HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE
325 East 25th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, Baltimore Quaker Peace and Justice Committee of Homewood and Stony Run Meetings and Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility are continuing the FILM & SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS DVD SERIES.  The DVDs will be shown at Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218, on the First Friday.  After the peace vigil, there will be a potluck dinner. At 7:15 PM, from January through June, a DVD will be shown with a discussion to follow.  There is no charge, and refreshments will be available. 

The series theme is THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED!

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014

THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE [USA, 2011]: Produced by Canadian/American couple Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, this documentary reveals the public relations campaigns that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900's to dissuade the American public from supporting national health care.  The film reveals the real story of how the health care systems in Canada and the United States evolved to be so completely different, when at one point they were essentially the same. Every day people are dying or going bankrupt due to the ills of the United States system. Dr. Richard Humphrey of Physicians for Social Responsibility will lead the discussion.

Call 410-366-1637 or email mobuszewski [at] verizon.net for further information.  

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/61-61/21273-the-obamacare-we-deserve


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Baltimore Healthcare-Now! Maryland Meeting

Oct, 17th, 7:15PM September 27, 2013

This month’s meeting is on October 17th, Thursday.

Meetings are held at the Diocesan Center, Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, NE corner University Parkway and Charles Street, Baltimore, 7:15-9:15 PM. Ample, free parking.

For more information contact (410) 235-3504.

Members, friends, and inquirers about Healthcare-Now of Maryland are all invited to the Healthcare-Now of Maryland monthly meetings.




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Join the march for health justice on October 26th at 2:00 PM. We will meet at the Creative Alliance Theater for a short rally and rehearsal of our street theater and then march to the Carefirst Office in Canton (First Mariner Building). To sign up go the Healthcareisahumanrightmaryland facebook page.

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Healthcare is a Human Right - Maryland Healthy Lives. Healthy Community.


“Just because you’re rich doesn’t mean that you are allowed to be healthy, and that the guy who’s busting his butt with two or three jobs or the woman who’s doing that can’t afford to have their children raised with good health care. It’s just — it’s immoral. That’s the whole point of the campaign.” - Frank Reitemeyer, member of our Carroll County chapter.

Folks throughout Carroll County are gearing up to come together this Saturday for the beginning of our Statewide Healthcare Speakouts!  Word is spreading throughout, including in today's front page article on the Carroll County Times. 

We hope to see y'all in Westminster on Saturday as we tell our own stories and make our struggles and leadership visibile!

And don't forget about the subsequent speakouts throughout Maryland:
  • May 18th - Howard County 
    2-5 pm - Miller Branch Library
     
  • June 22nd - Frederick County
    1-4 pm - All Saint's Episcopal Church
     
  • July 13th - Calvert County
    & More on the Way!
Our campaign needs your participation! Email us to get involved with your closest Organizing Committee, or to get help in starting your own.  We are also entirely funded by grassroots donations and would greatly appreciate your support if capable! Please Become a Sustainer & Help us Grow Our Movement! See y'all on Saturday!

In solidarity,

Healthcare is a Human Right - Maryland
HealthcareisaHumanRightMD@gmail.com

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Healthcare is a Human Right - Maryland Healthy Lives.

Healthy Community. Join Healthcare Now-Maryland and members of our campaign on March 4th 7-9 pm at the Diocesan Center in Baltimore (N. Charles & University Parkway) for a presentation by Dr. Walter Tsou, past president of the American Public Health Association and former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia, on the pressing need to improve our healthcare system beyond the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, Dr. Tsou will be sharing the crucial moral and economic reasons why we must work towards universal healthcare in Maryland and throughout our country.

This event will provide an opportunity to educate ourselves further in preparation for the Community Dialogues we are beginning to organize across the state.  Beginning in April, counties around Maryland will be organizing large public forums where Marylanders from diverse communities will share their health care stories, realize they are not alone, and join the growing grassroots movement to ensure this healthcare crisis does not continue!

We hope y'all can join leaders from throughout the state on March 4th to learn details of why we must fight for our human right to health care, and why we cannot afford to settle for current "reform" that exacerbates inequality and emphasizes profit over people.

Details:

When: Monday, March 4th . 7-9 pm  Doors Open & Snacks Start at 6:30
Where:  4 E. University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21218  (Intersection of Charles St. & University Parkway)

Help Sustain Our Movement for Healthcare for ALL Marylanders! Thanks again for all your leadership and support, and let's keep the momentum going!

