Collateral Damage, Bad Medicine for Tennessee, http://talkingeyesmedia.org/collateraldamage_film.php: In 2005, when Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee announced he would reform his state's Medicaid program, people took him at his word. Little did they know that Bredesen's idea of reform meant cutting 190,000 people off the program almost overnight. The size and speed of the cuts were unprecedented; the suffering they caused was immeasurable. The sickest, neediest people were denied medical care while the nation sat by and watched, and the Governor boasted to other heads of states about his success reigning in the rising cost of health care.
This intense, moving film exposes the injustice that occurred in Tennessee and its implications for Medicaid cuts nationwide. In the richest nation in the world, where people die every day because they lack access to health care, the disparities revealed in this film are chilling.
Twenty-four screenings are scheduled across the state during the coming two weeks and during, Cover the Uninsured Week, April 23-29. Cover the Uninsured Week, http://www.covertheuninsured.org/, is a national program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, bringing awareness to the consequences of not covering the uninsured.
4/26/07 – Nashville Screening
What: Affordable Health Care for All: an evening of Film, Music, and Conversation
When: April 26, 2007 from 6:30pm – 9pm
Where: Belcourt Theatre (2102 Belcourt Ave, Nashville)
Contact: Lori Smith, lsmith@thcc2.org
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During Cover the Uninsured Week, you're invited to join special guest Maura O'Connell and others for an evening focused on the crisis in Tennessee's health care system. Watch "Collateral Damage: Bad Medicine in Tennessee"– a short documentary which movingly tells the stories of Tennesseans affected by a broken system. Discuss the themes of the film and the impact on all Tennesseans by not have guaranteed health insurance coverage for all. Listen to Maura O'Connell, Grammy-nominated singer/ songwriter, perform her music. Stand in solidarity with the 800,000 uninsured men, women, and children in Tennessee! All proceeds benefit the work of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign. Tickets are $10 at the door or online at http://www.thcc2.org.
Participate in one of the twenty-three other screenings across Tennessee from Bristol to Memphis:
4/14/07 - Nashville, TN, 12:00 noon, Compass IV Conference, Cohn Adult Learning Center, 4805 Park Avenue, Nell Levin - Tennessee Alliance, Email: nellrose@earthlink.net
4/21/07 - Nashville, TN, 6:00 pm, 1422 Sumner Ave., Pat Petty, 615/445-5575, Email: patpetty@bellsouth.net
4/19/07 - Memphis, TN,1:30 p.m., Memphis Theological Seminary Christian Ethics Class, Pete Gathje, Email: pgathje@memphisseminary.edu
4/20/07 - Memphis, TN, 7:00 p.m., Emmanual House Community, Pete Gathje, Email: pgathje@memphisseminary.edu
4/22/07 - Nashville, TN, 9:30 AM, Edgehill United Methodist Church, 1502 Edgehill Ave., Tony Garr, 615-430-8319, Email: tgarr@thcc2.org
4/23/07 - Nashville, TN, throughout the day, Alliance for Legal Services Health Law Taskforce annual training, Jennifer Tlumak, 615-255-0331, Email: jtlumak@tnjustice.org
4/24/07 - Memphis, TN, noon, 460 East McLemore, Memphis, Hosted by Southern Christian Leadership Council & local clergy, Dwight Montgomery, 901-488-4798
4/25/07 - Memphis, 11:30 AM, Center for Independent Living, 1633 Madison Ave., Memphis, Randy Alexander, 901-726-6404, Email: randy@MCIL.org
4/25/07 – Memphis, 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM, Public Library, 3030 Poplar Ave., Memphis, Patricia Thompson, Network for Health Insurance Continuance, 901-270-3131, Email: pthompson31@comcast.net
4/25/07 - Nashville, 7 p.m., Second Prebsyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., Lisa Zhito, 615-292-3343, Email: ltzhito@isdn.net
4/25/07 – Nashville, 12 noon, Southern Migrant Legal Services, 101 Church Street, Doug Stevick
4/25/07 – Knoxville, 6 PM, UNITE HERE Union Hall, 1124 N. Broadway, TN Local Organizing Group of the TN Health Care Campaign, Susan McKay, 1-877-431-7083, Email: smckay@thcc2.org
4/26/07 – Nashville, 6:30 pm, Belcourt Theatre, 2102 Belcourt Ave., Tony Garr, 877-431-7083, Email: tgarr@thcc2.org
4/26/07 - Johnson City, 6 pm, Rogers-Stout Building, Auditorium 102, ETSU, Northeast Tennessee NASW & ETSU Social Work Department, Free CEU's (certificate provided) for social workers attending this event, Dr. Bruce Dalton or Susan McKay, 423-439-6016, Email: smckay@thcc2.org
4/26/07 – Nashville, 10 am, Mental Health Cooperative, 275 Cumberland Bend Drive, Nashville, 109-Large Conference Room, Michael Kirshner, 615-743-1623, Email: mkirshner@mhc-tn.org
4/27/07 – Bristol, 6 pm, Private home, Joe-d Dowling Soka, 423-652-2811, Email: jdowlingsoka@charter.net
4/27/07 - Nashville, 7:30 AM, Tennessee Justice Center Board of Directors Meeting, Jennifer Tlumak, 615-255-0331, Email: jtlumak@tnjustice.org
4/27/07 – Nashville, Evening, East Nashville, Most likely Amy Griffith's home, 1626 Shelby Ave., Amy Griffith, 615-604-7955, Email: griffith.amy@gmail.com
4/27/07 – Chattanooga, 7:00 pm, SEIU Union Hall, 4295 Cromwell Rd., Suite 550, Matt Brown – SEIU, 615-519-1908
4/28/07 - Nashville, 7:00 PM, Private home, Email: rattlesmomm@aol.com
4/29/07 – Nashville, 12:00 NOON, McKendree United Methodist Church, 523 Church Street, Lori Smith, 615-227-7500, Email: lsmith@thcc2.org
5/03/07 – Maryville, 8 AM, United Way of Blount Co., 1615 E. Broadway, Jean Williamson, 865-982-2251, Email: smckay@thcc2.org
5/07/07 – Kinsgston, 6:30 pm, Kingston Community Center, Susan McKay, 1-877-431-7083, Email: smckay@thcc2.org
6/01/07 – Nashville, 11:00 AM, Nashville Airport Marriott Hotel (screening part of the Disabilities Mega Conference www.tndisabilitymegaconference.org/), Jennifer Tlumak, 615-255-0331, Email: jtlumak@tnjustice.org
Collateral Damage has already being screened in 18 other locations.
Do you want to do a screening? Sometime in June? Give the Tennessee Health Care Campaign a call and let us work with you. 1-877-431-7083
Take care,
Tony Garr, TN Health Care Campaign