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This is SCARY stuff … take a moment and read it … from NewsBlarg.com

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What’s Really In Your Health Care Bill?

By Deanna Blanchard

Let’s face it … very few of us are going to sit down and wade through the 1,107 Link here pages of legal mumbo-jumbo that make up the health care bill.

Your Congressman probably hasn’t even read it.

Fortunately, an unnamed person has been going through the bill with a fine-toothed comb and posting his findings on Twitter.

Here are just a few of the provisions he discovered that could limit or even endanger your right to the healthcare you need … Read the rest of this entry »

When I read this question “One question the senators did not ask: how’s her health?” it got my attention.

Being a Type 1 insulin-dependent person since 1983, I was interested in why they were, or I guess in this case, NOT addressing this issue. My initial reaction was that she was probably just a Type 2 diabetic and the newspaper was just overreacting.

Quite the contrary…According to the article, she has been taking insulin injections daily since she was 8 years old.

Now, I guess the reason I am bringing this up is that insulin injections is not the best way to regulate your blood sugar and minimize diabetes complications. The insulin pump has been around for 25+ years, and is considered by far the BEST method to control diabetes for those of us who need an ‘outside’ source of insulin. I can personally testify to its effectiveness.

Here is the question: Why hasn’t our proposed Supreme Court Justice not availed herself of the latest technology to stay healthy?

What kind of other decisions can we expect from her?

Please comment and let me know what you think about this “hidden issue”.

It’s time to stand up and be heard!

If there ever was a moment in time when you could make a huge difference for your family’s future, THIS IS IT!

14 days ago, “The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009″ (HR 2454) squeaked through the U.S. House of Representatives with a tiny seven-vote majority - and by doing so, it took a giant step towards becoming the law of the land.

This “Cap and Tax” bill is pure poison for entrepreneurs like us and our families.

By levying huge taxes and fines on every Read the rest of this entry »