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31. Protect NY Patient Access to Affordable, Quality Care; Recognize Nurse Anesthetists 
Nurse anesthesia is the oldest advanced nursing specialty. In fact, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) have been practicing in New York for over 120 years. Existing requirements for masters level education, clinical experience, national certification examination, continuing education and re-certification have resulted in the high quality, professional standard of care exhibited by CRNAs.
Nurse anesthetists represent one of the most cost-effective, highly professional and safe health care providers in practice today. CRNAs actually administer over 27 million anesthetics each year; in all types of settings and for all categories of procedures. They are also the sole providers of anesthesia care in the majority of our nation's rural hospitals as well as in many of the state’s underserved, urban areas.
Sadly, New York remains one of a very few states in the country that does not fully recognize the practice of nurse anesthesia! Without codification of the practice, residents across the state are increasingly losing access to necessary, affordable and quality health care. In addition, highly skilled, advanced practice nurses are being denied opportunities to practice as well as struggle to obtain malpractice insurance coverage.
New York State is facing a severe shortage of health care providers, including nurses and nurse anesthetists. Rising health care costs, fewer providers in underserved areas and competition from neighboring states, have all had a profoundly negative impact on our current health care system. Nationally CRNAs make up almost half the total anesthesia workforce but they represent only one quarter of NYS's total anesthesia workforce. This means NY citizens are paying more for anesthesia services than the rest of the nation and our rural and underserved areas have access to fewer anesthesia providers.
Presently, nearly 50% of our recent New York State nurse anesthesia graduates are relocating to other states where they can practice to the full extent of their education, training and certification. New York can ill-afford to lose any more of its quality nursing population.
We need your help! Please contact your legislator and tell him or her to support S.3288/A.1727 and protect patients by preserving this vital health care profession.
32. Opt Out or Opt For-Health Care
As you probably know, the Democrat and Republican parties have spent the last 50 years trying to pass a bill that would ensure equal Health Care for all Americans.
It Started Back in 1960 when Theadore Rooseveltt decided that for all Americans to have Health Care would boost our economy and our global status.
Recently, a bill was passed by our governemnt known as the Opt Out Bill. Opt Out gives each state the choice to have Health Care or to "opt out". This gave every state the opportunity to chose the plan which would be most benificial to its cause.
33. Stop Senate Health Care Bill, H.R. 3590
1. H.R. Bill 3590 is currently being debated on the Senate floor.
2. The reported cost to the American people ranges from 1.3 to 2.5 trillion dollars.
3. Individuals and Small Business Employers will suffer an additional tax burden.
4. Medicare is expected to be reduced by approximately 500 billion dollars.
5. Tort reform has not been addressed.
6. Funding for abortion is still unclear.
7. Funding for illegal aliens is ambiguous.
Our Senator, Joe Lieberman, has publicly pledged to filibuster a health care bill containing a public option--a key element to comprehensive health care reform which enjoys overwhelming support in Connecticut.
Please read and sign the letter below. It will be sent to Sen. Lieberman's offices. Our goal is 500 signatures from the Yale community, so please spread the word!
35. STOP H.R. 3200
The current health-care system is, according to politicians, some social activists, and uninsured, so badly broken that big brother is being forced to step in and totally rebuild the system.
36. We the People call for a review of Constitutional Healthcare Reform
Fellow American Citizens we are faced with the largest one piece of legislation in our lifetime that will affect each and every one of us. This legislation is healthcare reform and there is a lot of controversy over this huge bill. Seniors are scared of reduced benefits, some are worried about government paid abortions, and we are all worried about the cost. Citizens of this grand country it is time to take a stand for how we feel and make congress hear us!
This issue is being pushed thru both sides of congress on such a fast pace that our concerns are not being heard clearly.
With this petition to stop the bills as they are now in Congress we hope that they will come to a more reasonable plan as we have roughly outlined on our website wethepeopleforever.org.
37. 2010 Public Option/Single Payer Voter Pledge
We, the undersigned, pledge not to support and to oppose *any and all* incumbents (Democrat, Republican, or otherwise) in the Senate or House in 2010 who...
38. Create a Commision to Examine Healthcare Reform
Currently, the President of the United States as well as members of the United States Congress are currently pushing to enact legislation to reform the American health care system.
The current version of the bill, is titled, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R.3200)"
"To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes"
The bill includes a measure that would create a government run health insurance company. The current bill was written over a few week period at the behest of President Obama. We do not believe that a law, which would impact 16% of the US economy and over three hundred million people, should be written in such haste.
We are proposing that before tackling the issue of reforming the US health care system, committing trillions of dollars and creating tax burdens and deficits for future generations of Americans, that a commission should be formed, made up of health care professionals, economists, health insurance professionals, US citizens and anyone else who can assist, to examine health care in America today.
