And check out this new video (below) from the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about the public health response in a Kansas town devastated by a category 5 tornado. It’s pretty inspirational and illustrates just how vital our public health system truly is.
Bad news + inspiration = ACTION. So, visit President Obama’s health reform site to submit public health-related questions to regional health reform forums or just get involved in making sure public health has a seat at the table.
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Call me a cynic but I find this truly comical. I actually started my "real" public health fight 10 years ago when I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. For one that also suffers from depression it was a nightmare trying to convince my physician that I was REALLY sick. . . 10 years later I will soon be graduating with my masters in public health- $100,000 in debt and currently without a job. The University Health Insurance capped out at $1500 dollars for my RX which was about 2 months of RX for me. . . so I had to go back on my mothers COBRA @ $401 per month and take on average about $250 worth of medications a month (thats just the co-pays. This price tag does not work out well on a student loan living in our Nation's Capitol. I haven't slept in 6 months!
What I think is amusing is that I AM IN ACTION and I do know the In's and Out's of the system but I think we need to be realists. . . even when policy gets changed it does take time. I think we as public health practitioners owe it to our communities to be REAL with the people we are attempting to serve.
Seriously, I am not going to get hired tomorrow and have health insurance start up the next day- it wouldn't have happened with Bush and it won't happen with Obama.
This is MY PUBLIC HEALTH. . you can read more about it on my blog. . . www.nwtose.com
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