My Friends This Film is A Must Watch please watch it ! It explains why we need to #ExpandMedicaidNow and #CloseTheGap in Fl. It tells you who is affected in their own words ! Thank you – Fl Chain ! Thank you All We Must #ExpandMedicaidNow Thank you God Bless
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My Friends I wrote two blogs this year based on Previous Facebook Posts I wrote last year. They were No Reason For This We Need Medicaid Expansion and At The Crossroads Medicaid Expansion and Gun Control. This Post I am ReSharing was the inspiration for both posts.It was written on 6/3/2014 on Facebook.
My Friends we have new potential problems concerning Medicaid Expansion. But the good news is they are solveable. But the Good news is they make a Great Arguement for Medicaid Expansion is desperately needed.
The First is Gun Control given the recent shootings and the tradgedy in S.California. last week things need to change ! My heart goes out to anyone over the past 20 years who lost someone due to a senseless shooting. I often would watch the news and see a victim of a shooting. For a long time I lived in Ocala Fl. A Place where few were shot. But I used to think as an uninsured person. If someone gets shot and has NO HEALTH INSURANCE WHAT HAPPENS WHO PAYS ? Then I moved to S.Fl and not a day goes by without a shooting ! A few happened close to where I Live and Even in a Shopping Center Parking lot where I shop at. My Family and I have been lucky so far ! But I Fear being a victim not just that I do not want to die but being uninsured there is no way I could ever pay the medical bills ! So I am and have been fighting for THE UNINSURED on this Issue Too !
Secondly if peoole with mental health issues had access to care with Medicaid then maybe we could stop tradgedies before they happen ! Then the excuse of “I can not afford treatment will be gone !
But we do not need these lunk heads saying That Gun Control is Bad. We should be responsible in society ! The NRA is Promoting irresponsible behavior ! Sure call the guys at Home Depot nuts **! (THEY PARADED IN THE STORE WITH ASSAULT RIFLES) addded this today to explain what happened then. But N.R.A. why did you not stop this event ? You are guilty of the greatest Public Health Threat Gun Violence ! By doing nothing you by silent action endorse this behavior ! And is leading to needless deaths and injuries of our Old Disabled and Kids !
Then another issue came up THE VA SCANDAL ! It is Horrible to treat OUR WOUNDED HEROES LIKE THIS ! They Deserve Access To Care ! And If The VA can not get it done put them on MEDICAID and let them go to a Dr or Hospital in their community. Rather than let them wait sick and suffering. And left to die like some recently were ! This again is a good reason for Medicaid Expansion ! Plus many Vets need Psychological Services so they do not snap and harm someone !
These two problems are Mental Health Nightmares waiting to happen. But we can all do something about this !
We must #ExpandMedicaidNow people need help ! Please All like The Following Facebook pages : people suffering due to republicans refusal to expand Medicaid Expand Medicaid and Expand Medicaid Now People Need Help Issues We Face ! Plus sign not just my petition to Expand Medicaid in Fl but All Healthcare Medicaid Expansion #SinglePayer Petitions too ! Thank You God Bless
** Uodate My Petition is no longer active and I recommend people support Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America and Everytown For Gun Safety !
*** The people protesting In Target Kroger and Home Depot were part of THE OPEN CARRY MOVEMENT ! Target has banned Guns in its stores !
Thank You All God Bless
Meme Logo Art By Wallace Ingalls Vote Blue Facebook @VoteBlueCrew Twitter
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My Friends this picture was done by the brilliant artist Wallace Ingalls of Vote Blue Facebook/Twitter . I requested it to make a point about how important having healthcare is ! Yes We have The ACA thanks to President Obama and his determination to Get it Done
But this Dream started actually with President Theodore Roosevelt (R) over 100 years ago. His nephew President (D) Franklin Delano Roosevelt also championed the cause but faced a choice Social Security or Universal Health care ! He chose Social Security which was a wise choice. But he never gave up on the Uninsured. His successor President Harry Truman (D) had it in the Platform in 1948 ! But in 1960 A Young President John Fitzgearld Kennedy (D) took up the cause ! And President Lyndon (D) Passed Medicare and Medicaid insuring the elderly disabled and some poor !
But Private insurers were not making sure people like me with preexisting conditions had healthcare. So President Barack Obama (D) championed the cause and got us the ACA ! Which saves lives daily !
Still not all are covered many like myself Amy Rodriquez Gen Rodriquez and 1 million in Fl sit unisured still ! Why in 2015 ? Because of ideology – That’s why ! Florida and 19 other ststes will not #ExpandMedicaidNow ! Leaving many to potentially suffer and die like 32 yr old single mom of 3 Charlene Dill did because she was too poor to pay for insurance and Fl refused to Expand Medicaid ! This was a preventable death ! Many more lives can be saved if we simply #ExpandMedicaidNow !
