Where the Patriot Act failed to give the United States Government the resources it needed to invade your privacy, and circumvent the United States Constitution, H.R. 1424 - the Emergency Relief Act of 2008 has given them the power to not only undermine the American People, it literally allows them to rape and pillage the United States Constitution of all your rights as an American Citizen.
When Congress failed to pass H.R. 1424 I was relieved because the initial legislation would have caused more harm than good to the citizenry of the United States of America. Unfortunately, one week later, Congress reintroduced a revised Bill and passed H.R. 1424 with a vote of 263 yeas to 171 nays claiming that this one piece of legislation would “provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, and for other purposes.”
Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Monday, October 13, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Part 4: HEALTHCARE SYSTEM vs. IMMIGRATION
America is known for the slogan, “the home of the free, home of the brave.” The Brave warriors are those who uphold the rights of every American by fighting for freedom and liberty. These individuals don’t ask for much, except what was promised. They are individuals who love this country more than life itself. Their fellow Americans, born in America don’t ask for much either. They work, pay taxes, and might even own a home. They plan and squirrel away their hard-earned dollars for their golden years in retirement.
What do you think happens when it is time for the brave to enjoy their freedom? What do you think happens if there is an emergency and they need to call upon one of the various programs, their tax dollars supported all those years? Those very programs are not available to them. Why are they not available you might be wondering; because illegal aliens have taken over the system that was designed to help American’s in their time of need. In today’s society, the “home of the free” only applies to those who were not born within the borders of America it seems.
Pick up your phone and call any local, state or federal agency for assistance in obtaining medical care and you will hear what I hear: Do you speak Spanish? Are you an Illegal Alien? Do you have assets totaling over $2000? Do you own a home? If you answered yes to the last two items, you are out of luck, but if you answered yes to the first two questions, you have just won the Healthcare Lottery... what have you won – all the free healthcare you could want! Yes that’s right, you can get your teeth fixed. You can have an operation for whatever you like. You can even have as many kids as you like and the American Taxpayer will pay your medical bills. However, if you are a natural born citizen of the United States of America, you are out of luck! Well, that’s unless you are willing to sell your home, sell your assets, dispose of all your savings, 401K plans, CD’s and IRA’s. You will then be totally, dependent on the social welfare system in which we live in, and you too can have it all, just like the illegal aliens, who are taking advantage of the many programs your tax dollars pay for. What a deal!
I am appalled at the local, state, and federal levels within our own government who allowed our healthcare system and social program system to be given away to every person who comes to this country illegally. If the Department of Labor can demand all employees fill out an I-9 form to ensure that they are legal residents of the United States of America, why can’t our healthcare system do the same? Why is it that our social programs, i.e. social services, welfare, food stamps and Medicaid and Medicare allow illegal aliens to receive benefits they are not entitled too? If these agencies verified alien status, the federal government could reallocate the money they spend on deportation to the Department of Homeland Security to protect us better, Immigration could fix their failed tracking system on these illegal aliens, and help better fund the Border Agencies to prevent them from coming into this country in the first place. Our programs would save millions of dollars and be able to help Americans when they need assistance.
Since realizing these programs have run amuck, I have begun to notice that only aliens are the ones with the wick checks, welfare cards, and food stamp cards at the grocery store. Turns out in further investigation that many a hospital staff has complained to administrators, about having to turn away American-speaking individuals who were born here for lack of insurance, or financial means, but are required to treat illegal aliens who don’t speak English, nor have insurance or funds to pay for treatment. American’s being denied assistance to medical care in America! What is wrong with this picture?
If I travel to another country and ask for medical assistance, I would be paying for it out of my own pocket. Other countries do not give away medical assistance to people who enter their borders, so why should we give it away. When is our government going to step up and say, enough is enough. Is there anyone else out there, just as fed up, as I am, willing to take a stand and start making noise in this country? I think its time that these bow hunks running for the Presidency start talking about reducing the services to illegal aliens, instead of placating to them for their votes. Votes that don’t even count, since they are not voting citizens! These Candidates need to come up with a plan to help AMERICAN’S who were legally born in this country!
