Free health care for everyone! One day only

[katinmn]

In honor of Cover the Uninsured Week, a national campaign to draw awareness to the fact that 45 million Americans have no health insurance.

http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/events/event.php?EventID=342

Bless the folks at Southside Community Health Services.

[Patiod]

1. I wish they'd do that in PA

My SO is uninsured, ever since Equity tightened their qualifications for insurance (upped the number of weeks you have to be employed in an Equity production every year in order to qualify) What sucks is that work he does in commercials doesn't count (he's not in that union)

[PA Mamma]

2. Copy That !!

I have been uninsured in PA for 5 years now. It is truly frightening , not to mention unhealthy.

[katinmn]

4. Do you know about this?

http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/services/healthcare/

High deductibles but perhaps better than nothing, at least for major illnesses.

[demodonkey]

6. How many weeks is it now?

Used to be TWO weeks, when I first joined Equity in 1980... It went way up, then back down a little, now I hear it's going back up.

I'm on honorable withdrawal from AEA anyway these days, due to family farm flooded by a developer. We are suing the bastard -- for 11 years! Case starts its 12th year this month... thanks to developer's Insurance Company that does nothing but dodge and stall and refuse to fix my family's property or settle.

Don't you just LOVE insurance companies?

[Jamastiene]

3. I'd give anything for something like that coming my way.

I know I need it. I have something eerily feeling like a stomach ulcer coming on and no way to get it checked out right now. So I hug the porcelain throne and wish for relief. I don't mean to dump here, but it's been taking up too much of my time lately usually right before I leave the house. :cry:

[katinmn]

5. damn! I hate to hear that. Where are you at? Maybe I can help

you locate a free clinic.

[Jamastiene]

7. I'm in NC

I tried to go through the local health department a few years ago, but they said because I don't have children, I don't qualify for much. Luckily, there was a Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer Control program offered by the state, so I got the breast lump I had years ago removed. Other than that, I qualified for nothing with no children.

[MnFishhead]

8. Nonbreeders need not apply

Welcome to the club. Seems to be the whole issue behind the anti-gay bigotry and budget cuts to the poor is this: If you are childless--i.e., a nonbreeder--you ain't shit anymore. Minnesota's Republican governor has proposed axing 30-40,000 CHILDLESS adults from the state-subsidized ehalth care program. His Republican pals in the House are going even further.

So you better get to reproducin, ya'll! You're unpatriotic if you don't breed!

[Jamastiene]

9. LOL, well,

if it wasn't so true, I could LOL without feeling like crying at the same time. What you said in your post is the absolute truth. It goes back to what I say about the real republican agenda regarding women: They believe women should be baby making punching bags who stay pregnant and barefooted in the kitchen fetching their beers and shutting up unless spoken to. That does seem to be their main agenda. They want to push women down as hard as possible and they want us to have no pleasure in life. They feel like they are entitled to all the rights and all the attention and all the pleasure in life and we are entitled to serving them.