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July 11, 2012, Vol 308, No. 2
http://jama.ama-assn.org/current.dtl

Viewpoint
The Moral Duty to Buy Health Insurance
Tina Rulli, PhD; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD; David Wendler, PhD

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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to increase health insurance coverage in the United States. Its most controversial feature is the requirement that US residents purchase health insurance or pay a financial penalty.??? Although debate focuses on the constitutionality of this individual mandate, the central concern is a moral matter?is it morally appropriate to require individuals to purchase health insurance?

Proponents argue that a mandate could lower insurance premiums for everyone by pooling individuals with varying health risks. Opponents respond that requiring people to contribute to the collective good is inconsistent with respect for individual liberty. Appeal to the collective good could justify requiring individuals to buy gym memberships or eat broccoli.1

Rather than appeal to the collective good, this Viewpoint argues for a duty to buy health insurance based on the moral duty individuals have to reduce certain burdens they pose on others. Because physicians and hospitals have a duty to rescue the uninsured by providing acute and emergency care, individuals have a corresponding duty to purchase insurance to cover the costs of this care. Requiring individuals to meet this obligation is consistent with respect for individual liberty and does not imply that they must buy gym memberships or eat broccoli?.

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Boston University Gears Up to Launch a New Health & Wellness ...

Neighborhoods in the South End and Lower Roxbury will have access to the new health and wellness program that Boston University plans to launch, beginning in early 2013.

In partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission and Boston Centers for Youth & Families, the Boston University Health, Fitness and Wellness program targets youths and their families to develop healthier habits and daily routines in a separate area of the Blackstone Community Center they agreed to renovate, according to a press release.

The program supports Mayor Menino?s Boston Moves for Health, an initiative to broaden access to physical activities and healthy living resources at a low cost. Its location site was chosen due to its proximity to at-risk teens and families.

Boston University will fill the currently unused locker room in the community center with cardio equipment for fitness programs, nutrition counseling and other health-related programming. They also plan to train the on-site staff in fitness assessments and on how to use the Boston University-provided equipment properly. All wellness programs, unrelated to fitness, will also be solely Boston University-staffed.

Boston University is investing $1.25 million over five years in the renovation and development of the program, according to the Boston Globe.

The university also announced the donation of two hours of ice time on Sundays from noon to 2 p.m. for the Allston-Brighton hockey league and 100 camp slots run by Boston University athletic coaches to provide teens with the proper training to compete in rowing, basketball, wrestling, softball, lacrosse and hockey.

Boston University?s prior efforts to work on healthy living have had far reaching effects. Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, one of the departments contributing to the Blackstone Community Center, provides the Boston University community with the ?sargent choice? option in the dining halls and other university-related food establishments. The goal is to promote healthy, yet delicious, food options for college students.

For more programs that support Menino?s initiative, check the BPHC schedule, which has a list of weekly summer fitness programs in Boston.

Photo Courtesy of ?Cydney Scott for BU Photography

Source: http://bostinno.com/2012/07/12/boston-university-gears-up-to-launch-a-new-health-wellness-program-for-teens-in-the-south-end/

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Stone tools tell us of ancient Americans

GRANTS PASS, Ore.?? Stone tools and human DNA from ancient caves in Oregon offer new evidence of how some of the first Americans spread through the continent: quite apart from the better-known Clovis culture, a separate group that may have occupied the West.

Archaeologists said Thursday that using multiple techniques, they have dated broken obsidian spear points from Paisley Caves to about 13,200 years ago, as old as much different stone tools from the Clovis culture found in the southeast and interior United States. Radio-carbon dating of human DNA from coprolites ? ancient desiccated human feces ? shows people lived in the caves as early as 14,300 years ago.

The dates indicate that the Clovis style of chipping stone was not the mother of Stone Age technology, as others have theorized, and that the two styles were developed independently by different groups, said Dennis Jenkins, an archaeologist with the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History who led the excavations. That development may have happened in the Ice Age region of Beringia, where Siberia and Alaska were linked, before the two groups migrated south, he said.

