Support Health Reform with MomsRising and Speaker Pelosi on Monday!

[DNorton]

Hi all,
MomsRising needs some moms and small children to come out and show your support for health reform by briefly meeting Speaker Pelosi at the Capitol this Monday, March 15 at 3:15 p.m. and taking a quick photo that we will send out to our membership to let them know that moms in DC are standing up for their families here in the Capitol. Can you join us? It will be fun! And you'll get a fabulous MomsRising supermom t-shirt to wear! If you are interested, contact Donna at [e-mail].

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

I heard this went amazingly well. Congratulations on a creative and successful event!! Hope everyone who attended had a great time.

[Anonymous]

I am going to throw up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am going to throw up

Perhaps you should go to the doctor. I assume you have health insurance?

[Anonymous]

@ 21:37 LOL! If not, PP probably would like to go to the hospital anyway and let everyone else pay her bills through increased premiums and hospital costs. After all, that's not communism.

[Anonymous]

I can't stand MomsRising so I wouldn't waste my time attending...and I certainly won't be parading around in one of their t shirts. Barf.

[Anonymous]

Awesome, wish I could have been there.

[Anonymous]

David Feinberg, M.D., M.BA.
CEO, UCLA Hospital System

"The debate they're having now in Washington is the wrong discussion," says Feinberg. "They're not talking about health-care reform. They're talking about health insurance reform. The bill in Congress has nothing to do with health care." He explains that health care could be fixed overnight if people would stop using alcohol and drugs, eat right and exercise.

"I have 800 patients in this hospital today, and I bet 50 percent of them have illnesses that could have been completely prevented," Feinberg says. "That situation is not going to get better with a 'public option.'"

He points out that even people without health insurance can receive care when they need it in the emergency room, and, while it's not ideal, they're not being denied care because they don't have health insurance. "It's impossible to give high quality, low cost care to everyone. What we need is to decrease demand for health care."

According to Feinberg, some 75 percent of illnesses are treated at home, whether that's a bad cold or a sprained ankle, and he says that health-care reform should be focused on home care. "When you compare us to other countries with similar Gross Domestic Products, they spend half what we do on health care because they have a different lifestyle," he says. "We either need to change our lifestyle, or it's going to be very expensive."

"With all due respect," he adds, "the surgeon general is obese. I don't think the President of the United States should be solving this." Rather, he says, each individual needs to come to terms with the fact that eating right, exercising, and avoiding smoking and alcohol will transform not only their own lives but the ever increasing cost of health care in this country.