It's been awhile since I've been active here. Honestly, after working night and day to get President Obama elected, I thought I'd be able to rest on my laurels...or at least rest. But noooo, his critics started in on him immediately - as in Nov. 5, 2008 immediately. So I have been working unofficially by writing letters to editors, rounding up support for health care, explaining the bill drafts to friends and strangers, correcting the media, etc. But I want to organize my efforts and measure my results. So I'm back. I miss having reinforcements and knowing that I'm not in this fight alone. Most of all, I miss being around doers instead of talkers.I've been easing my way back into the swing of things by attending a few events per week. This past Wednesday, I attended the Northern CA Weekly Conference Call to see what our strategy is for getting health care passed. Last Thursday, I attended my first official Call for Health Care event. It was great! Much easier than Calling for Change :) Partly because we were calling from a list of people who have already claimed to support the President and/or the health care reform bill. Of the 30 calls I made, I spoke to about 10 people who were at home. They were all still on-board with reform and agreed to call their congressional representatives to let them know.
It's been awhile since I've been active here. Honestly, after working night and day to get President Obama elected, I thought I'd be able to rest on my laurels...or at least rest. But noooo, his critics started in on him immediately - as in Nov. 5, 2008 immediately. So I have been working unofficially by writing letters to editors, rounding up support for health care, explaining the bill drafts to friends and strangers, correcting the media, etc. But I want to organize my efforts and measure my results. So I'm back. I miss having reinforcements and knowing that I'm not in this fight alone. Most of all, I miss being around doers instead of talkers.
I've been easing my way back into the swing of things by attending a few events per week. This past Wednesday, I attended the Northern CA Weekly Conference Call to see what our strategy is for getting health care passed. Last Thursday, I attended my first official Call for Health Care event. It was great! Much easier than Calling for Change :) Partly because we were calling from a list of people who have already claimed to support the President and/or the health care reform bill. Of the 30 calls I made, I spoke to about 10 people who were at home. They were all still on-board with reform and agreed to call their congressional representatives to let them know.
One very memorable caller - an 80 year-old man - was so passionate about this issue! He told me a couple stories about falling through the "donut hole" - the gap between health insurance coverage. At the end of our call, he wanted to do more than call his representatives (again), though. He wanted to personally visit their offices so they could SEE just who is in need of new health care. I'm paraphrasing because he used more...colorful language. :) He signed up as a volunteer to help spread the word about health care. That was my last call of the night. I left on a high note to see an elderly person with that much fight in him, who is willing to use his *ahem* gift of gab in a productive way. It reminded me of my 86 year-old grandmother writing 80 postcards to send to people for Obama for America.It was a very encouraging first night back in the saddle, so to speak. I look forward to tomorrow's tabling event to inform shoppers about health care (we created a game to make the information exchange fun). Next week, I'm hosting a couple of events. We'll see if I still have my organizing touch. :) Let's get it done!
One very memorable caller - an 80 year-old man - was so passionate about this issue! He told me a couple stories about falling through the "donut hole" - the gap between health insurance coverage. At the end of our call, he wanted to do more than call his representatives (again), though. He wanted to personally visit their offices so they could SEE just who is in need of new health care. I'm paraphrasing because he used more...colorful language. :) He signed up as a volunteer to help spread the word about health care. That was my last call of the night. I left on a high note to see an elderly person with that much fight in him, who is willing to use his *ahem* gift of gab in a productive way. It reminded me of my 86 year-old grandmother writing 80 postcards to send to people for Obama for America.
It was a very encouraging first night back in the saddle, so to speak. I look forward to tomorrow's tabling event to inform shoppers about health care (we created a game to make the information exchange fun). Next week, I'm hosting a couple of events. We'll see if I still have my organizing touch. :) Let's get it done!
By Padmini Arhant
The Senate health care bill is currently under scrutiny requiring 60 procedural votes to qualify for the Senate voting process. At present, the democrats have 58 votes in favor with two independents unclear and the remaining Republican votes unanimously opposed to the bill. I’ve confidence in the (I) U.S. Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders with his support to alleviate the suffering of millions in Vermont and across the nation.
While the Democrats laying out the facts and figures, the Republican lawmakers are meticulously scanning for flaws in their defense to block the anxiously awaited health care legislation.
