Here's a little song about our global standing in terms of health care. I don't know who's responsible for it, but it's letter perfect:
[H/T Marta Evry at Venice for Change]
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Upcoming Events
Sick in the System
Film Screening Party
Tuesday, August 11th, 7-10 PM
Irish Rogue, 356 W. 44th St (between 8th and 9th Ave.)
RSVP: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/healthcareorganizingevent/gpf3lv
Join us at the Irish Rogue to view this powerful documentary made by a group of New York grassroots volunteers!
We will also talk about how we will help cure our "sick" system!
The film features real life stories, which have been central to swaying Congress and is something President Obama's been asking for. It's the all volunteer work of a young director, Brooklynite Brian Umana, and his team of twelve, who have interviewed dozens of New Yorkers over the past few months. We're learning how important personal stories are to this movement, and that's why this particular volunteer effort is so important: to get these stories to legislators.
Check out clips here:
Kelly (from Brooklyn): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8yLr2LLrCQ
Saturday, August 8 10:00 AM
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/communityservice/gpf38y
Film Screening Party
Tuesday, August 11th, 7-10 PM
Irish Rogue, 356 W. 44th St (between 8th and 9th Ave.)
RSVP: http://my.barackobama.com/
Join us at the Irish Rogue to view this powerful documentary made by a group of New York grassroots volunteers!
We will also talk about how we will help cure our "sick" system!
The film features real life stories, which have been central to swaying Congress and is something President Obama's been asking for. It's the all volunteer work of a young director, Brooklynite Brian Umana, and his team of twelve, who have interviewed dozens of New Yorkers over the past few months. We're learning how important personal stories are to this movement, and that's why this particular volunteer effort is so important: to get these stories to legislators.
Check out clips here:
Kelly (from Brooklyn): http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Community Health Fair
Saturday, August 8 10:00 AM
http://my.barackobama.com/
A multi cultural Annual health fair. With Music, food and fun. The celebration includes Health care and mental Health information. The goal is to Educate the community, while celebrating the end of summer. This Event will be held at the Calvary Cathedral of Praise, where several colorful tents will be erected. A variety of the finest exotic and comfort foods/dishes from various Countries including the U.S.A. Health care data via mobile equipment. Information about Health Care Reform will be on Hand. Members from Organizing for America are encouraged and urged to participate,and to enjoy the event.
| Time | Saturday, August 8,10 AM |
|---|---|
| Host: | Joanne A Bailey |
| Location: | Calvary Cathedral of Praise (Brooklyn, NY) |
| 45 East 8th Street | |
| Brooklyn, NY 11218 |
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
More Events--Health Care
There’s so much going on, it’s hard to keep up with it all (OK, it’s impossible). Nonetheless, I’ll continue to try--the stakes are much too high to just sit on the sidelines. Herewith, another installment, courtesy of Nina Agrawal of NYC for Change:
Yes, the Industry Is Backtracking. Just 3 days after volunteering to contain costs, insurers took back their agreement - saying that Obama had overstated their offer. Why? Our costs are their income.
Cost control will NOT happen unless Congress passes legislation for a Public Plan Choice - forcing insurers to compete with an important benchmark for health care - in the best interest of patients not profits.
Congress is set to vote on health reform legislation by July 31st. Senator Schumer is leading the battle for the public plan. To win, he needs powerful ammunition - your voices, your stories, your support.
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW:
1. HCAN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS EVENT- Thursday, May 21st, 7 - 9 PM
Join us for a conversation with Richard Kirsch , National Campaign Manager, Health Care for America NOW , (HCAN), about health care reform and what you can do to make it happen. Kirsch has more than 20 years’ experience in health care reform and was invited by President Obama to the first White House Health Care Summit.
Co-hosts: Nina Agrawal MD, Tim Foley, Amy Miller, Jonathan Adner MD, Elizabeth Caputo, Dave Pollak, and Reshma Saujani
Free! RSVP:stewart@bhsfundraising.com .
Retreat Bar NYC, 37 West 17th St., btwn 5th & 6th Ave.
