Congressional Republicans promised to repeal Obamacare for seven years. Now is not the time for excuses. President Trump is in the White House and ready to sign a bill that would begin delivering on those promises.
Tomorrow, Senate Republicans will cast a key procedural vote to begin debate on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
There is absolutely no doubt that the past seven months has been frustrating. As Obamacare’s failures mounted -- premiums skyrocketing, networks narrowing and insurers disappearing -- congressional Republicans have dithered. Far too many Republicans appear unwilling to simply repeal the law they spent years promising to unravel.
Conservative frustration is justified, but that frustration will rightly morph into anger if Senate Republicans cannot agree to even debate the future of Obamacare.
As our CEO Mike Needham said earlier today, “Failure is not an option.”
Since becoming law, people have lost their doctors, jobs and sense of security. Republicans promised voters that they would do everything in their power to repeal and replace Obamacare and now is the time to move forward.
Call your Senators to ask them to vote “YES” on motion to proceed.
-Dan
Dan Holler
Vice President
Heritage Action
Heritage Action for America | 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Suite 400 | Washington, DC 20002
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School Choice Parents & Advocates Under Attack
The opposition to opportunity is out in full force. Last week, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten crossed the line, calling most forms of school choice “only slightly more polite cousins of segregation” and that we are “hiding a dangerous ideological agenda”. Alleging the real pioneers of school choice are “the white politicians who resisted school integration”, she has called upon her constituency—a sizable piece of the largest organized employment workforce in the nation, to join her in a mass-condemnation of education opportunity advocates themselves.
The union leader’s attack on parents and others who support school choice is hateful and should not stand.
If Weingarten’s contempt tells us nothing else it is first that she and defenders of the status quo are scared. Scared that the obelisk of the status quo, which is all they know and rely on, may be cracked—and crumbling. Second; that whoever is loudest wins.
Ignorant of the true nature of school choice policies, misinformed about the real intentions of advocates for opportunity and hesitant to consider welcoming change that could make the future less certain in their own lives, people who look to Weingarten and other union leaders will not investigate claims themselves; they will take her word as gospel and go tell it on the mountain as such. From this, we can learn.
We need your help to respond to this assault, clear your names and ours, and correct the record—before history is rewritten in error.
Please read our statement and consider lending your support in the form of your own statement, story or commentary as a parent, a teacher, a student—or simply as someone concerned with education as-is. If you can, please consider donating to CER. We’re actively engaging everyone in our network to add to, share and spread this message.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA , July 24, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Intermountain Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s 2017 Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award — the highest possible award in the category — for reaching an aggressive goal of treating stroke patients with greater than 85 percent compliance to core standard levels of care for 24 consecutive months.
In addition to the Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, Intermountain Medical Center also received the Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus, which, is the highest possible award in its category. The award signifies the hospital achieves time to treatment with IV thrombolytic therapy in 60 minutes or less in more than 75 percent of patients, and within 45 minutes in more than 50 percent of eligible patients.
"In my opinion, being honored for excellent patient care is the best recognition a hospital can receive. We work hard every day to improve our treatment times so we can keep providing the best possible care to our stroke patients,” says Megan Donohue, MD, medical director of Stroke Services for the Intermountain Medical Center Neurosciences Institute.
Get with the Guidelines is a quality improvement initiative of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to improve quality of care and outcomes for stroke patients.
Get with the Guidelines puts the expertise of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to work for hospitals nationwide, helping hospital care teams ensure the care provided to patients is aligned with the latest research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
"We have an amazing team of individuals devoted to caring for stroke patients here at Intermountain Medical Center, and each one of them has played an important role in achieving this award,” says Heidi Hafen, Stroke Program coordinator for the Intermountain Medical Center Neurosciences Institute.
Get with the Guidelines is a quality improvement initiative of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to improve quality of care and outcomes for stroke patients.
Get with the Guidelines puts the expertise of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to work for hospitals nationwide, helping hospital care teams ensure the care provided to patients is aligned with the latest research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
In treating a stroke, time is brain: For every minute blood flow is interrupted, almost two million brain cells die. If appropriate treatment is given quickly, research shows patients have better outcomes and less disability. At Intermountain Medical Center, the time to treatment from when the patient arrives at the hospital is approximately 20 minutes faster than the national average
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Nicole Bentley announces release of ‘Astro Ari’
PROVO, Utah — Author Nicole Bentley observes that people are looking for holistic and alternative ways to reduce stress and achieve wellness. In “Astro Ari: Part 1: M16” (published by Balboa Press), the book provides tools and mindsets that can be used in everyday life to expand the reader’s consciousness by opening their minds to the endless possibilities of the human spirit.
Ari M. Albright has struggled with anxiety and depression her entire life and wishes to find peace. She is forced to take time off from her job and plans to stay at a yoga retreat at the base of Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s tallest volcano. What she gets, however, is a metaphysical journey of self-discovery that will teach her all she needs to know to survive life on Earth.
Bentley wanted to write a fictional story based on the real principles and teachings of authors Doreen Virtue, Louise Hay, and Jerry and Esther Hicks to help balance a person’s mind, body and spirit.
Bentley further expounds the unique features of the book: “Most books are either non-fiction self-help books, or fictional stories. “Astro Ari” combines these two mediums to create a fictional self-help novel full of both storytelling and holistic advice. “Astro Ari” also contains nine QR codes that when scanned, brings the reader deeper healing and insight into the journey of the protagonist heroine.”
“Astro Ari”
By Nicole Bentley
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 202 pages | ISBN 9781504381482
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 202 pages | ISBN 9781504381468
E-Book | 202 pages | ISBN 9781504381475
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Nicole Bentley grew up in the beautiful high deserts of Central Oregon; giving her a love and deep appreciation of nature. She has since moved to Northern Utah where she graduated with a degree in sociology from Brigham Young University, and has become a certified yoga instructor and reiki master. For more information, readers may check her official website: www.nicolebentley.com.
Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, Inc. – a leading provider in publishing products that specialize in self-help and the mind, body, and spirit genres. Through an alliance with indie book publishing leader Author Solutions, LLC, authors benefit from the leadership of Hay House Publishing and the speed-to-market advantages of the self-publishing model. For more information, visit balboapress.com. To start publishing your book with Balboa Press, call 877-407-4847 today. For the latest, follow @balboapress on Twitter.
