Health care bill, now in hands of the Senate, ignores every industrial threat and harm to health. It finds that people's behavior is the biggest threat. Could this be because all Senators are economically-linked to health-harming industries, AND their insurers and investors? Sworn and public-paid Congress members wouldn't go AWOL on their solemn oaths and duties to the people, would they? If it were not for people, there would be no Health Crisis.
The legislation the Senate is discussing now is interesting, and telling, by what's there, or not.
See the Bill at: democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf
A convenient search tool at the site finds the number of times a word appears in the legislation:
Nutrition 29 times
Tobacco 25
Smoking 11
Obesity 9
Exercise 9
Behavior 8
Lifestyle 5
Alcohol 2
However...:
Pesticides 0
Insecticides 0
Herbicides 0
Dioxins 0
Mercury 0
Chemicals 0
Carcinogen(s) 0
Chlorine 0
Radiation 0
Depleted Uranium 0
Salmonella 0
Pollutant(s) 0
Pollution 0
Vehicle exhaust 0
Smog 0
E-coli 0
Asbestos 0
Toxins 0
Toxic 0
Hazardous waste 0
And... Marijuana 0
Condoms 0
Vegetarian 0
Organic(s) 0
The legislation is aimed at reassuring us that private industries, especially investment properties of for-profit insurers, are no threat to health. Industrial health harms are off the radar. Nothing to worry about or act on there.
We (the) people are the problem.