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If you or a loved one has brain / neurological damage or injury, then welcome to the Crow's Nest Online Support Group for Brain Injury and Illness. We were founded 9/12/05 and opened to the public on 9/13/05. Our goal is to provide a friendly online support community for survivors, caregivers, friends, family, and parents of adult survivors and special needs children, whose lives have been touched from any number of brain injuries.

It doesn't matter if you or a loved one has had a Traumatic Brain Injury, stroke, neurological injury, or any number of neurological illnesses. The effects are life changing, and the need for a support system crucial.

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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE US NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT
(HR 676)

 
 
WHEREAS everyone deserves access to affordable quality healthcare; and
 
WHEREAS an estimated 2 million people suffer from a brain injury and 2.6 million suffer from a stroke annually; and
 
WHEREAS millions with insurance have coverage so inadequate that a major illness or accident would lead to financial ruin, and medical illness and bills contribute to one-half of all bankruptcies; and
 
WHEREAS proposals for "consumer directed healthcare" would worsen this situation by penalizing the sick, discouraging prevention and saddling many working families with huge medical bills; and
 
WHEREAS managed care and other market-based reforms have failed to contain healthcare costs, which now threaten the international competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers; and
 
WHEREAS administrative waste stemming from our reliance on private insurers consumes one-third of health spending; and
 
WHEREAS U.S. hospitals spend 24.3% of their budgets on billing and administration while hospitals under Canada’s single payer system spend only 12.9%; and
 
WHEREAS American physicians are inundated with bureaucratic tasks and costs that Canadian physicians avoid; and
 
WHEREAS Harvard researchers estimated that more than $300 billion could be recovered by replacing private insurance companies with a single public payer, enough to cover the uninsured and to improve coverage for all those who now have only partial coverage; and
 
WHEREAS "consumer directed healthcare" adds yet another expensive layer of bureaucrats - the financial firms that manage health savings accounts; and
 
WHEREAS entrusting care to profit-oriented firms diverts billions of dollars to outrageous incomes for CEOs and threatens the quality of care; and
 
WHEREAS The US National Health Insurance Act which would assure universal coverage of all medically necessary services, contain costs by slashing bureaucracy, protect the doctor patient relationship, assure patients a completely free choice of doctors, and allow physicians a free choice of practice settings; NOW THEREFORE
 
BE IT RESOLVED that Crow’s Nest Online Support Group for Brain / Neurological Injury expresses its support for The US National Health Insurance Act (HR 676), and calls upon federal legislators to work towards its enactment within the current Congress.
 
4 Signers:
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Kimberly Crowe (KY), Michael Crowe (KY), Jeffrey Cowan (KY), vicki Treadwell (WA) 		 




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