Thursday October 22nd Healthcare Battle Update....

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." Muhammad Ali
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Rape is a Pre-existing Condition ?
The Most Important Story found this week is about Woman ( Women?) being denied care after seeking Post Rape Care,Huffington Post is covering in depth, the idea that Rape could be considered a PreExisting Condition is more than Horrendous...
RT ::: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/insurance-companies-rape-_n_328708.html
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(1) Keith Olbermann and his Watchers are setting up Free Healthcare Clinics around the Country, Watch this clip from Countdown to learn more about the first scheduled Clinic in Missouri.
RT ::: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/33423088#33423088?ocid=twitter
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(2) AFL-CIO has huge rally planned in DC Thursday about Health Insurance Industry Profiteering If you live in DC do plan to go and take part or RT it.
RT ::: http://ow.ly/vMCA
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(3)Anthony Weiner has set up an amazing website to track people around the Country who support the PublicOption,please do RT this and make sure people know to sign up, he is watching this site closely.
RT ::: http://countdowntohealthcare.com/
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(4) All of us have wondered how tough and how smart is Senator Al Franken, Think Progress has the most amazing video from Medical Bankruptcy Hearings this week. I was so lucky that I actually watched this live and it took my breath away has he grilled the hell out of the arrogant well healed pearled "Expert", it was a thing of beauty, here is the link to the Testimony transcript and video.
RT ::: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/21/al-franken-grills-hudson/
RT ::: Video Link:::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqqSHr0wVA&feature=player_embedded

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(5) DailyKos smartly noted that Senator Reid made an interesting Statement yesterday that HE would be deciding if PublicOption would be in the final Reform Bill, Do read and watch and see what you think, was he being coy of dim and vague. I am not certain.
RT :: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/21/795467/-Reid-says-hell-make-the-decision-on-the-public-option
CONTACT INFORMATION:::
DO CALL HIS OPTION AND STRONGLY SUPPORT PUBLICOPTION AND DON'T LET HIS STAFF BLOW YOU OFF ABOUT ONLY HIS CONSTITUENTS CAN CALL, HE IS DEM LEADER - AND WE ALL HAVE A VOICE IN THIS. 50 MILLION PEOPLE AT STAKE , 45,000 PEOPLE DYING EACH YEAR WITHOUT CARE-JUST REMIND THEM OF THE FACTS. OR ASK IF THEY WANT TO BE PART OF THE GOP OBSTRUCTION MOVEMENT.JAM HIS DAMN PHONES....NOW.
Contact info:::
Washington DC
522 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3542
Fax: 202-224-7327
Toll Free for Nevadans:
1-866-SEN-REID (736-7343)
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Las Vegas
Lloyd D. George Building
333 Las Vegas Boulevard
South, Suite 8016
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702-388-5020
Fax: 702-388-5030
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Do Scroll Down to read about Grayson's UnInsured Memorial Website, and posts about Underweight 2 yr old denied Coverage and 37 yr old Muscular Dystrophy Patient denied Care....Really Important stories of real people hurt by the Health Insurance Industry Greed. Do also see the update about Keith Olbermann and his efforts to help promote Free Health Care Clinics, the first ones working with Countdown are being planned soon,see clip below.

Canadian Papers are starting to Print Articles by Our Nurses about Needing a Public Plan.....

Sadly More of OUR Papers should be printing the Truth from the Medical Community, We do have a Healthcare Crisis, and it is NOT about Death Panels or About People Dying for Care....Please do read the attached article linked to the title written by Rose Ann De Moro, President of the CNA ( California Nurses Association).

"To residents of all other industrialized countries, terrors over a government role in promoting and protecting the health and safety of its citizenry, and the reluctance of political leaders to effectively respond to these attacks must be especially confounding. Among major nations, only in the U.S. is health care not a fundamental right, but bartered for profit by a maze of health-care corporations. The result is that the U.S. continues to fall far behind other industrial nations in a variety of measurements, from access to care to equality in treatment, and even in the much discussed issue of waiting times for medical care.

While the U.S. spends twice as much as every other nation on per capita health care, there remain more than 45 million Americans with no health coverage and tens of millions more with insurance who are routinely denied medical care because their insurer doesn't want to pay for it.Medical bills account for 62 per cent of personal bankruptcies. Half of all Americans skip doctor visits or immunizations for their children because of high out-of-pocket costs, troubling news indeed with the U.S. already leading the globe in swine flu infections and deaths.

The nation's registered nurses and many doctors continue to press for real change, a national or single-payer system that would look familiar to Canadians and the rest of the industrial world. It is still possible to achieve stronger reform, but time is running out."

Rose Ann DeMoro is executive director of the 86,000-member California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the largest U.S. union of nurses.

Excessively High Fees in Healthcare.....read more...NYT

MICHEAL MOORE EXPOSES SELLOUT HILLARY CLINTON ON HEALTHCARE

I know that I have been beating Healthcare issues like a dead horse ...BUT......that is the way of it. As a Nurse I have to focus on this issue, it is too important , 50 Million People without Healthcare is a Crisis.

So MORE Questions about Hillary's Health Plan :::

(1) IF She is SO GOOD at the Health Care Plan- WHY did she bomb so bad in the 1990's....and could it be because she had relationships with Drug Companies and Insurance Companies ?

(2) People need to ask her WHY 10% of their Income is an Acceptable Cap Amount ( I have seen her say this on campaign speechs on CSpan)

(3) HOW Much do the Senators pay for the Socialized Medicine they recieve ? Which Companies provide their Federal Coverage, and couldn't that coverage be expanded for ALL ?

(4) IF she does believe in Universal Healthcare for All, Should people with Medical Conditions and Pre-existing Conditions
have to pay MORE than everyone else ? ( or should they just be denied like they are now ?) And Companies that Cancel Coverage on people- shouldn't they be Penalized ?

(5) Would Medical Bureaucrats be Making the Decisions ? or would Medical people be able to Consult and work on the Changes ? ( because Nurses and real doctors in the Field were not consulted last time).

(6) Is HER Plan about MANDATORY INSURANCE....VS. Universal Healthcare, there is a BIG difference...Remember that.

**CLICK THE TITLE AND WATCH MICHEAL MOORES VIDEO ABOUT HILLARY'S PLAN THE FIRST TIME.....( I realize we can blame Hill and Bill for the Failure in the 1990s....)

**** Also it was mentioned in the thread below...DO SEE Frontline Episode : Sick Around the World....