Senate version of the health care bill proposes $848 billion allowing coverage for 31 million uninsured Americans with a CBO (Congressional Budget Office) assessment confirming an impressive $130 billion cost savings otherwise a massive federal deficit reduction over a decade.
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Health Care Reform - A priority for the victims of the status quo.
Please be sure to watch the videos.
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Last night the health care legislation passed by the House of Congress is a major step towards recognizing the American people’s plight in the most stressful economic times. The House members confirmed that their consolidated efforts and commitment to the American electorate could produce the desirable results in the economic, social and environmental cause.Health care is relevant to all and no longer an individual matter.
I had recently fallen ill from women’s related health issue in the months of September and October 2009. Accordingly, I was scheduled for a major surgery on November 4, 2009 - ironically on the anniversary of the historic Presidential election date and around the special elections.
In order to deal with the health crisis, I had to suspend some activities and focus on the immediate recovery plan. It was a temporary action and not meant to avoid communication at any level. Now, I’m able to resume direct contact with the responsible authorities.
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Americans showed their creativity and passion for health care reform ...but the WINNING video all Americans should see is longer than 30 seconds, and so would be disqualified:
http://vodpod.com/watch/2367112-american-sickos-will-the-current-bills-help
http://blip.tv/play/gdElgajBUQI
My parents provided me with health care 33 years ago when my dad's job brought us to Canada. It has never failed me, and Canada's nowhere near the top of the list of countries that do better for their citizens than the U.S.
Here is a poem I wrote for my creative writing class in regards to what my own family is going through-
While Congress Argues on
By Judy Williams
My mind is racing
Heart is aching
I’ve lost my home
The bills are waiting
For insurance to pay
But the insurance says no
While congress argues on
The children are sick
Will the doctor see them?
The Insurance says no
Life is so trying
I’m tired of crying
Exhausted for reform
The news came today
Insurance is changing
It’s getting worse
Must be a curse
Who needs a doctor?
Maybe a nurse
We’re moving again
Uprooting again
Switching schools
The children must know
Will they cry, miss their friends
Tell them to be strong
When will this change?
We make good money
But it’s really a shame
To have to live this way
And it isn’t funny
To watch it go up in smoke
Senator Joe Lieberman has said he will not vote for the public option in regard to health care reform. I have gone to his contact page on the Internet and have left a comment calling him arrogant. Arrogant that he would stop millions of Americans from having affordable access to health care, when I am sure he has never had to worry about it for himself or his family. It is an arrogance that shows he is so out of touch wiith the people of this country that he should not be asked for advice or counsel, when he apparently has little to offer, at least on health care reform.
Senator Lieberman has said he does not want the American government to go in this direction, but for sixty years or so the Senate has done nothing in this regard except for Medicare. Now is not the time to listen to fools, and this man is being one of the biggest. Health care reform with the public option must be passed if we are going to call ourselves a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Imagine if you will a nightmarish situation in which you or a loved one get ill; and even though you are covered by an employer-based health insurance plan, a treatment that will prevent a lifetime disability or even save your life is withheld by the plan, because they call the treatment "experimental" or "medically unnecessary" -- even though your doctors say otherwise!
Now compound the terror that scenario dredges up, from within your most deep-seated instincts of self-preservation, with the prospect of your not being able to sue the health plan for making such a devastating decision. In other words, there would be no downside to the plan for their denial of even life-saving care (other than the public relations mess stirred up by all-too-infrequent articles like this); in fact, there would, of course, be a great financial incentive to simply deny your care, your life be damned.
The fact is, health insurance companies administering employer-based health plans -- the very private insurance plans covering most Americans, even under the health reform bills being considered by Congress -- have that "license to kill": It is contained in Section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, ERISA -- little known to most Americans but very profitably exploited by health insurance companies, costing many people their life savings or even their lives (and shifting the costs of caring for those injured and abandoned by their plans onto state Medicaid rolls).
President Obama can expect an instant surge in poll numbers if and when he gets back on board with the majority of Americans who don't give two figs what Snowe and the Party of No think...
To me the only mystery is why some seem to think there's any mystery. It's not like Republicans, with whom a mere 20% of Americans identify and only 36% still think have a clue about what to do are picking up the numbers.
