Blues Songbird, Diunna Greenleaf
Reasonable people all agree that we need a better way of ensuring that all Americans get the health care we need, yet the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without some form of universal health care. Even so, we spend about twice as much per capita on health care, while living under the myth that we have the best health care in the world.
In today’s Houston Chronicle, Dr. Daniel P. Wirt makes the case for a single-payer system vs. —‘Medicare-for-all’ cure for health woes — which would “…require everyone to buy the same for-profit insurance that is already failing us.” While the debate goes on, 46 million Americans are uninsured and millions who have required hospitalization are now struggling to pay the cost.
Most of us, know people in this situation or may be they’re we, therefore being able to put faces on the numbers. For Joy and I, one such face is our dear friend Diunna Greenleaf – winner of the 2008 Blues Music Award for Best New Artist and winner of the 2005 International Blues Challenge with The Blue Mercy Band. In December, Diunna required surgery and is now facing a five-figure debt. (Ms. Greenleaf is also a veteran and like all of today’s veteran’s, their health care benefits are only a fraction of what they were for my father, a WW II vet. I will leave that issue for another time.)
So, besides working in support of universal health care, what can we do? Well, for those of us in the Houston area we can attend a benefit for Diunna next Sunday, February 15th at The Big Easy (5731 Kirby Drive, Ph 713-523-9999, 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. If you can’t attend, donations may be sent to Diunna Greenleaf, P.O. Box 672552 Houston, 77267.
LET’S ALL DO WHAT WE CAN TO HELP DIUNNA!
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Reasonable people all agree that we need a better way of ensuring that all Americans get the health care we need, yet the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without some form of universal health care. Even so, we spend about twice as much per capita on health care, while living under the myth that we have the best health care in the world.
In today’s Houston Chronicle, Dr. Daniel P. Wirt makes the case for a single-payer system vs. —‘Medicare-for-all’ cure for health woes — which would “…require everyone to buy the same for-profit insurance that is already failing us.” While the debate goes on, 46 million Americans are uninsured and millions who have required hospitalization are now struggling to pay the cost.
Most of us, know people in this situation or may be they’re we, therefore being able to put faces on the numbers. For Joy and I, one such face is our dear friend Diunna Greenleaf – winner of the 2008 Blues Music Award for Best New Artist and winner of the 2005 International Blues Challenge with The Blue Mercy Band. In December, Diunna required surgery and is now facing a five-figure debt. (Ms. Greenleaf is also a veteran and like all of today’s veteran’s, their health care benefits are only a fraction of what they were for my father, a WW II vet. I will leave that issue for another time.)
So, besides working in support of universal health care, what can we do? Well, for those of us in the Houston area we can attend a benefit for Diunna next Sunday, February 15th at The Big Easy (5731 Kirby Drive, Ph 713-523-9999, 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. If you can’t attend, donations may be sent to Diunna Greenleaf, P.O. Box 672552 Houston, 77267.
LET’S ALL DO WHAT WE CAN TO HELP DIUNNA!
kenne
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