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Sat, 5 Jul 2008 Mon, 19 May 2008 Mon, 19 May 2008 in the netherlands everybody in the country pays about 150 dollars a month for healthcare, everyone pays the same. if you are on social security it is paid for you which is possible as everybody pyas in money so there is enough to do that. it is a good idea to look at other countries to see what they are doing in my opinion. hope this is of use elija van den berg Wed, 14 May 2008 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 Many of us have a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of special treatment for women. We continue to struggle with a variety of "special" treatments which are rarely to our benefit. And many of us (and many of us are poor) are repelled by the idea of welfare in its current form, degrading and meaningless. Many who oppose sweeping health care coverage do so because they fear the loss of control and rights which we have come to expect from the "corporate culture" of our government. They are right to fear these things. But patient rights and choice in care are other issues. If government has any purpose, it is to care for its citizens, making society and environment good places to exist. Women are indeed a special case--we all come from them. Without health (including and especially mental health), mothers cannot help but falter in their care of children. Poverty and social isolation (lack of care) place the mother in a position to choose between her own welfare and that of her child--an untenable position which affects us all because it sets the stage for the wellbeing and context of at least two generations. The issue of health care for all is about respect and love--not charity. What we value, what we know we (all) require, we should be sure to offer each other, and learn how to do it well. We all need mothers to have wellbeing. We all need to express that care. We discuss insurance rather than care, partly because it distances care (illusorily) from the specter of government control, but mostly because, in order to pay for it, we need to predict its cost, and that entails the mathematics used in the business of insurance. The problems with this business are: it is carried out for profit, and the mathematics are applied, inappropriately, to individuals. I suggest a public not-for-profit national insurance, based on the same mathematics Big Insurance uses, but which offers coverage based on anonymized data only. Play the numbers, but not against people. Never exclude. Always be ready to adjust the assessment of the costs, and examine thoroughly what costs (social, environmental, etc.) have been externalized by making money off of gambling against our health. I suggest that by taking the burden of reciprocal or divergent wellbeing from mothers and children (which is different from the survival struggle of an individual alone), we counter a variety of potential problems with an averaged or pro rata system: namely that we would rather not pay the medical bills of those who choose deliberately to flaunt their health, or that the healthier and more elevated should be required to subsidize the care of the poor and sickly (do they not already?). Should we make such distinctions? Surely not. Will helping mothers help prevent true such pathologies? Read the research. I submit that such an opt-in organization or organizations (without direct government control) can compete directly with for-profit insurance by adopting principles to ensure (mathematically, anonymously) that its patronage represents a transparent cross-section of the public in operation (and that its payout represents actual care, not a minimal company-defined need), and by getting and keeping a clear and strong message current in the national consciousness (care we all need, not charity). Your message is a good one. K, mathematician May math solve problems. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 I came across your information today. Please add my name to the list of people "Who Get It!" Chrystal Hartigan - Music Promoter - South Florida I have a Mother who is a 40 year survivor of Cervical Cancer - she had no insurance at the time, but luckily got the care she needed. I also have a sister who had a fibroid cyst on her ovary, the size of a grapefruit! That was 20 years ago, also no insurance, but "thank you" to Dr. Pickel (he jokes about his name!) he knew my sister had no insurance but he helped her and she made payments to him til it was paid off! We have been blessed! I do now have insurance through my job, however I pay alot for it. Neither of my grown daughters have insurance and are not very healthy at all. It is absolutely ridiculous that in today's society all people are not taken care of properly, especially women and children. It also amazes me that a family who eventually gets state welfare/foodstamps, the Mother is not covered by medical, labeled "ineligible!" How do they expect that Mother to stay healthy and be able to try to provide for her children?? It is truly a crazy world we live in! And we all know there are countless other things going on that just don't make sense! I do pray that somehow those of us who do "get it" can use our collective intelligence to create a fair and just existence for all human beings! In Spirit, Chrystal Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Greetings again, So soon! I was looking into