In solidarity,

Sergio España
Healthcare is a Human Right - Maryland
240-478-8193


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OBAMA AND THIRD WAY CORPORATE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALREADY LET US KNOW THEY INTEND TO MAKE CUTS TO ENTITLEMENTS .......WE NEED TO SHOUT LOUDLY AND STRONGLY TO LET THEM KNOW WE PLAN TO REVERSE ANY CHANGES THAT COMPROMISE THESE PROGRAMS.  IN MARYLAND, ALL DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID THEY WILL CUT ENTITLEMENTS.  BE SURE TO

VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE!


Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to President Obama: "Stand up to Republican hostage takers. No cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits. And end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans." Automatically add your name: Learn more about this campaign

"[S]tanding up to hostage-taking is the right thing to do for the health of America's political system. So stand your ground, Mr. President, and don't give in to threats."1 -Paul Krugman

Stand your ground, Mr. President.

Dear Cindy,

Democrats just won big at the ballot box, with President Obama crushing Mitt Romney and Democrats winning more seats in the Senate.

But Congress is still headed for a major showdown over federal spending before the end of the year.

And as Paul Krugman noted last weekend, once again Republicans are "threatening to tank the economy unless their demands are met."2

We need President Obama to stand up and draw a line in the sand to reject any deal that cuts Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits, or cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

Tell President Obama: Stand up to Republican hostage takers. No benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, and no tax cuts for the top 2%. Click here to automatically sign the petition.

Let's be clear, there are any number of crises that demand urgent action by Congress — the foreclosure crisis, the unemployment crisis, the climate crisis to name just a few — but reducing the deficit isn't one of them.

Furthermore, while politicians and the punditocracy in Washington are issuing dire warnings in an effort to generate a crisis atmosphere, the only concrete thing they can point to in order to support their Chicken Little routine is the so-called "fiscal cliff," the automatic cuts and tax increases that go into effect in the beginning of the year.

But these cuts and tax increases are themselves the result of pre-emptive caving by President Obama and others to the Republicans' earlier (successful) attempts at hostage-taking.

And if you take the danger of spending cuts to heart, the policy prescription should be stimulus spending, not cutting Medicare or Social Security benefits or giving away unneeded tax cuts to the wealthiest.3

As Krugman aptly points out:

"Contrary to the way it's often portrayed, the looming prospect of spending cuts and tax increases isn't a fiscal crisis. It is, instead, a political crisis brought on by the G.O.P.'s attempt to take the economy hostage. And just to be clear, the danger for next year is not that the deficit will be too large but that it will be too small, and hence plunge America back into recession."4

Tell President Obama: Stand up to Republican hostage takers. No benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, and no tax cuts for the top 2%. Click here to automatically sign the petition.

The best thing President Obama can do is stay strong.

It's hard to imagine that President Obama could cut a better deal in the lame duck than what he could accomplish in the next Congress, with more Democrats in the House and the Senate.

But there are deeply worrying signs that President Obama, after overwhelmingly beating Mitt Romney, is intent on cutting a deal with Republicans before the end of the year.

We can't afford to take anything for granted.

It has been widely reported that President Obama has offered up benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in previous deficit negotiations. And while President Obama has said he'd veto any extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, he has caved on important issues in the past.

So we need to keep pushing and tell President Obama to draw a line in the sand. Click the link below to automatically sign the petition:

http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6990221&p=obama_standyourground&id=50624-5766099-spsbdKx&t=10

Thank you for speaking out.

Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets




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PLEASE ATTEND THESE MEETINGS AND THANK THESE GROUPS FOR THEIR ADVOCACY AND TELL THEM YOUR REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES!  IT IS CRITICAL TO SPEAK OUT AS CONDITIONS ARE ABOUT TO BECOME WORSE!!!!!!

It’s time to engage, get energized, and connect with friends who share your vision for a world without homelessness. Click here to RSVP for the Annual Community Meeting.

The Annual Community Meeting
October 9, 2012
5:30 – 7:30 pm

Health Care for the Homeless
421 Fallsway, Baltimore, MD 21202

RSVP at meeting.hchmd.org or call 443-703-1336

Let’s celebrate the lives you’ve changed and build the future for those who still need us. Together we make a powerful community. Let’s reaffirm that we will never give up.

For more information about our work, visit hchmd.org.


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LISTEN AND PARTICIPATE IN THESE EVENTS AS WE HAVE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE DOING GOOD, BUT ARE WORKING WITHIN A SYSTEM THAT LIMITS AND SOMETIMES DISTORTS THE GOALS.  LET THEM KNOW WE WANT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS AND HEALTH CARE FOR ALL TO GO PUBLIC WITH THE STATE OF HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR/LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN THE STATE.


