Kate Loving Shenk

Today is October 28th, 2008, and I am Kate Loving Shenk.

I am going to start something new called “The Commentaries of Kate Loving Shenk.”

These talks will run the gamut of what I am interested in and inspired by, more than likely, topics like, Single Payer or Guaranteed Health Care For All, as well as Nursing Rn and CRNP issues, Nurse Healers, healing and health.

Today’s commentary is dedicated to a nursing colleague of mine, whom I have worked with for five years and who is now on the brink of retirement after 30 some years as a dedicated nurse.

I will call her Nurse Cyprus for the sake of anonymity.

Nurse Cyprus confided to me on our recent night shift duty that she knows she will struggle with health insurance issues because of the health care crisis and economic crisis our country and world face at this time.

Yet she would still like to retire.

Nurse Cyprus, Pennsylvania has 2 bills that are pending and that would relieve your fears if they are passed.

A grassroots core of people, including myself, are dedicated to getting these bills passed: HB 1660 and SB 300, both single payer universal health care bills that will ensure coverage for all Pennsylvanians.

This is a publicly funded, (by the Government) and privately delivered (by doctors, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Mid-wives, Physician Assistants) who would be back in the business of delivering quality health care to YOU!!

How is this paid for? by a 3% payroll (and 10% employer tax) across the board. These bills will save Pennsylvania millions and millions of dollars and will give YOU peace of mind.

More will be revealed in future commentaries.

For now, good night.

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:
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Guaranteed Health Care For All, the California Nurses website and blog, has published another article I wrote about the 9/18 single payer healthcare forum. The article is based on an article that forum guest speaker Morton Mintz wrote for The Nation, entitled: “Single Payer: Good For Business.”

Morton and his wife Anita Mintz were delightful and I had dinner with them and Donna Smith the evening of the event. We had some lively political conversations. Morton said that John McCain was self-destructing right before our eyes.

This from a seasoned political observer from many years of experience.

Here’s the link to my article:

http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/blog/kate-loving-shenk/2008/10/07/single-payer-good-for-business

Oh!! Here’s a link to my review about the forum with pictures of Morton Mintz and Donna Smith and more, plus a photo of the Roschel Performing Arts Center the evening of the event!!

http://progressives4pennsylvania.com

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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.nursingcareertransformation.com
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/blog
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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Please join us on September 18, 2008 for our Single Payer Health Care forum.

Donna Smith will be one of the forum participants, and here she is discussing how Michael Moore chose her to be in the movie SiCKO!!

http://nursehealers.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/donna-smith-and-sicko-and-our-single-payer-health-care-forum.html

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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.nursingcareertransformation.com
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/blog
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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Barak Obama came to town today so I took the opportunity to hand out hand written
cards about our Health Care Forum specifically about HB 1660 and the fact that
Pennsylvania could be the first in the nation to pass such a bill.

California just passed a Single Payer bill but Arnold takes a great risk if he vetoes it.
The California Nurses will raise hell if he does and he’s up for re-election in January.

There were hundreds and hundreds of people there. I had to call my friend Jerry
Policoff to come and help even though he had other plans today. He whipped up
professional cards and at the end of the event, we got to talk to many, many people.

People just don’t know about this bill here in Pennsylvania because the media ignores it.
The newspapers ignore it. Ed Rendall, our illustrious Governor, sabotages it. But we plunge ahead,
and know that every step brings us closer to passage.

And an Obama administration would be more sympathetic to our efforts.

John McCain’s health care plan is: Don’t Get Sick.

I was happy to meet Dr. Holmes Morton today, who specializes in little known genetic
disorders in the Amish Community.

It is my dearest hope that the Amish would understand how our bill would
help them because so often, when a catatrophic illness or emergency occurs,
they are wiped out.

But then again, so are many other ordinary Americans.

The movie SiCKO has moved public perception along regarding Single Payer
here in U.S.

Donna Smith of SiCKO fame will be on our health care forum panel.
When I told people this in the crowd today, they became very interested.

I have to say she is going to be quite the celebrity at this event.

I can hardly wait to meet her!!

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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.nursingcareertransformation.com
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/blog
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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A witness tree at Devil’s Den presides over the Gettysburg battlefield. There is no official number of remaining trees that stood when cannon and rifle fire erupted in July 1863. Only parts of the battlefield have been surveyed by experts who can identify a 145-year-old tree, and few photographs show trees still standing. There are perhaps a dozen trees alive today that witnessed the day the Civil War came to Gettysburg. (Evening Sun Photo by James Robinson)

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The fight is on to bring a single payer health care delivery system
to Pennsylvania in the form of HB 1660 and SB 300.

Three of us went to the State Capitol bulding in Harrisburg, PA
yesterday to deliver invitations to legislatures for our “Guaranteed
Health Care For All” forum September 18, 2008 at Franklin and Marshall
College.

Jerry and Don took care of House members in 2/3rds of the Capitol and
I delivered the invitations to what is called the Ryan Building and the Main Capitol.

And I got lost.

But there isn’t a more beautiful or interesting place in the world in which to
get lost!

The marble stair wells with brass decorations on the handrails; glass chandeliers,
paintings and portraits as far as my eyes could see, distracted me from the task at hand.

One room that dazzled my mind housed a larger than life statue of Abraham
Lincoln. Behind him was the largest painting I ever saw, which was the
Gettysburg Battlefield at the height of one of the worst wars in the history
of wars, when young men were slaughtered by the thousands.

This painting seemed to capture the horror of the reality of this war, with cannon
fire, and smoke from all the fired weapons and faces of anguish in the throes of
death.

Frankly, I never saw anything like it, and the room was totally empty.

I trust the battle for single payer will go smoother than the Battle of Gettysburg.

Certainly smoother than the denied claims by the Health Insurance Companies which
have demonstrated time and time again that they care nothing for the average American.

Our September forum will plant the seeds for the eventual passage of this bill.

Please see Progressives For Pennsylvania for details.

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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.nursingcareertransformation.com
http://www.katelovingshenk.com/blog
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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