Ways to support our National Health Reform Team for Obama

Ways to support our National Health Reform Team for Obama 

·         Please  share material posted on this page with facebook friends and/or  email contacts

·   For those not on our facebook page and on facebook, please join at  https://www.facebook.com/NationalHealthReformTeamForObama  and send emails to your contacts to join this page.

·         Put up a yard sign, bumper sticker, and/or button. See https://barackobama.com  to order. Share yard signs, etc. with friends and neighbors, etc.

·         Join our dashboard teams to support our efforts https://dashboard.barackobama.com/groups/1298-national-health-reformteam-for-o

·         Please send me an email to volunteer, thausner@gmail.com

·         Please let me know if you are willing to make phone calls, either from home or your local office.

·         Volunteer to help organize events, or help in other ways.  Please let me know.

·         Volunteer to be a co-adminstrator of the facebook page, which will allow you to add content to our facebook page.

Here are additional thoughts

please join our National and Maryland Health Care Reform Teams for Obama on the Obama dashboard. These groups will share information on health reform, organize events, convince voters of the need to re-elect President Obama, and related activities.  Please spread the word. 

here is a link to the National Health Reform Team.

 Click here to accept the invite and meet the group.

here is link to Maryland Health Reform Team 

 Click here to accept the invite and meet the group.

here is a message I sent to the national team and a similar one to the Maryland team.  Please let me know of any comments on this message. 


National Health Reform Team for Obama

Welcome to all those who have joined this team.  So far 26 of us have joined which is a good start.  I hope you can get others to join.   

   1) Next Steps

There are several steps that I think can be taken to support Obama because of his work on Obamacare [the Affordable Care Act (ACA)]  My understanding is that Obama has embraced the term Obamacare.

·         Encourage folks who support Obamacare to actively volunteer to support Obama and/or Obamacare, by making phonecalls, canvassing, making contributions, posting signs, etc.
·         Convince folks who might be reachable of the advantages of Obamacare.  I have thoughts on this, but welcome suggestions on how to do this. 

Here are a few steps that are more specific along these lines.

·         Send messages to all the folks we know that we think might be interested, encourage them to support health reform and/or Obama.

·         Share key literature with these folks and/or the information sources mentioned below..

·         I have a list of 900 folks in Montgomery County that support Obamacare. We could call that list and encourage them to volunteer to support Obama.  Calls can be made at the Obama office in Kensington or from home. 

·         Identify other organizations and individuals that we could work with

I welcome other suggestions

·         on things we can do,
·         on ways to implement these actions

Please indicate which of the above activities you are willing to be involved   .

 2)      Information Sources

Here are few ideas on sources of information that you can use to support the above.  I have a blog in which I post a few times per week.  I will send you a few of the most important in the future as we proceed.  These posts are brief and cover some of the most important articles, etc that I have seen lately. 

  a)      For a recent Celebration of the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare, I prepared a summary of the law and list of key reference materials which can be found at the following:

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2012/07/obamacare-party-handout-with-revised.html

At the celebration on 7/17, we first called folks in Montgomery County who were known supporters of Obamacare and asked them to be volunteers for the campaign.  We had almost 30 folks at the party, and made over 200 phone calls in 90 minutes. 

Please let me know your comments on the materials on this blog post, on how to use them, etc.

  b)      For those who want to keep up with health care news, I highly recommend

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/

it  is a daily newsletter

Another daily newsletter that is quite useful is provided by

http://herndonalliance.org/

write to Pete Van Vranken pvan@gmavt.net   and ask to be placed on his health care media emailing list. One of the articles I found as a result of the Herndon news is the following http://tinyurl.com/cjd927j   Obama embraces health care law after court ruling           3)  Greater Silver Spring Democratic Club Annual Picnic For those of you who live in or near Montgomery County,MD  I invite you to this event which will be held on 9/22.  For more details, see http://tinyurl.com/bwpp578  4)      Contact Please feel free to contact me at thausner@gmail.com  301-587-6943.

Ryan’s Budget Attempts to End Medicare and Shift Costs to Seniors; and other health related articles on Ryan

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/04/ryan_medicare.html/

I am very pleased that Romney has selected Ryan as Ryan's proposals for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Budget are so disastrous.  Hopefully, the public will see this very clearly and move to support Obama.



Kaiser Health News provides more details on Ryan's plan.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/August/11/paul-ryan-republican-vice-president-candidate-medicare.aspx



http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2012/August/11/ryan-chosen-by-romney.aspx

 Here is what Robert Greenstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities had to say today about Ryan's ideas.  I have a great deal of respect for Greenstein and for his organization. 

http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-2/

Huffington Post article 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-oneill/the-romneyryan-budget-tak_b_1748671.html

Obama's campaign ad

http://tinyurl.com/cz9n272

Today's news

Some articles of interest today from Kaiser health News

 

Survey: Boomers Worry About Medicare’s Future, Want More Details From Candidates

http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2012/08/survey-boomers-worry-about-medicares-future-want-more-details-from-candidates/ 

 

AdWatch: Latest Romney TV ad accuses Obama using health care law to ‘declare war’ on religion

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/adwatch-romney-ad-hits-obama-on-religious-freedom/2012/08/09/6415ac38-e254-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html 

Survey: 61 Percent Of Employers Expect Health Law To Drive Up Health Plan Costs

see 

http://smtp01.kaiserhealthnews.org/t/32688/430110/34942/0/

does this make sense given the information previously posted about the deceleration in health care spending. 