« There’s a fine line between housed and homeless New report on Medicaid expansion » Free webinar on Medicaid expansion: Helping homeless individuals connect to health care Published on September 21, 2012 in Conferences & Presentations. 0 Comments Tags: health reform, Homeless, medicaid, webinar. Thursday, 9/27 at 1pm join a free webinar – “Connecting Homeless Individuals to Medicaid and Health Care Services: Key Lessons from Administrators and Frontline Workers.”

Register here:  https://www.nhchc.org/event-registration/?ee=39

A key goal of Affordable Care Act is to reduce the number of uninsured through new coverage options for individuals and families. Beginning in 2014, states have the option to expand Medicaid to nearly all individuals with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level ($15,000/year for an individual), which will greatly increase health care access to millions of low-income Americans. Given their high uninsured rate & limited access to care, individuals who are homeless are one group who could significantly benefit from this expansion.

The discussion will identify common Medicaid enrollment and access barriers, successful strategies to overcome these barriers, and future considerations for implementing the Medicaid expansion under health reform.

Presenters:

  • Rachel Arguello, MPH; Policy Analyst, Kaiser Commission for Medicaid and the Uninsured, Kaiser Family Foundation; Washington, D.C.
  • Kevin Lindamood, MSW; President & CEO, Health Care for the Homeless, Inc.; Baltimore
  • James Kowalsky, BA; PATH Outreach Worker/Mental Health Professional Heartland Health Alliance; Chicago
This webinar will highlight the collaboration between the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council through focus groups with HCH administrators & frontline workers.




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PLEASE CALL AND COMMENT ON THIS BY SEPTEMBER 28
Baltimore is a city with a high number of row houses having lead paint problems.  We need the health department tracking these children because trying to determine 'least exposed' in an under-served community where moving from house to house is quite frequent and visits to a doctor may be infrequent will create the likelihood of failed tracking.

More important to Baltimore's families is that the Maryland legislature with Maggie McIntosh at the lead reacted to this Federal mandate by passing laws that protect landlords against lead paint lawsuits by precisely defined guidelines for reporting exposure to lead paint (if only we could get this same legislature to define fraud that well).  This was done so as to keep landlords interested in properties that should be condemned for the levels of lead paint in these houses.

Baltimore needs to rescind that new lead paint legislation and shut down those row houses with dangerous levels of lead.  It is not better to keep a property occupied than to protect a family from exposure.

Maryland seeks comment on low-level lead exposure Federal guidelines expand caseload while funding cut

By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun 6:47 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2012

State health officials are seeking the public's advice on how to deal with new federal guidelines expanding the number of young children deemed at risk of harm from low-level lead exposure. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is considering whether to have local health departments follow all young children testing positive for low levels of toxic lead in their bloodstream, or to leave the least exposed youngsters to doctors and other health care providers to track.

Earlier this year, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention effectively halved its long-standing threshold for acting on low-level lead exposure in young children. The new level of 5 parts per billion potentially adds 3,500 new cases in Maryland to the 500 identified two years ago under the old, higher exposure threshold. But the CDC also cut federal aid for local and state health agencies to follow lead poisoning cases. Even small amounts of lead have been shown to cause lasting learning and behavioral problems in young children.

State health officials also are seeking public comment on whether the state should notify parents of children whose blood tests in previous years showed lead levels between 5 and 9 parts per billion and recommend those youngsters be retested. The CDC had recommended doctors contact their patients, but at least some providers have said they have no ready way of identifying those children.

The deadline for commenting is Sept. 28. For more information and directions on how to comment, go to dhmh.maryland.gov or call 410-767-6499.


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We appreciate the shouting but we are seeing little actually done.  There is so much fraud out there that there could be billions recovered with just cursory searches, and this search for fraud should go back a decade at least.  Again we shout to the policitians as should you .......WHERE ARE THE FRAUD LAWS!!!
Press Releases
Details for: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES GROUND-BREAKING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE FRAUD

For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 26, 2012 Contact: CMS Office of Public Affairs
202-690-6145

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES GROUND-BREAKING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE FRAUD
Washington - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the launch of a ground-breaking partnership among the federal government, State officials, several leading private health insurance organizations, and other health care anti-fraud groups to prevent health care fraud. This voluntary, collaborative arrangement uniting public and private organizations is the next step in the Obama administration’s efforts to combat health care fraud and safeguard health care dollars to better protect taxpayers and consumers.  ANOTHER INDUSTRY POLICING ITSELF.......THAT NEVER WORKS

The new partnership is designed to share information and best practices in order to improve detection and prevent payment of fraudulent health care billings. Its goal is to reveal and halt scams that cut across a number of public and private payers. The partnership will enable those on the front lines of industry anti-fraud efforts to share their insights more easily with investigators, prosecutors, policymakers and other stakeholders.  It will help law enforcement officials to more effectively identify and prevent suspicious activities, better protect patients’ confidential information and use the full range of tools and authorities provided by the Affordable Care Act and other essential statutes to combat and prosecute illegal actions.

