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And that is a conservative estimate. So were just in this ground zero of Ali danger.” Forney, a gay and transgender and the youth namesake of Siciliano’s organiza- tion, was killed in He 1997. was found on Harlem’s 135th early one winter morning with a bullet in his head. ciliano has turned a in project 2002 that into the began largestits organization kind in of the fers nation. counseling His and mentoring program services as of- well as a network of eight apartments that house 48 youth on any given night. B mophobia in our society.” youth since the mid-1990s. “ of months one of our kids would get mur- d tion weans a new cohort of kids off drugs and sends a handful to college. And r they i wounds. As the executive director of A the that provides emergency and transitional h C York wheresomuchoppression and persecution andcruelty is happening peopleto because they’re Sicilianogay,” said as we drove to battle against homophobia, gender discrim- gender battleagainst homophobia, ination, racism, class — and they have the it. prove scarsto - - F report, o our left, T T S orallo had one as well. as one had orallo C y family don’t accept me hey don’t accept gay peopleaccept gay don’t hey M any of them were transgen T any of the kids do it to eat or M eenagers slowly walked up and M T BT homeless youth frequently piece e occasionale catcalllaugh rowdyand h e and my friends developed a kind of homeless youth are threearetimeshomeless youthmore BT ilson said. “ I joined Wilson and her family on the Wilson explained that survival sex fuels T When Wilson came to New York, she “I know my mommy likes me, I know ccording to the 2007 NGL ort on the streets.the on ort M ustomers. r. r. 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T edi- are are he - - - THE INDYPENDENT September 18 – October 8, 2009 13 - cia. r ga o A govern- nglandand E e — e r ns by le by ns ca o h ati First person First r llust i sal sal Healt r is systemexistsis in e United States is the only indus only the is States United e ive h h n the hospitals, and pays doctors. T ment-sponsored system in which all which in system ment-sponsored care. health guaranteed are citizens T Spain and is also how Veterans Administration the works. U.S. U have not does that country trialized system. of kind this - Order Order was restored and comments contin- health- as worldview much as was issue The (D), The of McMahon absence Rep. Michael Many called for an end to government pro- Eventually someone yelled out questioning A soft-spoken young man working with the You know it. You know that’s nonsense.” “Don’t “Don’t nonsense.” that’s know it.know You You another. out called intelligence” our abuse ued. One woman said, “Why give people who Everything: free? for everything all at work don’t education, housing, healthcare, food, clothes.” views. tired her “I’m seconded Another woman some At workhorse. the on everythingof falling point the horse is going to lay down and say, ‘Screw you, I’m going over to the other side to get free healthcare.’ Why should I work if I’ll only be penalized? Get government out of the ourselves.” of care take we’ll and way care. One man declared with passion, goes “This beyond the healthcare of Social- Soviet the Staten of Union the Island. at looking are We States.” United the of Republic ist incited considerable anger. Other politicians to proclaimed One man either. were not spared the wife use his and “LetSchumer Sen. cheers, same damned doctors that they want to push vote to call a issued Another throats.” our down “Let’s out leadership: get the current self-serv- ing, lying, hypocrite, thick-skinned politicians there.” of out hell the them expand to calls also were there but grams, and much fear of reduced Medicare services. of exclusion the about anger expressed Several and from Medicaid, “hard-working Americans” be to government the want don’t “I said, another my all hard worked I in. anything in I’m involved go- is Medicare and Medicare in I’m now and life ing bankrupt and I don’t know where I’m going up.” end to afterRight citizenship. that,of the one Obama’s few African-Americans in the got audience up and left. In response to a story Rev. Troia told about a diabetic who had to have her foot am- putated because she could not afford health- out, really called on, she “Come someone care, afford couldn’t the $200 podiatry visit?” Some- She one have on should else said, “Shame her. doctor.” the to gone forum organizers volunteered to lift give to the me ferry a when it he was said he over.was for socialized In medicine the rather car than single payer. Phy- of member board a is M.D., Boylan, S. Laura NY Metro Program Health a for National sicians professor. University York New a and R 676) he gov T anada and C he National T Health insurance r — Staten Island Staten cialized medicine — ngle Paye ften nonprofit. o i s socialized, as in Health Insurance Act (H S would institutewould singleinthe payer United States. S ernment administers healthcarefinancing, owns and operates Japan. A public agency oversees the financing of healthcare, usu- ally through income and business taxes, but healthcare delivery is facilitated by the private sector, o i Fear and Anger in Anger in Fear and an l oy nergy here better not be any illegal aliens at that meeting,” said left a for message organizers of a community B E aura L Dr. Dr. Vincent Calamia, president of the Rich- The church where the forum was held was comment- line on member The firstaudience are “There high. ran sentiment Anti-immigrant The panelist stood holding the bill aloft as y healthcare forum on Staten Island. The forum took place Aug. 12 and was sponsored by the StatenFamily Island Health Coalition.Care mond County Society, Medical presided over a hos- professionals, medical that included panel administrators service program social pital and and a representative from the local Chamber of were Commerce. Police on of hand because the menacing call. I was one of the panelists, representing