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 "Despite the mounting evidence that the industry was manipulating its prices and aggressively promoting medicines that were dangerous and ineffective, Senator Kefauver could not find enough votes for the legislation he proposed to restrain some of the egregious practices. It took another tragedy to prompt Congress to act.
As the Senate hearings began, a drug manufacturer in Cincinnati named the William S. Merrell Company was in the midst of distributing tens of thousands of tablets of an experimental drug called thalidomide to thousands of American doctors for "testing" in patients."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "One state, Massachusetts, has already passed legislation aimed at insuring all residents. Others are considering similar proposals. As the 2008 presidential campaign began heating up in early 2007, there were signs that the richest country in the world was preparing, maybe once and for all, to find the eighty billion dollars a year that's needed to cover every last one of its citizens.
Thus far, however, the candidates have been notably vague about the other major problem in health care—soaring costs."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "There have been signs of a healthy backlash against schools coercing parents to drug their children with recent legislation in many states placing limits on what teachers and schools can recommend and prohibiting coercion.
Meanwhile, the nation is rapidly rushing toward something far more menacing—the systematic "mental health screening" of schoolchildren and even infants."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "In its most extreme form, Americas highest court asserts a right of judicial review over even the laws produced by the national legislature, but everywhere that the Common Law prevails—essentially Great Britain and her former colonies—case law frequently trumps legislation. Partly this is a function of the very different way that the Common Law evolved: incrementally, selecting rules and procedures one at a time, rarher than building everything according to a grand design."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "By the fifth century, the empire's legal and judicial functions were divided among three separate bodies, with the office of the Quaestor responsible for legislation, the Masters of Offices (there were three, supervising letters, records, and petitions) responsible for legal administration; and the Praetorian Prefect responsible for execution of the laws. Thus, Tribonian was, by the time of Nika, the chief legislative official for the entire empire." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "A unique study illustrates the health potential of such legislation. In 2002, the city of Helena, Montana banned smoking in all public places. Within six months, the rate of heart attacks plummeted 58%. For those living outside the city limits there was no change. "We know from long-term studies that the effects of secondhand smoke occur within minutes," wrote the lead physician in the study, "but it was quite stunning to document this large an effect so quickly"28 Alas, the Montana state legislature, under pressure from the tobacco industry and restaurant and bar owners, overruled the ban."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
| "Since the term refers only to the acts of an absolute ruler, many Pragmatic Sanctions dealt with matters of succession, but Justinian's most resembled one of those elephantine pieces of modern legislation with clauses on everything from agricultural price supports ro excise taxes to research grants. The Pragmatic Sanction of 554 annulled all of Totila's actions (referring to him, apparently without irony, as the "tyrant"); all property sold under Ostro-gorh rule became recoverable and slaves were restored to their former owners." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "The answer was essentially legislation allowing pharmaceutical companies to pay the salaries of the staff at the FDA. In 1992, the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) stipulated that a fee (now $576,000) be paid to the FDA by the pharmaceutical companies for each new drug application. The number of staff at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) doubled overnight. Today, the FDA receives about $260 million a year from these fees. Part of the bill stipulated that funding by Congress for new drug evaluations had to increase by 3% per year."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Because of changing public perspectives related to individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities since the 1950s, and legislation favoring their inclusion in all aspects of society, nutrition professionals will encounter children with special needs in their practices and should be able to anticipate their most commonly seen nutrition problems [5].
Nutrition screening should be conducted for all children with special needs in multiple settings to ensure that those at high risk are identified and referred for appropriate services [6]."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "When it comes to discussing and debating dietary issues, whatever you do, don't venture into the realm of scientific
The food processors hire lobbyists to get legislation passed allowing them to call these foods, of all things, natural.
Ever wonder how a food that is over 50% processed white sugar and dripping with additives can be called natural?
Legislation, m'boy, legislation!
Harvey - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) |
 "The 1920s saw the spread of "boiler rooms" and "bucket shops" that actively sold stocks to the public using the telephone, employing questionable tactics that easily slipped past ineffective "blue-sky" legislation at the level of the states. The proliferation of telephones undoubtedly made it easier to sell stocks to the public, and the resulting impetus to fraud helped bring the country to the point of enacting the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created the Securities and Exchange Commission."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "It was resentment of business that ended the "community of interest" boom after 1901 (see Chapter 6), by spurring vigorous antitrust legislation and regulation of corporations, and it was such resentment after 1929, in encouraging the growth of socialist and communist movements, that created an unusually uncertain and unstable atmosphere for the economy in the 1930s. A pro-business U.S. Congress has cut corporate profits taxes, and a pro-business Bush administration has created an environment in which businesses have felt more free to avoid taxes." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The proposed tax legislation that the Brady Commission mentions had completely escaped my notice as an important news story to include on my list. The news had broken on October 14, five days before the crash, and it had not seemed to me to be the subject of significant public comment in the days leading up to the crash. Representative Dan Rostenkowski's House Ways and Means Committee was considering tax changes that would have had the effect of discouraging corporate takeovers." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "They wrote in their summary the following explanation for the crash: The precipitous market decline of mid-October was "triggered" by specific events: an unexpectedly high merchandise trade deficit which pushed interest rates to new high levels, and proposed tax legislation which led to the collapse of the stocks of a number of takeover candidates. This initial decline ignited mechanical, price-insensitive selling by a number of institutions employing portfolio insurance strategies and a small number of mutual fund groups reacting to redemptions." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
| "Pending legislation in the form of the Flu Protection Act will revamp U.S. flu-vaccine policy by requiring the CDC to pay makers for vaccines unsold "through routine market mechanisms." The bill will also require the CDC to conduct a "public awareness campaign" emphasizing "the safety and benefit of recommended vaccines for the public good."
