Hi everyone,
Due to a prior commitment I was unable to attend last night's town hall meeting at IUS. Would the attendees please weigh in with your comments?
It would be greatly appreciated, inquiring minds (like mine) want to know.
Thanks,
Shirley
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Shirley,
I too was unable to attend the "town hall", but I can say that after a private shut in with Congressman Hill at the Clinic in Jeff last week, I am in no position of better understanding of what he is for and against than I was before the meeting.
It seems to me that there are too many contradictory stances for us to make any real progress regarding an overhaul of healthcare.
The constant nay-sayers are muddying the water far too much to be able to assertain what may work, what may fail, and the politicians are starting to get scared of the crowd, meanwhile, the uninsured, underinsured, and uninsurable are losing their lifes savings, and in some cases even their lives while this issue is politicized, and not treated for what it is, a humanitarian issue.
I know, there is a friend of mine who "falls between the cracks" in health care. She is a single mother who cannot afford private insurance because her employer does not provide coverage. Additionally she does not qualify for Medicaid for her young child because her older child, age 18, just graduated high school and has a job in a resturaunt.
Her former husband is currently unemployed so he cannot help either.
We all know people in this situation and we know that there are millions of people just like them.
What I cannot understand is why these "teabaggers" want to deny these people health care. At the rally in Jeff. last week people were yelling and telling us to get a job. Many of the people marching had jobs they just didn't have adequate health care.
Sorry about the rant.
Shirley,
That demographic fits 90% of our clinic patients.
Not "sick enough" for medicaid, too young or not disabled enough for medicare, many are small business owners, or work for small businesses.
Some are skilled workers whose jobs have been outsourced south of the border, some are "home makers" who had the good life until the working spouse died, or ran off with some one else.
Funny thing is, the "haves" who are the loudest opposition to any type of reform are the ones who have the least worries of being faced with financial/medical disaster, and they care not one ioda about the "have nots", and do just as you said, assume they are lazy bums who dont want to work, when that represents only about 4% of the population most at risk.
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I was there, and this guy thinks he has what it takes to run for Governor?
Shirley,
Why are you calling them "Tea baggers"?
Protesters - yes, Tea baggers - NO.
Have you even read HR 3200, maybe you should.
If you live in the 9th, make sure Baron Hill knows where you stand. Here's his contact info:
Jeffersonville Office
(812) 288-3999
1-866-440-1321 (toll free)
Perhaps someone should remind Congressman Hill he wotks for us, not the other way around.
Thanks Anon 1:24 PM,
I'm going to write Baron Hill right now and let him know I'm 100% behind President bama and a public option!
i wish the teabaggers still saved their rage for the british. i'm tired of hearing them rant and belly ache.
Hope everyone wakes up and realizes these represenatives are not interested in representing us - only themselves and the party stance on the issues.
We saw what the government did to the mortgage industry when they got involved and tried to tell the financial institutions what to do - don't let them do it to the insurance industry too.
Hill address a handfull of questions from pre-screened AARP members.
When a representative makes clear that he represents not his constituents, but only special interests, his district is due to vote him out.
He's another Cochran and Sipes, right out the door.
Hill is representing me.
He doesn't just represent Citizens Faux Accountability and its faux members with their faux arguments of special interests.
But Connie Sipes is still in office, right?
"We saw what the government did to the mortgage industry when they got involved and tried to tell the financial institutions what to do - don't let them do it to the insurance industry too."
I tell you what Captain Anonymous, if you feel that the insuarnce industry is doing a good job, then please explain to me why we pay the highest premiums, copays, deductables in the industrialized world?
Secondly, explain to me why we have to pay such high out of pocket costs, to have so many treatment options denied, limited on what care givers we can see, at which hosptital and for what reason, then further explain to me why the insuarnce industry who is charging us so much, and whine and bitch about how hard it is to proveide coverage is raking in record profits, being put in second place by only the oil industry?
Oh, thats right it is the smokers fault, right?
Healthcare is a disaster in this country, and its not the doctors, its not the hospitals, and its not the government, it is the insurance industry who have driven up costs, set limits, excluded so many working people, out priced small and medium sized businesses from being able to offer quality coverage to employees at an affordable price.
To think any other way is uninformed, and unbelievably blind.
Amen, 10:44
I get the feeling, too, most of the naysayers and tea party protestors have jobs AND insurance.
Go Baron Hill, love a Blue Dog Democrat. There are not ENOUGH of them.
Boy those blue dogs have a lot to learn. Bye,bye, Hill.
HAVE ANY OF YOU READ THE BILL? I HAVE. LOOK AT PAGE 30 AND 31 AND IT SAYS IT ALL.
SO SHAME ON YOU BARON HILL, CALLING US POLITICAL TERRORIST.
ALL I CAN SAY IS READ THE BILL AND LOOK INTO THE BACKGROUND OF THE CZAR'S. IF YOU ARE STILL NOT SCARED TO DEATH YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED LIKE WE ARE.
WE ARE THE SILENT MAJORITY EVERYONE HAS TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS.
The US pays two or three times on healthcare per capital than any other nation, yet we're no more healthy for it.
Can someone remind me, what is the Republican plan for cutting healthcare costs? I can't recall reading about it at Freedom of Slanderous Speech.
Hmmm....Maybe CFA needs to post their healthcare plan on their funny new blogger site?
I'm sure it will having something to do with voodoo. If not voodoo, maybe leeches, like they used in Mayberry.
Headline: "Leeches for the Leeches Plan Proposed by Denhart."
But that would be too progressive for her. Since when has Vicky been for something?
"HAVE ANY OF YOU READ THE BILL? I HAVE. LOOK AT PAGE 30 AND 31 AND IT SAYS IT ALL.
SO SHAME ON YOU BARON HILL, CALLING US POLITICAL TERRORIST.
ALL I CAN SAY IS READ THE BILL AND LOOK INTO THE BACKGROUND OF THE CZAR'S. IF YOU ARE STILL NOT SCARED TO DEATH YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED LIKE WE ARE.
WE ARE THE SILENT MAJORITY EVERYONE HAS TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS."
I have somewhere in the area of 7,500 clients with out health insurance, or who are massively under insured.
Would you be so kind as to host a forum and invite all of them, so you can explain to them how they are imagining things when they can not get insurance, are too sick to work, but not sick enough for medicaid?
Could you please explain to them that it is their imagination that they do not recieve the same standard of care in an inpatient setting because they are discharged earlier because the hospitals know they wont get paid?
Or how about if you find the family of a former patient of mine and let them know its all in their head that their relative died of cancer waiting to be "approved" for medicaid, when if she had coverage in the beginning, the cancer could have been treated before it spread to her bones, her liver, her brain?
OF course these are just "jobless bums" right, isnt that what your factions call anyone who is for healthcare reform?
Isnt that what your factions scream at yell at people supporting reform? " Get a job?"
I am not an evil person, nor am I vengful person, but I can not wait for the day that some of you more vocal opponents to healthcare reform walk through the doors of one of our clinics seeking help because you lost your insurance, or your job, or your everything because of one illness.
Because with GREAT pleasure, we will smile at you, welcome you, and treat you with the compassion and understanding that can only come from caring about others, a feeling all of you reform naysayers have no clue what its like to do.
An excellent post, Christopher. I salute you.
I would not hold my breath waiting on a phone call, though.
Christopher,
Thank you for your posts, you say what I want to say but you do it much better.
Shirley
PTG Silicones and the Calumet Club each now have $50,000 loans from Horseshoe's revolving fund. Maybe Roger's not so special (or corrupt) after all?
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