Kate Loving Shenk

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We rallied for Single Payer Healthcare reform at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg PA on October 20, 2009. (Pictured here is the Rotunda, as seen looking straight up from the inside of that historic building!

Pennsylvania may well be the first State to enact Single Payer in America. The commonwealth wil save 2 plus billion dollars the first year it is put into place.

I am a nurse. The lack of healthcare access and the suffering this creates is one of the number one reasons for burnout in my profession.

Thanks to all the good people who came out and spoke for such a worthy cause, and thanks to the 1,500 people who showed up to show their support.

Yes WE Can!!

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SiCKO is my all time most favorite movie. And I have always loved Michael Moore. I met him at the Democratic National Convention in NY in 1993 and never forgot him.

This lens tells that story, plus a few more.

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Healthcare reform is heating up here in America! Take a look and learn about Wendell Potter!!

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A New Day, A New Life, And All Is Well!!

I wonder if I can remember everything that happened this week?

Joan Adams and I came up with a title for our Blog Talk Radio Show!!

Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom

Here is the page I set up. More will be added as we decide on the topics and the time for the show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Kate-Loving-Joan-Adams

Here are the 2 lenses I completed this week:

http://www.squidoo.com/thedukeiskingofjazz This is about Duke Ellington and my dad!

http://www.squidoo.com/promotingsinglepayer This lens is about promoting Single Payer Healthcare Reform using the social media tools of Twitter, Face Book, and Squidoo!!

I also wrote a piece for Op-Ed News, but haven’t heard anything yet about that, which is ok-because timing is everything.

Thank you and blessings to all!

Kate Loving Shenk

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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator
of the e-book called “Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover
Your Calling and Destiny.” The book is designed to stimulate
nurses to love their work and to prevent on-the-job-burnout.
Click here to find out how to order the e-book:
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/blog
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/nursingcareertransformation
Check out Kate’s Blog: http://nursehealers.typepad.com
And the Lens: http://www.squidoo.com/katelovingshenk
http://www.squidoo.com/thinkriches
http://doganddolphin.ning.com
http://nursehealers.typepad.com/dog_lovers_unite
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Here Are All Of My lenses (So Far!!)

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/mukunda22

In between the great grassroots effort to bring Single Payer Healthcare reform to Pennsylvania, I’ve also been squidoo-ing!! And hanging out with my Wild Turkey, who comes and goes as she pleases!!

Here are the lenses! InJoy!!

http://www.squidoo.com/chuckpennacchio

Chuck Pennacchio has gathered all of us around him to fight for Single Payer!

http://www.squidoo.com/1960sprotestmusic

This is a great medley of 1960′s protest music!!

http://www.squidoo.com/musiconsmothersbrothers

This is about the old Smother’s Brother’s Show and the music on it.

http://www.squidoo.com/thinkriches  

This one I completely overhauled because people seem to like it: about Napoleon Hill and “Think and Grow Rich.”

http://www.squidoo.com/whatisyourfavoritenapoleonhillprinciple

What is your favorite Napoleon Hill Principle?

http://www.squidoo.com/sockittome

The show that came after the Smother’s Brothers: “Laugh In!”

http://www.squidoo.com/1960sprotestcomedy

Some interesting clips from “The Day” with mostly censored material that no one would blink an eye abou, today!!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Single-Payer-Gains-New-Gro-by-kate-loving-shenk-090205-661.html

This is an article I wrote for Op-Ed News and it was on the front page for maybe 24 hours!!

http://nursehealers.typepad.com/

And the same article I posted on my blog, Nurse Healers!

Thank you, all!!

Kate Loving Shenk

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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator
of the e-book called “Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover
Your Calling and Destiny.” The book is designed to stimulate
nurses to love their work and to prevent on-the-job-burnout.
Click here to find out how to order the e-book:
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/blog
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/nursingcareertransformation
Check out Kate’s Blog: http://nursehealers.typepad.com
And the Lens: http://www.squidoo.com/katelovingshenk
http://www.squidoo.com/thinkriches
http://doganddolphin.ning.com
http://nursehealers.typepad.com/dog_lovers_unite
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Kate Loving Shenk Nursing Career Transformation Sign Up HERE For Your *FREE* Newsletter For Nurses And Healers Your e-mail address is safe with me–see privacy notice on my website!

http://www.katelovingshenk.com/nursingcareertransformation/simplenewslettersignup.html

We'd have more time for healing if we didn't have to fight the insurance companies all the time!!!