“This partnership puts criminals on notice that we will find them and stop them before they steal health care dollars,” Secretary Sebelius said.  “Thanks to this initiative today and the anti-fraud tools that were made available by the health care law, we are working to stamp out these crimes and abuse in our health care system.”

One innovative objective of the partnership is to share information on specific schemes, utilized billing codes and geographical fraud hotspots so that action can be taken to prevent losses to both government and private health plans before they occur. Another potential goal of the partnership is the ability to spot and stop payments billed to different insurers for care delivered to the same patient on the same day in two different cities. A potential long-range goal of the partnership is to use sophisticated technology and analytics on industry-wide healthcare data to predict and detect health care fraud schemes. 

 “This partnership is a critical step forward in strengthening our nation’s fight against health care fraud,” said Attorney General Holder.  “This Administration has established a record of success in combating devastating fraud crimes, but there is more we can and must do to protect patients, consumers, essential health care programs, and precious taxpayer dollars.  Bringing additional health care industry leaders and experts into this work will allow us to act more quickly and effectively in identifying and stopping fraud schemes, seeking justice for victims, and safeguarding our health care system.”
 The Executive Board, the Data Analysis and Review Committee, and the Information Sharing Committee will hold their first meeting in September.  Until then, several public-private working groups will continue to meet to finalize the operational structure of the partnership and develop its draft initial work plan.

The following organizations and government agencies are among the first to join this partnership:
 
•  America’s Health Insurance Plans
•  Amerigroup Corporation
•  Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
•  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana
•  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
•  Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
•  Federal Bureau of Investigations
•  Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General
•  Humana Inc.
•  Independence Blue Cross
•  National Association of Insurance Commissioners
•  National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units
•  National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association
•  National Insurance Crime Bureau 
•  New York Office of Medicaid Inspector General
•  Travelers
•  Tufts Health Plan
•  UnitedHealth Group
•  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
•  U.S. Department of Justice
•  WellPoint, Inc.

The partnership builds on existing tools provided by the Affordable Care Act, resulting in:

•  Tougher sentences for people convicted of health care fraud. Criminals will receive 20 to 50 percent longer sentences for crimes that involve more than $1 million in losses;
•  Enhanced screenings of Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers to keep fraudsters out of the program.
•  Suspended payments to providers and suppliers engaged in suspected fraudulent activity.

The administration’s efforts to date have already resulted in a record-breaking $10.7 billion in recoveries of health care fraud over the last three years. For more information on this partnership and the Obama administration’s work to combat health care fraud, please visit:

http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/03/fraud03152011a.html
www.stopmedicarefraud.gov

Submit Feedback
Please go to this website and submit feedback as to the lack of health care fraud laws on the books.  They know they are setting the people up for future failure to convict without these laws!
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Please attend these public meetings and shout loudly and strongly for Medicare for all.  make sure these Health Zones don't simply fall in Enterprise Zones as these areas are affluent and don't need taxpayer subsidized clinics...... 

Health Enterprise Zone Public Forum



Thursday, July 19th

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

University of Maryland SMC Campus Center

Room 349

621 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Complimentary parking is available on the surface lot at Greene and Pratt Streets. Enter from Greene Street.



Hosted By



Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Community Health Resources Commission

Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities

Baltimore City Health Department



For more information visit:

http://dhmh.maryland.gov/healthenterprisezones/

For questions contact :

hez@dhmh.state.md.us



Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown



Secretary Joshua Sharfstein, M.D.

Commissioner of Health Oxiris Barbot, M.



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If you think health care, education, labor and pensions, and conditions for families and children are at an all time low, look to Mikulski.  During her tenure the US has become a basket case riddled with fraud in each sector she oversees.  These block grants are typically used by Republicans to direct funding to selected locations rather than open for all.  That is what this is.  It is meant to funnel money again to the enterprise zones chosen by Johns Hopkins.  She chairs the funding of the FBI's white collar crime units and saw that they were funded at an all time low.....at a time of greatest crime. 

Mikulski To Hold Hearing On Child Health Care
July 26, 2012 9:04 AM   WASHINGTON (AP) —

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is convening a hearing on child health care needs.