the history of the program and saw the "c" word. I think of myself as a cancer veteran, since 1997. I have some very radical ideas, such as, you notice they're not called "The American Anti-Cancer Society"? If someone with a lot of attitude can help, let me know. Peace and Fun, Robin West matriot and earthling Sat, 23 Feb 2008 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 This plan will nourish the earth and bring life. This planet needs GiveLoveGiveLife. Much Love 'n Respect, Ruben Pacheco LATV Networks Mon, 3 Dec 2007 Hello my friends, Please have a look at some research I have done on how non-organic everyday foodstuffs make us sick and more prone to cancers, women's and men's cancers. These are reliable information provided by recognized scientists. For each piece of information, the source is provided. If we care about our children, our wives, our friends, our fellow human beings, let's clean up our water, restore traditional organic sources of food, clean and cleanse ourselves, and defeat those who make us sick and get rich by doing it, now, not 100 years from now. This is not radical, this is vital. The radicals and criminals are those who poison us and make profits out of our declining health. Nicolas Barbier French documentary filmmaker and PhD student in geography Most modern agricultural chemicals persist in our food. They include : Acephate, Azinphos-methyl, Bifenthrin, Bioresmethrin, Captan, Carbaryl, Chlorfenvinphos, Chlorothalonil, Chlorpyrifos, Chlorpyrifos-methyl, DDT, DDE, Dimethoate, Diphenylamine, Endosulfan, Fenitrothion, Fenoxycarb, Fenthion, Iprodione, Maldison, Metalaxyl, Methamidophos, Methidathion, Methoprene, o-phenylphenol, Parathion-methyl, Permethrin, Piperonyl butoxide, Pirimicarb, Pirimiphos-methyl, Procymidone, Propargite, Propiconazole, Pyrimethanil, Tebufenpyrad, Tetradifon, Vinclozolin. 20th Australian Total Diet Survey. (2003) Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ). Most foods contain a cocktail of small amounts of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and some of the synthetic fertilizer compounds, which are absorbed when eaten. A study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control found a cocktail of many toxic chemicals in the blood and urine of most Americans tested. Higgins Margo, Toxins are in most Americans' blood, study finds, Environmental News Network, Monday, March 26, 2001. Experiments conducted by Warren Porter et al at the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that the amount of pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer mixtures absorbed by humans through their food can result in thyroid disruption, with effects on brain development, level of irritability, sensitivity to stimuli, ability or motivation to learn and an altered immune function. Porter W, et al. (1999), "Endocrine, immune and behavioral effects of aldicarb (carbamate), atrazine (triazine) and nitrate (fertilizer) mixtures at groundwater concentrations," Toxicology and Industrial Health (1999) 15, 133-150. Agricultural chemicals absorbed by humans through their food have been implicated in lower sperm counts, increases in breast, uterine, testicular and prostate cancers and deformities in the genital-urinary tracts. These chemicals disrupt our hormone systems at levels 1000 times lower than previous research stated was safe. Colborn T, Dumanoski D. and Myers J. P., (1996) Our Stolen Future, www.OurStolenFuture.org, March 1996. An abundance of published scientific research links commonly used pesticides and herbicides in mordern agriculture to asthma, arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome, cancers such as pancreatic, colon, lymphoma, leukemia, breast, uterine and prostate as, and disruptions in the hormone, nervous and immune systems. The Myths Of Safe Pesticides, by Andre Leu who is the Chair of the Organic Federation of Australia, June 2006 A study realized at the Duke University Medical Center found that the developing fetus and the newborn are particularly vulnerable to amounts of pesticide in food and water far lower than currently permitted by most regulatory authorities around the world. A major consequence is damages of the developing nervous system. Qiao D, Seidler F, and Slotkin T, (2001) Developmental Neurotoxicity of Chlorpyrifos Modeled in Vitro: Comparative Effects of Metabolites and Other Cholinesterase Inhibitors on DNA Synthesis in PC12 and C6 Cells, Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 109, Number 9, September 2001. Mon, 3 Dec 2007 Mon, 3 Dec 2007 As a Native women born and raised on a reservation who has been and now makes her life in the mainstream… I have found myself with nearly $100,000.00 in medical bills because I chose to leave the reservation I have lost the benefits of my Indian Health Service…and now I am only insurable for the parts of my body that doesn’t need medical attention. My reproductive systems ails me and I am encouraged to get a hysterectomy at 38 years old (and I don’t have children), I don’t have options for second opions or further research because I don’t have insurance. This is how I live my life…ignorning my health problems…hoping they will go away, until I end up in the emergency room and am reminded that I can’t ignore the problems and pain forever… I get it…thank you! Michelle Renee Shining Elk Enrolled member Colville Confederated Tribes (Lakes and Okanogan Bands) Washington State Living