Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts

Friday, May 02, 2008

Tim Garon, R.I.P.

Another loss to the inequity and absurd workings of the medical system of the United States. Here, in the only industrialized nation that does not consider health care a right to its people, the question must be asked - who merits the right to live? Should one be denied the right to life due to what is considered to be unacceptable extracurricular activity? If participation is prescribed from a doctor to relieve the pain and nausea from a hideous disease, is it still unacceptable? And if a person is of means to simply purchase any medical treatment necessary, would they still be denied? When does the withholding of such treatment to the person without means become unacceptable?



Tim Garon will never know the answers to theses questions. He died awaiting hope, only to be treated like a criminal. The world has lost a talented musical artist. May his death, and of others like him taken unnecessarily too soon, be a reminder of what's wrong within our borders. May it also propel others to work for what's right.

http://www.komotv.com/news/health/18475224.html

Tim's website.

Tim's MySpace Page.

Tim's CDs at CD Baby. There are links to other locations, to get his music, on the lower left of his CD Baby pages.





Monday, April 28, 2008

The Sick and Tragic - A Call For Help

This is in regards to an acquaintance of mine and a friend of my dear, late friend Rose. Rose suffered terribly due to diabetes. She was followed in death by another close friend, Billie Jean, who died because she had no health insurance and wasn't able to afford her insulin and other diabetic supplies. She was in otherwise good health, but was unable to balance her blood sugar levels one fateful day.



You may be as upset as I was to find out why Tim can't get the help he needs:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080426/ap_on_re_us/medical_marijuana_transplants

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/27/03629/6602/250/504192

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=204896115

http://www.rocketnews.com/topic/world/Timothy-Garon/