And let me remind you that flu vaccinations are not innocuous. There is conjecture that the mercury and aluminum (metals that are known to have neurotoxic effects) in vaccine shots are associated with long-term adverse consequences." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Today, environmental legislation and regulations that guide the decisions we make about public health and the environment focus on managing current risk (how high a level of trichlo-roethylene or mercury can humans handle in their bloodstreams before falling ill?) rather than preventing future harm (how do we change manufacturing practices that emit toxic agents into the environment in the first place?)."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Other states may soon encourage similar changes, especially if they hear from enough constituents who support such legislation. Meanwhile, most grocery stores now offer a wide array of safe and toxin-free cleaners (Biokleen, Earth Friendly, and Seventh Generation offer toxin-free product lines). As an alternative, try making your own household cleaners. It's both easy and inexpensive. For furniture polish, mix one part white distilled vinegar, three parts olive oil, and a dash of natural lemon oil." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
| "If voluntary efforts related to children's television programming are unsuccessful in shifting the emphasis away from high-energy and low-nutrient foods and beverages to healthful foods and beverages, then Congress should enact legislation mandating the shift." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "In the Australian state of Victoria, burning with gold fever and strangled by epidemic diphtheria in the 1870s, Chinese doctors became the targets of hostile legislation.4 As the historian and acupuncturist Rey Tiquia has documented, western medical doctors were the principal lobbyists for new regulations intended to exclude the Chinese (as well as competitors from other systems) from practising medicine. Orthodox western practitioners outnumbered Chinese healers by almost ten to one in the 1861 census of Victoria, and were clearly the most prominent healing community."- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
| "Congress has even proposed legislation relieving drug companies of liability in cases that involve drug-safety problems if the drug has been approved by the FDA. The FDA is so paralyzed by politics and its desire to balance scientific advancement, commerce, and safety that it could be letting down its guard. For instance, Daniel Troy, the chief counsel for the FDA under George W. Bush in 2004, was a political appointee who formerly worked in a Washington law firm that defended the interests of pharmaceutical companies." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Drug company lobbying can no longer be allowed to stand in the way of legislation that clearly serves the health interests of the American people, such as setting aside less than $0.02 per prescription in the Medicare prescription bill to determine the best drugs and therapies for seniors, or simply allowing the market to function so the government can negotiate the best price from drug makers to obtain the best value for American senior citizens.
RECLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR HEALTH
Don't forget the good news. You can take charge of many of your biggest health risks."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "How can this happen? Expenditures for prescription drugs have been increasing seven times faster than the rate of inflation, but the 2003 legislation specifically prohibits the federal government from using its purchasing power to negotiate prices with drug makers, as is done successfully by the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department (and by Canada and the European countries—which is why their drug prices are so much lower than those in the United States). The U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The letter goes on to say, "We must keep the lines of communication open if we want to continue passing legislation that will benefit your industry." The penultimate paragraph describes just how to keep those lines open, including a request for a $250,000 donation from Bristol-Myers Squibb to the Republican National Committee. With tens of billions of dollars a year on the line for the drug industry, what was a mere $250,000? Perhaps the storm clouds were being actively seeded. Drug COfTlparties, government, doctors, patients, insurers." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Expenditures for prescription drugs have been increasing seven times faster than the rate of inflation, but the 2003 legislation specifically prohibits the federal government from using its purchasing power to negotiate prices with drug makers, as is done successfully by the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department (and by Canada and the European countries—which is why their drug prices are so much lower than those in the United States). The U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Even representatives of the tobacco industry agree that it is sensible for people with asthma to avoid cigarette smoke. legislation has enforced smoking restrictions in public buildings around the world. Exposure to cigarette smoke, even while in the womb, and particularly during the first year of life is likely to increase a child's risk of developing asthma. Years of exposure to cigarette smoke can result in irreversible lung damage and for an asthmatic the problem can be exacerbated."- Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) |
| "In Minnesota, legislation has been introduced calling for "socioemotional" screening of toddlers before admission to kindergarten, and Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has endorsed a plan put together by state and private agencies based on federal programs to "assure that all children ages birth to five are screened early and continuously for the presence of health, socioemotional, or developmental needs . . ."
Karen Effrem, along with many international reformers in the mental health field, is on the board of directors of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "Like an edible Taser, it feels like getting hit on your funny bone over and over again, except on your whole body Until child-safety legislation was passed in 2000, it was all over fruits. Although its use has been diminished, we're still eating it in vegetables, presumably because cooking reduces its toxicity.
It often takes decades of damage before a "miracle plant food" like DDT finally gets phased out. Beaurocracy is indolent by nature; the chemical lobby does its utmost to slow things down even more; and conventional farmers just want to fight off pests as long as they can."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
| "Companies should have to determine the effect of chemicals in developing autoimmunity as well as cancer, and state and federal legislation is needed to compel corporations to make this happen. This book will inspire you to want to do something to protect yourselves and your loved ones; to do what you can to restore a healthy balance between our environment and our bodies. What that something is will vary depending on the individual." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "GMO-related legislation has also been enacted at the state, county and city levels. For more information on legislative efforts in the United States, go to www.the-campaign.org.
Food companies and farmers can protect themselves
Whether the tipping point is achieved through a new scientific finding, a national education campaign, a religious leader, legislation, or even a well-received segment on Oprah Winfrey, there is an excellent chance that US food manufacturers will abandon GM foods in the near future. Several have already taken steps to protect themselves by avoiding GM ingredients."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
| "The relaxation of such restrictive legislation should by no means be taken as a sign that alternative and cross-cultural medicine remains an unregulated marketplace, however. The same interdependent processes of regulation and professionalization that dominated the nineteenth-century history of orthodox medicine are now under way in relation to many heterodox disciplines of healing?and for almost exactly the same reasons." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
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