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• If you aren't reading Karla Carrington's new feature The Good, the Fat, and the Hungry, well, you should be! Karla's trying to lose 40 pounds and is sharing her experience with the rest of us.
• What kind of pregnancy cravings have hit Rebecca Romijin? Jerry O'Connell (and Jacki) tell all.
• Bravo TV's personal trainer Jackie Warner has three stay-thin secrets. Find out what they are.
• Mary Kearl asks our female readers over 40: How do you lose weight?
• Beyonce packs on the pounds for a movie role ... then realizes she has to take them back off.
• Oprah is a more popular hiking partner than President Bush. Find out what else people are saying about outdoor recreation.
  
  

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For the second time this year, U.S. President George Bush took a health bill related to increasing health insurance for needy U.S. children and vetoed it.

Although Bush declared the bill would have overstepped the bounds of helping poor children who needed health care and into a social state of organized medicine, where is the line drawn when it comes to the health of kids who otherwise could not access such care?

Most Democrats and many Republicans supported the bill, but under a Republican administration, any bill that looks like government-sponsored health care is surely to be axed. But then, I ask again -- does it matter when it comes to the health care of kids? Regardless of your political affiliation, what are your thoughts on this?

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We've seen this before -- the Bush Administration seems to get hold of evidence of testimony related to global warming and evidently puts it through the meat grinder before public release.

In the latest edition, the White House is accused of severely editing congressional testimony given this past week by CDC's director on the impact of climate change on the country. Specifically, the CDC addressed issues like the impact of global warming changes on human health -- which were apparently removed from the documents for unknown reasons.

While it's hard to take this at face value, the agendas of different Presidential administrations always edit things of this nature depending on who's looking. While global warming has its supporters and detractors, the truth is, well, still lurking in the shadows somewhere.

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Medicaid payments to public schools were under the radar of the Bush administration at the end of last week, as the President intended to make schools not abuse the payments they receive.

Some schools have apparently been accused of billing the government for administrative and overhead costs that do not directly relate to providing health care for poor citizens. Areas like school construction costs and transporting underprivileged kids to school were specifically cited in the mandate.

Is this the right thing to do? If Medicaid costs are being taken advantage of for other projects that may be underfunded, then yes it is. But, if these costs are directly related to the numerous variables that ensure health care access to citizens in public schools that are warranted, then no.

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Looks like the Bush administration wants to make sure those with enough money don't take public health care resources intended for poor citizens for themselves.

The White House has said that it has adopted new governmental standards intended to make it much harder for middle-income families to have their kids covered by health insurance via the government's "Children's Health Insurance Program."

The change sets the lowest bar for health insurance coverage at the eligibility level of at least 250 percent above the poverty level for the area where the family lives that requests health insurance.

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