The findings by an international team of scientists from the U.S., Britain and Denmark were reported online Thursday in the journal Science.

The Clovis culture is named for elegantly chipped stone points found at a site uncovered in 1929 near Clovis, N.M. The bases are distinctly concave where they were tied to the wooden shafts of spears or throwing darts for hunting. The style found in Oregon is known as western stemmed projectile points, for their thick bases and their discovery throughout the western U.S.

"The big 'aha!' here, or the primary significance of this, is that ... we have demonstrated that these western stemmed tradition points are the same age as Clovis," Jenkins said in a teleconference with reporters. "There is no evidence of Clovis or any precursor to Clovis in the caves currently, and so that suggests that you've got here, at the exact same time, at least two technologies."

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Until now, most western stemmed projectiles with accurate dating have been younger than Clovis artifacts, leading to theories the two technologies evolved from a single source. The new evidence directly goes against that idea. Jenkins said it appears more likely they evolved independently.

Jenkins said the findings suggest those groups of people may have taken separate routes after crossing the Ice Age land bridge from Asia. Those making western stemmed projectiles may have gone down the coast, while the Clovis people traveled through an ice-free corridor in the interior U.S.

But not all experts are convinced.

David Meltzer, professor of prehistory at Southern Methodist University, said the study clearly showed western stemmed projectiles existed at the same time as Clovis. And he said it put to rest any doubts about whether earlier findings of human DNA at Paisley Caves were contaminated by contact with the modern people excavating the site. But he was not ready to say that the stone points showed separate ancient migrations of people through the continent.

"Points are not people," he said. "Just because two ways of fashioning projectile points are different doesn't mean different populations any more than different groups of people drive Hummers rather than Priuses."

Jenkins and others reported in 2008 that they found coprolites in the Paisley Caves that dated back 14,300 years, the oldest radio-carbon-dated human DNA in North America. The DNA was genetically linked to people from Asia as well as modern Indians.

The caves are a string of shallow depressions washed out of an ancient lava flow by the waves of a lake that comes and goes with the changing climate near the town of Paisley, Ore. The caves have been excavated since the 1930s by archaeologists and looted by artifact hunters.

Jenkins and his team went back the past three summers and dug more, this time outfitted in the special suits, respirators and rubber gloves used by high-tech factory workers to assure they did not contaminate anything. They confirmed the dates through radio-carbon dating of the coprolites, bones and plants and through their placement in the layers of dirt built up over the millennia.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48165822/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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Let's Play Gods & Kings as Rome

Liberty would work well with Rome; however, Tradition is just so good now that it is hard to not recommend going for Tradition even if you plan to settle more than 4 cities. In my current game (Mayans) I have cleared out enough space for 7-8 decent cities and I still went Tradition (4 cities first, then the NC, followed by additional cities to fill in). In your game it looks like you have very limited space to start (maybe room for 3 decent cities), so I would suggest Tradition even if you plan to expand more later, i.e., after taking out a neighbor or 2. You definitely should read the thread by Tabarnak on the 4 cities Tradition start as this is a great strategy for most victory conditions (if not all).

Rome excels at fast starts, in terms of city development (UA) as well as military (UU's). So you should take advantage of both. The latter requires iron, at least for the legions, so IW should be worked into the research order fairly early (also to help you choose where to settle).

Religion can be very useful (particularly beliefs like Tithe), so don't blow it off. Also, don't underestimate the power of having some CS allies. Mercantile in particular are great for warmongering as they provide a lot of happiness.

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Baby Names 2012: The Hottest Baby Names Of The Year (So Far)

The hottest baby names 2012 -- those attracting the biggest spikes in views on Nameberry for the first six months of this year -- are an astonishing group: Highly unusual yet strangely familiar, heavily influenced by pop culture yet boldly individualistic.

