Long story short: tell our government to stop corporate health care monopolies, and tell our FDA to redo allergen labeling standards. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
More Perfect Union helps you leave a public comment about corporate health care monopolies with several federal agencies. (The link goes right to our government’s comment page.) More Perfect Union suggests this comment: “I am glad to see the government recognize the problems presented by consolidation in health care industries, particularly emergency rooms. Private equity firms often prioritize profits over patient care and worker safety, leading to higher costs, reduced quality of service, and increased risks for both patients and healthcare workers. I urge you to consider implementing policies that would limit or restrict the ability of private equity firms to acquire and operate emergency rooms. This could include stricter regulations on mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry, as well as greater transparency and accountability requirements for these firms. Thank you.” But More Perfect Union also reminds us that our federal agencies will take your comment more seriously if you personalize it, by telling them about yourself (i.e., where you live or what you do for a living) and perhaps by describing a time when you or your family had to struggle with an understaffed emergency room. But even the sample comment provided above will remind our Administration that lots of folks hate it when our government just lets banksters do whatever they like. So good luck, and God bless.
The Center for Scientific Integrity helps you tell our Food and Drug Agency (or FDA) to make allergen labels on food make sense again. Basically, our FDA lets too many corporations get away with ignoring small amounts of allergens in food, when some folks literally can’t just “ignore” it, or they’ll get very sick or even die. You don’t want labeling standards to kill people! Also, in a truly Kafkaesque loophole, some corporations intentionally add allergens to food, because that’s easier than doing the work of preventing allergen cross-contamination. They’ll say it’s because “regulations are onerous,” but I’ll say it’s because they’re greedy and they don’t care about us. You can amend the Center for Scientific Integrity’s sample comment to say so if you like.