Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Nationwide Healthcare Call In Day

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Nationwide Healthcare Call In Day: Ask Your Senators to Protect Healthcare for 13 Million Americans   Our fight for quality and affordable healthcare continues. The Senate ...

Nationwide Healthcare Call In Day

Ask Your Senators to Protect Healthcare for 13 Million Americans 

Our fight for quality and affordable healthcare continues. The Senate is attempting to undermine healthcare protections again. Senate leadership added a provision to its current tax bill that will repeal the requirement for most people to have health insurance. That requirement is known as the "individual mandate." 

The latest proposal would leave 13 million Americans without healthcare coverage and increase health insurance premiums by at least 10 percent or even more, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 

Today is a special call-in day that the American Lung Association organized with other patient advocacy organizations—and we're asking EVERYONE to call both your Senators today and ask them not to repeal the individual mandate in the Senate tax bill. 

Rather than weakening healthcare, we would like the Senate to focus on the bipartisan Alexander-Murray legislation that would help stabilize the state insurance marketplaces, provide states more flexibility and ensure patient protections. We support this bill because it will help patients have quality and affordable healthcare—instead of making healthcare more expensive. 

Ask your Senators not to repeal the individual mandate in the tax bill today. You can find your Senators’ phone numbers by visiting our online directory or calling the Capitol switchboard at 202–224–3121. 

What to say when you call your Senators:

My name is (insert name) and i'm calling from (insert state).
I'm calling today to ask Senator [insert name] to protect healthcare for 13 
million Americans who would lose their coverage and to oppose repealing the 
individual mandate in the tax bill.
I know how important healthcare is for my family and me. Repealing the 
individual mandate will result in 13 million Americans losing their healthcare and 
premiums will increase for millions more.
[Share 1-2 sentences about why healthcare is important to you].
Can I count on Senator [insert name] to oppose repealing the individual 
mandate in the tax bill?
Thank you.

Sincerely,

Harold P. Wimmer
National President and CEO
American Lung Association 

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Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: World Diabetes Day.

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: World Diabetes Day.: On December 20, 2006, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution to designate  November 14  as World Diabetes Day. The occasion a...

World Diabetes Day.

On December 20, 2006, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution to designate November 14 as World Diabetes Day. The occasion aimed to raise awareness of diabetes, its prevention and complications and the care that people with the condition need.

Yesterday a Bronx based CBO, (Health People) held a peaceful protect with their Executive Director Chris Norwood, staff member and peer leaders. Outside the greater New York Hospital Association at 555 West 57th Street from 11 am. to 1 pm..

Here we are over a decade later at New York Metropolitan Hospital the area's largest  " nonprofit " hospitals who have reaped profits of 1.43 billion in 2016, according to Crain's New York Business.  A new study from Health People; Community Preventive Health Institute, leader of the Coalition, shows that even one-quarter of their profits could fund widespread, evidence-based preventive education that would preclude more than 200,000 new diabetes cases developing in the low-income communities where diabetes is concentrated. 

Without serious an effective prevention, New York State will add another 1.35 million diabetes to its existing caseload of 5.4 million patients within five years, while New York City will add another 325, 000 new cases to its own current caseload of 1.3 million diabetes," said Chris Norwood.  "We will go on and on with the horror of widespread amputation, blindness and thousands more people on dialysis."

"Why?  When we know this is stoppable.  The best researched prevention education, from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention- recognized National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP), is shown to slash by almost  60 percent the risk that pre-diabetics have of developing full brown diabetes very important outcome. "

The Health People study , "Educate--Don't Amputate: Hospital Profits versus Diabetes Prevention," projects that even using one quarter of reported hospital profits to enable  community groups to bring the NDPP to the neighborhoods where pre-diabetes is concentrated would save New Yonkers from a minimum of $200,000 new diabetes cases. 

With lifetime costs of diabetes having reached $150,000 to $200,000 per patient, preventing 200,000 cases would, over time, save public and private direct medical cost of some $30 billion.

"The profits that many "nonprofit" hospitals are now making are unprecedented. " said Norwood.  It is also unprecedented for the health industry to watch an epidemic, like that of diabetes, to go absolutely unchecked and to ignore effective prevention for years. Bringing these two diabetes, to go absolutely unchecked and to ignore effective prevention for years.  Bringing these two diabetes, to go absolutely unchecked and to signore effective prevention for years.  Bringing these two unprecedented situations together can finally place us on the path to successfully confronting diabetes."

For more information: Please visit www.healthpeople.org