To make volunteering in an emergency easier for health professionals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response launched a national website today for the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP).

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled CuidadodeSalud.Gov, the first website in Spanish of its kind to help consumers take control of their health care by connecting them to new information and resources that will help them access quality, affordable health care coverage.

El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) dio a conocer hoy CuidadodeSalud.Gov, el primer sitio de Internet en español de su tipo para ayudar los consumidores a tomar el control de su cuidado de salud al conectarlos con nueva información y recursos que los ayudarán a obtener acceso a seguro médico económico y de calidad.

In a point-counterpoint with Henry Aaron, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Eugene Steuerle discusses five pressing fiscal problems facing America, and suggests tax and budget reform options to address these issues. This discourse includes agreement and disagreement, yet is honestly presented without the noise and confusion that often surround these issues. Steuerle's and Aaron's essays originally appear in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Steuerle, C.E. (2010) "America's Related Fiscal Problems." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 29(4), 876-883.

Eugene Steuerles response Henry Aaron in a point-counterpoint debate about Americas fiscal struggles. This discourse includes agreement and disagreement, yet is honestly presented without the noise and confusion that often surround these issues. Steuerles and Aarons essays and responsesto each other originally appear in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Steuerle, C.E. (2010) Why We Must Untie Our Fiscal Straightjacket: A Response to Henry J. Aaron. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 29(4), 891-893.

Slate - By Timothy Noah - Sep. 07 (News Analysis) - In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. The United States was displacing Great Britain as the world's wealthiest nation, but detailed information about its economy was not yet readily available; the federal government wouldn't start collecting such data in any systematic way until the 1930s. One of King's purposes was to reassure the public that all Americans were sharing in the country's newfound wealth. King was somewhat troubled to find that the richest 1 percent possessed about 15 percent of the nation's income. (A more authoritative subsequent calculation puts the figure slightly higher, at about 18 percent.) This was the era in which the accumulated wealth of America's richest families—the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies—helped prompt creation of the modern income tax, lest disparities in wealth turn the United States into a European-style aristocracy. The socialist movement was at its historic peak, a wave of anarchist bombings was terrorizing the nation's industrialists, and President Woodrow Wilson's attorney general, Alexander Palmer, would soon stage brutal raids on radicals of every stripe. In American history, there has never been a time when class warfare seemed more imminent.

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According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Affordable Care Act will result in 16 million new Medicaid enrollees. A key question is whether the new population covered under Medicaid will be less healthy and thus be relatively expensive, or whether they will be healthier and therefore less expensive than the current Medicaid population. The answer to this question depends largely on the level of Medicaid participation rates under reform. Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to provide a detailed look at the demographic and health characteristics of the population who will be newly eligible for Medicaid, we conclude that on average, this population is likely to be healthier and less costly than those currently enrolled in Medicaid.

States play an important role in serving children with a need for mental health services. In order to improve the mental health care system for this vulnerable population, it is necessary to better understand the need for mental health services, their availability, and their effectiveness across states. This report reviews the recent literature on childrens mental health services and examines a wide range of data sources for state-based analysis. It considers the feasibility of producing a comprehensive evaluation of state mental health systems for children and discusses the potential limitations of such an analysis.

Washington's support lets the Honduran junta exploit, murder and pillage

President Obama has attempted to turn the page on Iraq but can't escape the reality of the failure of Obamanomics and the seething anger of millions of engaged Americans who voted for dramatic change and instead got token change ~ where genuine hope has been squashed by disingenuous hype: Allen L Roland

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Sep. 05 (Opinion) - Raising the Social Security retirement age has become as close to a consensus position as exists in American politics. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) supports it. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) has said that "we could and should consider a higher retirement age." And for a while, I agreed with them, too. It seemed obvious: People live longer today, and so they should work later into life. But as I've looked at the issue, I've decided that I was wrong. So let me be the skunk at the party.

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The uproar by Americans as a result of the proposed construction of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero along with Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. have pulled into focus the intense zeal that Americans have for religion. Undoubtedly, the characteristic of Americans that has been affirmed is the characteristic that Americans are dedicated to getting religion right.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan today highlighted the Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge to enroll five million children in Medicaid and CHIP within five years.

The recession has increased joblessness among older Americans. These graphs and tables report unemployment rates and how they have varied by age, sex, race, and education since 2007.

Life related indices compare the U.S.A. to the rest of the world.

To optimize human potential while moving-on, acknowledgment, acceptance and practice of 'inclusion morality' to 'Meet The Minimum Needs of All', is essential. Through 'structural violence', the global political economy sends 30,000 daily to poverty death. A non-violent approach for the global transition to peace, based on birth freedoms, earth rights, communication, and people power is outlined in this Article.

Katrina ethnically cleansed New Orleans for capital

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using health information technology to help tackle leading health problems in communities across the country.

Under an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will provide support for primary and urgent care services in the borough of Braddock, Pennsylvania and neighboring communities through expanded hours and services at the Braddock Family Health Center.

Associated Press - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning While the recent recall of more than a half billion eggs, in the wake of some 1,470 Salmonella infections, has triggered a renewed focus on the dangers posed by factory farms to human health and to the environment (see videos below), the discussion stops short ...

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