In a country where its citizens work hard to own a home, pay their bills, pay taxes to better their communities, and ask for help, they should not be denied because there are Americans. When our healthcare system is more interested in providing illegal aliens with medical assistance, whereby discriminating against American Citizens, who need the same type of assistance, our society has deteriorated into a society of unbalanced values. “Home of the free, home of the brave” is only if you speak another language. WAKE UP AMERICA!
What do you think happens when it is time for the brave to enjoy their freedom? What do you think happens if there is an emergency and they need to call upon one of the various programs, their tax dollars supported all those years? Those very programs are not available to them. Why are they not available you might be wondering; because illegal aliens have taken over the system that was designed to help American’s in their time of need. In today’s society, the “home of the free” only applies to those who were not born within the borders of America it seems.
Pick up your phone and call any local, state or federal agency for assistance in obtaining medical care and you will hear what I hear: Do you speak Spanish? Are you an Illegal Alien? Do you have assets totaling over $2000? Do you own a home? If you answered yes to the last two items, you are out of luck, but if you answered yes to the first two questions, you have just won the Healthcare Lottery... what have you won – all the free healthcare you could want! Yes that’s right, you can get your teeth fixed. You can have an operation for whatever you like. You can even have as many kids as you like and the American Taxpayer will pay your medical bills. However, if you are a natural born citizen of the United States of America, you are out of luck! Well, that’s unless you are willing to sell your home, sell your assets, dispose of all your savings, 401K plans, CD’s and IRA’s. You will then be totally, dependent on the social welfare system in which we live in, and you too can have it all, just like the illegal aliens, who are taking advantage of the many programs your tax dollars pay for. What a deal!
I am appalled at the local, state, and federal levels within our own government who allowed our healthcare system and social program system to be given away to every person who comes to this country illegally. If the Department of Labor can demand all employees fill out an I-9 form to ensure that they are legal residents of the United States of America, why can’t our healthcare system do the same? Why is it that our social programs, i.e. social services, welfare, food stamps and Medicaid and Medicare allow illegal aliens to receive benefits they are not entitled too? If these agencies verified alien status, the federal government could reallocate the money they spend on deportation to the Department of Homeland Security to protect us better, Immigration could fix their failed tracking system on these illegal aliens, and help better fund the Border Agencies to prevent them from coming into this country in the first place. Our programs would save millions of dollars and be able to help Americans when they need assistance.
Since realizing these programs have run amuck, I have begun to notice that only aliens are the ones with the wick checks, welfare cards, and food stamp cards at the grocery store. Turns out in further investigation that many a hospital staff has complained to administrators, about having to turn away American-speaking individuals who were born here for lack of insurance, or financial means, but are required to treat illegal aliens who don’t speak English, nor have insurance or funds to pay for treatment. American’s being denied assistance to medical care in America! What is wrong with this picture?
If I travel to another country and ask for medical assistance, I would be paying for it out of my own pocket. Other countries do not give away medical assistance to people who enter their borders, so why should we give it away. When is our government going to step up and say, enough is enough. Is there anyone else out there, just as fed up, as I am, willing to take a stand and start making noise in this country? I think its time that these bow hunks running for the Presidency start talking about reducing the services to illegal aliens, instead of placating to them for their votes. Votes that don’t even count, since they are not voting citizens! These Candidates need to come up with a plan to help AMERICAN’S who were legally born in this country!
