MCRC - The Managed Care Reform Council

The President of the United States, President Barack Obama, has requested that the citizens get up and volunteer. He has identified numerous problems in this country and he has requested the input of all citizens. We have problems in ALL of the health systems in this country and we all want to fix them. Here is where you can read about the New Administration's Agenda on Health Care in America. http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/health_care/

President Obama said on Feburary 24, 2009:

" The cost of health care eats up more and more of our savings each year, yet we keep delaying reform. "

We say - PREVENTATIVE AND REAL CARE IS NEEDED - NOT PREVENT CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our response to the decades of delay with all reform:
"IF NOT NOW, WHEN?"

President. Obama also said: "But I also know that in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger, or yield to the politics of the moment. My job – our job – is to solve the problem. Our job is to govern with a sense of responsibility."

He then went on to say: "............. we must also address the crushing cost of health care.

This is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages. And in each of these years, one million more Americans have lost their health insurance. It is one of the major reasons why small businesses close their doors and corporations ship jobs overseas. And it’s one of the largest and fastest-growing parts of our budget.

Given these facts, we can no longer afford to put health care reform on hold." He also said:

"Now, there will be many different opinions and ideas about how to achieve reform, and that is why I’m bringing together businesses and workers, doctors and health care providers, Democrats and Republicans to begin work on this issue next week. "

We at MCRC are requesting that the citizens of this country present to President Obama and to Vice President Biden your stories, your suggestions and what you see is wrong with the systems that we have working in this country today. We know of one or two Medicare Programs that are doing more harm than good but are lining the pockets of the contractors with gold. We are going to let them know about those programs.

We know that you can also show other programs that are useless. Our new President and Vice Presidnet need to know about things like this. They also need positive suggestions on how the problems can be fixed and why you think your suggestions will work.

Whether you personally support the current Administration's outlined Agenda or not is not the issue. What is the issue is that we have problems and they need to be fixed now. If you do not participate then you will only have yourselves to blame if you don't like what they do.

Right now you can do one or two things. You can email the White House with your story, what you see as the problem and your suggested solution at The Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs (OPL-IGA):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/

or you can email us at: admin@kaiserpapers.org and we will do it for you.

Or send this information to us via U.S. Mail at: - MCRC - P.O. Box 900591, Palmdale, California, 93590 and we will make sure that they receive it. Just be sure to make certain that your mailing address and if possible phone number is included because if someone in Washington D.C. wants further information they will need a way to contact you.

We are also setting up a online section if you would like the short version of your story online. The people in Washington D.C. know how to use the Internet so they will be able to also read it online if that is what they want to do. For online, make sure to let us know if you do or do not want your contact information there as well.

Again, if you don't want to contact them directly just email us with what you would like to have displayed and MCRC will present it for you. Again, the current email address is: admin@kaiserpapers.org

THE MCRC MISSION STATEMENT

The Managed Care Reform Council, MCRC provides support for the managed care patient community, studies and compiles information, conducts research related to the needs and care of the medical patient in all forms of treatment, their families, caregivers or the bereaved.

We believe that it is the responsibility of each and every person to know all that is possible about their medical diagnoses, care choices and all possible treatments, therapies and medications. It is also the responsibility of every parent, caregiver or person legally and morally responsible for another person's medical care to know all that is possible about their medical diagnoses, care choices and all possible treatments, therapies and medications. Because in today's medical world, you do not know if the provided medical care being suggested or received is for the patient's well being or for a physician's personal gain or is for an HMO to save more money at your expense.

It is your responsibility to make sure that you do everything possible to make sure and ensure, that whoever the patient is that they receive truly necessary, adequate, useful medical care and treatment for their own personal health and survival.

Nothing less than educated, informed activism on the part of the legally responsible person is acceptable today.

MCRC is incorporated as a California Public Benefit Non-profit Corporation and contributions are tax deductible under IRS 501(c)(3).