Health policy articles
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Five Simple Policies To Reset America's "Rigged" Health System
Five Simple Policies To Reset America's "Rigged" Health System Calley Means, a one-time consultant for big food and pharmaceutical companies in the Washington, DC, swap and now the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise, has outlined on X five simple policies the federal government can implement to correct the "rigged system" that has contributed to the nation's obesity crisis. Means first compares childhood obesity rates in the US,...
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The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes
The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes Authroed by Kevin Bardosh & Jay Bhattarcharya via RealClearPolicy, The World Health Organization is urging the U.S. and 193 other governments to commit next month to a new global treaty to prevent and manage future pandemics. Current estimates suggest over $31 billion per year will be needed to fund its obligations, a cost most lower income countries cannot afford. But that isn’t the only reason to oppose...
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Editorial: On dietary, health issues honesty is the best policy: Potatoes are still vegetables
Remember when the federal government reclassified ketchup as a vegetable to make school lunch offerings comply with nutritional guidelines? The Reagan-era move enabled schools to use the condiment as a larger element when preparing students’ meals, for example.