In a country where its citizens work hard to own a home, pay their bills, pay taxes to better their communities, and ask for help, they should not be denied because there are Americans. When our healthcare system is more interested in providing illegal aliens with medical assistance, whereby discriminating against American Citizens, who need the same type of assistance, our society has deteriorated into a society of unbalanced values. “Home of the free, home of the brave” is only if you speak another language. WAKE UP AMERICA!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Part 3: THOSE LEFT BEHIND
“... for his widow and his orphan…” Abraham Lincoln
What happens to the widow and family when a veteran passes on to the great parade ground in the sky? We know they must endure a life without them. Without their laughter, their tears, their smile and companionship they enjoyed for so many years. In the case of the veteran I mentioned in part one of this series, the spouse has endured not only the loss of a husband, but also the loss of much more than one person can endure in life; the loss of healthcare coverage.
While many friends and fellow veterans have felt the loss of George Davis’ passing, none feels it the same as his wife, Patricia who stood by him for thirty-four years. Through life’s difficulties, they stood together without wavering. George was the wind beneath her wings and his sudden death struck her like a bolt of lightening, sending shockwaves to her core.
The daughter of a strong military man herself, her family was proud in how she stood tall during the first few months after losing her husband. While trying to move on with life, it has been difficult without George by her side. Unfortunately, now she faces the toughest fight of her life, a fight that entails pain, frustration, and abandonment. Each day is a new lesson in life for the struggles of those left behind when a veteran dies.
Like most veterans, George worked hard in the civilian world and tried to take care of those around him, yet he never filed for benefits under the VA. Why would he, his employer provided him the benefit of healthcare insurance, so why bother to seek out any other type of coverage to take care of those emergency medical issues. His sudden massive heart attack, causally related to his service connected diabetic condition, left his wife, without health care insurance. As with so many employers, George's boss could not find it in his heart to continue her coverage therefore; she has been left to fend for herself while mourning the loss of her husband. Four months after the loss of George, her world was suddenly turned upside down when she was given the news she needed a total hip replacement. That was in mid-October of 2007.
It has now been almost five months that she has had to endure severe pain and lack of sleep as a result of not receiving proper medical assistance for her hip. Without the benefit of having healthcare insurance, she is stuck in the proverbial loop of political red tape. She does not qualify for public assistance because she owns a home and her assets are over two thousand dollars. She does not speak Spanish, nor an illegal alien of a foreign country, which gives her access to free medical care her in the United States of America. Her condition is now considered preexisting; this prevents her from obtaining new health insurance. Being the wife of a Vietnam Veteran, she turns to the Veterans Affairs Department for widow benefits.
Dependents of those eligible for benefits consist of the surviving spouse and minor children that might be currently living under the age of eighteen. If a dependent has been enrolled in the program known as ChampusVA, they can receive medical benefits just like under Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Only problem is, in most cases the veteran does not know this benefit existed, or did not file for benefits to cover their spouse before they died. Any intelligent human being would wonder why they didn’t do this. Well the information given out by the VA it is not only confusing, it is down right mumbo jumbo. A person needs a deciphering code in order to understand if they are eligible or not for various benefits.
Under the VA criteria for coverage of these benefits you must prove that you spent at least one day with “boots on the ground” in order to qualify. This is also one of the main issues under the Blue Water Case. How could they have spent time on the ground in Vietnam when they were aboard floating vessels? Therefore, any widow benefits sought would be denied based on this criteria. Here we have a spouse of a Vietnam Veteran who is in crisis, struggling with a medical emergency and is stuck in the political red tape of a program that was established to render aid “for his widow.”
When I joined forces to help advocate on behalf of Veterans benefits, I never once thought about the spouses, or the families that would be left behind; the veteran had not died, so why would I. I only thought about the issue at hand, called upon my vast network, and voiced the opinion I knew would help honor those who put on the uniform. Never once did I look at what benefits were available for the widow or widower of these brave individuals. I also never envisioned that the Blue Water Cases would have a direct link to someone I knew personally, that of George Davis and his wife Pat. You see Pat Davis is my older sister.
