Once again I am going to say I am a moderate independent more often splitting my vote and researching the candidates.

I heard on the news the other day that the GOP has resurrected the “Death Panel” slogan, so any of us getting older or sick need to be very scared, very very scared that the government is going to decide who can live and who will die and most of us will be put in the “will die” column. The GOP intends to save us by defunding health care over the next few years. Well except that part insurance companies want, the mandatory pay or “purchase” will be a boom for the insurance companies. The GOP uses smoke and mirrors but make no mistake when it comes to their final decision it will be for the insurance companies and that bottom line buck.

Why can’t the Democrats get a catchy slogan like that for the one liners needed and stay on topic and ram this down the GOP throats??? The GOP is so much better at these catchy slogans then the democrats are. They are easy to understand even if not true and they are scarier than hell.

I have some suggestions. Every time a Democrat speaks about health care and what it is and isn’t, bring up the fact that only one state that has a “REAL DEATH PANEL”, and that is Republican John McCain’s state ran by GOP governor Jan Brewer..ARIZONA She has decided to create a death panel and to declare “transplants” as elective surgery and has pulled the plug literally on patients waiting for transplants that need help paying for them or the co-pay the private insurance companies will not pay. We are talking the elderly, young parents and the worse young children.

The Republican governor, Jan Brewer did an elimination of transplants to save $800,000 and by doing so makes Arizona the only state to do so in the past two years, according to a report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health-care researcher in Menlo Park, California.

What the governor calls Cadillac care, optional service, we’re talking a life-or-death decision,” Anna Tovar, state representative from Tolleson Arizona said noting that her insurance paid for a life saving bone marrow transplant two years ago, which poor Arizonians won’t get.

Arizona’s health-care costs were increased by a 2000 ballot measure designed to use money from a tobacco-lawsuit settlement to expand coverage for the poor, according to John Kavanagh, a Republican who chairs the appropriations committee in the state House of Representatives. Ah where did that money go?

Of the 185 million dollars given to governor Jan Brewer as stimulus funds went for real necessary things like; $2 million went to study the use of algae as fuel, more of the millions went for a new roof on the coliseum, which is the home of the revenue-generating state fair, several million went to fill pot holes on streets. About $30 million seems to be in cyber space still waiting for an explanation.

Britain’s Channel 4 reports on a recent encounter with Gov. Brewer regarding the matter:

Reporter: “How many people have to die before you are prepared to reverse your decision on the transplant operations?” seemed like an obvious question.

Governor Brewer: “That was unfair”

A state paid aid, paid with tax payers money, promptly came to her rescue and said “Next question please”.

The governor says to call Washington D. C. to get her more stimulus money which is ironic since she blasted the original funds, and then took them and spent them. Brewer is also against the new health care passed by Congress in 2009.

Then you have the newest elected congressman very anti what has been termed “Obama Care”, GOP Congressman Andy Harris from Maryland a doctor working at John Hopkins wants to know how quick does insurance which pays for him and his family being a new representative kick in for his government provided insurance. When told it was 28 days he threw a fit saying, well anyone that gets a new job gets insurance with that job on day one… Ah yea that government health care that they get courtesy of the American Tax Payers. .By the way Congressman how is that COBRA option working out for you?

I suggest you call your U. S. Congress person or U. S. Senator with a couple of questions: 1. Do you have a Living Will? 2. Do you have a medical directive? Do you have a medical proxy? Does your doctor know you are an organ donor? How about the wives and kids do they have all of that? Then the BIG question, did you discuss this with your doctors so they know what you want?

I had to have a lawyer do my three; a Living Will, Medical Directive and Medical Proxy. When I see a new doctor they scan it and put it in my file. Wouldn’t it be nice if Medicare allowed them to spend 15 or 30 minutes with me to discuss what I want and why I want it and to make sure I understand what the things I have listed will or will not do?

So Congress Person and/or Senator, does your doctor know what you want so you stay in control of your medical care? If they do did we the taxpayer by proving you that government run insurance pay for you to have that discussion? If the answer is yes, then why should I be denied that same dialogue with my doctor just because Medicare will not pay for that extra time?

Do the K. I. S. S. (Keep it Simple Stupid so I can understand and relate easily to the discussions on this) democrats: 1. Point to the GOP ran state of Arizona about real death panels, and point out if for members of congress and their families have these discussions with their doctors and is it on our buck?

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Next week I will give my thoughts on who the members of Congress and Senate really listens to and it is not us the voters.

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This video is in Mike native tongue of Armenian. I was sent the translation but I believe it needs none. The music and images speak volumes to our hearts. This song was written by one of Mike’s relatives, the number one song composer in Armenia.

