August 3, 2009 2:52 PM

Bill Clinton Campaigns for Health Care Reform

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Anna Aulova
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Bill Clinton
(AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
In a message sent to supporters of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, former President Bill Clinton, who failed in his own efforts to reform health care, pressed for success this time around and called for donations to support the Health Care Reform Now campaign.

The campaign is part of the DCCC's agenda and is aimed at obtaining financial support for the Obama administration's health care reform. The DCCC is trying to raise $250,000 in donations by midnight Aug. 4, 2009.

Titled "1993," Mr. Clinton's message discussed the health care campaign in time of his own presidency. The former president noted that President Obama is facing opposition to his own health care agenda similar to what Mr. Clinton faced in 1993. He argued that Mr. Obama is going up against special interest groups and their Republican supporters who have "launched a furious campaign to preserve the status quo."

"Republicans have made a political calculation that they'd rather attack congressional Democrats with sound bites and misleading characterizations of the President's health care reform plan than work on behalf of the American people," he wrote. "It's up to us to prevent the Republican Party and their special interest backers from doing whatever they can to prevent this historic opportunity to make quality health care affordable and accessible to all."

Clinton said donations made will be matched "dollar-for-dollar" by Democratic Members of Congress and will go directly to helping America pass legislation that would lower costs, improve care, and provide coverage for more citizens than ever before.

To view the entire message, click here.

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by DeborahCalvert August 14, 2009 5:21 PM EDT
Overcrowded prisons? I have the solution! Place the inmates in nursing homes along with the corrupt corporation officers who make poor decisions that kill patients and aren't punished. Breakfast? Up at 5:30, sit in wheelchair for hrs waiting, b cuz understaffed and 5 CNAs cannot dress 59 patients in one hr from 7-8 am; Thirsty? Sure, I'll be back in a few hours; U need a bathroom? We use diapers here; Hungry? great food; Need a Dr.? call 911; Fever? Thermometers broken; Hot? HVAC condemned; Cold? HVAC condemned; Can't breathe? No ventilation n here, did I tell u the HVAC is condemned?; BTW Oxygen runs out regularily, & no staff to monitor it; Looks like u had a stroke? opps, R b/p equip. broken; Got MRSA? opps sorry again, this time you die.

Everlyn Calvert 1928-2004
Deborah Calvert, Newport Beach, Calif
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by amydugan1 August 3, 2009 9:01 PM EDT
Bill Clinton has to help Obama or this window for passage will close. He was a great president. check out my Bill Clinton blog
http://adugan-billclintonblog.blogspot.com/
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by DeborahCalvert August 3, 2009 3:56 PM EDT
Medical review written by Dr L Scott Stoney in Newport Beach, California regarding the horrific situation Evelyn Calvert died in:

There are several incidences of concern in this patients' case which should be noticed. The frequency of her recurrent pneumonia is concerning as well as the type of pneumonia which she developed were concerning. The infection incidence at Sunbridge Newport was monitored quarterly and it was noted over the national average during infection control meeting in the final quarter of the year 2003. As I was medical director for this facility I had request further evaluation by the staff to the etiology of this occurrence within the facility. Multiple families had complained about this problem. Unfortunately, the administration did not take due diligence in ameliorating this problem in 2003. Lack of sufficient ventilation contributes to pneumonia. This was a sentinel event; however the administration continued to give both patients families and the undersigned a variety of excuses why it was "taking some time" to fix this problem. Upon review of the medical record, it is medically probably that this patients recurrent pneumonia (especially MRSA) was related to the physical facility.
There is another incidence of concern. Blood pressure monitoring cuffs which were not working in Sunbridge Newport in 2003. This, again, was a sentinel event and of grave concern. As medical director, this was an extraordinary event which prompted my immediate reaction as Medical Director to request the administration immediately order new blood pressure equipment for the safety of the patients within the facility. I was subsequently directly in contact from my Newport Beach private practice office with Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse Special Agent Supervisor Joseph Fendrick to discuss this matter. Unfortunately this was too late for Mrs. Evelyn Calvert, she arrived 7/16/04 to the emergency room in again respiratory distress and she died. Due to the limited response of the administration to meet patient needs, I resigned from Sunbridge Newport Rehabilitation in March, 2004 and gave sixty day notice of my termination as Medical Director from the facility. It is my opinion, as a Board Certified physician ..... that this patients death is within medical probability aggravated or in causation by the failure of the ventilator system within Sunbridge Newport as well as the failure of the blood pressure monitoring devices within the facility.
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by DeborahCalvert August 8, 2009 6:45 PM EDT
Yeah, Sun Healthcare owes me an apology and about ten million dollars. That is the price for a recent death by SUN Healthcare in Arizona. The lawyers are gonna love my testimony.
by DeborahCalvert August 3, 2009 3:51 PM EDT
Here's my personal story about healthcare and why we need reform:

After caring for my mother, the late Evelyn Calvert, 6 yrs at home following a large stroke I placed her in a Sun Healthcare nursing home -Sunbridge in Newport Beach, Calif. She died due to Sun's blatant disregard for human life. This is a story of obvious political and corporate corruption.

When families complained SUN was breaking Calif.'s minimum nurse staffing laws and violating SUN's Calif state injunction by understaffing with broken equipment, the corporate powers that be, flew in regional employees to intimidate us by posting visiting hours signs giving us 1 hour after a normal work week to visit your loved ones each week day. Regional employee Julie Campbell was sent by their CEO to aplogize personally for the CEO of SUN when their broken blood pressure monitor caused my mother to have a stroke when they neglected to give her meds. I have written documents from a board member acknowledging equipment was inoperable for months yet they were still not ready to respond to the critical situation. Because they were under a state injunction from 2001 for having the same broken equipment in a Burlingame, Calif facility that killed patients, this was willful misconduct, reason for termination for good cause by it's board of director's (and making me eligible for treble damages -I was a huge liability to SUN). For that reason the powers that be prevented that triple compensation. After major surgery my attorney rushed me into mediation while still recovering, lied to me about the law, coerced, intimidated and threatened me into signing an agreement for damages based solely on SUN?s fraud. He dropped wrongful death while I was distracted and ill. When I regained my strength, I sued for malpractice, he died 2 weeks later, sadly. I won that case in 2008. I refused to sign a confidentialty agreement after mediaiton -after being told by my late attorney that SUN?s CEO was on the phone from his Irvine office with attorneys in the other room and that he would harm me if I forced this case to trial. SUN cheated the taxpayers of the State of Calif out of millions of dollars in fines and according to Claude Vanderwold deputy attorney general this facility was NOT considered in the fine of $2.5 Million in Sept 2005 against Sun for violating the injunction to date. The Dept of Justice turned a blind eye. The Dept of Health didn?t fine the usual $100,000 for her or any other's death.Yet SUN?s own medical director, Dr Scott Stoney says SUN was responsible for her death and he quit due to SUN?s lack of response.
This is not rocket science, Buzz would say.Deborah Calvert, Newport Beach, Calif. former asst. to Buzz Aldrin
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by the_majesty August 3, 2009 4:26 PM EDT
If Obama has Bill Clinton out supporting ObamaCare.
The heat is really on Obama.
by pasmalltown August 4, 2009 9:19 AM EDT
To the_majesty August 3, 2009 4:26 PM EDT -

You're entitled to your opinion, however inapropriate it was as reply to Ms Calvert's story and opinion of the current state of health care in the USA. A wise man once said "When an honest man thinks, you can generally hear him."
I can hear Ms Calvert and Bill Clinton, but not you.
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