In an attempt to help Mrs. Davis, I have spoken to many city, state and federal agencies, as well as medical providers, who have asked me the same string of questions: "was she born in this country? Not a foreigner ok, does she qualify under the criteria of social services – less than two thousand dollars of assets?" Only to be told that if she was an illegal alien she could qualify for free medical assistance. What is wrong with the mindset of our society? We are willing to help others, but not our own.
As an American, Mrs. Davis is being denied access to necessary medical assistance in the United States because of the current system. Under the current medical system, if she were not an American, she would have received the necessary care long ago. One case I learned of recently was of a student at a nearby college, here in this country under a student visa who brought her mother here illegally for an operation. The mother, an illegal alien smuggled into this country from Columbia, South America for the express purpose of obtaining free healthcare at the Univeristy of Virginia Medical Facilty at Charlottesville, Virginia. The hospital administrator knowing the woman was here illegally, approved a total hip replacement at the protest of surgeons and medical staff who could not doing about it. I come to find out that hospitals do not check for immigration status in our current healthcare system. Why has the Department of Homeland Security not checked into this problem?
At the cost of over one hundred thousand dollars (doctors’ fees, rehabilitation, and medication), the American taxpayer pays for emergency medical assistance to illegal aliens, yet the wife of a veteran is denied access to the same medical care and assistance. One has to wonder what is wrong with a country that is willing to take care of those who come here illegally, and not take care of their own who is in serious pain and anguish. I doubt Mrs. Davis is alone in her fight. There must be thousands of widows out there who have had this same problem. Widows left behind who are the silent majority, between the ages of 58 and 62, who are stuck between the working class and the senior citizen benefits they are to young to receive. Will there ever be a time when these individuals and our veterans do not have to fight. Will they be taken care of without having to give up their life savings for emergency medical care?
Where are the benefits President Lincoln once pledged this government would provide to those who served in uniform? Why are the benefits that President Hoover signed into law so hard to obtain? Why should a widow be strapped with paperwork and red tape when they hold a death certificate and DD214 of a veteran in their hand? Where is the respect for those who protected and defended our country? Where is that grateful Nation our veterans defended?
What happens to the widow and family when a veteran passes on to the great parade ground in the sky? We know they must endure a life without them. Without their laughter, their tears, their smile and companionship they enjoyed for so many years. In the case of the veteran I mentioned in part one of this series, the spouse has endured not only the loss of a husband, but also the loss of much more than one person can endure in life; the loss of healthcare coverage.
While many friends and fellow veterans have felt the loss of George Davis’ passing, none feels it the same as his wife, Patricia who stood by him for thirty-four years. Through life’s difficulties, they stood together without wavering. George was the wind beneath her wings and his sudden death struck her like a bolt of lightening, sending shockwaves to her core.
The daughter of a strong military man herself, her family was proud in how she stood tall during the first few months after losing her husband. While trying to move on with life, it has been difficult without George by her side. Unfortunately, now she faces the toughest fight of her life, a fight that entails pain, frustration, and abandonment. Each day is a new lesson in life for the struggles of those left behind when a veteran dies.
Like most veterans, George worked hard in the civilian world and tried to take care of those around him, yet he never filed for benefits under the VA. Why would he, his employer provided him the benefit of healthcare insurance, so why bother to seek out any other type of coverage to take care of those emergency medical issues. His sudden massive heart attack, causally related to his service connected diabetic condition, left his wife, without health care insurance. As with so many employers, George's boss could not find it in his heart to continue her coverage therefore; she has been left to fend for herself while mourning the loss of her husband. Four months after the loss of George, her world was suddenly turned upside down when she was given the news she needed a total hip replacement. That was in mid-October of 2007.
