A speech by Bobby Kennedy on ending violence in America... -some 40 years ago. Still very important and relevant today. And inspiring and calling for a better world, a better country, and a call to all Americans to "begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again." Indeed. "The following speech was transcribed from a news release version, which is located in the Speech Files of the Robert F. Kennedy Senate Papers at the Kennedy Library. For more information please contact Kennedy.Library@nara.gov " from/by: Robert F. Kennedy: his speech at the Cleveland City Club, April 5, 1968: "This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives. It is not the concern of any o...
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END Skin Cancer Now. CALL your Congressman/Senator!
Skin cancer rates, and deaths, rising fast for seniors and others. This may have to do with the lack of clearly defined health care coverage for annual skin cancer screenings everyone by both private insurers and by Medicare/Medicaid. -------------------------------------- May 17th, 2019 re: skin cancer rates doubling! Time to REQUIRE Medicare, Medicaid and all medical insurances to categorically pay for comprehensive skin cancer screenings. Dear Congressman Larson and others: Some of you in DC are asleep at the wheel...of government. Here's why-> Summer is often associated with thoughts about how to prevent skin cancer. Ads for Sun block lotions, warnings to go see doctors. Fine. BUT payments for skin cancer screening by Medicare and other insurers is not guaranteed. Incredible given increasing rates of skin cancers for Americans! Here is chart from the federal Centers for Disease Control showing actual and predicted incidences of Melanoma (somet...
A New USA National Retirement, Medical and Social Security System for All Americans. Now. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -R. Buckminster Fuller Tired of all those 3-card Monte* games they want us to keep playing with our money for what should be OUR BEST social security and medical care? (* Definition of three-card monte. : a gambling game in which the dealer shows three cards, shuffles them, places them face down, and invites spectators to bet they can identify the location of a particular card. ) Too many premiums, copays, deductibles, coinsurances, facility fees, annual and other deductibles, totally inadequate funds to really retire on, ignoring our disabled Americans, too many of our veterans and others living in poverty while the billionaires get tax cuts and continue reaping monopoly profits. Not enough fun...