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Just like the Progressive Era, Companies are getting lawsuits against them. One specific company, Koi CBD LLC was caught using illegal substances drugs in their products, and once against was caught but left unpunished. Furthermore, many farm companies were caught putting immoderate amounts of pesticide on their crops, making it a health and safety issues. On top of the lawsuits, Healthcare is also barely available. 1 in 4 adults have problems paying for care in their household. More than 100 million americans can't afford healthcare as well. This is a healthcare issue, because about a 1/4 of adults in the United States population can't afford proper healthcare, leaving them helpless in times that they need government aid or assist.

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FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling various products containing cannabidiol as agency details safety concerns

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FDA warns companies for illegally selling various products containing cannabidiol

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A reformer in the present time that is trying to better the health and safety of the citizens of the USA is the FDA. THe FDA stands for the Food and Drug Administration. This corporation is responsible for the public health of citizens in the US, and was made to ensure the safety and health of common people, so they don't have to pay extra for healthcare and other necessities caused by food with bad handling. Another reformer is the HRA, which is the Health Reformers Academy. They train professionals to make changes in the future to improve the health and safety of the common people. Lastly the Pure Food and Drug Act, is still in place to prohibit sale of misbranded and/or adulterated food.

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When tackling America's greatest problems, some watch and worry, and others do something about it.

Josh Archambault and Scott Darnell are the people who do. With funding from Stand Together Trust, co-founders of Reformers Academy, Archambault, and Darnell, are leveraging their decades of experience in policy to train up the next generation of policy, communications, and advocacy leaders in underserved policy areas - starting with health care.

The challenges America's healthcare system will face in the coming decades are only expected to grow. National healthcare expenditures are predicted to increase at a higher rate than economic growth, "creating enormous affordability pressure," according to McKinsey and Company. The United States is facing physician and nurse shortages and the problem is expected to get significantly worse in the coming years. Health care is one of the most regulated industries in America, but this looming crisis calls for a new approach.

The time for a fundamental change in how America delivers healthcare is now. Archambault and Darnell know training the next generation can help principled, free-market solutions advance more quickly.

Archambault has over 15 years of experience working as a health policy researcher and wide-ranging government experience working in 35 states and Washington, D.C., gives Reformers Academy participants a unique perspective on getting meaningful reform across the finish line.

Darnell's experience as communications director, spokesman, and deputy chief of staff to a governor means he can quickly train aspiring policymakers in best practices to quickly frame and communicate pressing and difficult public policy challenges and free-market solutions. His experience overseeing half of New Mexico's cabinet agencies during his time in government gives him an appreciation for the talent pipeline gap and how that gap makes elected officials less effective than they could be.

Their combined experiences and professional connections enable them to bring in the most effective and innovative leaders in the healthcare field for best-in-class instruction. Their first policy advocacy organization, Health Reformers Academy, which has received funding from Stand Together Trust, is just getting off the ground, and already it's gaining prominent support and showing promise for positive change.

Growing interest and support for Reformers Academy

There are two ways for young professionals to participate in Health Reformers Academy.

The first is Health Reformers Academy Bootcamp 101. It's a 1-day "crash course on the basics of America's healthcare system and advocacy strategies for improving it."

"We're teaching not only subject matter content, but also the skills necessary to drive change inside or outside of government," says Darnell.

"The need for knowledgeable policy staff to drive reform of our healthcare system is essential if we want to avoid the coming healthcare crisis and the damage it will cause to our economy as well as the physical health of our communities," says Archambault. "We need more young Americans to connect the dots on why this policy area is so important and that they have a real opportunity for a rewarding career fighting for reform."

Participants in the 101 Bootcamp have come from 23 states, ranging from state legislators, health practitioners, think tank policy staff, and Capitol Hill staffers.

This sort of engagement is only the beginning

The second - and the linchpin - HRA opportunity is a Fellowship, an intensive cohort-based training program. Curated readings, webinars, and hands-on learning assignments give participants a strong knowledge base in healthcare policy and "change-maker" skills. Participants will not only be networked with other participants in the cohort, living and working across the country, but they will also be given direct connections to mentors in various sectors of healthcare policy work. After the fellowship, which is a few months long, individuals will have gained knowledge, skills, and connections comparable to working years in the field.

The first cohort of 14 fellows has already found jobs on Capitol Hill and at think tanks and had their capstone projects published. They have learned from experts who have run the Medicare program, overseen state Medicaid programs, served as senior health advisors at the White House, and worked at the highest levels of state government.