It has now been almost five months that she has had to endure severe pain and lack of sleep as a result of not receiving proper medical assistance for her hip. Without the benefit of having healthcare insurance, she is stuck in the proverbial loop of political red tape. She does not qualify for public assistance because she owns a home and her assets are over two thousand dollars. She does not speak Spanish, nor an illegal alien of a foreign country, which gives her access to free medical care her in the United States of America. Her condition is now considered preexisting; this prevents her from obtaining new health insurance. Being the wife of a Vietnam Veteran, she turns to the Veterans Affairs Department for widow benefits.
Dependents of those eligible for benefits consist of the surviving spouse and minor children that might be currently living under the age of eighteen. If a dependent has been enrolled in the program known as ChampusVA, they can receive medical benefits just like under Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Only problem is, in most cases the veteran does not know this benefit existed, or did not file for benefits to cover their spouse before they died. Any intelligent human being would wonder why they didn’t do this. Well the information given out by the VA it is not only confusing, it is down right mumbo jumbo. A person needs a deciphering code in order to understand if they are eligible or not for various benefits.
Under the VA criteria for coverage of these benefits you must prove that you spent at least one day with “boots on the ground” in order to qualify. This is also one of the main issues under the Blue Water Case. How could they have spent time on the ground in Vietnam when they were aboard floating vessels? Therefore, any widow benefits sought would be denied based on this criteria. Here we have a spouse of a Vietnam Veteran who is in crisis, struggling with a medical emergency and is stuck in the political red tape of a program that was established to render aid “for his widow.”
When I joined forces to help advocate on behalf of Veterans benefits, I never once thought about the spouses, or the families that would be left behind; the veteran had not died, so why would I. I only thought about the issue at hand, called upon my vast network, and voiced the opinion I knew would help honor those who put on the uniform. Never once did I look at what benefits were available for the widow or widower of these brave individuals. I also never envisioned that the Blue Water Cases would have a direct link to someone I knew personally, that of George Davis and his wife Pat. You see Pat Davis is my older sister.
In an attempt to help Mrs. Davis, I have spoken to many city, state and federal agencies, as well as medical providers, who have asked me the same string of questions: "was she born in this country? Not a foreigner ok, does she qualify under the criteria of social services – less than two thousand dollars of assets?" Only to be told that if she was an illegal alien she could qualify for free medical assistance. What is wrong with the mindset of our society? We are willing to help others, but not our own.
As an American, Mrs. Davis is being denied access to necessary medical assistance in the United States because of the current system. Under the current medical system, if she were not an American, she would have received the necessary care long ago. One case I learned of recently was of a student at a nearby college, here in this country under a student visa who brought her mother here illegally for an operation. The mother, an illegal alien smuggled into this country from Columbia, South America for the express purpose of obtaining free healthcare at the Univeristy of Virginia Medical Facilty at Charlottesville, Virginia. The hospital administrator knowing the woman was here illegally, approved a total hip replacement at the protest of surgeons and medical staff who could not doing about it. I come to find out that hospitals do not check for immigration status in our current healthcare system. Why has the Department of Homeland Security not checked into this problem?
At the cost of over one hundred thousand dollars (doctors’ fees, rehabilitation, and medication), the American taxpayer pays for emergency medical assistance to illegal aliens, yet the wife of a veteran is denied access to the same medical care and assistance. One has to wonder what is wrong with a country that is willing to take care of those who come here illegally, and not take care of their own who is in serious pain and anguish. I doubt Mrs. Davis is alone in her fight. There must be thousands of widows out there who have had this same problem. Widows left behind who are the silent majority, between the ages of 58 and 62, who are stuck between the working class and the senior citizen benefits they are to young to receive. Will there ever be a time when these individuals and our veterans do not have to fight. Will they be taken care of without having to give up their life savings for emergency medical care?
Where are the benefits President Lincoln once pledged this government would provide to those who served in uniform? Why are the benefits that President Hoover signed into law so hard to obtain? Why should a widow be strapped with paperwork and red tape when they hold a death certificate and DD214 of a veteran in their hand? Where is the respect for those who protected and defended our country? Where is that grateful Nation our veterans defended?
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