Do you know what is responsible for...
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- making public housing smoke-free,
- keeping tobacco products out of children’s hands,
- ensuring children are served healthy foods in schools,
- providing families with the nutritional information they need when making choices at the grocery store,
- or helping heart attack or stroke survivors participate in a rehabilitation program to reduce their risk for another event?
Public health regulations like these play an important role in preventing and treating cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Senate is considering a bill that will make it much harder – if not impossible – to develop new regulations, even if the regulations are designed to protect the public’s health and safety. This could have a negative impact on tobacco control, nutrition standards, food labeling, access to care for patients with CVD and stroke, and other critical public health regulations. Simply put, the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) will make it significantly more difficult to introduce and implement vital health and safety protections affecting all aspects of our daily lives.
Tell your Senators that we can’t afford to go backward in our fight against cardiovascular disease. We’ve come too far in our work to establish strong public health protections. Please contact your Senators today and tell them to vote no on the RAA.
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Having been in health care almost 30 years, I watched nursing go from a profession that was able to help people, to more paperwork and regulation than is necessary, clogging up our days with useless tasks that don’t improve outcomes, when we should be caring for patients. There are many more examples of how it does not work. We have lost many of our small clinics in the little towns in West Texas, due to the results of Obamacare. You say you are worried about access, but we are seeing the loss of access first-hand here. Doctors simply cannot afford to do it anymore and cannot deal with the piles of paperwork and regulation.
You are asking people to oppose a bill they have probably never read, is constantly changing, and has the potential to save Americans millions in premiums and deductibles. Why would you do that!? Why would we want more people to receive government health care (Medicaid) that has proven to have much worse outcomes and based on evidence, is not really helping people and breaking our bank instead. There has to be a better way!
Some people’s premiums in certain states have gone up over 200% and many have one or zero insurers. Should we just leave it alone?
It upsets me that this group is obviously partisan and does not agree with the majority of the medical community (those that have been around a while anyway, and remember the way things used to be)