Realigning Health with Care

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/realigning_health_with_care?goback=.gde_966657_member_141520415
interesting article, discusses a very broad view of health, that looks at social services, basic nutrition  approaches, etc. 

Obamacare may be causing a slowdown in health spending

There is clearly a reduction in the rate of increase in health care spending. This trend has been going on for the past decade or so, but appears to have increased in the past two years. It is possible that Obamacare has contributed to this increase. How important is this trend?  Does Obama need to make more of a point of this, even if he can't attribute it to Obamacare? What is the best way to get this message out.

Here is the latest article on this.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.ordownturng/Daily-Reports/2012/August/08/sequestration-and-health-spending-news.aspx

See the article on: Decleration of Health Spending. See me at Thausner@gmail.com for full article. This is an important article.

Here are some of other articles that I have identified of significance on this topic.

NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/health/policy/in-hopeful-sign-health-spending-is-flattening-out.html?pagewanted=print

Karen Davis’s blog

http://www.commonwealthfund.

org/Blog/2012/Jun/Whats-



Working-Control-Costs.aspx  

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Blog/2012/Jan/Bending-the-Health-Care-Cost-Curve.aspx.

Peter Orszag

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-01/smart-ways-to-keep-the-brake-on-health-care-costs.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-24/medicare-spending-slows-as-hospitals-improve-care-peter-orszag.html

Altarum Institue

http://www.altarum.org/files/imce/CSHS-Spending-Brief_July%202012.pdf

McKinsey Center for U.S. Health Systems Reform

http://healthreform.mckinsey.com/Home/Insights/Latest_thinking/Accounting_for_the_cost_of_US_health_care.aspx

Other articles

http://www.benefitspro.com/2012/08/01/health-spending-growth-at-historic-low


http://pwchealth.com/cgi-local/hregister.cgi/reg/medical-cost-trend-behind-the-numbers-2013.pdf

thausner@gmail.comthausner@gmail.com

Message to our National and Maryland Health Reform Teams for Obama

please join our National and Maryland Health Care Reform Teams for Obama. These groups will share information on health reform, organize events, convince voters of the need to re-elect President Obama, and related activities.  Please spread the word. 

here is a link to the National Health Reform Team.

 Click here to accept the invite and meet the group.

here is link to Maryland Health Reform Team 

 Click here to accept the invite and meet the group.

here is a message I sent to the national team and a similar one to the Maryland team.  Please let me know of any comments on this message. 


National Health Reform Team for Obama

Welcome to all those who have joined this team.  So far 21 of us have joined which is a good start.  I hope you can get others to join.   

   1) Next Steps

There are several steps that I think can be taken to support Obama because of his work on Obamacare [the Affordable Care Act (ACA)]  My understanding is that Obama has embraced the term Obamacare.

·         Encourage folks who support Obamacare to actively volunteer to support Obama and/or Obamacare, by making phonecalls, canvassing, making contributions, posting signs, etc.
·         Convince folks who might be reachable of the advantages of Obamacare.  I have thoughts on this, but welcome suggestions on how to do this. 

Here are a few steps that are more specific along these lines.

·         Send messages to all the folks we know that we think might be interested, encourage them to support health reform and/or Obama.

·         Share key literature with these folks and/or the information sources mentioned below..

·         I have a list of 900 folks in Montgomery County that support Obamacare. We could call that list and encourage them to volunteer to support Obama.  Calls can be made at the Obama office in Kensington or from home. 

·         Identify other organizations and individuals that we could work with

I welcome other suggestions

·         on things we can do,
·         on ways to implement these actions

Please indicate which of the above activities you are willing to be involved   .

2   2)      Information Sources

Here are few ideas on sources of information that you can use to support the above.  I have a blog in which I post a few times per week.  I will send you a few of the most important in the future as we proceed.  These posts are brief and cover some of the most important articles, etc that I have seen lately. 

a  a)      For a recent Celebration of the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare, I prepared a summary of the law and list of key reference materials which can be found at the following:

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2012/07/obamacare-party-handout-with-revised.html

At the celebration on 7/17, we first called folks in Montgomery County who were known supporters of Obamacare and asked them to be volunteers for the campaign.  We had almost 30 folks at the party, and made over 200 phone calls in 90 minutes. 

Please let me know your comments on the materials on this blog post, on how to use them, etc.

b  b)      For those who want to keep up with health care news, I highly recommend

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/

it  is a daily newsletter

Another daily newsletter that is quite useful is provided by

http://herndonalliance.org/

write to Pete Van Vranken pvan@gmavt.net   and ask to be placed on his health care media emailing list. One of the articles I found as a result of the Herndon news is the following http://tinyurl.com/cjd927j   Obama embraces health care law after court ruling           3)  Greater Silver Spring Democratic Club Annual Picnic For those of you who live in or near Montgomery County, I invite you to this event which will be held on 9/22.  For more details, see http://tinyurl.com/bwpp578 4  4)      Contact Please feel free to contact me at thausner@gmail.com  301-587-6943.