The Memphis Center for Independent Living

Senator Bill Frist and Deborah Cunningham.

Get involved!

Don't sit on the side lines while 850,000 Tennesseans go without health care! Get involved!

Do you believe that access to quality health care should be affordable, guaranteed and continuous for ALL Tennesseans?

If you do, we invite you to our local meetings. People in your community are planning and working on this issue from the local, state, and national levels. Health care is the #1 national domestic issue and #1 state ignored issue. How can we make this the #1 issue in your community? You can play an important role. Get active with 1 of the 8 groups listed below.

Date, Time and Places for Local Meetings:

* Cookeville - Tuesday, Oct. 23, 6:00 to 7:30 PM, Upper Cumberland Development District, 1225 S. Willow Ave., Cookeville, TN. Topic: Local Organizing Group Planning meeting with legislators and Safety-net survey. Contact Susan McKay, smckay@thcc2.org or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

* Johnson City - Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6:00 to 7:30 PM, Johnson City Public Library, 100 W. Millard St., Johnson City, TN. Topic: Local Organizing Group Planning meeting with legislators and SICKO event. Contact Susan McKay, smckay@thcc2.org or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

* Knoxville - Thursday, Oct. 25, 7:00 to 8:30 PM, Church of the Savior UCC, 934 N. Weisgarber Rd. (off Papermill Rd), Knoxville, TN. Guest Speaker: Dr. Mark Durand. Local physician has practiced abroad & will share his perspective about different health care systems. Contact Susan McKay, smckay@thcc2.org or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

* Jackson - Tuesday, Oct. 30, 12 Noon to 1 PM. Topic: Local Organizing Group's planning meeting for Town Hall Meeting with state legislators. Location: Conference call. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083 to get the toll-free call-in number to participate on the call.

* Dyersburg - Wednesday, Oct. 31, 12 Noon to 1 PM. Topic: Local Organizing Group's planning meeting for Town Hall Meeting with state legislators. Location: Conference call. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083 to get the toll-free call-in number to participate on the call.

* Nashville - Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Topic: Local Organizing Group Planning meeting for Town Hall Meeting with state legislators. Contact Tony Garr for meeting location, tgarr@thcc2.org, 615-227-7500

* Memphis - Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, Topic: Local Organizing Group Planning meeting for Town Hall Meeting with state legislators at Center for Independent Living, 1633 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or Lewis Patrick, lpat@aol.com or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

* Chattanooga - Wednesday, Nov. 14, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM. Topic: Local Organizing Group's final planning meeting for Town Hall Meeting with state legislators, Senior Neighborhood Center, 957 Boynton, Dr., Chattanooga, TN. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or Ron Naylor, ronpnaylor@yahoo.com or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

* Nashville - Thursday, Nov. 15, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Town Hall Meeting with State Legislators. Location to be announced. Contact Tony Garr for Town Hall meeting location, tgarr@thcc2.org

* Chattanooga - Monday, Nov. 19, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, Town Hall Meeting with State Legislators, AIM Center, 472 Martin Luther King Blvd. Chattanooga, TN. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or Ron Naylor, ronpnaylor@yahoo.com or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

* Dyersburg - Tuesday, Nov. 20, 6 to 7:30 PM, Town Hall Meeting with State Legislators, Professional Development Center, College St., Dyersburg, TN. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083 to get the toll-free call-in number to participate on the call.

* Memphis - Tuesday, Nov. 27, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, Town Hall Meeting with State Legislators, Prescott Memorial Baptist Church, 961 Getwell Rd., Memphis, TN. Contact Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org or Lewis Patrick, lpat@aol.com or call Toll Free, 1-877-431-7083.

SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) - In the meantime, last week a bill in Congress to extend health care for 10 million children under the age of 19 did not get the 2/3 vote in the House of Representatives to over-ride the President's veto. The vote was 273 to 156 to over-ride the President's veto, 14 votes short of the 2/3 needed. Call your congressman today and ask them to continue to work to pass a bill to provide health insurance to 10 million children, of whom 150,000 live in Tennessee and need CoverKids. Call 1-800-828-0498.

Congress will bring the SCHIP bill up again: Stay tuned. We are working to change the vote of 14 Congressman from "NO" to "YES." Tennessee has 4 members of Congress who voted "NO." They are: Congressman David Davis, John Duncan, Zack Wamp, and Marsha Blackburn.

Sincerely,

Tony Garr, Tennessee Health Care Campaign, tgarr@thcc2.org
1- 877- 431- 7083 Toll Free

MCIL Journal Index 2007

Date Name
1/4/2007 Trip to Horshoe on MCIL
1/5/2007 ADAPT Youth Appalled at Parents Surgically Keeping Disabled Daughter Childlike
1/10/2007 MCIL comments on Mayor Herenton’s Liberty Bowl Stadium plan.
1/12/2007 ADAPT of Tennessee secures several commitments from Robert Lipscomb at the Memphis Housing Authority.
1/31/2007 Disabled People and Poverty in 2007.
2/1/2007 The Road To Freedom.
2/19/2007 Mental Retardation Is No More.
2/22/2007 Community Choices Act of 2007.
3/7/2007 Harkin introduces the Community Choice Act of 2007.
3/10/2007 Text of S799 the Community Choice Act.
3/26/2007 Tennessee ADAPT Success!
3/2/2007 Motorized Wheelchairs for Nursing Home Residents.
4/2/2007 U.S. Disgrace at UN Convention Signing Ceremony.
4/3/2007 Ask the Candidates to Answer the Questions!
4/5/2007 Help Pass the Community Choice Act.
4/26/2007 Report: U.S. Needs Better System for Disabled.
5/4/2007 When Your Health Privacy is Violated, Complain!
5/13/2007 Disability Rights and the Death Penalty.
5/20/2007 Project Action Announcement.
5/30/2007 Information on the "Ashley Treatment."
6/12/2007 Housing Crisis Facing People with Disabilities.
6/13/2007 Project Based Housing Vouchers and the "Family's Right to Move".
7/10/2007 ADAPT Pushes the Community Services Act.
6/8/2007 Four Memphis Schools To Become ADA Compliant.
6/27/2007 New Report Underscores Housing Crisis Facing People with Disabilities.
7/11/2007 ADAPT recap on Senate HELP Committee long-term care hearing.
7/15/2007 HUD Secretary Asks Housing Authorities for MFP Update.
7/26/2007 Americans with Disabilities Act: July 26, 2007.
8/6/2007 Municipal Election POLITICAL SOAPBOX.
8/8/2007 Disabled People and Physically Restraints in Nursing Facilities.
8/18/2007 FY 2006: Medicaid Expenditures for Institutions versus Community-Based Services.
8/25/2007 On a "Mission from ADAPT," Disability Activists Blow into the Windy City to Attack Segregation.
8/28/2007 Abusing Drugs In Nursing Facilities.
9/12/2007 ADAPT's 2007 Chicago Action.
9/13/2007 ADAPT at AFSCME.
9/20/2007 U of M professors' benefits fall short.
9/24/2007 Another handle? One U.S. Attorney's Lawsuit Against A Nursing Home.
9/25/2007 Community Choice Act Hearing in the U.S. Senate.
9/27/2007 Victory for Institutionalized Californians.
10/4/2007 AARP Supports the Community Choice Act.
10/22/2007 Get Involved!
12/9/2007 Nursing Home Closings Show Broken System