Daily Mail: Prisoners Have Better Diet Than Hospital Patients

From the Daily Mail...

Patients in Health Service hospitals are far more likely to go hungry than criminals in jail, scientists warned yesterday.

They say frail and elderly patients do not get the help they need with meals, and nobody checks whether they get enough to eat.

Despite years of Government promises to tackle poor hospital nutrition, food still arrives cold, and patients often miss out because meal times clash with tests and operations.

Meanwhile, prisoners are enjoying carbohydrate-rich, low-fat foods which in many cases are better than they would have been eating on the outside.

The Daily Mail has been highlighting the scandal of old people not being fed properly in hospital as part of its Dignity for the Elderly campaign.

Hospital meals are often taken away untouched, because they are either unappetising or are placed out of patients' reach.

The latest figures show 242 patients died of malnutrition in NHS hospitals in 2007 - the highest toll in a decade. More than 8,000 left hospital under-nourished - double the figure when Labour came to power.

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This in light of the claims that "England has great medical care..."

Don't listen to the lies flying out of your politician's mouth.

Healthcare reform needs to start with tort reform, medical savings accounts, moving back toward Medical Insurance (i.e. major medical coverage)... Not with so-called Obama care, a government owned 'insurance company', or government paid coverage of "40 million uninsured".

Healthcare Emergency (now with analysis)

Alan Korwin's blog has made a special post for this health care bill. He posted some commentary and Peter "Fleckenstein's" analysis of this monstrosity.

There's much too much to post here on my blog. I recommend you go to his blog (blog.flecksoflife.com) and read the original post.

Pg 241: SEC. 1121. SUSTAINABLE GROWTH RATE REFORM Line 6-8 HC Bill – Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same.

Pg 429: SEC. 1233. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONSULTATION Lines 13-25 – The Government will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

[NOTE: Read carefully, it doesn't have to be a doctor, it can be an undefined "physician assistant" appointed by an unelected federal bureaucrat. --Alan.]

Also check out the Liberty Counsel's compiled analysis of this bill. (http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf )

And LASTLY.... PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

Call AND Visit your Senators and Congressmen while they're home for the August recess and let them know that you DO NOT support this monstrosity and if they do they'll be out of a job come next election cycle.

House & Senate Pass Obama Youth Program Bill

Okay, I don't want to seem alarmist but when Congress and the Senate passes a bill that will mandate volunteer service ("the 'mandatory' provisions have already surfaced in a stand-alone bill, H.R. 1444, sponsored by "Baghdad Jim" McDermott (D-WA), to create a commission to study whether to make such 'volunteer' service 'Mandatory'") and your 'giving to charity' we should be very afraid.

It's interesting to note that in the 52 Amendments proposed to this bill at least one was proposed to prohibit organizations such as ACORN from receiving money as a result of this bill. It was rejected.

Also of note is Amendment 715 which would allow money to"include certain crisis pregnancy centers, and organizations that serve battered women or victims of rape or incest." It was rejected.

I wish I could take credit for all of this research, but honestly someone beat me to it ("Serve America Act" (Obama/Hitler Youth Corps) Sent to Obama for Signing) .

Sec. 1101.(16)of the bill provides that a purpose is to "increase public and private investment in nonprofit community organizations that are effectively addressing national and local challenges and encourage such organizations to replicate and expand successful initiatives."

Hmmm... "non-profit community organizations effectively addressing local challenges..." - can you say ACORN, anyone?

Now, that's just a money thing. It gets worse.

The bill declares the following activities to be prohibited: "Sec. 1310... (7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of proselytization, consistent with section 132." On its face, this prohibition would extend to anyone participating in the program who might teach a Sunday School class, for example. "Engaging in any form of proselytization" is prohibited which means that a "volunteer" may not discuss God or Christ with anyone else for fear of being accused of "any form of proselytization."

Now you might be thinking... How can the government tell me that if I participate in this program I cannot also teach Sunday school or bible study on the weekends? I'll tell you why. The government has been setting a large precedence that basically says that if you receive gov't money then you're government's bitch so you HAVE to comply with any demands.

However, that's not even the worst of it all. This last part creates the so-called "Obama Youth" program.

What is further disturbing about this bill is that is creates a "quasi" military civilian force. The bill provides that "Section 151 (42 U.S.C. 12611) is amended to read as follows:

‘‘SEC. 151. PURPOSE.

‘‘It is the purpose of this subtitle to authorize the operation of, and support for, residential and other service programs that combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service, including leadership and team building, to meet national and community needs. The needs to be met under such programs include those needs related to—

‘‘(1) natural and other disasters;
‘‘(2) infrastructure improvement;
‘‘(3) environmental stewardship and conservation;
‘‘(4) energy conservation; and
(5) urban and rural development.’’

Great that's all I need... a bunch of brainwashed kids badgering me while I'm standing in line at Home Depot demanding that I buy 'energy efficient' light bulbs at 10 times the cost and 25% the effectiveness or worse going door to door in the next national disaster demanding that I give up my arms for the "safety" of my neighbors.