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Broken Levees, Broken Lives: Katrina's Healthcare Legacy

Watch and Share this Compelling New Video Short: "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans are still waiting....  
 
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BAYBER3214 (8 months ago) Show Hide
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"Charity" was named for the "Daughters of Charity",not because it serviced charity cases. the name had been changed to La. Medical Center It was a public hospital, you still had to pay, if you had insurance or could afford it.
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Hey--thanks for that clarification. But was it the hospital that served most indigents? Where do the uninsured go now? I'd like to check into hospitals founded by the Daughters of Charity n other countries--countries that have implemented single payer. Come to think of it, I'm waiting for our US Catholic bishops to endorse single payer.  Where is St. Vincent de Paul when we need him?
Yours for health care justice.
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Charity and University Med Center are both United Med Center of La.University was bought as an expansion of Charity. There were and are several other locations where the indigent do receive medical care. Most hospitals in the N.O. area are not for profit.Charity opened clinics in other areas before University Med Center reopened.East Jefferson Hosp[public] also took care of these patients.They never closed during Katrina,they are self sufficient in emergencies,with water and generators.
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What's amazing to me is that people want the right to live where ever they want, but when things turn to hell... they expect the American taxpayers to foot the bill. People abuse their bodies for most of their lives...smoke, drink, eat like pigs, never exercise and yet someone else is responsible when their health fails?
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE for others bad choices...I have two children that are my responsibility...not the people of New Orleans or anywhere else, who make poor decisions! Get it?
CulturePeaceForever (10 months ago) Show Hide
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This H.R.676 Says; "To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents,and for other purposes."!!?,but explains things for'medical organizations,doctors,chiropra ctors,et.cetera,will smidgeons of do for patients!
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unionmaidn (1 year ago) Show Hide
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What a thoughtful, moving documentary. Thank you to CNA/NNOC.

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calnurses (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Martin Luther King, Jr. once famously said, "of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and most inhumane."

Regardless of age, socioeconomic status, religion, cultural background, or race, we all must face the fears of illness, aging, and death. Guaranteed universal healthcare for everyone in America is the only compassionate solution!

May we find forgiveness in our hearts for the ignorant, fear-based, all-out RACIST comments made below?
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