in Los Angeles, CA. Mon, 3 Dec 2007 Well, as far as I know the United States and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world who do not have a National Universal Health Care Plan for any Citizens. All other developed countries have a National Health Care Plan. We need National Health Care for Women and Children howeve, the American Medical Association (AMA) is one of the strongest lobbying groups in Washington DC who profit and benefit from sick and dying people, this is the current culture of the AMA. How can we move to affect a paradigm shift within the AMA and help them and their lobbyists understand the concept that saving lives of people is the benefit of their medical practice? In reality, can we help the AMA to elevate their consciousness and minds to a place of human understanding? Can we move in a direction wit hi n American society and help the AMA understand that savings lives of Americans especially women in children is part of our culture and tradition? I think Give Love Give Life is necessary for these types of efforts..........Peace ".....there is no such thing as American culture, the only real culture in America is American Indian culture..." Marlon Brando Patricia Shepard, HTY Mon, 3 Dec 2007 I get it! This is a great way to organize people and to get the message out. I am lucky enough to live in VT now. I was without health care for a year because I had to leave a full-time job in Massachusetts, due to health problems(asthma). I moved to VT for both cleaner air and part-time work. VT has a great health care system that provides income based assistance for those who aren't eligible for free health care. On a part-time salary, I can not afford to pay for our agencies health plan on my own. Vermont pays for 3/4 of my health insurance. On another note. Ten years ago, a seven pound ovarian cyst was detected in my body! I had been complaining of ovarian cyst symptoms for years(had two prior) but my doctors insisted that there was nothing there. It wasn't until my back went out and an MRI was ordered, that my new doctor was able to actually see what was inside me! He told me that it was the reason my back went out and said that if he didn't find it I would have died from it. My uterus and bladder were literally squished against my right hip bone. He told me that previous health care providers probably were influenced by my insurance company, not to do the necessary tests to detect the cyst! UNBELIEVABLE! Woman is earth earth is mother seed is child child is sustenance. Love, jo Sun, 2 Dec 2007 Hello, I had cervical cancer when I was 19, and had a hysterectomy. I am now 53 and got a bad report on last pap. This was the first pap I had in over 10 years. I am now waiting to hear if the cancer has come back. If it has, I do not know what will happen as I have no health insurance. It is scary to think I will probably not get treatment, and perhaps die from this. Thank you John, and all who are involved with this new awareness for women, and childrens health care. Contact me if there is anything I can help with. Peace and Many Blessings, Debra "Skydancer" Hanna Sun, 2 Dec 2007 it is possible! As a Canadian, watching negative forces dying to, trying hard to kill our most excellent health insurance program I feel I must stand and say, for all these years it has been possible here and all over the world to have meaningful health care. Why not America? Michelle Good Sun, 2 Dec 2007 Sun, 2 Dec 2007 I became an advocate and caregiver for my mother a decade ago, and I stayed so until her death in 2005. (I still am advocating in her memory.) Her death was expedited because some of her doctors ignored her medical history in favor of the bottom line. She had health insurance, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services enabled her provider, Advocate Health Care in Illinois, to circumvent many Medicare managed care regulations. These included the right by beneficiaries to make an expedited appeal when they believe that they are going to be harmed due to the refusal by the provider to provide them with specific medical procedures. I have not found much concern about such matters from the plethora of people and organizations that I have contacted in my attempt to inform them about the wrongdoing that I encountered. This includes some employees of a slew of politicians and also numerous not-for-profit self-described advocacy groups, such as the Centers for Medicare Advocacy and the Medicare Rights Center. I support your cause all the way, however people need to understand that having health insurance does not guarantee them obtaining the appropriate medical care, because the regulations that were established to protect beneficiaries is not being enforced...and nobody appears to give a damn. I can provide the documents that prove my claims upon request. John H. Olsen Sun, 2 Dec 2007 I am glad to see that there are so many others that know that health care is a basic human right and that it should not only be for the privileged. I have been without insurance, I have also had many female health care issues, and I just want to say thanks for caring enough to make a difference. Sarah Axling Sun, 2 Dec 2007 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 I love my mother and all my sisters, who are mothers and their daughters who will one day be mothers. And round and round it goes. Paul Frame Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 I just watched my mother in law die from ovarian cancer on Nov 24, 2007. My own mother died from breast cancer. There needs to be a step forward in Women's Health Care and Women's Health Issues Awareness. Thanks, Patty Beecham Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Womans health is all important for the benefit of everyone elija