Mike changed lives, he gave so much in his nineteen years and he continues to change lives daily. I can’t help but stop to think how much more Mike had to give all of us if he had lived. The world is a better place for Mike being here but it could have been so much more if Mike had not been murdered.

In my communications and talks with Mike’s family, today they still speak of Mike in the current tense. “Rose you know my boy will be twenty this Friday”, “My wife everyday sees something she wants to buy for Mike knowing he will love it”. The current tense and the frozen in time is what caused tears to flow freely as I listened to his parents. We pledge to continue to remember Mike and to support his loved ones in their quest for justice.

The investigation and charging the people who killed him over a text message has stalled. It is easy to say, “hey just one more of many murders here in L. A. county, we just don’t have the funds or the man hours to hunt these people down or build the case it would need to convict them”. If anyone deserves that extra time, care, funds to solve this and bring those to justice who did this, it is Gombert, Mike, Yepremya.

I hope each of you will contact the media in your home town to ask why? If not for Mike then who in our country is deserving of justice? Contact the national media, Keith Olbermann at Countdown@msnbc.com, Rachael Maddow at Rachel@msnbc.com and Lawrence O’Donnell at thelastword@msnbc.com of MSNBC, their email address, blogs and twitter accounts can be found on the MSNBC pages. Contact Anderson Cooper of CNN or Dr. Santa Gupta and ask if not Mike then who deserves justice. For once I say contact Fox News if you have a favorite person you watch on their news. Contact Jerry Brown’s office in Sacramento California, and the D. A. for Los Angeles County. It takes but just a minute to say that Mike gave so much too so many and if not for Mike then who is deserving of justice in our country?

When you think life is overcoming you, or you are angry at someone, put it in the larger picture and realize what most of us face everyday is nothing compare to what Mike’s parents and loved ones face daily.

I leave you with this picture of Mike and his parents in such a happy time, and a list of how Mike continues to impact all of our lives and that his maturity at nineteen will impact our lives for the better forever. Be an organ donor.

Each of these people listed as recipients of Mike’s gift as a donor was near death and hanging on praying for a miracle. Each was at the top of the organ donor list because of their heath deterioration and the need for an organ or tissue to literally give them the gift of life.

Gombert’s [Mike] left kidney was transplanted into a 47 year old woman in southern California. She has four children and several grandchildren. With her gift of life, she no long needs dialysis.

A 51 year old woman in southern California is the recipient of Gombert’s right kidney. She is married and the mother of seven children. This woman started dialysis in 2001 and she is now free from dialysis.

Gombert’s liver was transplanted into a 63 year old woman in southern California who is the mother of seven children. We are told that she is now doing well and can look forward to a return to health.

Gombert’s heart was transplanted into a 44 year old southern California man. We are told that he has a degree in computer science and that following his transplant, he is now doing well.

In addition Gombert’s tissue in the form of bone, skin and veins is a gift of immeasurable value as there are many thousands of people waiting for a tissue transplant that will enable them to return to a normal life. The bone tissue can restore quality of life to those that may have suffered traumatic injuries, cancerous tumors or degenerative disease. Gombert’s skin tissue can be used to fill soft tissue loss from cancer or trauma, restore bladder control in the treatment of incontinence and in periodontal surgery to correct gingival defects. His veins can help patients suffering from peripheral vascular disease. Many of these patients are at risk for amputation and this is the only remaining alternative.

A Letter From one of the recipients of Mike’s gift of life:

“I am now able to walk again and I am no longer on dialysis. I have improved so much. My seven children, twenty-five grandchildren and twenty two great grandchildren are all organ donors today and all give blood the gift of life often. With this experience, we have learned a lot. My family and I have learned that we should help others. The gift of life you have given to us has changed our lives and has made us realize each of us owe so much to others, we must all be organ donors.”

On New Year’s Day on the Donate Life’s float, themed “Seize the day”, in the Rose Parade Mike will be honored for the gift of life he so unselfishly gave to others in his death. There will be a single rose and a heart felt message from his family to the world.

From a Friend of Mike’s a Beautiful poem:

I wish heaven had a phone so I could hear your voice again: .
Thought of you today, but that is nothing new.:
I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.:
I think of you in silence, I often speak your name.:
All I have are memories and pictures in frames.:
Your memory is a keepsake,…from which I’ll never part….:
God has you in his arms, I have you in my heart.:

Stop for just a moment today to think and pray for Mike’s family.

Mr. and Mrs. Yepremyan, Thank you for your son who cared about others, you have changed our lives forever.

If not Mike, then who deserves justice in our country?

©Rose Turner
October 29, 2010
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