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Another clunker: John Cornyn’s ad on preexisting conditions

October 14, 2020

In a new campaign ad, Cornyn says one of the law’s central features, its guarantee that insurers must sell plans to any patients with preexisting conditions, “is something we all agree should be covered.”

Cornyn is a fixture of Texas and national politics and the No. 2 Republican in Senate leadership. His lead in this year’s race is not slim, and his ad is more carefully worded than the rest.

But Cornyn continues to oppose the Affordable Care Act, and his campaign would not say whether he backs a Republican lawsuit seeking to strike down the entire law at the Supreme Court.

If the ACA were to fall, the legislation Cornyn proposes as a replacement to cover those with preexisting conditions says “nothing … shall be construed to restrict the amount that an employer or individual may be charged for coverage under a group health plan.” Charge them whatever price,

Whole Foods’ John Mackey’s first store sold no meat, sugar, or coffee

October 2, 2020

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The first Whole Foods Market opened up in 1980 in Austin, Texas.
Two years earlier, founder and CEO John Mackey launched a grocery store called Safer Way with a group of cofounders.
Safer Way didn’t stock meat, seafood, coffee, or any products with refined sugar. And consumers took a pass on the new health foods store.
“We stopped trying to remake the market and started trying to engage the market,” Mackey wrote in his new book “Conscious Leadership.”
Even after the pivot away from Safer Way, Whole Foods Market has continued to adapt and change over the decades.
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Before there was Whole Foods Market — the grocery behemoth that sold to Amazon for an estimated $13.7 billion in 2017 — there was Safer Way. That was the name of the health foods store in Austin, Texas, that Whole Foods Market founder and CEO

‘Community Member’ At John Glenn Middle School Tests Positive

October 1, 2020

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BEDFORD, MA — Bedford School officials have learned from the local health department that a ‘community member’ at John Glenn Middle School has tested positive for the coronavirus, district superintendent Phillip Conrad announced in a message to district families on Wednesday.

The alert did not specify whether the person who had tested positive is a student or staff member, but said the district received word of the positive test from the Bedford Board of Health.

Conrad wrote in the message that the first course of investigation was to determine whether the person attended school during the infectious period. State health officials define the infectious period as being within two days of when the person became symptomatic or, if the person is asymptomatic, within two days of being tested.

The Board of Health has determined, Conrad said, that the person was not at school during the infectious period and that no

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