Maybe that's the case for LA....but to make it that way across ALL states the same I think is unfair..... I really don't think that the founding fathers were trying to give so much power to the federal gov't....
No one will deny that something needed to be done.....HOWEVER, I think we should've done a few things at a time rather than come up with a 1990 page bill....it's too long and allows for more "possible shady" things to be inserted.
I read something about this on another board that I want to share:
These are just a few of the facts that are in the health care plan. Your representatives in Washington are not listening to us the people. We are no longer a democratic nation.
Having lived in a socialized country, I know what is about to happen. Here is what you will see and what I am already hearing. In Canada, where I was born and raised, you have 3 taxes. You have your Federal, Provincial and then the Goods and Services Tax. Most of the people in my town where I grew up were either on Social Security or Welfare or unemployment for 6 months out of the year.
In Canada, you can go see the doctor but so could all the other 10,000 people in the town. I can remember having an appointment to see the doctor and walking in before my appointment, signing in, sitting down and waiting hours after my appoint to see the doctor. The doctor would rush through the appointment, if I even go to see him. If I was not able to see the doctor before the office closed, I was sent to the emergency room where once again I would wait for hours.
In 1998 my dad went to see the family doctor that I had grown up seeing. My dad was sick. He and the surgeon ran a bunch of tests and then told my dad there was nothing wrong with him that it was all in his head. My dad being a wise man decided to get a second opinion. He went to see another doctor. She ran tests and found out that dad had stomach cancer. He almost died from this. Thank God he didn't.
In 2007, my dad got very sick again. This doctor that had found the cancer, ran test after test. After about 6 months she found out that dad needed to get his gall bladder out. This was in May but the surgeons could not get him in until the end of September. Dad went in for his surgery and when they pulled his gall bladder out they sent it off to the university to be analyzed because it was the worst they had ever seen. The day after dad's surgery my sister was sitting with him and noticed that his incision was bleeding. My sister went out and asked the nurse if this was normal. The nurse said she would be in in a moment to check on him. 2 hours later my sister had to leave and the nurse still had not been in to check on him.
The next day my sister took dad home. Within 24 hours he was back in the hospital and less then 2 months later he passed away. He never left the hospital again.
So you see, I agree there needs to be health care reform, but what was passed last night is not the answer. We have just become a socialized nation and health care rations will be issued. I am just telling you all this to let you know what to expect. I love the USA. I have been a citizen here since 2006. However, I am concerned for our nation. Not only are bad decisions being made in Washington, but we are gradually turning our back on Israel which will bring about God's judgement. This country must get back to the basics of God fearing people.
FROM CNN:
Health care reform also touches tanning beds, restaurant menusBy Madison Park, CNN
March 23, 2010 5:00 p.m. EDT
The health care law requires chain restaurants that have 20 locations or more to display caloric information.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Health care law requires restaurants with 20 or more locations to post calories
Also included is a 10 percent tax for use of tanning beds
Flexible spending accounts will have limits and no longer allow over-the-counter purchases
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(CNN) -- The health care bill signed into law Tuesday by President Obama is the nation's most sweeping social legislation in four decades. But it also includes some smaller changes that will directly affect consumers.
These include taxes on indoor tanning services, requirements for restaurants to post calorie information and changes to flexible spending accounts.
Restaurants
There are 540 calories in a Big Mac and 670 calories in a Whopper. Nutritional information will be unavoidable when customers step up to the counter to order.
The health care law requires chain restaurants that have more than 20 locations to display calorie information next to the food item on the standard menu.
The Food and Drug Administration has the task of establishing more specific regulations and determining when these changes go into effect.
The health care law requires "succinct statement concerning suggested daily caloric intake" that are "posted prominently on the menu and designed to enable the public to understand, in the context of a total daily diet, the significance of the caloric information that is provided on the menu."
Dr. Kelly Brownell, a Yale University psychology professor at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, conducted research that found that consumers choose lower-calorie food when their menus contained caloric information and a statement that said "an average person consumes 2,000 calories a day."
"A lot of people don't know what it means to have 600 calories," he said. "They have no context and the legislation requires that anchor statement."
Nutrition facts would also be required to be posted on vending machine products and drive-thru menus. Temporary specials appearing on the menu for less than 60 days, condiments and test market foods are exempt.
"Consumers have the right to this info whether or not it makes a difference on the diet," Brownell said. "But I believe the data will ultimately show that it does."
The National Restaurant Association called the passage of the provision "a win for consumers and restaurateurs." The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health advocacy group, praised its passage, calling it a "one of dozens of things we will need to do to reduce rates of obesity and diet-related disease in this country."
In recent years, New York City and California have passed laws requiring nutritional information on menus.
Earlier this month, Panera Bread announced it voluntarily will post calorie information in all its locations by the end of 2010.
Tanning tax
Tanning enthusiasts will have to shell out more to achieve the golden shade. The health care law imposes a 10 percent tax on the service.
John Overstreet, the executive director of The Indoor Tanning Association, decried the new tax calling it, "a crummy, crummy way to make tax policy."
Lawmakers had considered taxing elective cosmetic procedures, but changed the language to tax indoor tanning services instead.
"We've been hit by the recession already," Overstreet said. "A 10 percent tax will be a body blow to the industry."
But UV-emitting tanning devices have been classified as "carcinogenic to humans" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization.
Flexible spending account
The flexible spending account allows consumers to use pretax dollars for health care expenses.
Under the current rule, employers set the limit on how much their employees can set aside for FSAs. But by 2013, the law limits the accounts to $2,500.
This cap is not expected to constrain most people, because the average amount in FSAs is $1,400, said Bob Natt, the CEO of PayFlex, a company that manages employee benefit programs.
FSAs can be used to pay for doctor's bills, prescription medicine and over-the-counter items such as pain relievers, antihistamines, acne drugs and wart removers. But under the new law, these over-the-counter drugs would no longer be eligible FSA expenses after this year.
This is not expected to be a big issue for consumers as only a small percentage of FSA amounts are used to purchase over-the-counter medication, Natt said. About 70 to 80 percent of FSA payments are spent on deductibles, co-payments and prescription drugs, he said.
Since FSAs are pretax dollars, the government could be trying to raise revenue by discouraging more money from going into these accounts.
"You decide to put less dollars [into the FSA] because you can't have certain benefits like buying over-the-counters, then the federal government gets more money," Natt said.
sad very sad