Physicians for a National Health or that a supportsgroup Program, payer, single all. 2.0,for Medicare packed with 150 people. Most of the session consisted of audience comments. Dr. Calamia asked audience members to line up and limit statementsmembers twoto Audience minutes. were jeering panelists and interjecting discussion. com- the throughout ments ed on the weight of Rev. Terry Troia, a forum and organizer executive director of a nonprofit group that aids the poor. “This lady over here, she talked about preventive medicine, but she a lose He some weight.” then could challenged on physician the panel who worked at a feder- ally asking, clinic, “Whatsubsidized is the per- centage of your care going to people who are country?” this of citizens not in this country illegals gettingmillion 14 health- care without taxes. me, Tell why are they get- one was are?” we that healthcare same the ting administra- healthcare a response In comment. tor read from the text of the health reform pro- posal the section that undocumented excludes House proposed The subsidies. from immigrants Act” Affordable Health Choices “America’s bill, insur- purchase to mandates 3200), (HR includes for subsidies public regulation, insurance ance, a limited and of private insurance the purchase offered be un- the to would that option” “public 2013. in insured audience members raised a ruckus, insisting lan- “That’s the not bill. the about lying was she A accused. woman one it,” know you and guage the stood man withair jabbed up and his finger angrily, “You know that’s elsewhere in the bill. B “T - - ommitteeon Insurance compa- are C C n — he memo added that this o ommerce noted that three T C .S.House ecissi ion. and total “significantly undercounts” the number of recissions because incompleteof data provided. ditions” and cancelling of policiespeople with serious conditions such as cancer. R nies often cancel patients with coverage expensive for medical conditions, claiming they misrep- resented their medical histories. A recent memorandum from the U large insurance companiesmitted rescinding at least ad- 19,776 policies from 2003 to 2007 for a savings of more than $300 mil-l - - - Is MR atters, in O, the factory worker and the the and worker factory the O, ass, Health and Health l M CE C edical diction hat will take a fighting labor move labor fighting a take will hat M edia e e only way to medical provide care as M liticians who talk about universal ac h o A term often used to ople get only what they can pay for, or P T One One cannot eliminate class divisions in Under our medical system, the priority What access with we anneed is universal When profits matter more than human e ealth. T ealth. o that the the that o ment that rejects medical rationing, fights for for fights rationing, medical rejects that ment fighting on keeps and care medical universal inequality. class all end to Susan Rosenthal is a practicing physician, author of (2008), and a founderHealth Workers of for International People OverThe full version Profit.of this article is available at susanrosenthal.com. a human right is to provide universal access, access, universal provide to is right human a s homeless addict would all receive the best provide. can society that care medical what employers, insurance companies and governments decide to give them. cess to medical care do not mean equal ac- cess; they mean that everyone should have some access or more access. medicine without also eliminating them in access universal keeps so capitalism society, to ques- are allowed not We off the agenda. tion whether medical care, or any essential service, be should We can rationed. dispute rationing. this of extent and form the only is to cut costs, maintain profits andworkers keep under control. treatment-orientedbased,healthcarewhere We have class- the rich have access to the the bestmiddle class services,and skilled workers have limited access through pooled programs, and insurancethe poor are provided with a bare-bones assortment of funded services. government- emphasis on illness prevention and social h permits everyone in Illinois to obtain cent health de- care on a regular basis.” rights, however, medical care is rationed. 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U.S. legal option could have spelled the end of healthcaremany pro- for-profit government’s the of because viders purchasing power, lower admin- istrative costs and elimination of profits. Under pressure fromhowev- industry, the healthcare private universal coverage. universal Americans would healthcare choose system. For a example,percentvoters 70 of wellover vember1998 in universal No- in Illinois supported a nonbinding referen- dum calling on state legislators to enact “a plan for universal healthcare coverage that ceded ceded the New Deal, national but excluded M P country without a national medical plan, be- plan, medical national a without country too been has movement U.S. labor the cause Depression, Great the During it. win to weak P a Fighting Labor Move It in took a France to revolution scare Ger- m (one in(one six) no have family doctor. can wait weeks to see a doctor, months to see a specialist and many more months for treatment. d Ontarioacceptingfamilydoctorswerenew p disappeared at the same time that hospital stays have been cut, so that fewer patients.sickerDeadlyinfec- much carefor nurses tiousdiseases sweepthrough hospitals that n rently so underfunded that the supreme country’s court declared in 2004, “ rehabilitation and chronic-care have closed facilities or gone private, the transferring burden of caring for the infirm to their families. and discharged hospital patients are now d there are not enough doctors to meet thed medically required treatment.” C any M e a car ythThe m nad s of ca 14 September 18 – October 8, 2009 THE INDYPENDENT E five- to only ourselves treat scooters, push use and flying up give carpool, and share apartment- barter, stingy.com, on bargains the best of things. 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