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Showing posts with label student. Show all posts
The Bombast of Health Care Funding and Student Loan Interest Support
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The Disease Management Care Blog was shocked, shocked when it learned that Representative Pelosis political opponents have conspired to fund federal student loan subsidies by "tak[ing] it from their favorite target: womens health" (italics DMCB). The White House has chimed in about this political evildoing, noting defunding womens health could result in "hundreds of thousands of women" losing access to cancer screenings.Alarmed by this unfair disenfranchisement of half of the U.S. population, the DMCB spouse and a number of future Secret Service agents, the DMCB decided to investigate.
As the DMCB understands it, the House Republicans propose to pay for the loan subsidies by defunding all or some the Sec 4002 of Affordable Care Acts Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF).
Heres the key wording from the ACA:
SEC. 4002. PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUND ....to be administered through HHS, to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs. FUNDING.—There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, and appropriated, to the Fund, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—
(1) for fiscal year 2010, $500,000,000;
(2) for fiscal year 2011, $750,000,000;
(3) for fiscal year 2012, $1,000,000,000;
(4) for fiscal year 2013, $1,250,000,000;
(5) for fiscal year 2014, $1,500,000,000; and
(6) for fiscal year 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, $2,000,000,000.
(c) USE OF FUND....for prevention, wellness, and public health activities including prevention research and health screenings, such as the Community Transformation grant program, the Education and Outreach Campaign for Preventive Benefits, and immunization programs.
Unable to find the words "womens health" in Sec. 4002 of the ACA, the DMCB next looked up the Community Transformation grant program and the Education and Outreach Campaign. There is practically no mention of "womens health" there either.
With further research, the DMCB did find this insight on the mechanics of federal health grant funding in the unbiased and ereed policy journal Health Affairs. According to Boston academic authors Mariana Arcaya and Xavier Briggs, the institutional complexity of overlapping committee and agency jurisdictions and budgets make it extremely difficult - absent innovation, reorganization and new support mechanisms - to coordinate grant programs like the PPHF and give the taxpayers their moneys worth.
The DMCBs conclusions?
1. Given the size of the U.S. governments deficit, its Congress job to make tough choices. Cancelling one program to fund another is one of them. The DMCB wishes that happened more often.
2. Trading a costly and questionably effective PPHF for a national investment in college education doesnt sound like a bad idea to the DMCB.
3. This is only the beginning. Those of us in the health care industry can look forward to the threat of funding cuts in other federally supported programs.
4. Even in this time of political discontent, Speaker Boehner has a point. Shame on Ms. Pelosi and her allies for their bombast and for the mainstream news media for failing to recognize it.
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Perform meditation can improve student test scores
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Perform meditation can improve student test scores - A meditation technique called meditation trancendental known to increase brain power and even to increase student test scores, according to recent research.
A study conducted on high school students found that the graduation rate rose to 25 percent in trancendental students who meditate twice a day, as reported by the Daily Mail.
This meditation technique is done with a mumbled voice that repeated many times with my eyes closed. To do so, students say Omm ... at the time of meditation, closing the eyes for 20 minutes, twice a day.
Not only can boost brain power, this meditation technique is also known to reduce the risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and reduce stress and anxiety. This technique was once famous in the 60s, after a member of The Beatles traveled to India and taught do this meditation technique.
In a study that looked at 235 students in urban schools the United States showed an increase in the graduation rate to 15 percent in children who do trancendental meditation techniques regularly. Not only that, students who meditate also smaller risk of being expelled from school or go to jail.
Professor Robert Colbert from the University of Connecticut explained that improving graduation outcomes and education of children can have a major impact on society. Good education will build a good prospect in the students lives, until they mature later.
A study conducted on high school students found that the graduation rate rose to 25 percent in trancendental students who meditate twice a day, as reported by the Daily Mail.
This meditation technique is done with a mumbled voice that repeated many times with my eyes closed. To do so, students say Omm ... at the time of meditation, closing the eyes for 20 minutes, twice a day.
Not only can boost brain power, this meditation technique is also known to reduce the risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and reduce stress and anxiety. This technique was once famous in the 60s, after a member of The Beatles traveled to India and taught do this meditation technique.
In a study that looked at 235 students in urban schools the United States showed an increase in the graduation rate to 15 percent in children who do trancendental meditation techniques regularly. Not only that, students who meditate also smaller risk of being expelled from school or go to jail.
Professor Robert Colbert from the University of Connecticut explained that improving graduation outcomes and education of children can have a major impact on society. Good education will build a good prospect in the students lives, until they mature later.
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