http://ehealthy.info Healthcare Products and Pharmacueticals Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:34:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scott McAdams, the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Alaska against Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, is a burly dark-haired guy who looks every bit the football player he is. He said he got into politics because he was the Sitka, Alaska, high school football coach and had to ... http://ehealthy.info/alaskadispatch-com-meet-scott-mcadams-an-alaska-democrat-and-u-s-senate-candidate/health/ Hey, the folks at American Legacy Foundation are the real deal, set up by lots of states as part of a settlement deal with the tobacco companies.They run the Truth campaign, trying to prevent addiction among the young.Here's their new effort to help people out:Read More... http://ehealthy.info/craig-newmark-social-media-helping-people-quit-smoking/health/ Darlene Superville, Associated PressWASHINGTON - A healthy economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class even more than a healthy stock market, President Barack Obama said as he reaffirmed his commitment to work hard for America's hardworking men and women.In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama on ... http://ehealthy.info/obama-weekly-address-president-pledges-to-help-the-middle-class-video/health/ What is it, exactly, that Tea Party America finds so horrific about European Social Democracy? The universal health care? The excellent public transportation? Four weeks of vacation a year? Read More... More on Tax Day Tea Parties http://ehealthy.info/mark-olmsted-se-habla-fear-monolingualism-and-its-discontents/health/ As a kid at the Jersey shore, on days of ocean calm, I would float over the occasional ripple with my dad, his hands folded behind his head and his tan, slender, feet parallel and pointing skyward. "Ahh, this is worth a million bucks," he'd say and now I know ... http://ehealthy.info/susan-orlins-hurricane-earl-riptides-and-ocean-memories/health/ In December of 2006, I introduced the Healthy Americans Act to reform the nation's health care system. Some on both sides of the aisle liked my bill, while others on both sides of the aisle did not. But the time has long since passed for debating the merits of the ... http://ehealthy.info/sen-ron-wyden-missing-the-point/health/ As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs and a sour economy, U.S. workers for the first time in at least a decade are being asked to shoulder the entire increase in the cost of health benefits on their own.The average worker with a family plan was hit with 14% premium ... http://ehealthy.info/employers-pushing-health-care-cost-increases-onto-workers-report-shows/health/ A new survey shows an average worker with a family plan pays nearly $4,000 a year, up 14% from 2009. Meanwhile, the average employer contribution to a family plan hasn't increased at all.As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs and a sour economy, U.S. workers for the first time in ... http://ehealthy.info/u-s-employers-push-increase-in-cost-of-healthcare-onto-workers/health/ HuffPost editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Thursday night to weigh in on the "my demo is bigger than your demo" war of words between host Ed Schultz and Fox News host Glenn Beck.Sekoff dismissed Beck's effectiveness at rallying people to his cause, noting that the Fox ... http://ehealthy.info/huffpost-tv-roy-sekoff-on-glenn-becks-phony-gospel-of-unity/health/ by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger A new study about the effects of immigration on U.S. employment supports the long-standing arguments of immigration advocates: Rather than displacing American workers, immigrant labor actually makes our economy stronger. Kevin Drum has the details at Mother Jones. Now, with reports that undocumented ... http://ehealthy.info/the-media-consortium-weekly-diaspora-the-high-cost-of-cheap-labor/health/