You failed to mention what I consider one of the Bill's most grievous failures---that is the SUGAR SUBSIDY, a many-decades old give
away to support a commodity that is unhealthy and a major cause of the OBESITY plague. The only statement under this sugar
subsidy section was the word 'UNCHANGED".
Your claim of 91,900 scientific articles on sewage sludge seemed high so I went to the NIH site and searched and found 25,587 articles listed.
Then I searched for sewage sludge adverse health impacts, and I found 23 listed. You stated I would find 800,000.
Can you provide a better source for your claims?
Your article is so one-sided I just have to laugh. The fact that you say a BBA would, "...Forcing steeps cuts in Social Security and blocking Congress from responding to economic downturns or natural disasters" is simply not true. The BBA would require the federal government to not spend more than it made. Nothing more, nothing less. If our elected officials decide to cut disaster funding or welfare instead of 'bridges to nowhere' or Mexican economic development that is our fault for electing them. A BBA amendment is one of the few ways that we can pull back the growth of the federal government and put it in check. Both parties are growing more and more powerful, stomping on our freedoms. I look forward to a Convention I plan to help educate Americans so they can see that this is beneficial for all of us, no matter your party.
To the conservatives, be careful what you wish for. The big money, which would have to be cut, is in the military and corporate subsidies. The money necessary for a federally balanced budget doesn't exist in the so called entitlement programs. Picking the low hanging fruit, Medicare, Medicaid, SS, etc., sounds good to conservatives, but the only way to actually balance the federal budget over the long term is to trim the tree from the top. The top of the federal budget tree is the military, big oil subsidies, big ag subsidies, big pharma subsidies, etc.
Is there any written documentation stating what all of you doctors who have posted about not being in control of what you charge? I understand that insurance companies get to tell you what they will pay and tell you to "adjust" the price per service, but, what I beleive you do have control over is not, in turn, billing the patient for the difference in what the insurance company finds too high of a charge. Please advise as to any resources that back your claim that the governement is in control of the charges and you are not.
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