Grassroots for Change

It's done!

Eva from Yarmouth Port, MA — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:28:52 EST

Please read an excerpt from the Grassroots for Change position paper. Click here to full document, submitted to HHS and Change.gov today. Read it online at hhs.grassrootsforchange.org
Healthcare delivery and health insurance are separate and independent service offerings and are best not bundled, when discussing issues of reform, accountability and change. While the science of health care delivery is best left to professionals, the average consumer - ie an ordinary person should be able to understand simple, equitable , accountable and transparent choices both in consumption of health care services and in the purchase and use of health insurance plans. Any reform is best measured by grassroots oversight and channels of review driven by market forces and an ordinary person's common sense. Lack of such "user friendliness" either in the consumption of health care services or in the purchase of health insurance, has led to isolation of the "consumer". This isolation is causative in the total lack of confidence on part of the consumer, in the "system".
The same ordinary person who is capable of navigating a complex i-phone cannot begin to protect him/her self without being swindled by or otherwise deluged with "the insurance" gorilla or the occassional "provider" mafioso old boy network, especially, in small town America.

Dec 31 deadline for contributions / suggestions

Eva from Yarmouth Port, MA — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:07:57 EST

Hi,

Please let us know of your blogs or posts on healthcare. We are looking for your suggestions.

Our work in progress is available by clicking here.

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Thanks for the incredible work that you are doing. We value it immensely at Grassroots for Change.

Pure Obama?

Eva from Yarmouth Port, MA — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:12:17 EST

We are a host of several Obama meetings in the post election period. The prospect that racial and ethnic diversity, driven only by tireless performance and dedication and commitment to the Hope of Obama will translate in to a show down of "turf battles" and disruptive behaviors from people who have alternate agendas is a very sad and disheartening moment. It washes away the magic of the Obama victory.

Using the ruse of 'this is not pure Obama' any pro active community effort is getting shot down by many of the same forces which have brought substantial recalcitrance and relative poverty and corruption in small town America.

Can the social networking tools that this site has rally people around the country to show solidarity for the hope of Obama for all, regardless of their racial, ethnic and socio economic status?