Posted on 09/13/2009 7:27:05 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
People need to read this and contact their Congresspeople immediately about ending ALL federal funding to ACORN. Absolutely no excuse after what we have seen with the recent videos. And with healthcare, they demand everything short of Limousine Service, though I would not put it past them from adding it in at this point.
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SOme of the tidbits:
At hospitals:
Give low- and moderate-income members of the community a proportional share of seats on the governing boards of all hospitals.
Force hospitals to concentrate on providing basic quality care instead of wasting huge sums on showcase buildings and technological gadgets.
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There is a 24-hour, 7 day-a-week medical care / emergency room available in every neighborhood, based in neighborhood clinics. The clinics provide all types of basic care, including ob/gyn, pediatrics, and preventative care, as well as the following types of services.
1. House calls.
2. 24 Hour telephone service.
3. Ambulance service.
4. A mini-bus to bring neighborhood residents to the clinic.
5. Mobile paramedics.
(Excerpt) Read more at acorn.org ...
Here is the entire thing just in case they decide to scrub the page:
Health care must be:
Affordable.
Accessible.
Of equal quality for all.
Controlled by the people of the community, not by doctors, hospitals and insurance companies.
To achieve this:
I. Introduce a set of immediate reforms in the present health care system.
A. At hospitals:
a.Prohibit hospitals from turning away any patient who needs medical care.
b. Give low- and moderate-income members of the community a proportional share of seats on the governing boards of all hospitals.
c. Force hospitals to concentrate on providing basic quality care instead of wasting huge sums on showcase buildings and technological gadgets.
d. Enforce federal legislation that requires uniform minimum standards of operation for nursing homes.
B. In the medical professions:
a. Require doctors - whose education is subsidized by the federal government - to work for three years in an area where there is a shortage of personnel.
b. Prosecute local chapters of the American Medical Association if they continue to fix prices for doctors’ services.
c. Permit doctors and dentists to advertise prices and require price posting.
d. Prohibit doctors and dentists from refusing Medicaid and Medicare patients, and from billing more than Medicaid and Medicare recommended prices for the services they provide.
e. Place members of the community on all medical licensing boards.
C. At the health insurance companies:
a. Throw doctors and hospital administrators off the boards of directors, and replace them with a low- and moderate-income majority.
b. Require insurance companies to control hospital costs and medical fees rather than passing them on to their customers.
c. Prohibit discrimination by health insurance companies on the basis of race, sex, geography, income, age, or health status.
d. Provide all women with the services of midwives without the constraints and restrictions of the medical profession. Require all third party reimbursement to provide direct payment to certified nurse midwives.
D. In the government:
1. Reform Medicaid and Medicare by:
a. Raising income and assets limits for eligibility and removing the spend- down requirement.
b. Financing in-home care for the elderly as an alternative to nursing home care.
c. Including dental care and other preventative treatment in all Medicaid and Medicare plans.
d. Allowing Medicare and Medicaid recipients unlimited nursing home care.
e. Providing direct competitive payments to non-physician health care providers.
2. Charge state governments with setting maximum prices for basic hospital and medical services.
3. Require proportional representation of low- and moderate-income people on all health planning boards.
4. Require generic substitution options and price postings of subscription drugs.
5. Require the federal government to provide for the health care needs of recent immigrants.
II. Create a national health care system, along the following lines:
A. All medical costs are covered, by a combination of insurance, health maintenance organizations, free public health service. and sliding scale payments based on income.
B. The system is progressively financed.
C. The system is controlled by democratically elected community-based committees.
D. There is a 24-hour, 7 day-a-week medical care / emergency room available in every neighborhood, based in neighborhood clinics. The clinics provide all types of basic care, including ob/gyn, pediatrics, and preventative care, as well as the following types of services.
1. House calls.
2. 24 Hour telephone service.
3. Ambulance service.
4. A mini-bus to bring neighborhood residents to the clinic.
5. Mobile paramedics.
E. Doctors are on set salaries.
F. Medical education is financed by the government, in exchange for which doctors are required to serve in the public health service for a period of at least ten years.