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 I want to thank your organization for working so hard. I will contact who I can to help you further the progress healthcare for women. I will be contact my current senators and politicans running for office to ensure that they are aware of "Give Life Give Love's" criteria for truly meeting the needs of all women and children. As an elementary schol teacer and a woman this matters to me. Thank You Marlies Adams Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Health care should be a human right not based on how much money you make. Life should be a right and not need to depend on how much money you make. I am sick of the politics inside health care. The humane thing to do is when someone is sick, they need to be helped and healed when possible. I cannot remember my great auntie ever turning away someone who was sick. She helped them all she could and never expected payment. It was just the right thing to do. Why is it so hard for our government to do the right thing by all its citizens not just select rich ones? We certainly need a revolution and I will support one. Thank you for listening, Lynda Rasor Sat, 1 Dec 2007 My coments are simple, its a wonderful concept, put together beautifully and well worth all efforts to make the plan real. Thank you for all you do and have done, and for your words and music and heartfelt care for the world and all its people. Cindy Milwaukie OR Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Thank you for all your working together, Yes, 'givelovegivelife,' this is the direction and way that things do change towards 'real' people and away from mere ideas, and worse, institutions in and of institutions' sakes. One issue that, as the media likes to say, divides our nation is the issue of reproductive rights relative to potential baby's rights, and others in this same context. Politics 'never' addresses real people. In my years I have found that when it comes to any issue it has most to do with how a question is asked as to how it gets answered. Politicians, as well as political groups have agendas, all believing that their is the best, or the only one that is right and good. Ask a person if they believe abortion is a good thing, and most will say no. Ask the same person if they are for abortion and they will say no. Ask them if it should be used for birth control, of which about ninety-two percent of them are, and they will say no. Ask most of the same people if they also think that the government should make a law to prevent and or control a women's choice as to giving birth to a potential baby, the operative 'the government,' and more than most people would say no. Why? Because at each point we're asking 'real' people without necessary political agendas one way or another. Just think if all the people were considered 'first' in this issue, then legislation that could benefit all of the people involved, including the more political people, could happen. If it is 'the person' that we are addressing with legislation regarding the health-care of women, specifically in this issue, but not apart from all other health-care issues, then both liberals and conservations, as well as those that are characterized as 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' would come together and make sure that the people that both sides say that they care about would be given truthful and helpful opportunities. How? Legislation from the Federal government would come about to address the health-care needs of women from their own conception to the grave. If a women is pregnant, there would be sufficient health-care to care for both the mother and potential child from pre-natal into the child's entry to school. The mother, if single and no other means of support, or insufficient means of support, would be assisted with education and child-care (at a place that the same politicians would feel safe with their own children), and would subsidize (not give away as some would like to call it, because these women and children are part of our whole community of being.) any loss of lack of income needed in order to raise the child. If those from the what they themselves in their groups call the 'left' and the 'right' would give up their own political agendas here, and if they both truly cared most about the 'women,' as well as all other potential family members in the equation, then they would make sure that the freest possible situation for a true choice would be given in the same situation. Choice to be free must be known and not manipulated. Life in order to be less frightening, especially to a surprised woman concerning potentially becoming a mother, needs to be lightened from the weights of the fear of losing income, health insurance, jobs, and yes any education grants or scholarships (these are often lost forever to a mother that chooses to go through and to give birth if still in the process of using these 'earned' by 'her' grants and scholarships.). If the 'person,' a 'real' person, and not just agendas and or ideas matter, the this will