Hello All,

President elect Obama’s team is asking for input on health care reform during the month of December.

Let you voice be heard!

We wanted you to know about this so you can go to the web site and give your thoughts.

Here is the link to the web site. Register your comments there.

Please go there and fill it out the simple form. We have written something you can cut and paste into the comments section, or you can write your own. See below for our request or in the attached file.

Please send this to your friends,family, web sites, post it on your Blogs, and send to your mailing lists. Get the word out there.

As we all know the FDA needs help and can use an overhaul so they can hold the manufacturers responsible and accountable to their commitments.

Feel free to cut and paste the below comment.
Pass it on.
Thanks. Happy safe Holidays to you all,

Sybil and Mary

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Over the past several years, we have seen that the FDA has not been up to the job of protecting our nation’s health. This problem has been especially apparent in the area of medical devices. The New York Times recently reported concerns that the FDA leadership has regularly ignored concerns of agency scientists and approved unsafe or ineffective medical devices.

We have seen these problems firsthand in the area of silicone breast implants. No one knows what effect these implants will have on women’s bodies beyond 10 years because the research just hasn’t been done, yet silicone implants were put back on the market in 2006 and since then have become the most popular plastic surgery in this country.

Despite this approval, there are still just too may unanswered questions about the safety of silicone breast implants. The facts are clear. Implants have caused serious health problems. We deserve to have a product that works safely. But right now, the FDA simply doesn’t have the authority to demand the science to prove that implants are really safe.

It is vital that the FDA be given the resources and the authority to insist that products are safe before they are put on the market and implanted into our bodies. The consequences are too dire to needlessly experiment with our health and our lives.