By Dr. William Davidson Jr.
Lebanon Daily News

This year America will spend $2.4 trillion on health care, well more than $7,000 for every man, woman and child existing within our borders. Thirty years ago the price tag was less than $1,000 per person, but then there were no CAT scans or MRIs, and laparoscopic surgery was in its infancy.

Yes, the incredible expansion in technology that has created the miracles of modern medicine has also produced a huge economic burden such that one-third of our taxes now go to pay for health care. Were that money used wisely and efficiently then perhaps the burden would not seem so onerous.

Unfortunately, only 70 cents of every dollar paid into the system actually returns to us in the form of health care. Thirty cents out of every dollar goes to administer a very dysfunctional system that has become a profit center for special interests that do not have the best interests of our people at heart.

Thirty years ago when the price tag was affordable, very few of the players in the system were getting rich off of it. Insurance companies were truly “nonprofit.” The pharmaceutical industry had acceptable profits, and health-care providers didn’t need advertizing agencies and marketing specialists.

While technology is here to stay, we cannot afford to tolerate those who exploit the system to the tune of $300 billion a year.  That’s right. If we eliminate the private medical-insurance industry, group-negotiate the price of medicines and make patient care the primary focus of health care providers, we could provide health care for everyone at an affordable price.

Only a single-payer, publicly financed and privately delivered system can accomplish such a feat.
To implement such a change, the American people will need to send a clear message to our legislators. In order for the people to speak with a clear voice they must grow wise to the propaganda that has distracted and divided them in the past.

• For instance, is providing health care to everyone a communist plot or simply a good idea that appeals to everyone of good will?

• Do we understand that as in Canada, where most of the care is delivered by private physicians, a single-payer system here would give everyone his choice of privately practicing physicians and hospitals?

• Do we allow the pharmaceutical industry to hold us hostage with exorbitant prices or do we group-negotiate with them like the Veterans Administration, who gets medicines for 40 percent less?

• Do we accept the mantra that raising taxes is always a negative, or do we look at the bottom line that shows that after eliminating premiums, co-pays, deductibles, etc., most of us  will pay less than they do now?

• Do we accept the lies about waiting lines causing premature deaths in other countries or examine the facts that show their medical outcomes are no worse than ours while their elderly live longer and their infants are healthier?

• Do we accept that the loss of a job means you lose your medical insurance and go bankrupt, or do we provide a system like the rest of the industrialized world where employment is not connected to health insurance, and being stuck in a dead-end job because of “health benefits” is no longer necessary?

• Do we remember that the discoveries of penicillin and the polio vaccine were made by men driven by the love of science and humanity rather than the pursuit of wealth as the free market advocates would have us believe?

• Do we accept the notion that the government can’t do anything right or let it be the insurance company with a 3 percent (Medicare) overhead or stay with Blue Cross and Aetna and their 20 percent overhead, multimillion dollar CEOs and  “pre-existing conditions?”

Even now, the medical insurance industry is hard at work to control the dialogue concerning health-care reform in this country.  Any discussion that leaves out single-payer will, in essence, leave out middle America. The choice is ours, but the longer we delay the more we suffer.

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Davidson is a partner in Lebanon Cardiology Associates.

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Thank you Dr. Davidson for this letter which so eloquently points out objections and answers to these objections regarding Single Payer, Guaranteed Health Care For All!!

Kate Loving Shenk
http://www.nursingcareertransformation.com

http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/blog/kate-loving-shenk/2008/11/20/commentary-two-kate-loving-shenk

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Here is Commentary Two. My computer crashed a few weeks ago, and we got 2 Macs for the price of one, which put me back a few weeks. BUT, I am happy to say, each wonderful task learned with a Mac is a milestone in my Internet Marketing Learning Curve.

This video is a Congressional Testimony given to the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives to persuade politicians to pass HB 1660 and SB 300, a single payer, guaranteed health care for all legislation.

If Pennsylvania passes it, other states will follow.

Blessings to all,

Kate Loving Shenk