Access without regarding the employers to provide drugs and devices to which they have morallybased religious objections. If the government had done , there will be no issue at all for those who need some form of subsidy. Host independent caller from virginia. Go ahead. Guest good morning. Thanks for taking my call. I have been listening to the conversation. Really unnerved by all of the warble implications that will be added moral implications that will be added to this dialogue. This is not about religious freedom. When its really about is allowing employers to insert themselves into decisions made by women and their doctors about what is in their own best interest. I find it mindboggling that we are even having this conversation. I dont think under any other circumstances would we be talking about whether we should fund medically approved forms of drugs that people decide they need. Host i was just looking for here it is. Theprotest outside of Supreme Court yesterday. One of the sig
This is 15 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the president and Vice President of the United States accompanied by bob mcdonald. Good afternoon, everybody. Please be seated. Let me start by thanking acting secretary gibson for welcoming us here today. Im pleased to be joined by our Vice President , joe biden, from leaders across this department and our many partners particularly representatives from our incredible veterans and military Family Service organizations. I want to begin by making a basic point. Those of you who serve here at the v. A. , do absolutely vital work every single day for our veterans and their families. I know how deeply you care about our veterans. Many of you are veterans yourselves. Veterans serving veterans. You help them transition to civilian life, college, a first home, and start a new business and you have some of the best doctors and provide some of the best Specialized Health care. In our national cemeteries, you lay our veterans to rest with dignity and com
The marketplace. I think we need to deal with them upfront, in a very honest manner. What are your companies doing to restrict advertising to children . Weas i mentioned briefly, adopted a policy that we got from the pope Tobacco Control act that the audience be at least 85 adult. We also self regulate. In the years that has led up to this regulation we only advertise programming that would have a predominant adult audience, whether that be on television or in print. Thank you. Youre going to be a very good person, as you are anyway. She is committee chair, and she is here. Thank you. Youre a very optimistic man. You talk about sitting around the table and resolving these things. We tried it with the Tobacco Companies. They all sat across 30 different , raise their hands, swore to tell the truth, and then lies. Everyone turned and every thing began to make reference at that point. I do not want to say we asked , wele to raise their hand just want to talk about what is true. This is the
That appeals to children and things of that sort in accident responsible to show and ecigarette that looks almost exactly like a combustion cigarette in a Television Ad, is that responsible . I believe that it is. For most smokers if you ask them what an Electronic Cigarette is they think it is a complicated device with a lot of wires and it was important to communicate there could be as close as possible to the product they were currently using and that would make it easy as possible transit transmission transition to a new habit. For an adult who knew that. For a kid who is looking at that tv advertisement. Is in the to that kid that does not know the sophistication of what you just said that it is ok to have either one . Quick that is why we have our message, friends do not let friends smoke which is our ad campaign we did earlier this year. That is the kind of ad campaign the Public Health community should support. That is where you were you are going to run into some problems. In
Eight people with their hands raised, all the rest of it. Now, we know that a cigarette and ecigarette are somewhat different. But nicotine is nicotine. Little kids are little kids. And theyre looking for things. And theyre looking for things which they get to see a lot of in advertising. One of the nice things that you can sort of mimic the act of smoking. Its cool. Kids are cool. These products are relatively new, and their longterm Health Effects are unknown at this point. Which, to me, raises the question why in heavens name are you going ahead and marketing these things and selling these things and putting them online when the results of the Health Studies which are being done seriously are still out . Why would you do that . You want to make money, thats your answer. Thats your answer. Youll tell me youre just talking to adults, but youre not. You want to make money. So you plunge in, get what you can, and then the studies come out, then you go ahead and do it. Until the fda puts