organizations were represented. Conference organizers commissioned 10 papers for presentation:"
http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/028907.htm

Tennessee Health Care Campaign: History

A Board of Directors made up of consumers, advocates, and social service professionals governs the Tennessee Health Care Campaign. Funding is received from private foundations, including the Public Welfare Foundation, Community Shares (a federation of 40 nonprofit organizations raising funds through payroll deduction), public sources, contributions and events. THCC is the lead agency for Robert Wood Johnson's Covering Kids national Medicaid sign-up initiative. The organization is the founder and sponsor of the Hispanic Family Resource Center and has been the fiscal agent for Tennesseans for Fair Taxation. THCC is also home to numerous ad hoc and standing health advocacy coalitions.

http://www.thcc2.org/history/history.html

The American Paradox: Lack of Health Insurance in the Land of Plenty"; The President's Message; Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., President and CEO; The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1999 Annual Report; Americans Without Health Insurance: Myths and Realities.

Assists local communities in developing and sustaining efforts that improve health care access and promote universal coverage, with a focus on people who are without insurance. A national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Brandeis University
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/ref_links/reflinks_pol_uninsured.cfm

Do a google search for RWJ and universal health coverage. They are the major supporters of the failing plan.

RWJ also funds gun control non profits under the false pretensive of child injury.

RWJ also funded the study on college binge drinking

I could keep going, but a good summary is RWJ foundation is the cash cow for liberal non profits promoting the nanny state.

Herm does look clueless this week. However I, for one, don't consider shelling out big bucks for Testaverde to be a stellar move.

Robert Wood Johnson built health care giant Johnson & Johnson. In 1972, his $1.2 billion bequest funded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). One of the nation’s 10 largest philanthropies, RWJF controlled nearly $7 billion in assets at the end of 1997. This included $4.4 billion of Johnson & Johnson stock, about five percent of the company’s outstanding shares.

Judging by its grants, the foundation’s mission appears to be the promotion of policy initiatives that create the institutional framework required to replace private medicine with government-controlled managed care. Despite growing evidence that aggressive American-style medicine produces faster and more complete patient recoveries, RWJF’s president, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., thinks the United States should emulate Europe and Canada. In the foundation’s 1994 annual report he wrote:

"We simply have overdeveloped our medical capacity…. Compare the lavish lobbies of a typical U.S. hospital with its utilitarian European counterpart and you will appreciate how much we have invested in medical care. Orange County California, has more imaging machines for its 2.4 million people than all of Canada for its 27 million people…. We lead the world in performing expensive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as magnetic resonance imaging, coronary artery bypass surgery, hemodialysis, and organ transplants. These supply factors contribute to both medical inflation and intensity of services…. Our surfeit of medical technology means that insured patients in the United State seldom have to wait for care, urgent or elective."

In Schroeder’s Canadian paradise, sick people die waiting for care. In May 1999, Ontario removed 121 patients from the waiting list for coronary bypass surgery on the grounds that their long wait for treatment had made them too ill to survive it, according to the Fraser Institute report, Canadian Health Care: A System in Collapse. One day last January, 23 of 25 Toronto emergency rooms were closed to new patients.

In 1989, public outcries over treatment delays forced British Columbia to begin sending patients to U.S. hospitals. By 1998 the median wait for urgent cardiovascular surgery was still 6.6 weeks, five weeks longer than doctors felt safe.

That millions of Americans would rather pay more to wait less — an entirely reasonable response to illness — fails to impress Dr. Schroeder. One cannot, he has written, "just put the data out there and assume that people will make the right choice." Because market outcomes reflect people’s choices, RWJF has spent millions on policy initiatives designed to replace the market with government.

According to Schroeder, the Foundation’s experience with re-engineering health care in Washington state taught it that "a foundation grant that represented only a small portion of an institution’s budget could not overcome strong market forces of institutional self-interest to reshape a major health care institution…. Strong incentives — financial or political — were needed to ‘force’ cooperation on what were otherwise competing and successful institutions…" (Health Affairs, Summer 1992, as quoted by Jane M. Orient in testimony before a Pennsylvania state legislature committee). Schroeder advocates public/private partnerships to "force cooperation," and feels that "[t]he key to public/private partnerships is to induce the private sector to ‘play’ on terms that are acceptable to the public sector."

In other words, forget choice. When it comes to health care, Schroeder knows best.

http://www.capitalresearch.org/publications/foundation_watch/2000/0011a.htm

His contract is fine. It keeps him here longterm, and only pays him what he should earn based on his status (starter etc.)

It is not Vinnys fault that Bill Muir was allowed to escape to TB, and now the line sucks. that is why they cant run OR pass.

Look at week one, Special teams WON the game, but they were kept in it by Vinnys arm, and he does have the best winning percentage For long term Jets QBs.

Grant received to study binge drinking

LSU has received a nationally sought-after grant worth $700,468 over five years to study binge drinking among the nation's college and university students. The grant will enable LSU to work toward a solution to the national problem of binge, or "high-risk," drinking.

LSU is one of only four universities in the U.S. to receive the grant in 1998 and one of two to be funded at this level.

The grant program, "A Matter of Degree: The National Effort to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among College Students," works to curb binge drinking by changing norms, attitudes, policies and practices affecting students and their drinking habits on and off campus.

The grant is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., and is administered through the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association, headquartered in Chicago. Six other universities received similar funding in 1996. The universities involved in the project are working with local community organizations, as well as statewide and national groups to address the problem.

http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/lsutoday/980828/pageone.html

nanny state

Look, i read the article, and it was pretty good, however that having been said, Universal Coverage, and Single payer, are two different outcomes entirely.

I am also Vehemently opposed to SBHC.....

Tiger, oh pal of mine - MUST you turn every thread into one about FOOTBALL???