People Need To See Doctors Now

We can sit here and discuss healthcare reform as we wait for reform, but there are so many reasons why so many people need access to Doctors and hospitals to kick in NOW. From Mobilization For Healthcare For All, here is one of those reasons:

While heath care reform dominates the national debate, not everyone in this wealthy country will be helped. In Kansas City, KS, there is a 14 year-old boy named Eduardo Loredo who could die any day.

Eduardo is being denied a heart transplant because he does not have health insurance (or enough money) to pay for a heart transplant and follow up care. Eduardo was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy, and was hospitalized at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO beginning in July 2009. Eduardo was sent home from Children's Mercy Hospital on October 14, 2009 and told that he had the potential to live a few years or a few days.


Missouri's Medicaid program is generally available only to citizens and certain legal immigrants who meet a five year waiting period. These restrictive rules prevent Eduardo from qualifying for health insurance that would cover both the transplant procedure and the long-term follow up care required to ensure a successful transplant. Without this coverage, the total cost of the transplant would cost his family $500,000. Children's Mercy Hospital told Eduardo that without an up-front payment of $100,000, he would not even be able to get on the waiting list for a heart transplant. While Children's Hospital in St. Louis, MO originally offered to perform the transplant surgery for no cost, this offer was later retracted. His family is simply being told that his life is not a priority.


Sign the petition to save Eduardo Loredo's life - http://www.petitiononline.com/Eduardo/petition.html

Help the Mobilization keep fighting for the right to health care. Since this campaign started, we've been able to support brave activists across the country stand up to the biggest corporations in the world, and say, "We demand the right to health care." Now we are taking the message to Congress that Medicare for All is the only way to end the needless suffering and death in the wealthiest country in the world. We are planning actions on Human Rights Day, December 10th, across the country at Senators offices. Please join those efforts.

But we need your support to keep this campaign going, click here to donate now. Give what you can and we will make sure that every Member of Congress hears about Eduardo's needless suffering and demand the right to health care for all people in this country.

Martin Luther King, Jr declared: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

Thank you for your support.

For health and justice,

The Mobilization Team

Some of Mobilization for Healthcare for All's upcoming events:

• December 8th

Arizona
Details: Coming Soon!
Contact:
Dan O’Neal, 480 650 0746, doneal48[at]cox.net
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

• December 10th, HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

Iowa
Details: TBA
Contact:
Mona Shaw, 515-282-4781, monashaw[at]aol.com
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

Georgia
Details: TBA
Contact:
Denise Woodal, denisewoodallksu[at]yahoo.com
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

Michigan

Details: TBA
Contact:
Don Cooney, 269-387-3190, donald.cooney[at]wmich.edu
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

New York City
Details: Coming Soon!
Contact:
Laurie Wen, 917 446 1610, lauriewen@aol.com
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

Philadelphia
Details: Sen. Specter’s office at 600 Arch St. (6th and Arch St.) at 12 noon
Contact: Joan Martini, joanmmartini[at]aol.com
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

Virginia Beach
Details: Coming Soon!
Contact:
Trudy Serrano, 757-671-9345, trudyserrano@live.com
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

Washington, DC
When: 10:00am
Where: Sidewalk in front of Hart Senate Office Building – On Constitution Ave. (between First and Second Sts. NE)
Contact:
Andy Richards, (571)-438-3393, arichards365[at]hotmail.com
What: Health Care is a Human Right National Day of Action Rally

Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?

"The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes,
and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them."


From LGF's Charles Johnson:

Why I Parted Ways With The Right

1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)

2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)

3. Support for throwing women back into the Dark Ages, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)

There are 7 more reasons, among the listed ones, for why you might have to call him a liberal/communist/socialist/etc. Blogger now. And, obviously, he is not the brightest bulb in the Blogosphere if it took him this long to figure it out, but among the right wing? About as close to a luminary as they had. And holy frick! He slams the door in every other right wing pundit's and Blogger's face as he leaves. I am just getting some disinfectant ready before I peek at the comment threads over there. ;)

I hope they don't mind the new communist logo I made for them. Just wondering if I should have changed it to a Russian football? (A soccer ball)

Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over to the Schiff campaign?

 Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit...

Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views. You have to wonder if some of Teabagrrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut?

Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was caught on video last week slamming “Ron Paul fanatics” in the anti-immigration movement along with tea-bagger wannabe William Gheen who organized poorly attended “copycat” anti-immigration tea party protests:

I used to support Ron Paul, until I had this falling out with these Ron Paul fanatics. They’re not all that way, just too many. The ones that I’ve met, who are very hateful people, have no business supporting Ron Paul. Jeff Schwilk and William Gheen have no business being in political activism because, in my blatant personal opinion, they are outright racists.

Gilchrist has long attempted to distinguish his “multi-ethnic” border vigilante group from more overtly racist organizations such as Gheen’s Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). However, their public feud is more the product of personal infighting than ideological differences.

It is somewhat ironic to see the noted bigot, Jim Gilchrist, calling other people crazy racists. Tells you just how far out there in wingnuttia some of these angry people are.

And the motto of the few remaining members of the GOP that will have to sit through their brand of crazy in the GOP primaries?

Load up on guns
Bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend

Smells like teen spirit 

Load up on guns
Bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's overborne and self-assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word


Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello ,hello


With the Lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us


A mullato
an albino
A mosquito
my libido
yay


I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end


Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello


With the Lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us


A mullato
an albino
A mosquito
my libido
yay


And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard it's hard to find
Oh well whatever nevermind


Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, hello


With the Lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us


A mullato
an albino
A mosquito
my libido
A denial