The strongest baby name influences right now: "Hunger Games," "Game of Thrones," and ancient Rome. Many of the hot names relate to nature and to worlds beyond our own. And most share a transcendence of traditional gender identity, containing elements of names for the opposite gender if not crossing over to unisex territory.

Nameberry?s hottest names so far this year, based on over six million views of our individual name pages, are:

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Krysten Sinema, Arizona Congressional Candidate, Accused Of Supporting Russell Pearce

A former Democratic Arizona state senator running for Congress who is a frequent critic of state Senate President Russell Pearce (R) is being criticized for not publicly endorsing a recall of Pearce and for being falsely listed in a legislative directory as a Latina.

Krysten Sinema, locked in a three-way Democratic primary for a newly created Phoenix-area House seat, is being criticized by leaders from last year's movement to recall Pearce, the architect of Arizona's controversial immigration law. Sinema, a former Democratic state senator and representative, was cited by the Arizona Republic in 2010 as the legislator most likely to vote against the controversial former Senate president. Sinema faces an August primary against former state Democratic Party Chairman Andrei Cherny and Senate Minority Leader David Shapira.

"She would protect Russell Pearce while we were working hard to get him recalled," state Sen. Steve Gallardo (D-Phoenix) told HuffPost.

Gallardo, who has endorsed Shapira in the primary, said Sinema was one of the few Democratic senators not to endorse removing Pearce from office. Pearce was facing fellow Republican Jerry Lewis in the recall election and Pearce opponents were seeking Democratic lawmakers to back Lewis in order to win Democratic votes.

Randy Parraz, who lead the Pearce recall effort, confirmed that Sinema did not sign a resolution pushed by the group to oppose Pearce.

Sinema's spokesman Rodd McLeod said that Sinema was a supporter of the Pearce recall, but did not publicly endorse it in order to help Lewis. He said there was fear that if Sinema and other liberal Democrats backed Lewis, they may spur a backlash that would have helped Pearce. McLeod stressed that Sinema helped organize the Republican-controlled Senate to defeat five Pearce anti-immigration bills and noted the Arizona Republic's designation.

McLeod said a 2011 statement by Sinema in which she referred to Pearce as "her boss" was taken out of context. He said she was explaining how the Senate worked and Pearce's ability to block legislation when she called him the "boss of the Senate."

Sinema opponents are also using a quote she gave on a 2011 episode of a Phoenix public affairs television show in which guests were talking about the possibility of Pearce running for Congress.

"I'd love to see him run for Congress," Sinema said. "I love Russell, we get along very well, not always on policy matters, but on personnel matters we do."

Gallerdo said he believes that Sinema, a former Green Party member who backed Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election, has shifted her political views in order to run for Congress. He cited her role in pushing a bill to increase penalties for those operating houses that harbor human trafficking victims as an example. He said the bill may harm the victims and claimed it was an extension of Pearce's law, partially struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.

McLeod noted that Sinema's bill had bipartisan support in the Legislature and was backed by former state Attorney General Terry Goddard (D). Goddard lost the 2010 governor's race to Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who signed the bill.

Gallerdo also criticized Sinema for being listed as a Latina in a National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials directory when she is not. McLeod said that Sinema was not responsible for the listing and noted that association acknowledged the mistake. Sinema's campaign released a statement from state Sen. David Lujan (D-Phoenix) saying that Sinema had not provided the information to NALEO.

Gallerdo said he disagrees with Sinema's assertions.

"What I saw was she drifted away from her positions, she would do whatever to be elected," Gallerdo said. "She would tell you what you wanted to hear."

McLeod said that while Sinema has "evolved" from being a 24-year-old Nadar supporter in 2000, he stressed her beliefs remain the same, noting she won three state legislative races as a Democrat. He said she joined the Green Party due to her support for sustainability.

"To say she's for Russell Pearce is a joke," McLeod said.

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