8 Ways the Stimulus Bill Will Improve America's Health

From Division A, Title IX

• $600 million for the training of nurses, primary care physicians and dentists and to boost funding for the Health Service Corps
• $1 billion to renovate and rebuild health centers and health IT
• $1.5 billion to the NIH specifically for funding more scientific and clinical research
• $700 million to fund comparative effectiveness and evidence-based research (Ie the beginnings of a Federal Health Board made up of physicians in federal agencies that will examine current clinical patterns vs. the evidence-base and will create an annual report to the president and congress
• $2.1 billion to expand the Head Start program
• $2.5 billion for immunization and disease prevention programs

From Division B, Title III

• Extending COBRA benefits for those left unemployed

Division B, Title IV: Health Information Technology (HITECH Act)

• Policy and Requirements for national health IT standards and implementation

You can read the whole bill for yourself here

Question of the Day

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn’t fail?
Initial thoughts that came to mind...

Become the best heart surgeon in the world
Claim the title of best heptathlete in the world
Be elected President of the United States and do good work
Hike the PCT from Mexico to Canada
Design a healthy community from the inside out
Run a mile under 5 minutes
Figure out how to prevent alzheimers
Find the way to prevent cancer from developing
Learn wilderness medicine
Change the core values of the US Health Care System
See every country, especially New Zealand.

Hot Cholocate, Marshmellows and a Rainy Evening

Equals bliss!

Last night was so serene, after decluttering my room it began to rain pretty hard outside. So I snuggled up to watch The Office with a melt in your mouth batch of homemade hot chocolate with mouth-watering marshmellows. Simply wonderful!

My Decluttered Room

Before today I had 8 boxes and 3 suitcases in my room, as well as an entire recycle bag of papers that I sorted through...Here you can see the right side of my room. I got creative and made a vanity area for getting ready in the morning...

Here it is up closer...

And here is the other side of my room...You just can't appreciate all the organizing I did!



The bookshelf up close...