placenta does not belong in your hair

24th January 2009

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It just keeps getting better and better…

I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve had such poor confidence in our government to do anything remotely progressive with health care, if the cynacism has worn me down. But to see this in print in the president’s stimulus package is slowly waking up the excitement in me again. (Excerpt from the Recovery Plan Metrics Report)

” Making the single largest investment in prevention in history – providing evidence-based prevention to all Americans.  The President believes that all Americans should have access to recommended clinical preventive services and community-based prevention programs.

More than half of Americans—156 million—go without the flu vaccine every year, and this plan ensures that no American will lack immunizations due to costs. Further, given that 1 in 3 adults have a chronic disease, this plan tackles obesity, smoking and other health risks from nearly 100 programs to potentially, as many as 800 prevention programs in urban and rural communities across the nation.”