[Magdalen] RAM final stats

[Marion Thompson]

I wish you great success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  As a great signer of Petitions 
of one sort and another, I'm Not meaning to suggest that there's no 
point.  I will pray that sweet reason guides the voters for the House of 
Representatives!

Marion, a pilgrim


On 7/25/2016 3:37 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Hillary knows better how to work with Congress than Drumpf or Mike Pence,
> even if they are those other guys. Plus there is a heavy campaign to get
> out the vote for the people down ticket whether they vote for her or not.
> The entire House of Representatives is up for election this year, plus
> about a third of the Senate, and a number of the Republican seats are
> thought to be in some danger.
>
> Further, it is important to let it be known that healthcare is a Very
> Important Issue.
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to you and Grace for taking part in this stellar event.
>>
>> I don't begin to understand how things work down there, but with a crazy
>> Congress blocking everything, how can a person get anything done?  Even the
>> President -- especially the President. if he isn't of the party controlling
>> Congress?  As we've seen for the last eight years.  And those people have
>> the brass neck to blame him for everything that hasn't got done!
>>
>> So, in practical terms, how will writing to Hillary make a difference?
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/25/2016 2:51 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>
>>> This was quite possibly one of the most amazing things I have ever done.
>>> I've done volunteer events before but nothing ever quite matched this. I
>>> returned home today (overnighted in Dublin, VA with my friend of 52 years
>>> and her husband) both stoked and angry.....stoked and energized for
>>> action,
>>> with plans to do this again, and angry as hell because it's necessary. At
>>> the Medical Triage station, I heard the same story over and over...."My
>>> husband/wife lost their job (or "I lost my job") and I couldn't afford my
>>> medicine" ....medicine as necessary as INSULIN, for God's sake, or blood
>>> pressure medication for someone whose blood pressure is in the
>>> stratosphere
>>> without it,, or "I got laid off and I lost my insurance and I can't afford
>>> private insurance and it's nigh impossible to get on Medicaid" (our
>>> governor has tried to expand ,Medicaid but the legislature has blocked
>>> him), or "I can't find a doctor who takes my insurance", or "My doctor
>>> fired me because I was a week late for my blood work because I don't have
>>> a
>>> car and I didn't have a way to get there that week", or variants of any of
>>> these. Having worked in home health in a population very similar to this
>>> one, I *know* that these stories are real and not made up because I dealt
>>> with the same ones then.
>>>
>>> As I drove home, I busied my mind composing a letter to Hillary Clinton
>>> about my experience and these stories. This is the only developed, First
>>> World country in which health care is tied to one's employment, and in my
>>> mind that is just WRONG. Decent basic healthcare and maintenance
>>> medications should be available to EVERY citizen and should not cost them
>>> an arm and a leg and the life of their firstborn child! I don't know
>>> whether I am angrier at Big Pharma, Big Insurance, or Big Medicine for the
>>> way things are. (Right now it's in the order I named them, but I hate them
>>> all!) I am, however, deeply grateful for Stan Brock for founding Remote
>>> Area Medical, and for every single one of the volunteers who makes the
>>> clinic possible, right down to the lunch ladies from the Lions Club and
>>> the
>>> guys who replace the paper towels at the hand washing stations (I met one
>>> of them, he is an attorney in his other life) and the kids working on
>>> their
>>> Eagle Scout badges.It was a privilege to be part of it.......but I wish it
>>> weren't necessary in this country!
>>>
>>> Stepping off my soapbox now.
>>>
>>> Jay, R.N. (ret.)
>>>
>>> P.S. What's the best address to use to get a letter to Secretary Clinton?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow... what a great event and great people who volunteered their time.
>>>> Thankful to know two of them - Grace and Jay! Thanks to you two!
>>>> Lynn
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
>>>> not
>>>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
>>>> me."
>>>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>>>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
>>>> by Richard Rohr
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 11:58 AM
>>>> To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>>> Subject: [Magdalen] RAM final stats
>>>>
>>>> This was the final tally after this weekend's RAM clinic in Wise
>>>> Virginia:
>>>>
>>>>> 2111 patients and $1,213,309 worth of medical, dental and optical
>>>>> services
>>>>> provided.
>>>>> It was one of the best-organized volunteer events I've ever attended,
>>>>> with 1400 volunteers registered, most of whom stayed for the full three
>>>>> days of the clinic, and some of whom came the day before to set up. All
>>>>> of
>>>>> the medical people were volunteers.The event took over the county
>>>>> fairgrounds, and this is the 17th year for this particular location.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> RAM: Thank you. With your help we were able to register 2111 patients
>>>>> and
>>>>> provide $1,213,309 in services so far at this clinic.=
>>>>>
>>>>>