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Dennis Lanane: Mounds Mall will be new meeting place for Triad
Changes at Anderson Public LIbrary has caused Triad to relocate
The Triad Christmas Party will be at
10:30 a.m. on Dec. 17 at the Anderson Mounds Mall.
As usual, we will have some light food and refreshments and the handsome Buddy Patterson and his lovely wife, Joyce, will be furnishing the entertainment.
Because of budget reductions, the Anderson Public Library has had to make some changes that have caused Triad to find a more appropriate meeting place.
The Mounds Mall, under new local ownership now, offered their Party Room for our meetings.
The Cook family has purchased the Mounds Mall. Under their ownership, they are dedicated to seeing the mall get back to being the community-oriented facility that it was when it first opened.
Mellinger Award
Madison County Triad will also be giving the
Mellinger Award to one of our members who have demonstrated “outstanding dedication and service to Madison County Triad.”
National Health
Care Reform
The November Triad meeting had an outstanding panel that represented the largest senior advocacy groups in Indiana as well as a Vice President from St. Vincent’s Health.
The meeting was well attended with a lot of good information and handouts to take home.
The League of Women Voters collaborated with Triad to host this event.
The panel consisted of Elmer Blankenship, President of the Indiana Alliance for Retired Americans, James Wallihan, Indiana President of United Senior Action (USA), June Lyle, State Director of Indiana AARP and Katie Humphreys, System Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy at St. Vincent’s Health.
We also had information from Julia Vaughn, Policy Director of Common Cause Indiana.
Julia sent Triad public financial reports that show health related industries “have spent an average of $1.4 million per day to lobby Congress so far this year and are on track to spend more than a half a billion dollars by the end of 2009.”
“The American people are justifiably concerned that the health industries will seek a sizable return on their investments and may defeat meaningful reform once again,” the report said.
We also had Indiana Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) counselors at the meeting to give information about existing health care insurance programs.
Misinformation
commercials
Lobby groups to stop national health care reform are spending hundreds of millions of dollars. They are using scare tactics to protect the insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, trial attorneys, and other health interests to stop reform.
The lobbyists are bipartisan in giving money to our congressional representatives. From 2000-2008, the two congressional representatives that received the most money were Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ron Paul (R-Texas).
Between them, they received nearly $5 million from health insurance, health professionals and pharmaceutical companies. Many other congressional representatives and have received over a million dollars from the same interests.
We need reform
The organizations that we had at our Triad meeting are looking for reform that will provide high quality, affordable, universal health care based on sound financing.
I would like to provide you more information but my space is limited.
I do want to thank the Herald Bulletin for sending reporter Aleasha
Sandley to cover our meeting.
Dennis Lanane is chairman of Madison County Triad. His column appears the first Sunday of each month. He can be reached at qparadigm@iquest.net.
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