Tennessee
Health Care Campaign (THCC)
Health Care is a Human Right
Collateral Damage, Bad Medicine for Tennessee, Screenings
Across TN
April 27, 2007
This one screening has been cancelled - 4/29/07 – Nashville, 12:00 NOON, McKendree United Methodist Church, 523 Church Street, Nashville.
Attend one of the other screenings listed below:
Collateral Damage Poster
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 170,000 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.
Twelve more 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.
4/27/07 – 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, 10 AM, Tennessee Justice Center Staff & Guests, Jennifer Tlumak, 615-255-0331, Email: jtlumak@tnjustice.org
4/27/07 – Nashville, Evening (Call for exact time), East Nashville, Most likely Amy Griffith's home, 1626 Shelby Ave., Amy Griffith, 615-604-7955, Email: griffith.amy@gmail.com
4/28/07 - Nashville, 6:30 PM, Nashville Peace and Justice Center, 1016 18th Ave. South, Tamara, 615-321-9066, tamara@nashvillepeacejustice.org
4/28/07 - Nashville, 7:00 PM, Private home, Email for more information: 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
4/29/07- New Market, TN, Evening, Highlander Research and Education Center, 1959 Highlander Way, Amancio Alicante
5/1/07 - Jackson, 6 PM, Jackson Madison Public Library, 433 East Lafayette Ave., smckay@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
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