The modern healthcare crisis is a modern crisis in health, first and foremost, before we even get to access to the question of “care.”
James Gormley
Passage of this bill won’t change much unless the bill is funded. In this economic environment, it will be difficult to get the $1.4 billion required to implement this bill without some revenue generator, which this bill does not include. There has already been talk from Republicans in the House that they will not fund the bill. The government is currently under a continuing resolution (CR) which expires on March 4. So one of the first challenges for the new Congress is how they handle the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. Therefore, it is unlikely that anyone will get an increase in this environment. Some lobbying from states is also anticipated since they’ll be able to seek a variance from the produce safety standards as long as they can show that they have procedures in place to reach the same goals.
I ask you to tell President Obama to please veto this bill; we will work together on coming up with an alternative bill in 2011 that will be signature-worthy.
Please ask President Obama to veto this legislation so that consumers — not industry lobbyists and agri-business cronies — can develop a true food safety bill that will improve this country’s food-safety system, not bog it down with paperwork, smoke and mirrors.
Send your letter now, and urge your Senators to Save Safe Food – Stop S. 510!
By James J. Gormley, The Gormley Files Courtesy of NOW Foods Consumers and the health-food industry may have stopped S. 3002 in its tracks, but S. 510 and other threats to health freedom remain. Nevertheless, a new slate of bills, along with a re-invigorated health-freedom movement, offer new hope for the future. Since the health-food movement’s earliest origins in New…
By James Gormley, Senior Policy Advisor, Citizens for Health More Info @ The Gormley Files 1. No phase-in period or “effective date”. Since legitimate dietary supplement companies and health-food stores would not have even one day to come into compliance with the new law, they would effectively be breaking the law the day after S. 3002 is passed. 2. Registration…
By James J. Gormley, VP and Sr. Policy Advisor, Citizens for Health Via The Gormley Files As if Senate Bill 3002 (S. 3002) were not more than enough to deal with, according to The Hill Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is criticizing the Senate for not moving on Senate Bill 510 (S. 510). Unfortunately, The Pew Charitable Trusts has been assisting…
By James J. Gormley original link: The Gormley Files In February 2010 in New Orleans, three men were charged by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with drug-trafficking Ecstasy, or MDMA (3-4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), a synthetic chemical that can be derived from an essential oil of the sassafras tree. If convicted, the defendants face a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in…
By James Gormley, Senior Policy Advisor for Citizens For Health via www.thegormleyfiles.blogspot.com [With the DSSA bill, S. 3002, now up for vigorous debate, it’s worth taking a look back to this article of mine from 2007, as most of the same issues still apply] On November 15th, 2007, home-run legend Barry Bonds was indicted for allegedly lying under oath to…