2. STAND UP for HEALTH CARE! Postcard Canvass Week - May 29th to June 6th
Join NYCforChange in asking voters to pledge their support for the public plan choice on postcards to Senator Schumer. Volunteers are needed to lead neighborhood canvasses. Contact Amy Miller at amymiller3@gmail.com for more information.
*If you are interested in participating, please come to the May 21st HCAN event to learn key messaging points.
3. SAVE THE DATE - HCAN National Lobby Day in Washington, D.C. - June 25th
Be a part of the biggest health care rally in history! More information to come.
- Together, we must stand up for our right to the health care we want and need. We've got no time to lose.
Nina Agrawal
NYCforCHANGE.org
"I know what it's like to see a loved one who is suffering, but also having to deal with a broken health care system. I know that pain is shared by millions of Americans all across this country..... that's why I will not rest until the dream of health care reform is finally achieved in the United States of America." -- President Obama, May 12, 2009
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Join NYCforChange.org - Because one person can make a difference and every person should try.
Yes, the Industry Is Backtracking.
Cost control will NOT happen unless Congress passes legislation for a Public Plan Choice
Congress is set to vote on health reform legislation by July 31st. Senator Schumer
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW:
1. HCAN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS EVENT- Thursday, May 21st, 7 - 9 PM
Join us for a conversation with Richard Kirsch
Co-hosts: Nina Agrawal MD, Tim Foley, Amy Miller, Jonathan Adner MD, Elizabeth Caputo, Dave Pollak, and Reshma Saujani
Free! RSVP:stewart@bhsfundraising.com
Retreat Bar NYC, 37 West 17th St., btwn 5th & 6th Ave.
2. STAND UP for HEALTH CARE! Postcard Canvass Week - May 29th to June 6th
Join NYCforChange in asking voters to pledge their support for the public plan choice on postcards to Senator Schumer. Volunteers are needed to lead neighborhood canvasses. Contact Amy Miller at amymiller3@gmail.com for more information.
*If you are interested in participating, please come to the May 21st HCAN event to learn key messaging points.
3. SAVE THE DATE - HCAN National Lobby Day in Washington, D.C. - June 25th
Be a part of the biggest health care rally in history! More information to come.
- Together, we must stand up for our right to the health care we want and need. We've got no time to lose.
Nina Agrawal
NYCforCHANGE.org
"I know what it's like to see a loved one who is suffering, but also having to deal with a broken health care system. I know that pain is shared by millions of Americans all across this country..... that's why I will not rest until the dream of health care reform is finally achieved in the United States of America." -- President Obama, May 12, 2009
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Join NYCforChange.org - Because one person can make a difference and every person should try.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Resources for the NY 20th Congressional District Race
Here’s a neat compendium of specific steps that led to the current economic catastrophe:.
[H/T to Avram]
While I have criticisms of Barack Obama's approach to certain aspects of this multidimensional train wreck (i.e., I think the government should take over, clean up & sell off the zombie banks ASAP; I also think he asked for too small a stimulus package at the outset), I think he's trying, in general, to do the right things in the right ways. (Contrast his approach to that of the GOP, which is continually pressuring Obama to cut taxes & spending--a guaranteed recipe for total economic collapse.)
Speaking of the GOP, Representative Patrick McHenry, their head of messaging, declared today that the GOP doesn't care whether their criticisms of Obama are accurate or not--their aim is to continually bombard Obama with charges from now until the 2010 elections, based on the idea that sheer repetition will make those criticisms sink in. Sort of like Joseph Goebbels, actually.
The other day, the GOP released their idea of a budget—with no numbers.
The focus of their 18-page document was attacks on Obama’s proposed budget due to its higher projected deficits (interesting, given the GOP record on financial matters), healthcare spending, lawyers, unions, and of course, ACORN. In short, it was an excuse to attack the Obama plan for problems created largely by the GOP (when they were in power), important supporters of the Democratic Party, and their perennial favorite red herring, ACORN.
To the extent that there was anything one might call specific in the GOP document, it was pretty extreme stuff, and certainly not the sort of thing one would expect them to want to run on in the next election.