The hearing, scheduled for Thursday in Washington, is being held to discuss ways the Child Care Development Block Grant can help child care programs better meet the needs of families.

Mikulski, a Democrat, is the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Children and Families Subcommittee.

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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SIGN THIS PETITION ON CREDO AND SHOUT LOUDLY TO YOUR POLITICIAN THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL.

Tell the Democrats: The time has come for Medicare for All.

Despite the Supreme Court leaving most of President Obama's health care law intact, the prognosis is still grim for America's broken health care system.

Republican governors and conservative state legislators are already planning to reject the Medicaid expansion envisioned in the health care law.

This will leave millions of low-income Americans without any kind of health care coverage, in addition to the tens of millions we already knew the law wouldn't cover. 1

And Republicans in Congress are determined to repeal the law — and they might gain the power to do so in the next election.

We need to solve America's health care crisis, and we know it may take awhile. So with health care reform back in the public debate, we need to start advocating now for the real solution: single-payer health care.

Tell Democrats: Support Medicare for All. Click here to automatically sign the petition.

Every other industrialized country in the world provides quality, universal health care at a fraction of the cost of the U.S. system.

Private insurance companies are a big part of our problem. And while President Obama's health care law made some positive reforms and will expand health care coverage to millions of Americans, it guarantees customers and profits for insurance companies who put profits before people.

These companies didn't want to compete with a "public option" for a reason — they want to maximize profits and minimize care.

Medicare, on the other hand, already covers 40 million Americans over the age of 65, providing quality care at prices that are much lower than the private market. It's also quite popular and unquestionably constitutional.

We should expand it so that it covers everybody.

Tell Democrats: Support Medicare for All. Click here to automatically sign the petition.

Let's remember, when health care reform went through Congress, a single-payer system like Medicare for All wasn't even on the table.

In another example of Democrats pre-emptively caving to Republican obstructionists and their insurance company lobbyist friends, the starting position for the Democrats was a compromise in the form of a public health care option that might compete side-by-side with private insurance plans.

And then that compromise was compromised even further when the Democrats jettisoned the public option.

With health care back in the national spotlight, we can't let the strongest voices be the Republicans in Congress who are working to defeat President Obama and the insurance companies looking to wring as much profit as they can from the rest of us.

If we do, we know how that will turn out.

America's health care system is in crisis, there's no more time for half-measures and unworkable compromises when we know Medicare already works.

Tell Democrats: Support Medicare for All. Click the link below to automatically sign the petition:

http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6904576&p=medicare_for_all&id=42925-5766099-DIJ2TZx&t=10

Thank you for speaking out.

Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets


Footnote:
1. "Over 9 Million Low-Income Americans at Risk From State Medicaid Expansion Opt-Out," FDL News, 06-30-12.

Further reading:
A. "Michael Moore: Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling a Victory on the Path to Single Payer," Democracy Now!, 06-29-12.
B. "Bernie Sanders, Nurses: We Still Need 'Medicare for All'," The Nation, 06-28-12.
C. "Medicare for All: A Single Solution to the Health Care Fracas," Yes! Magazine, 06-29-12.


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WHEN YOU HAVE A MEDICAL PAYMENT DISPERSEMENT SYSTEM THAT HAS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WASTE AND FRAUD, THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS ELIMINATE THE WASTE AND FRAUD, THEN YOU LOOK AT THE PAYMENT SYSTEMS.  YOU WILL FIND THAT IF THE ABILITY TO STEAL IS REMOVED, THESE DOCTORS AND HEALTH INDUSTRIES WOULD AUTOMATICALLY CREATE A MORE EFFECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM.  IS IT TOO EXPENSIVE TO GET A PREVENTIVE XRAY EVERY YEAR, OR IS THE COST OF THAT XRAY INFLATED AND NEEDS TO BE REDUCED?  YOU CAN BET THAT THESE GUYS WILL CHOOSE FEWER  

Medicare Physician Payments: Perspectives from Physicians United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 10:00 AM
215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements Max Baucus
(D-MT) Orrin G. Hatch

(R-UT) Witness Testimony Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, President-Elect, American Medical Association, Lexington, KY Glenn Stream, MD, President, American Academy of Family Physicians, Spokane, WA Frank Opelka, M.D., FACS, Professor of Surgery and Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs, Office of the Chancellor, Louisiana State University, Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA W. Douglas Weaver, MD, MACC,, Vice President and Systems Medical Director of Heart and Vascular Services, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI Barbara McAneny, MD, Chief Executive Officer, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants, Albuqurque, NM ~