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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15116)	3/22/2010 4:49:11 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 42652

No repeal of Obamacare no peace.

To: Lane3 who wrote (15116)	3/23/2010 9:38:24 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Businesses will be dropping people like flies from business-covered "insurance"; there will be no reason for anyone as an employer to be providing this "benefit" into an environment where insurance prices will double - and probably double twice - in the next four years. If you think not, look at what was done to credit-card holders in front of the provisions of the CARD act going into effect. This, by the way, will bankrupt the insurance companies in the end. Nobody will buy until they have HIV, Cancer or some other serious illness - then they will buy, and the companies will have to pay - with no lifetime caps or exclusions for pre-existing conditions. The health care companies that are getting a rocket shot today in the stock market are being bought by fools. If you have any belief whatsoever in the efficient market hypothesis this is exactly what people will do as the effective dates for these provisions approach, as it will save them ten thousand dollars a year or more - each. The insurance companies will instantaneously lose the "pool" of healthy people who buy against risk - rather, they will have a pool of all sick people who buy against known costs. Forget it folks - this is the end of the health industry in America, and I will be looking for the recognition in the market (as expressed by technical analysis on the stocks in this sector) that the efficient market will come to the fore. The intention of The Democrats (and liberals generally) in this legislation is clear and impossible to hide - they intend to completely destroy private health care in favor of a fully-government-run single-payer system. The efficient market guarantees this outcome given the law they passed, and they know it. Message 26405875

To: Lane3 who wrote (15116)	3/24/2010 6:43:46 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Walking: An hour a day keeps the weight away usatoday.com By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Normal-weight women who want to prevent weight gain as they age need to do an hour a day of moderate-intensity physical activity such as brisk walking, a study shows. Over the years, some experts have suggested it takes that much to control weight, but this is one of the first large-scale studies to examine the question. TEST YOURSELF: Customize your own walking plan DIETER: A pair of walking shoes, a set of weights and ... wow BRISK WALK: Brings better health, less belly fat CALORIE COUNTS: What burns what Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston tracked the leisure-time physical activity and weight of more than 34,000 healthy women over 13 years. The women, average age 54 at the start of the study, followed a regular diet and didn't try to lose weight. Participants were divided into three groups: •Women who were the most active and did at least 60 minutes a day of moderate-intensity physical activity, most of it walking. •Those who were moderately active, at least 150 minutes a week (for example, at least 30 minutes a day five days a week). •Those who were the least active, at less than 150 minutes a week. Findings reported in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association: •Overall, study participants gained an average of 6 pounds in that time. •Those in the two less-active groups were much more likely to gain 5 pounds or more than the most active women. •Overweight and obese women tended to be less active than the healthy-weight women, and overall their physical activity was insufficient to help them control their weight. •13% of women were "successful weight maintainers"— they started at a healthy weight and gained less than 5 pounds at any checkpoint during the 13 years. They consistently did about 60 minutes a day of moderate-intensity exercise. "There is no sugarcoating it," says I-Min Lee, lead author of the study and an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. This is what it takes to maintain weight given our diets, she says. It's not clear whether these findings apply to men and younger women, she says. Walking was the most common activity of the women in the study, but if you do more vigorous activity such as running or jogging, 30 minutes is equal to 60 minutes of walking, she says. Other studies show physical activity can be accumulated in short bouts of at least 10 minutes each. She emphasizes that it's possible to get the health benefits of physical activity, such as lowering the risk of heart disease, some types of cancers and type 2 diabetes, by following the government guidelines and doing at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each week (about 30 minutes a day five days a week or 2½ hours a week) or 75 minutes of a vigorous-intensity activity, such as jogging or swimming laps, or a combination of the two types.