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FIRST BIOETHICS CONFERENCE ON CANCER HEATLH DISPARITIES RESEARCH


Editorial Statement:

Dr. Neil Schulman a professor/physician at Emory University School of Medicine and am impressed with your FIRST BIOETHICS CONFERENCE ON CANCER HEATLH DISPARITIES RESEARCH. For many years without any success I have been raising issues with media, the medical profession, hospital administrators, legislators, etc. THE INSANITY AND INHUMANE POLICIES IN THIS COUNTRY which allow certain STATE MEDICAID PROGRAMS to prohibit access of patients to Medicaid support when they have early signs of cancer.  The policies in these states PROHIBIT access to early treatment via Medicaid AND THE PATIENTS ARE SENT

LETTERS TELLING THEM THAT

THEY CANNOT GET COVERAGE UNTIL THEIR CANCER SPREADS.  ACCORDING TO THE LAW, THE PATIENTS MUST BE DISABLED FROM THEIR DISEASE BEFORE THEY CAN GET ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE. I have had personal discussions relating to this issue with a top administrator for the Medicaid program in Georgia.  He stated that this was VERY SAD but as a government employee he could not advocate change via legislators.   I have brought this up with the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE in Georgia at an Atlanta Press Club Meeting.  He said "I WILL LOOK INTO THAT."  SADLY, NO RESPONSE
IN A NUMBER OF YEARS.

My most recent inquiry about this issue was to a top news personality at CNN who also brushed it off saying that there are plans to correct issues relating to problems of access to health care.  He had NO INTEREST in even reporting the FACTS RELATING TO THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE which these people have to go through.   I have heard many stories of poor patients without health care insurance going home and dying with no access to treatment:  early stage malignant melanoma, prostate cancer at an early stage, early stage lymphomas, etc.  I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY

THIS ISSUE IS NOT ADDRESSED.  I KNOW THAT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE IN 2014 VIA OBAMA CARE LEGISLATION IN STATES WITH MEDICAID POLICIES WHERE ONE HAS TO BE DISABLED AND POOR BEFORE GETTING ACCESS TO CARE.  HOWEVER THIS WILL STILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT ACCESS TO MEDICAID.  Also, in the current state of the economy there are policy makers in both parties speaking about giving local state legislators even more freedom to cut and control Medicaid budgets..............people with no knowledge of medicine and people who are totally disconnected from the poor in our country.

I am also going to email you a copy of a new novel which I wrote about a poor low income kid who turns around a rich greedy unethical CEO.  This novel is being published by a CARING RICH CEO OF A LARGE PUBLISHING ENTITY WHO DOES CARE ABOUT ETHICS AND WHO IS A HUMANITARIAN.  THE BOOK IS TITLED "THE CORPORATE KID."  I will send all of you an electronic version of the novel..............the book comes out next year.

Also, I invite you and any other folks to attend THE FREE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT at Emory in April.  Any HUMANITARIAN can speak or exhibit....1500 ATTENDED LAST YEAR .......FOLKS FROM ALL RELIGIONS,
POLITICAL PARTIES, POOR AND RICH AND FROM ALL AREAS OF THE WORLD (inner city Atlanta to Cameroon to Kuwait and China).  The documentary about last year's event is at www.ghsummit.org  (second video).  It only takes a few minutes to register to speak, exhibit, etc.

All are welcome to be organizers of this event or to copy this event and have similar ones at their universities.  Tony.Xu@emory.edu  is an organizer/student.  Meetings are every Sunday at 6 pm at Emory.

THANKS FOR ANY HELP IN CONNECTING ME WITH PEOPLE WHO YOU FEEL MAY BE EMPATHETIC AND INTERESTED IN SPENDING TIME ATTEMPTING TO HELP THE POOR FOLKS IN OUR COUNTRY WITH EARLY SIGNS OF CANCER AND NO ACCESS TO CURABLE TREATMENT.  I CANNOT IMAGINE A FAMILY MEMBER OR MYSELF BEING IN THIS SITUATION.  I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE IS NOT A MAJOR GRASSROOTS OUTCRY. ABOUT THE PSCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL TORTURE WHICH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ALLOW TO HAPPEN TO THESE CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY.......IN ADDITION THESE POLICIES RESULT IN INCREASED COSTS OF HEALTH CARE FOR LATE STAGE CANCER TREATMENT SUCH THAT IT ACTUALLY COSTS MORE IN THE LONG RUN.  THE BOTTOM LINE: THE CURRENT INSANE POLICIES WHICH PROHIBIT ACCESS TO TREATMENT OF EARLY CANCER ENDS UP COSTING THE COUNTRY MORE MONEY. 

Best,

Neil Shulman
404-321-0126
nshulma@emory.edu 

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