In response to President Obama’s call for national day of health care, the United Democratic Campaign office in Concord, working with Organizing for America has organized a free community health fair that will feature local health resources and guests Senator Mark DeSaulnier and Supervisor Susan Bonilla.
The Fair will take place Saturday, June 27th, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at 2737 Clayton Road, Concord (across the street from the Concord BART station) There will be family health screenings, veterans service groups, mental health outreach, and La Clinica, a local community clinic.
There will also be a mobile mammography screening van. Senator Mark DeSaulnier and Supervisor Susan Bonilla will speak about what health care reform will look like, and how Contra Costa citizens can help support it. Also, fair-goers will be able to share their personal stories with health care and record them to be used as a part of Obama’s campaign. Oppurtunities to become volunteers and community leaders will be available for those interested.
Organizers say the event coincides with critical health care debate taking place now in Congress. They say, the Obama administration has vowed to have the basic outlines of the plan by July 31st; however, there have already been attacks on HC reform by the special interests, which will worsen in the upcoming months. The goal of the health fair is to raise awareness for reform and use the same grassroots support that it took to elect Obama.
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Home Care Solutions Inc. would like to be a part of your health fair in June. How do I sign up for this event.
Could you email me with the information?
Gail Forbes
Director of Marketing
Home Care Solutions
To the Editor:
What ails modern medicine? Answer: the absence of a good doctor-patient relationship.
To have such a relationship, the patient should pay the doctor money for an office visit.
If a customer can pay money directly to a barber, a shoe store owner, or a restaurant owner, why can’t the customer pay the doctor directly?
If an individual is a good customer at a given restaurant, the owner will know and appreciate the customer. The owner, in all likelihood, will give the customer better service and perhaps bigger portions of food.
If a patient could pay some money directly to a doctor, perhaps $100 for an office visit, then the doctor might be more willing to give the patient better service. After all, the doctor would not want to lose the customer.
So, in the curent debate about health care, let’s have the patient pay the doctor directly. And when the patient has a problem, the doctor will be happy to take the patient’s telephone call.
Richard S. Colman
Orinda, CA
June 25, 2009