Meanwhile current healthcare coverage in the U.S. is unavailable to 18 percent of the population, according to the National Coalition on Health Care:.
It is also far worse than that offered by other industrialized countries:.
Moreover, healthcare is projected to be the biggest component of future deficits:.
Yet the GOP (predictably) omits healthcare reform from their so-called budget document (and given the way they’ve performed for the past 29 years, they can be predicted reliably to make a bad situation worse).
In short, if we want to deal with the ever-worsening healthcare and economic crises, we have to address them in combination. The only approach available to us with a reasonable chance of success is Obama’s. It is a simple matter of national self-preservation to support it.
To that end, we need to get progressive Democrats and other like-minded people into Congress. The election Tuesday in the NY State 20th Congressional district race to succeed Kristen Gillibrand features Democrat Scott Murphy against Republican State Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco and is being framed as a referendum on President Obama’s stimulus bill and budget priorities. Murphy is an entrepreneur who founded Small World Software and a venture capitalist, who worked for the late Democratic Missouri governor, Mel Carnahan. Tedisco is a long-time fixture in Albany politics who has emphasized the issue of missing children.
Obama will probably be able to get legislation through the House without a Democratic victory in this race; the implications for the Senate, where the Democratic majority is much smaller, is quite another story. The GOP sees this as a must-win election. Let’s give them indigestion.
[H/T to Avram]
While I have criticisms of Barack Obama's approach to certain aspects of this multidimensional train wreck (i.e., I think the government should take over, clean up & sell off the zombie banks ASAP; I also think he asked for too small a stimulus package at the outset), I think he's trying, in general, to do the right things in the right ways. (Contrast his approach to that of the GOP, which is continually pressuring Obama to cut taxes & spending--a guaranteed recipe for total economic collapse.)
Speaking of the GOP, Representative Patrick McHenry, their head of messaging, declared today that the GOP doesn't care whether their criticisms of Obama are accurate or not--their aim is to continually bombard Obama with charges from now until the 2010 elections, based on the idea that sheer repetition will make those criticisms sink in. Sort of like Joseph Goebbels, actually.
The other day, the GOP released their idea of a budget—with no numbers.
The focus of their 18-page document was attacks on Obama’s proposed budget due to its higher projected deficits (interesting, given the GOP record on financial matters), healthcare spending, lawyers, unions, and of course, ACORN. In short, it was an excuse to attack the Obama plan for problems created largely by the GOP (when they were in power), important supporters of the Democratic Party, and their perennial favorite red herring, ACORN.
To the extent that there was anything one might call specific in the GOP document, it was pretty extreme stuff, and certainly not the sort of thing one would expect them to want to run on in the next election.
Meanwhile current healthcare coverage in the U.S. is unavailable to 18 percent of the population, according to the National Coalition on Health Care:.
It is also far worse than that offered by other industrialized countries:.
Moreover, healthcare is projected to be the biggest component of future deficits:.
Yet the GOP (predictably) omits healthcare reform from their so-called budget document (and given the way they’ve performed for the past 29 years, they can be predicted reliably to make a bad situation worse).
In short, if we want to deal with the ever-worsening healthcare and economic crises, we have to address them in combination. The only approach available to us with a reasonable chance of success is Obama’s. It is a simple matter of national self-preservation to support it.
To that end, we need to get progressive Democrats and other like-minded people into Congress. The election Tuesday in the NY State 20th Congressional district race to succeed Kristen Gillibrand features Democrat Scott Murphy against Republican State Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco and is being framed as a referendum on President Obama’s stimulus bill and budget priorities. Murphy is an entrepreneur who founded Small World Software and a venture capitalist, who worked for the late Democratic Missouri governor, Mel Carnahan. Tedisco is a long-time fixture in Albany politics who has emphasized the issue of missing children.
Obama will probably be able to get legislation through the House without a Democratic victory in this race; the implications for the Senate, where the Democratic majority is much smaller, is quite another story. The GOP sees this as a must-win election. Let’s give them indigestion.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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