What Are They Waiting For?

[Joanne98]

Run time: 06:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfikCl_jAQk   Posted on YouTube: October 17, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 18, 2009 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 617

 

Bravo Justin! I wish I had some answers for him.

[earcandle]

1. Justin, even after the bill passes, we won't see the effects of this until 2013, they say.

I think you might want to take your grandmother to the local
general hospital for treatment on an emergency basis perhaps?
To get her started in the medicaid process.  Or sign her up
for medical so she can get started.  You shouldn't wait for
reform. There must be some services the government already has
in place to help people that have no healthcare.

Here is San Francisco we have the "Healthy San
Francisco" option where people who have no heathcare can
get help.

Our favorite pizza parlor was employing a man with a green
card but no health care and he went to the emergency ward of
the general hospital and upon examining him, he was found to
have unoperative stomach and liver cancer. They are keeping
him, monitoring him, and working on treatment as an
in-patient.  He has no money to pay for this, but he has
become assertive about his own care.  Could be he is now on
medicaid, which is something she will need to apply for,
generally reserved for those with no money and no health
insurance.

Government policy changes will take years.  Even if we get a
public option, which I can't see why we won't.  It takes time
to set up the logistics.  If we are lucky, we will expand all
services into the fold of the Medicare plan and move forward
quickly, but just in case we don't, make some other plans. 

Good luck.  Your grandmother is a lucky woman that she has
your love and attention.
We do still need to contact our congress critters and make a
statement about the public option or their jobs next election
to push them, but lets face it.  55 other countries have it. 
If we accept a reform without a government run option we are
duped and stupid and deserve what we get.  Even tiny countries
have it.  And we already pay for it with our tax dollars, that
are diverted instead to support mercenaries and wars around
the world.  We gotta get smarter and more assertive.  Not
aggressive, but in a civilized fashion assert that we don't
want congresscritters making money off of us and using it to
make people hate us and to destroy the quality of our lives by
diverting our money elsewhere for their greedy pockets.

Thanks for your video post. 
Good luck.  Don't wait. Start you research and filing
applications asap.

[Joanne98]

4. I think his grandmother might own property. I agree with you he should not wait.

But they may need to transfer her assets first.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

2. It's a hard reality, but we're probably still in a long struggle for an ideal health care system...

There's no overnight cure, but over time this will head towards a better place. Sadly, no comfort for your situation, but it will get there I'm sure. As long as we never stop trying. 2013 they say the public option kicks in. Then there is the struggle for single payer.

[winyanstaz]

3. Dear Justin,

Thank you so much for making this video. You are a fine young man and I know your family must be very proud of you. As an American citizen, I am proud of you. As a grandmother of fine young children myself, and being an elder with no health insurance I can relate to your grandmother.
We need single payer and we need it now.
One of my son's is in Israel, married to a lovely Jewish lady. He has been ill lately and seeing the doctors there.
His doctor visits cost them $12.00 and his medicines, which here would cost in the hundreds...cost them $6.00.
If single payer works for so many countries and they have such good medical care, why can't Americans have the same thing?
I will keep on writing and calling Washington to try to help push Congress down the road to doing their damned job..and in the meantime, my prayers and best wishes to you and your family.
p.s. Find out if your grandmother needs to be drinking tons of cranberry juice..that helped me get well when I had a bad kidney problem a few years ago.

[Joanne98]

5. One more rec for Justin please. He's a DUer ya know.

[democracy1st]

6. K & R

[flyarm]

7. Justin , there is no plan that will go into effect before 2013..and then only 5% will get the care

that people like your grandmother need..sorry..but you have been sold a bill of goods..and the goods aren't goods at all!

[Joanne98]

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