happen. Or, money will continue to be spent for the politicized agendas of the few, all the while each of the parties calling the needs of the We the People. Thank you for caring about love and life first, timothy r gates Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Fantastic website - Thank you for leading me here! I have an adult (step)daughter with type one diabetes who has three daughters of her own, and none of them have healthcare. Her mother, years ago ... lost an incredibly brave six year battle against breast cancer, so there are obviously other serious concerns in addition to the diabetes. Having made the choice to leave an abusive and addicted husband who cannot keep a job; she attempted to make a better life for herself and her girls, to be met with continued denials from the health care providers. She is not even allowed the privilage of our un-affordable health care, how pitiful is that? Are we to pay for our medications and then sit in the dark, hungry ... but well? Or would we be better to be sick with the lights on, and food in the cupboards? This is assuming of course, that we have been blessed enough to have been seen by a Doctor, for our prescriptions. This is something that is way beyond worrying about, It is rather ... something to be terrified about. As I am ... Sincerely, Lisa Sat, 1 Dec 2007 i read, i learned, i shared! this site and the information is to important to not share! this touches a harsh reality and in a country like this, there should be more avenues for other to take when faced with ANYTHING that effects our health and that of those we love. thank you thank you thank you! i will pass this on and strive to make others aware as well. WE DON'T HAVE TO SIT ON OUR HANDS PEOPLE! dessa Fri, 30 Nov 2007 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 Love & gratitude for this valuable work. I'm in Aotearoa, NZ so not sure how to contribute to your campaign in the States but I can fwd your message & website through NZ Networks... I had a hysterectomy last year, & the journey leading to that outcome was degrading, male dominated & clinical. The message is important & valuable wherever we are, & it is time it is reintegrated in our global community... I get it! Again, Love, Respect & Gratitude, Hineraukura - Mother, Daughter, Student, Artist. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 Thank you, Give Love, Give Life for continuing this very important work. I will pass on the information to all those I know! Are there are any promotional website banners available? In these times of inflated promises by politicians wishing to promote their platforms for candidacy, we need to be reminded of the human faces behind women's health care issues. Thank you for providing that to the world so beautifully. In honor of Marcheline and all our sisters, Merry Curphy Event Coordinator/Activist Mon, 17 Sep 2007 Sho nuff, Hillary Clinton’s universal health care plan is one that keeps the Insurance Companies in the drivers seat, making the decisions about who gets what treatment for what, depending on which policy they paid for, and thus in control of the funds related to health care, making sure those funds produce profit for insurance company stockholders. This does not insure that those in need of Health Care get it. Comparing this plan to mandatory car insurance is not fair. There are alternatives to owning and insuring a vehicle...public transit, hitchhiking, carpooling, walking, biking. There is not alternative to having a body. If you are alive you need health care at some point or another; always if we include health maintenance/preventative health care as part of our approach to maintaining health as opposed to treating disease. Whoever wins this presidential election, and whoever is in Congress...all need to be kept accountable for helping all Americans have HEALTHCARE not health insurance. Article I read said that Hillary Clinton “learned her lesson” when she tired to promote universal coverage when husband Bill was President; article even blames her efforts on Republicans taking control of Congress. She learned that the powers that be, those who control the economics, do not want insurance companies (stockholder profits and insurance company execs) to be bypassed in favor of health care for all. Yours truly, Sheila Burns Sun, 26 Aug 2007 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 Friday, August 10, 2007 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:02:23
-0400 Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Greetings I am a licensed clinical social worker and a musician, and a single parent mother of 6 who has spent the last 15 years 'in the trenches' helping people in these difficult situations as well as experiencing them myself. I also spent three years working in tribal health in mendocino county pomo country with the people from all over who came to our clinic. I have studied politics and spiritual/cultural traditions widely for the last thirty-five years, and I find John Trudell's voice to be the most coherent, practical, down to earth and powerful at this time. I would be honored to work with this movement on an organizational and/or inspirational level if there is room and a need for this. If so, please contact me and also there is a link to my website below. Colleen Krinard, LCSW Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:43:09
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