Tuesday September 29, 2009 Recap:

Lisa’s top ics were health and the newly proposed national health care bill.. Just 41% of voters nationwide favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. Senior citizens surveyed are less supportive of the plan with 33% in favor and 59% opposed with those over 65 strongly opposed at 46%.

The Senate Finance Committee voted to kill a public insurance plan that would compete with private insurers, with a vote of 15 to 8.

A law says that doctors, hospitals and other health care providers must create an Electronic Health Record (EHR) for every American by 2014 or else face deductions in their Medicare payments. The EHR’s are supposed to be integrated into a national health care IT system where health-care providers nationwide as well as the government would have the ability to access them when authorized!

There is a section of the Health Care reform bill that requires the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to “develop standards for the measurement of gender” as opposed t o simply relying on “male and female” for use in a new federal database that will collect information about all beneficiaries of government-run or supported health care programs. Sebelius has “no idea” about it.

Lisa’s guest was Dr. Pamela Peeke, who lives in Maryland, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and is adjunct senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Her research has focused on the relationship between chronic stress and overeating. A national bestseller, Fight Fat After Forty, was published in 2001, and she continues to bring this topic to the forefront nationally in magazine articles, television and radio appearances. Dr. Peeke’s most recent book is Fit to Live which challenges readers to have a wellness in their life using mental, nutritional, physical, financial and environmental aspects.

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