G. Special emphasis is placed on preventive health care with free universal care and more adequate research on the most important facets of preventive medicine, including dental care, chiropractic, nutrition, prenatal care and vaccination.
H. Special emphasis is placed on maintaining a healthy environment, with the public health service responsible for strict enforcement of standards on: environmental quality, occupational health and safety, sanitation, foods, and drugs.
DOWN WITH ACORN
I sent an email to my Congressman demanding he support Rep. Charles Boustany’s call for an investigation into ACORN and immediately stop anymore federal funding to ACORN. I suggest everyone contact the politicians to demand the same.
“a.Prohibit hospitals from turning away any patient who needs medical care.”
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They need to ask Michelle Obama about THAT one, huh? *snicker*
Bowl-Sh!*
Community based, community controlled, community ....commune.... communism
*MEGA PING*
Yeah...how about that good old Low Income Urban Patient Dumping, all the while The First Lady was raking in $$$$ during her stint as an Administrator?!?!
So glad I went to medical school.
Class hatred. This is really what all of this is about. I will sleep 5 hours tonight, and work 12 hours tomorrow, at a minimum.I wonder how many ACORN ‘workers’ will do the same?
You got it. Everyone “owes” them because they are poor.
What do these people contribute to society? Serious question.
I see them often and have no grudge against them, but certainly do not want their hands in my pockets when I am working hard enough to provide for me. These are the same people who watch as Habitat for Humanity builds them a house, and then they watch as if falls into disrepair.
Hate to say it, but screw them. **Work** for what you get.
Frightening.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
get a load of their “preamble”:
ACORN People’s Platform
Preamble
We stand for a People’s Platform, as old as our country, and as young as our dreams. We come before our nation, not to petition with hat in hand, but to rise as one people and demand.
We have waited and watched. We have hoped and helped. We have sweated and suffered. We have often believed. We have frequently followed.
But we have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor. Our patience has been abused; our experience misused. Our silence has been seen as support. Our struggle has been ignored.
Enough is enough. We will wait no longer for the crumbs at America’s door. We will not be meek, but mighty. We will not starve on past promises, but feast on future dreams.
We are an uncommon people. We are the majority, forged from all minorities. We are the masses of many, not the forces of few. We will continue our fight until the American way is just one way, until we have shared the wealth, until we have won our freedom.
This is not a simple vision, but a detailed plan.
Our plan is to build an American reality from the American rhetoric, to deliver a piece of the present and the fruits of the future to every man, to every woman, to every family.
We demand our birthright: the chance to be rich, the right to be free.
Our riches shall be the blooming of our communities, the bounty of a sure livelihood, the beauty of homes for our families with sickness driven from the door, the benefit of our taxes rather than their burden, and the best of our energy, land, and natural resources for all people.
Our freedom is the force of democracy, not the farce of federal fat and personal profit. In our freedom, only the people shall rule. Corporations shall have their role; producing jobs, providing products, paying taxes. No more, no less. They shall obey our wishes, respond to our needs, serve our communities. Our country shall be the citizens’ wealth and our wealth shall build our country.
Government shall have its role: public servant to our good, fast follower to our sure steps. No more, no less. Our government shall shout with the public voice and no longer to a private whisper. In our government, the common concerns shall be the collective cause.
We represent a people’s platform, not a politician’s promise.
We demand the changes outlined in our platform and plan. We will work to win. We will have our birthright. We will live in richness and freedom. We will live in one country as one people.
Beware the “Co-Op” substitution for the public option. Co-Op health care is code for allowing ACORN to turn into a health care provider, and rake off a few bucks off the top of the premiums for their own ‘overhead.’
Good God. If they spent half as much time getting up and going to work as they do complaining and coming up with this bullshit they wouldn’t have to “wait for the crumbs at America’s door”, they could bake their own damn cake.
Was it you that posted the Communist platform re: health or the Nazi one (when they were getting started?
Someone had a side by side... scary.
Oh, and someone else posted the Comm. Party/USA demands on healthcare... pretty much the same across the board.
ping
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