President Kennedy envisioned a kind America that helped all ! And was fair for those who life isn’t fair to ! President Obama gets it and wants to see all insured ! Its the humane thing to do ! We simply must stop letting ideology and expense get in the WAY OF HUMAN LIFE ! We can fulfil a Presidents Dream for America or keep it a nightmare of LIP LOW INCOME POOL FUNDS which next year end many more will be uninsured again ! LIP is a band aid and the real solutions are THE ACA MEDICAID EXPANSION and Eventually Single Payer ! …..So I for one want President Kennedy’s dream realized of a kind America and an end to this nightmare of selfish greed hate and a lack of compassion ! Which do you want ?
Thank you God Bless
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Art by Wallace Ingalls of #VoteBlue
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Art by Wallace Ingalls of #VoteBlue
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My friends this is the Final Part of my series How Not To Run A Community ! This focuses on a letter to The Editor of The Ocala Star Banner I wrote in 2012 before I moved away from there. It deals with an issue I know quite Well Healthcare and Hospitals ! Our Community Hospital Munroe Regional Medical Center was over 100 Years old and a Great Public Hospital ! It saved my life a few times. But was on the Block to be sold if a 1/2 cent tax failed to pass. Due to revenue losses treating the uninsured like me.
Safety Net
Why Change Something that isn’t broken ?
Munroe Regional Medical Center is a safety- net hospital for those of us who are uninsured. Our Hospital MRMC is a Crown Jewel in the area.
If it turns into a For Profit hospital where do the uninsured of whom there are many in this area go ? Where do Pregnant Mothers go ? Because as we all know For Profit Hospitals do not Provide these services. The reasons no profit and High Insurance rates.
If MRMC does not stay a public hospital it will be a black eye on our community. The idea of a sustainable community is to have services for all the people-not just the priveledged.
Wake Up residents of Ocala/Marion County before it is too late. Don’t let the powers that be take away a vital reseource.
Demand that any changes to MRMC be voted on by us, the residents of this area, so we don’t become like other communities without safety-net hospitals
Fred W.Christian Jr
Ocala
Final thought I mentioned this in several #ExpandMedicaidNow blogs and guess what in 2012 MRMC was sold after the 1/2 cent tax failed to Shands UF a For Profit Hospital corp. So we face this in Fl still and nationally ! Do ee want #SafetyNet Hospitals or Not ? I Do ! We must save Hospitals and #ExpandMedicaidNow ! Thank you God Bless
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My Friends this is Part 3 in a 4 Part series Titled How Not to Run A Community ! It is about hunger and poverty and a Thank you to All who helped Interfaith Emergency Sevices Ocala / Marion County Fl when its food pantry was critically low in Oct 2011.
Uplifting fellow man
Thank goodness for people who still care. It is very encouraging to see people help each other. The case in point is the Bring The Harvest Home food drive.
Recently on MSNBC a Heritage Foundation report belittled poverty. They said you’re not poor if you have air conditioning and cable.
Well can any of this feed, clothe, or house you ? No ! Some don’t get that it is alot of work struggling to survive. They say everyone should prosper, but how can you on 10 or 15 hours a week, or no job at all.
It is sick to mock the sick as they did in one debate. Now they’ve sunk even lower, bashing the poor.
We need to show each other compassion, like you and others did during the food drive. If we all work together like this, we can prosper as a society. We have a choice. Listen to the curse of ignorance or do what is right and we all will be blessed.
Thank you for helping those who are down get back up. By doing this we all get lifted up.
Fred Christian Jr
Ocala
Final thought on part 3 Learn from this please many are hungry still ! Many need help still. The debate was the GOP 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ! Lets #StopTheHateBeforeItStopsUs because #Poverty #PoorLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter ! Thank you God Bless
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My Friends this is Part 2 In my Series How Not To Run A Community ! This letter to the Editor of the Ocala Star Banner focuses on The Middle Class and Workers being attacked by the tea Party ! It was written in 2011. It is my response to tne Tea Party takeover of Congress and States and Communities !
Who’s Your Friend ?
Who is the friend of the middle class ? Definitely Not our Federal State and Local officials They are from the “Too Big To Fail ” Crowd but instead of “Too Big To Fail” give us “Too Small to Work ”
When did it become smart to put the clueless in Power ? The idea was that when you voted for someone they would look out for all of us, not throw us under a bus.
Instead Congress and other members of Government can’t pass a Civics Course. But by being businessman first all they know is cut cut cut ! For example the tax cuts locally will affect Fire/Rescue service in the County.
The Teacher, Policeman, Firefighter and Paramedic, along with the civil service workers are the middle class. That’s right they are the middle class.
They are the real friend who helps you when you are sick, scaired, or hurt 24/7 . Will Politicians help you 24/7 ? NO
Who teaches you to read learn and think critically ? Not the politicians.
We The middle class need to work together. We are All Family. – cooks, servers, mechanics, store clerks, casheirs, nurses, and custodians.
If We don’t care and work together, all our services will go away. Then under the bus we all go! Who loses then ? Sadly We All do. Even the clueless who pretend to be brilliant and powerful eventually join us.
Fred Christian Jr
Ocala
Thank you All God Bless
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