A commission that would be charged with identifying the root cause of the problems with the system, discover the positives in the system and make educated, fact based recommendations on how best to reform US heath care, in order to lower costs, increase access and most of all to create a health care system that becomes the shining example to the world.
39. Stop the Closing of Pediatrics at Ben Taub Hospital
For over 25 years, Ben Taub General Hospital has provided high-quality pediatric inpatient care to the children of Harris County. Through its dedicated team of physicians, nurses, social workers, child life specialists, and affiliated healthcare workers, children can receive a complete range of services from general care to subspecialty and intensive care. It is a critical safety net hospital for Houston’s children.
Currently, the Board of Managers for the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD) is considering a plan to scale back or close the pediatric ward and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Ben Taub and to redirect care. We strongly oppose this plan because doing so would detract from HCHD’s mission to “improve our community’s health by delivering high-quality health care to Harris County residents” and would jeopardize the health of our community.
Without the Ben Taub PICU, there would be no pediatric intensive care available within the Hospital District. Furthermore, this move would decrease the number of PICU beds in Houston and potentially require the transfer of these sickest children to distant cities, delaying their care. Even with the current number of PICU beds, children have been transferred as far as Dallas and San Antonio in recent months due to overflow. Closing the inpatient pediatric ward would mean the District would only have 27 inpatient beds for the over 200,000 uninsured children in Harris County.
Ben Taub’s inpatient pediatric service also coordinates more than 20 medical and surgical pediatric subspecialties, most of which are unavailable at other Hospital District facilities. Closing the unit would make essential subspecialties such as nephrology and physical rehabilitative medicine unavailable to pediatric patients within the District. Child and adolescent victims of trauma would lack the specially trained nurses and doctors to provide care tailored to their unique needs as they recover from their injuries.
40. Protect Illinois Massage Licensing Act
SB 318 threatens patient safety and dilutes the benefits of massage therapy and other healthcare services by allowing chiropractors to hire untrained, unlicensed employees to treat patients with medical conditions.
The far-reaching scope of this bill and the detrimental impact it poses on healthcare for all, makes it's passage a dangerous precedent for compromising the standards of safety and education as set by existing healthcare licensing acts. Currently, under Illinois law, delegating massage therapy or any other licensed healthcare service or activity is illegal. SB 318 passed the Illinois Senate, the House of Representative could vote on this issue within the next few weeks.
Please urge Illinois Governor Quinn and Illinois State Representatives to vote NO on SB 318.
41. Universal Healthcare for China
We, the undersigned, appreciate the healthcare reform challenge that you and the President are currently faced with. As we are sure you realize, America is not the only country that is having trouble providing adequate healthcare to its people.
China also sorely needs a better healthcare system. We urge you to present your ideas regarding healthcare reform to the Chinese government, so that the idea of universal healthcare may one day be truly universal.
Approximately one-half of the urban population of China has health insurance. Sadly, this is the best news. Most of China’s public health resources are concentrated in the major cities, leaving the rural population seemingly forgotten. As urban healthcare improves, rural healthcare is dissolving. A short time ago, rural China had universal, if basic, healthcare.
Seventy-nine percent of the population of rural China, by China’s own statistics, is uninsured. Very few are able to obtain sufficient treatment, if any treatment at all. This leaves many to suffer and die in their own homes. In severe cases, the mentally ill are imprisoned in iron cages within their homes, to prevent them from doing harm to others because they cannot afford hospitalization. While China is attempting to develop a basic insurance plan, the annual fee – which is little over one dollar – is said by many peasants to be too high.
Our recommendations are:
1) That all Health Care Aids and Personal Support Workers should be regulated, organized and accountable.
2) That there be stricter screening of Personal Support Workers before enrollment in courses.
3) That all schools are providing proper education and training of Personal Support Workers. We need more quality, not just quantity.
4) That the practice of handing out Personal Support Worker certificates to keep Canada's unemployment rate down, be ceased.
5) That a much needed support group, to help Health Care Aids and Personal Support Workers deal with the many issues that face them every day, be established.
6) That a stronger network be built with employers, registered staff and the public, so we can enhance the lives of our seniors, eliminate seniors abuse and improve working conditions for front line workers.
43. Walmart Must Pay a Living Wage & Benefits to Cicero Associates!
• Walmart sales associates, who comprise the majority of workers within the company, only earned average annual wages of $13,861 in 2001 – roughly $769 below the poverty line for a family of three [“Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?” Business Week, Oct. 6, 2003; US Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2001 Poverty Guidelines]. A 2003 wage analysis report found that Walmart cashiers fared even worse than their sales colleagues since they earned average annual wages of $11,948 [Dr. Richard Drogin, “Statistical Analysis of Gender Patterns in Wal-Mart’s Workforce,” 2003].
