[dware]

Just because you're not a smoker, doesn't mean that something like this can't one day happen to you. When will people realize that, along with freedom comes a HUGE social responsibility on the part of those enjoying that freedom.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010

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These funds now make available monies for grant projects for:

Focus Areas at a Glance (28)

* Access to Quality Health Services
* Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Chronic Back Conditions
* Cancer
* Chronic Kidney Disease
* Diabetes
* Disability and Secondary Conditions
* Educational and Community-Based Programs
* Environmental Health
* Family Planning
* Food Safety
* Health Communication
* Heart Disease and Stroke
* Immunizations and Infectious Diseases
* Nutrition and Overweight
* Injury and Violence Prevention
* Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
* Medical Product Safety
* Mental Health and Mental Disorders
* Occupational Safety and Health
* Oral Health
* Physical Activity and Fitness
* Public Health Infrastructure
* Respiratory Diseases
* Sexually Transmitted Diseases -STD
* Substance Abuse
* Tobacco Use
* Vision and Hearing

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Target-Setting Methods

One of the three overarching goals for the Healthy People 2000 Prevention Initiative was to reduce health disparities among Americans(and globally).

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[Still Thinking]

This is fine, as long as the smokers are rebated the present day dollar value of the taxes they paid that would be paying for this coverage. You can't very well say "We accept smokers when it's time for paying INTO the system, but we start checking only when we're paying OUT."

[jackieaxe]

sig heil!

[Dumb_Ox]

Habitual fast-food and junk food junkies will be next on the hitlist. Will the bill also apply to crackheads and druggies?

[MEGoody]

Uh huh. Then they'll cut health care for those who are overweight. Then for those who don't exercise X amount per day. Then they'll cut care for all those who don't eat based on a prescribed 'food pyramid'. And on and on and on. (Of course, they will never cut care to those who pariticipate in one of the most dangerous activities - homosexuals.)

[Hot Tabasco]

afford to pay to treat smokers who get lung cancer, heart disease and other diseases linked to tobacco.

I might be wrong but wasn't the billion + tobacco settlement to the states via the feds designed to provide the funds for just this reason?