Longtime leaders inside and outside of government and health care see the value of HRA's work and are also eager to help.

Former Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico attended an HRA event and shared with them her support of their efforts:

"Certainly, one of the things that was challenging {as Governor} was to find enough well-trained health care policy staff ... there just isn't enough to tap into in state government."

The former governor is on the executive advisory board of HRA, alongside leaders across government, health care, and business who make up the board of directors and policy advisory board, too.

Solving the problems Americans face in health care will demand expertise across the spectrum of medicine, policy, business, and more. Our country can't afford principled leaders who can create change and sit on the sidelines, watching and worrying.

"We want you -- no, we need you -- to help save the American experiment by fixing healthcare. It's time to demand better outcomes -- and more transparency and accountability -- from our healthcare system. Our quality of life, economically and physically, depends on it," Archambault says.

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Health Reformers Academy, which provides funding and strategic capabilities to innovators, scholars, and social entrepreneurs to develop new and better ways to tackle America's biggest problems.

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Health Reformers Academy Improves Health Care Policy Reform

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Health Reformers Academy is working towards improving health care policy reform in America. Click to learn more about Health Reformers Academy.

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In the Progressive Era, there were many issues. A writer, named Upton Sinclair who revealed the many unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry, not only was this an issue for the peoples' health and well-being, it was an issue for the company. Multiple Companies were forced to either terminate these unhygienic constraints, or to stop producing goods altogether. On top of the unsanitary conditions, it was later revealed that corporations were using harmful chemicals, with serious impact on health and safety issues in the urbanized regions. Along with unsanitary conditions, there was no healthcare system involved with education, making the lives of children more endangered.

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There were many people attempting to better the health and safety during the Progressive Era. Some of these reformers include; Samuel Thomson, Lillian Wald, and Alice Hamilton. Samuel Thomson, a person strongly supporting the protests against better health and safety, made healthier medicine, and made all of his products environment friendly to compete with the unsanitary and unhealthy businesses. Lillian Wald, was a woman strongly against ill patients needing to travel to hospitals, so she invented the process of taking nurses to patient homes. Lastly, Alice Hamilton taught factory workers how to keep their workplaces sanitary and safe.

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Although Congress began investigating drug purity in the 1840s, it was during the Progressive Era that it approved the first federal regulations protecting consumers' health and safety. When Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revealed food adulteration and unsanitary practices in meat production, public outrage prompted Congress to establish federal responsibility for public health and welfare. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
I have here . . . a number of adulterated articles. Here is a bottle of cherries, originally picked green, in order that they might be firm, with the green color all taken out with acid until they were perfectly white, and then colored with an aniline dye which is poisonous in any quantity.
Representative James Mann of Illinois, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, June 21, 1906

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Although Congress began investigating drug purity in the 1840s, it was during the Progressive Era that it approved the first federal regulations protecting consumers' health and safety. When Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revealed food adulteration and unsanitary practices in meat production, public outrage prompted Congress to establish federal responsibility for public health and welfare.

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After all of the issues related to health and safety in the Progressive Era, there was one solution. The Pure Food and Drug Act. This act was made after the government officials were convinced after the protests that companies were really using unsanitary and not safe things in their products. The Pure Food and Drug Act prohibited all sale of misbranded or adulterated food. Misbranded and adulterated food included companies that hid ingredients that were either bad quality, bad for the environment or that could be seriously unhealthy.

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Something that occurred both in the past and current time was violating laws and rules that were put in place by the government, such as the Pure Food and Drug Act. Many companies were caught in both generations, and got away with it. Another connection was healthcare, in the past there was only healthcare for extremely wealthy people. Now, healthcare is not available to poor people who can't afford it, just like in the Progressive Era

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The Pure Food and Drug Act was active during both time periods, to prohibit sale of misbranded or adulterated food, as I said before, which was put in place a long time ago, but is still used to this day. Many people are still against companies that use unhealthy and non-environment friendly products.

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In both of the solutions in both time periods, former and current, the solution was always put in place to better the way of living, and was altered to better the lives of citizens and the country as a whole. For example in the Progressive Era the Pure Food and Drug Act was in place to improve the health of the American citizens and now, it's still the same.

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Although, healthcare is getting better, it still improvable. To help, the Health Reformer Academy is training professionals to help the country and work on healthcare policies to make them the best for everyone, poor or rich, in need of help or not.

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Reformers Academy Recruits, trains, and deploys policy-interested professionals into positions of influence in the healthcare and education arenas, equippin ...