I can only speak for my own disappointment in this once inspirational president who used to fill us all with so much hope, but I fully expect there are others who feel as I do. The President's approval numbers are inversely proportionate to his tacit approval for the antics of disingeuous Republicans such as Olympia Snowe and Chuck Grassley, support for spineless compromises such as Max Baucus's self-serving gift to the industry who supported and supports his re-election, his willingness to place the groups who elected him on hold, as he's done with the gay community, or to call us"opinionated," as he did when he recently described me and my fellow progressives that way. "Principled," Mr. Obama, and "resolute" are two of the adjectives I'd have chosen.
I don't need a public option, I live in Canada where they've understood for decades that single-payer provides the widest high quality coverage at the lowest cost to tax payers. Like over 80% of Canadians I'm very happy with the way it works, and I know it doesn't shut out private companies that enhance my coverage. I'm worried about my nephew and niece, who live in the States and have no health care. I'm worried about families who are plummeted into bankruptcy and still have to bury their 4-year-old child who dies of cystic-fibrosis, a disease that also claimed my first wife -- at the age of 40. She was Canadian. She was covered. "Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are more than words in Canada.
The so-called "public option" is the compromise. It has the potential of proving to Americans that the health insurance industry will either adapt and put up, as it has all over the globe, or shut up. Without a robust public option health care reform is a sham.
I stand here, weeping for my country.
Where is the country I grew up in? Where are the jobs? Where is the faithfulness of a grateful nation. One Nation United?
Honesty, Integrity, faithfulness, honor, respect for all kind?
We the People......................WE THE People.................We are the people...........are we full of anything worth saving?
1. Find healthy food (DEMAND REFORM)
2. Return to your faith, whatever that may be
3. Throw away all your pills. (yes, all of them! Western Medicine does not cure you, only addicts you to harmful chemicals that hurt you)
4. DEMAND equality in health care, all available health professionals should be allowed to practice medicine. This includes, herbalists, natural healers, chinnese medicine, Shamans, and whatever.
5. If doctors do not know how to correctly diagnose and cure, do not keep them as licensed health care professionals! First do no Harm
6. OUtlaw all drugs. Do not support these proven killers with tax dollars.
7 . Give WE THE People more choices in health care. Drugs are not the answer. They are the problem in America. And we are infecting the whole world with our harmful chemicals that are a poor and harmful copy of what God has given us for our health and wellbeing.
8. Clean up our food! Remove all the harmful chemicals, additives, hormones, antibiotics and GMO vegetables. Our people are starving because there is no food fit for human consumption in our stores. There is more nutrition in the cardboard! This is a sorry state we have fallen into.
If you want to live..................read, learn............grow healthy food and stay as far away from Doctors who only push drugs for big business as you can. They do not even offer you a cure for anything anymore. They do not posess the skills to diagnose and treat illness.
They only treat symptums. They listen to the big pharma companies and prescribe harmful chemicals to pacify our weak, pathetic need to be drugged into a stupper.
I am poor.
I am ill.
I will not eat anything that comes in a box or that has been processed.
It cost too much to find meat that is free of harmful chemicals, hormones, antibiotics and feed that is not fit for the animals to consume. Do not feed it to your families anymore, if you want to live, be healthy, energetic and vigerous. Find clean, healthy whole grain foods and fresh vegatable that are grown organically and without genetically altering the genes of the plants.
There is warnings in the good book not to alter our plants, yet we are. We are in danger of releasing these GMO's into the ecosystem and distroying this planets ability to sustain life.
SPEAK UP NOW .......................It may already be too late to save mankind.
Just because a scientist CAN do something, does not mean they SHOULD do it!
The Congress is engaged in the Medicare payments to doctors as part of the broader aspect of the health care legislation. Despite the opposition’s insinuations against the government run successful Medicare program, it’s imperative for the lawmakers to sustain the viability of the Medicare and the Medicaid by honoring the providers’ legitimate request for payments increase that would substantially reduce the health care costs currently incurred by the taxpayers through payments to private insurers.
As stated earlier, the conservative and the moderate Democrats’ unwillingness to support the public option is contributing to the stalemate in the health care legislation. Even though, the recent Washington Post/ABC Poll confirmed that an impressive 57 percent of the American population is overwhelmingly in favor of the ‘public option’ plan, some Democratic legislators’ reluctance to join the majority on this issue is disappointing and deserve a valid explanation for their position that is detrimental to the national interest.
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