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Cigna Applauds "Milestone for Babies" With March of Dimes Sponsorship

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Cigna Applauds “Milestone for Babies” With March of Dimes Sponsorship

Cigna’s 19 th Annual National Sponsorship Bolsters MOD’s 75 Years of Service

  • Cigna has contributed $27 million to March of Dimes
  • Nearly 70,000 Cigna employees have shared the “healthy babies” mission

BLOOMFIELD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Recognizing an important historical milestone for the March of Dimes, Cigna (NYS: CI) today announced the kick-off of its 19th annual March for Babies Campaign. Since 1995, Cigna has been national sponsor of March of Dimes March for Babies events nationwide.

This is a special year for March of Dimes as it celebrates its 75th anniversary. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938 established the organization to fight polio. Today its mission is to help moms have full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies — a perfect complement to Cigna’s mission to help people improve their health and well-being.

Cigna has been a big part of the March of Dimes success story. Since 1995, its annual March for BabiesCampaign has served as a highly visible and effective demonstration of its commitment to helping families everywhere enjoy healthy futures. Over the past 18 years, 69,498Cigna people have participated in various March for Babies events. Together, Cigna, its people, and the Cigna Foundation have contributed more than $27 million to the March of Dimes.

“One of the most important steps we can take in helping people improve their health and well-being is to give our smallest people the best start we can,” said Dr. Alan Muney, Cigna’s chief medical officer and co-chair of the company’s March of Dimes Campaign. “We’re enormously proud that this long-term partnership of Cigna and its people with the March of Dimes has made a direct, measurable difference in the health of babies.”

“Having babies preterm carries huge financial impact as well as emotional hardship for families,” said Ann Asbaty, chief operating officer of national accounts for Cigna and a campaign co-chair. “According to the March of Dimes, the cost to have a healthy baby from birth to her or his first birthday is $4,551. For a preterm baby, the cost is $49,033. Reducing preterm birth helps reduce this burden on families and employers, who often pay these bills.”

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The Presidential Blame-Game

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By Paul G. Kengor

President Clinton SC The Presidential Blame Game

Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator.

February is the month of presidents. It includes Washington’s birthday, Lincoln’s birthday, Ronald Reagan’s birthday, and, of course, Presidents Day. Given that I teach and write about presidents, this time of year always prompts me to strange musings. This year is no exception, as I’m thinking about six particular presidents: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, FDR, Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, and Harry Truman. How could I possibly connect these six?

Bear with me—I’ll start and end with Obama.

Barack Obama, and particularly his re-election campaign, has achieved something quite dubious of a sitting president. Namely, he has managed to successfully blame nearly every woe of the last four years on his predecessor. Never mind that every economic indicator under Obama is not only worse than under George W. Bush, but far worse. Obama has presided over a steadily worsening economic disaster, one that is stacking up as one of the most dreadful economic records of any president in history. And yet, as he does, he passes the buck to his predecessor, blaming George W. Bush.

This is unbecoming of an American leader; it’s precisely what our presidents don’t do; they don’t treat each other like this, having much more respect for the job and those who have held it. There is a long-time gentlemen’s understanding, honored by nearly every president, that you don’t blame your predecessor for your problems.

Nonetheless, George W. Bush has become Obama’s go-to scapegoat.

For the record, Obama is not completely alone in mastering this ignoble tactic. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Obama, conjured up various demons to advance his “progressive” agenda, with the rich atop his enemies list. But FDR also dumped on his Republican predecessor. He blamed everything on Herbert Hoover.

Notably, this really upset Hoover. Hoover was hurt deeply by FDR constantly trashing him, his record, and his policies. FDR did not treat Hoover the way we Americans expect our presidents to treat one another. Their relationship became toxic. FDR’s successor, Harry Truman, took notice. “Roosevelt couldn’t stand him,” said Truman of Hoover, “and he [Hoover] hated Roosevelt.”

Even sadder, FDR, like Obama, got away with this blame-game. FDR successfully pinned everything on Hoover in re-election upon re-election. As for Obama, a literal majority (60 percent, according to one exit poll) who voted for him in 2012 agreed with him that the terrible economy was totally Bush’s fault. They swallowed Obama’s Bush blame-game hook, line and sinker.

How do Harry Truman and Bill Clinton relate to this?

Truman and Clinton, like Obama and FDR, were, of course, both Democrats. Truman, however, was willing to put party aside to do what was right. He had character by the boatload. Truman saw how troubled Hoover was by FDR’s mistreatment. A good man, Truman did what he could to remedy the situation. (This is detailed nicely by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy in their excellent new book: “The Presidents Club.”) He reached out to Hoover …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism