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HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More
Asked 9 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
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How can we have any chance of true "Health Care Reform" as long as the McCarren-Ferguson Act (passed in the 1940's) protects the insurance companies from any Sherman Anti-trust investigation and ,in fact, allows them to be the only industry for which the anti-trust laws do not apply ? More
Asked 3 weeks 6 days ago of All U.S. Congress
by Elliot Eisenberg, DC from Richmond, VA
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How can we have any chance of true "Health Care Reform" as long as the McCarren-Ferguson Act (passed in the 1940's) protects the insurance companies from any Sherman Anti-trust investigation and ,in fact, allows them to be the only industry for which the anti-trust laws do not apply ? More
Asked 3 weeks 6 days ago of All U.S. Congress
by Elliot Eisenberg, DC from Richmond, VA -
HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More
Asked 9 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA
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Equal access to health care and insurance coverage should be a right, not a privledge. When is this country going to stop the way health care is managed and provided in this country? What do you plan to do to address this inequity in our country and make the playing field equal for all?
Asked by: Sheryl Yates from Casper, WY. Received 17 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)
Well first of all we don’t have a health care system in this country. Hopefully that’s one of the things that will happen with the new president. When you talk to small businesses, large businesses, people that have their own business, they all agree, most of the people I talk to agree, that we really do need a healthcare system in this country. Hopefully that will be started on this next year, and we can get it accomplished, but its gonna take a little while to make it happen. Reporter: What about the whole question of cost, which your Republican colleagues will definitely bring up?
Answered on Sep 25th, 2008 More
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Equal access to health care and insurance coverage should be a right, not a privledge. When is this country going to stop the way health care is managed and provided in this country? What do you plan to do to address this inequity in our country and make the playing field equal for all?
Asked by: Sheryl Yates from Casper, WY. Received 17 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. John Mica (R-FL)
Well as someone who had a family situation where my dad did not have health insurance, I had to drop out of college and go to work; I have a strong personal opinion that we should mandate some sort of health coverage, but I’d like it private with choice. I think right now we really have some of that, but I think some folks without health insurance end up using the system, maybe not paying for the system. But everybody should have access to health care in this country.
Reporter: Do you think the government has dropped the ball on it?
Answered on Sep 15th, 2008 More
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Why has Congress not acted to open the Federal employee health care system up to private individuals and businesses. This was a promise the Democrats made when they took Congress in 2006. It would cost us nothing to do this, and it would provide a means for individuals and employers to obtain health care insurance at reasonable rates.
Asked by: David Stoddard from Silver Spring, MD. Received 20 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
What Americans want is to make sure they have choices like their Members of Congress have. Members of Congress have private health care choices. And with the Healthy Americans Act we have now been able to get a significant group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, to show that for the amount of money that’s being spent on health care today, according to the budget experts, it’s possible for all Americans to have similar choices.
Answered on Jun 27th, 2008 More
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Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?
Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Nutrition education we already do within health classes. When my kids were in kindergarten or 1st Grade, and how many grains and how many dairies, so nutrition education, yes. One of the other questions to be asked is, is it the federal government’s role to tell schools what they should be doing within the choices that are available within a school. We need to keep in mind that within the past 40 some-odd years, we’ve been doing that within the school lunch program. We have set the standards within school lunches and we say there are standards that need to be met.
Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More
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Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?
Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Well first of all, it’s not up the federal government to mandate what schools teach. I would never want to intrude on the local jurisdiction of schools to decide who they hire, who the fire, what books use. That’s not the role of the federal government. But I do think the role of the federal government is, as long as we’re providing school lunches and school breakfasts and food in schools, that we ought to be able to say what foods would be allowed in those schools.
Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More
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WHY is it acceptable to put our country in trillion dollar debt for war,but it is unacceptable to borrow a few billion to provide free healthcare for all citizens? Our national system's are broken, why not fix America first?
Asked by: Emily Heartsong from Columbia, MO. Received 5 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)
The first and foremost role of the federal government is to provide for the national defense. And that’s what we’re doing in Iraq. I think the caller was absolutely right saying we need the troops to come home as soon as possible, but we need to do it in a responsible way. The December 08 change in mission is right in line of what the Iraq study group recommended from more of a combat to a support role. If we immediately withdraw, there would be total chaos, the Middle East would be a fireball, it’s not a problem you can run away from.
Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More
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Would you work with the White House to find a compromise on funding Children’s Health Insurance?
Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 2 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
“Well, I haven’t had any overture from the White House on what they might consider an appropriate next step. What I do know is that in the House we compromised from a $90 billion dollar bill to a $35 billion dollar bill in order to have bipartisanship and to have it pass the United States Senate.”
Answered on Nov 6th, 2007 More
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Would you support legislation to make some fast food restaurants post calorie information on their menus or menu boards?
Asked by: techopman from Washington, DC.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH)
“I think it is stupid. When I go to Cheesecake Factory and order a big slab of cheesecake, I know it is not good for me. But the reason I go to restaurants is to get stuff I can’t have at home or my wife won’t let me have it at home.”
Answered on Nov 5th, 2007 More
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