Three hundred women and over 150 intrepid kayakers took to the water, raising over $258,000 for Hospicare. Event organizers decided that due to rough waters, the swim would be conducted along the shore, with swimmers completing a 1.2 mile swim going from South to North.
Jill and I were in the lucky first wave, 4th [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Health Care’
7th Hospicare Swim a Financial and Community-Building Success
No Industry-Written Health Care Reform: Ithaca Democratic Socialists Say “Kill the Bill”
I am in favor of single payer health care, also known as Medicare for all. I won’t settle for “reform” legislation written by the insurance industry to maximize profits at the expense of working families. Former New York State Assemblyman Marty Luster and Theresa Alt of the Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) today issued [...]
Call Congress in Support of Real Health Care Reform
This timely message just in from the AFL-CIO, and I fully support it-Call your senators and representative today: 1-877-235-2465
The clock is ticking. Every hour, another five people die because they don’t have health insurance.1
How many more have to die before everyone in America has access to quality, affordable health care?
Too many have died already. We [...]
My Recent Surgery
To constituents, colleagues and community members:
Thanks to those who have inquired and offered support regarding my temporary absence from work and meetings for medical reasons.
Due to working in highly physical jobs as an electrician at Cornell for over 20 years and for seven years at Southwestern Bell as a telephone installer, I developed severe osteoarthritis [...]
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