Sentences with phrase «public health bill»

Welsh Lib Dems led the ultimately successful campaign against Labour's e-cigs ban in the previous Public Health Bill, gathering the backing of over 4,000 people.

Think voting against a public health bill that hurts tobacco interests by senators in tobacco producing states.

After extensive conversations over the past several weeks with senior staff persons and key Members of Congress who serve on the congressional committees with jurisdiction over the bill, it has become clear that very few, if any, public health bills such as the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act will move through Congress during the lame - duck session set to begin on November 15.

Not exact matches

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trihealth research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 triHealth, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

These include billion - dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions in education, public health, and poverty reduction.

To pay for that, the bill would cut a public health fund in President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce some payments made by Medicaid and Medicare and sell oil held in the government's strategic petroleum reserve.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, meanwhile, has been on the vanguard of no - holds - barred public health campaigns in malaria and HIV — efforts that, to some extent, have helped rewrite the rules of engagement.

And Google, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have banded together with academic and public health partners with this very goal inHealth Access Initiative (CHAI) have banded together with academic and public health partners with this very goal inhealth partners with this very goal in mind.

Ant Financial has already signed a memorandum of understanding with Rongcheng, whose residents will be able to pay their utility bills using Alipay and show their Zhima Credit score — if high enough — to obtain better health insurance and borrow library books and rent public bikes without a deposit.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

Other tech billionaires who have donated to public health include Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Trump's line will surely give vulnerable House Republicans flashbacks to his private - until - it - was - public condemnation of their chamber's health - care bill as «mean» this year.

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police are against the bill, they said that marijuana is a threat to public health and safety.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

Also you might like to know that there was an executive order issued by the president prohibiting the use of public funds for elective abortions which was pretty much the impetus that got the health care bill passed.

«We are actively trying to get language inserted into any bill that would have health care sharing ministries considered quality coverage under a mandate,» said Joel Noble, public policy team leader for both the alliance and Samaritan Ministries.

The American Public Health Association, the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Center for Science in the Public Interest have given their support to the bill.

«We are proud to have worked alongside Members of Congress, as well as a broad coalition of public health and education groups and others in the food and beverage industry, to see this bill pass,» Neely said.

Assembly Bill 97 of 25 July 2008 amends California's Health and Safety Code to require all food facilities (restaurants) in the state, with the exception of public school cafeterias, to cease using artificial trans fats by January 2011.

The Faculty of Public Health and a coalition of public health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord WPublic Health and a coalition of public health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord WHealth and a coalition of public health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord Wpublic health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord Whealth groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord Warner.

This entry was posted in Big Food, Child Nutrition, Food Safety, Public Health and tagged: farm bill, food safety, obesity, processed food, SNAP.

This entry was posted in Child Nutrition, Food Policy, Public Health and tagged: Congress, farm bill, food stamps, SNAP, USDA.

The group also asks its members to support the inclusion into the House bill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agricultbill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agricultBill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agriculture.

But when the seeds of the current childhood obesity public health crisis come to fruition — when we all watch as an entire generation of adults» lives are cut short by diabetes and heart disease, when our nation finally has to pay the looming $ 344 billion obesity - related health care bill — maybe, just maybe, we will be.

N.Y. Public Health Law § 2505 - a creates the Breastfeeding Mothers Bill of Rights and requires it to be posted in a public place in each maternal health care facPublic Health Law § 2505 - a creates the Breastfeeding Mothers Bill of Rights and requires it to be posted in a public place in each maternal health care facHealth Law § 2505 - a creates the Breastfeeding Mothers Bill of Rights and requires it to be posted in a public place in each maternal health care facpublic place in each maternal health care fachealth care facility.

A bill proposed in 2013 but not passed in Connecticut would have required children to have a health assessment prior to public school enrollment including a check box to indicate an asthma diagnosis.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

The bill Requires the State Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services to coordinate, through a stakeholder engagement process, to do the following: — Improve the process for WIC eligibility and application enrollment via Medi - Cal and Covered California enrollment.

WABA expressed concern that the Bill will open the doors to marketing and promotion in the public health system, risking the lives of millions of infants and young children in the country, via a Letter to the President of the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III.

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Mr Miliband also mocked health secretary Andrew Lansley, who is reported to have fallen out of favour in Downing Street due to his failure to sell the bill to the public.

«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

DiNapoli declined to pick sides in the latest fight between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding for NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation's largest municipal public hospital system and New York's largest provider of safety - net care.

For at least the fifth consecutive legislative session, bills that would open the door to doctors prescribing lethal doses for terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is approaching a public health issue in the New York Orthodox Jewish community very sensitively.

Health care advocates and union members joined New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer in Harlem on Tues., Nov. 15th to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would provide a funding stream to struggling public hospPublic Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer in Harlem on Tues., Nov. 15th to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would provide a funding stream to struggling public hosppublic hospitals.

The bill looks to address issues such as worker protections, overtime pay, public health protection and employer contributions to workers» compensation and unemployment funds and would afford greater rights for over 100,000 migrant farm workers throughout New York State, which boasts a powerful agricultural industry.

At 3 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will deliver remarks at a public health roundtable with leading clinical experts on the Zika Virus, The COW, City Hall, Manhattan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview on Monday said his concerns over a bill that would allow for medical marijuana stem from the fear that if done wrong, such a system would create «havoc» and a «public health disaster.»

The New York State Caucus of Environmental Legislators is billed as a «non-partisan» forum to consider measures aimed at protecting both the environment and public health.

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.

Two labor unions, 32BJ and SEIU Local 200 United, are poised to launch an on - line advertising campaign in hopes of pushing a bill through the Legislature that would force public utilities to pay prevailing wages and provide health care benefits to their contract employees.

1199 SEIU, the powerful health care workers» union, has decided to endorse Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, sources say.

Among the issues he cited were bills to strengthen abortion laws, enact a state DREAM Act, create a public campaign finance system, and adopt a single - payer health care program.

However, Senate Democrats agreed this week on a tentative deal to drop the public option from their health care bill in order to ensure the measure can pass the chamber.

Bill Hammond, health policy director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, wrote in a post on the Albany think tank's web site that the conflicting abortion policies could block or restrict New Yorkers from claiming tax credits under the GOP replacement plan.

State Sen. Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon called the bill from his fellow Republicans in Washington «unacceptable» and «poor public policy.»