• As of 2006, only 43 percent of Walmart employees were covered by the company’s health insurance plan and company President and CEO Lee Scott admitted in 2005 that, “in some… states, the public (health care) program may actually be a better value (than Walmart’s plan)” [http://www.walmartfacts.com/docs/1625_jan2006healthcarebackgrounders_576890240.pdf; Transcript Lee Scott Speech, 4/5/05]. In addition, a 2004 report by the Democratic Staff of the Committee on Education and the Workforce estimated that Walmart’s low wages cost taxpayers roughly $420,750 per store per year in low-income housing and energy assistance, health care costs, and free or reduced lunches for Walmart associates and their families [“The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart,” a Report by the Democratic Staff of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, February 16, 2004].
44. Make Health Care accesible for all U.S. citizens
Of all of the developed western countries, the United States is one of the only contries that does not provide a form of universal health care. There are currently 45 million uninsured Americans. The United States is the richest and most powerfull country in the world, so why is it that we have so many uninsured citizens?
I created this petition in order to bring attention to the issue of health care in our country.
45. Justice for Janitors in Northern Virginia
With the real estate market flying high, building owners can easily afford modest wage increases and benefits for the hard working men and women who guard the doors and clean the floors of our area's office buildings.
Successful and responsible companies understand that this is a good business practice that benefits not just the workers, but also the tenants, the community and the local economy.
46. Support Funded Yukon Midwifery!
Midwifery care is included in the health care insurance plans of six Canadian provinces and territories and has been shown to be a safe, family-centered, cost effective option for low-risk childbearing families in Canada; there is also a shortage of physicians taking maternity patients in the Yukon.
Links
http://www.chsrf.ca/mythbusters/pdf/boost6_e.pdf
http://www.aom.on.ca/Communications/Government_Relations/Benefits_of_Midwifery.aspx
“The integration of midwifery into the obstetrical health-care team is fostering excellence in maternity care for Canadian women and their families.”
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
47. The Equal Health Care Act Petition
April 3, 2006
This is a project of group #31 of the Social Justice Projects being performed in Monsignor Kelly Catholic Highschool in Beaumont, Texas.
48. Establish Helath care Policy for U.S. Citizens
There are many Americans today without health care insurance benefits. Every United States citizen needs the benefit of health care insurance, due to the simple fact that there are many people suffering from many and differnt health and medical issues.
Since June of 2003 there are 42.3 million people of all ages that were uninsured.
49. Petition in support of Minnesota Mothers and Children
My name is Anne L. Halverson. I am a 21-yr-old mother of a one-year-old son, Aidan. I take motherhood very seriously and I take my employment seriously. In order to be employed and provide the best childcare environment for my son, I rely on a state funded child care subsidy. That means, based on my income, I pay a percentage of my son's child care expenses and the State of Minnesota subsidizes rest.
My son thrives at his day care center, Noah's Ark, in Hopkins, MN. He is cared for by well trained providers who, like me, want him to meet his growth milestones, be happy and well adjusted, understand about sharing, learn about tolerance, and be prepared for kindergarten. My son and I also rely on state subsidized health care. His pediatric clinic monitors his growth, advises me about his medical needs and has helped me become a confident parent. I know how fortunate we are to live in a state that values children by providing these opportunities.
Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty, has proposed a budget that will slash child-care and health care subsidies for single mothers like me and our children. Without the aid of these subsidies, I will be forced to quit my job, surrender my opportunities to advance in the workforce, stay home full time with my child and apply for welfare benefits.
If you believe in and support mothers with young children who want their children in safe, regulated childcare centers; women who are proud to be part of Minnesota's workforce, please sign this petition.
I will present this petition when I speak before a Minnesota Senate Committee that is convening on Tuesday, February 22, at the Minnesota State Capital.
Thank You,
Anne L. Halverson
Please forward this to your friends and family. Thanks.
50. Reform Federal Bankruptcy Laws
When Corporations file bankruptcy workers lose pensions and other benefit plans. Under the current law, employees are last in line to receive compensation from bankrupt companies.
51. Proper Medical Coverage for Infertility
There is no health care benefit coverage for women who suffer from issues related to infertility. Only testing of infertility is allowed, there is no coverage for treatment of such.
52. Help Abbee Fight UNITED HEALTH CARE
This petition is about my daughter and her fight with United Health Care!
We just finished a spot on WBNS TV that was aired recently with Maureen Kocot here in Columbus, Ohio. Abbee's story was published at www.fairfielddailypost.com. A copy can be obtained by writing to editor@fairfielddailypost.com. Also, there is a newsletter at
www.insurancejustice.com that has an excellent review of my letter. You can also go to medicalreporter.health.org and see my letter to the editor! There are several other newsletters that have picked this up as well as several medical journals, as well as many websites relating to Health Care mismanagement, etc.
I have also received a call from Margaret Mahoney, MD author of the book Saving the Soul of Medicine who is involved with the National Organization of Physicians Who Care.