Tea Party Movements sparks protests on wasteful government spending in healthcare.

Feb. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Dr.Z Lewis, member of the Daughter of the American Revolution, (DAR), Boston Tea Party Chapter is publicizing her American heritage roots and the popularity of the rising Tea Party Movement  to engage new listeners and garner media attention for the February 20th one hour live call in program protesting wasteful healthcare spending. The show will focus on current healthcare strategies for the homeless and uninsured.  "Many of these folks could be weaned out of the current open door policy of rehospitalizations and ER use for their care needs and kept healthier, if they were given free screeing and meds," implies Dr. Z. Lewis. She  sites  the 20/20 program on "Freeloaders"  with 53,416 views on youtube, that implies keeping freeloaders in the system, seems to be a business. She promises the upcoming program will point out the ways some folks are hospital freeloaders, while others really do need the help and would take better care of themselves if they had the means, hoping the message will be heard in Washington.

Dr. Z. Lewis sites the 65% of Americans that feel the nation is now on the wrong track, willing to shove lawmakers out of office who support the status quo in Washington, as the basis for the program.  “I am invested in healthcare reform and want to share what I am observing in the trenches as a care provider. American’s need to be aware of what is going on with the wrong kind of government-subsidized care. It is inexcusable this far into reform debate, that what remains broken, stays broken and continues to hurt taxpayers and uninsured alike.”  Dr. Z. Lewis working as a hospitalist claims, “it is the lack of free screening and  basic medications for vascular disease, diabetes, even cancer screening for those that can’t pay, that  ultimately ends up  costing taxpayers more when these folks come to the hospital severely ill.  We expect  homeless and unemployed folks to come up with the $200 dollars or more a month for the meds or care supplies, and when they can’t, or simply don’t  and get sick, they know to come to the hospital. The $200 we could be subsidizing on medications is exponentially multiplied to twenty or thirty thousand dollars for their hospitalizations which  taxpayers do pay for. It is absurb." The program will also  point out the heaviest cost  falls on the individuals developing irreversible organ damage, more disabled and less able to work or  pay for a growing list of medications and complex care needs.  Dr. Lewis and her colleagues observed, “Many of the homeless are not going to change, they simply stay in the system going in and out of the hospital for increasingly expensive care and refuse to take medications for blood pressure or diabetes or other illnesses." Others, they maintain,  "are responsible and just need the help."  

Dr. Z.  Lewis stated in a recent interview in Jacksonville, Fl., her  reason for the program."Taxpayers need  to hear more reason not rhetoric.  I feel if anyone is entitled to project the imagery and patriotism of American rebels of the Tea Party movement, protesting taxation without representation, then I am.  As a member of the Boston Tea Party Chapter of the DAR,  then wave riding the momentum of Palin and the politicization of the rebirth of the Tea Party Movement is a means to an end. Healthcare reform needs to happen and the waste exposed."

In the one hour program Dr. Lewis will take callers to share their stories and  point of  view on the need for  basic medication vouchers.
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Zoë A. Lewis, MD, FACP, diplomat of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care, is a per diem hospitalist contracted to work where internal medicine doctors are in shortage. She is also the author of acclaimed Alzheimer’s caregiver books, I Hope They Know: The Essential Handbook on Alzheimer's Disease and Care, Virtualbookworm,Publishing 2009 and Espero que sepan: La guía holística para la enfermedad de Alzheimer (Spanish Edition) Virtualbookworm, 2009. Her company, Hope Through Knowledge Resources.Org is a philanthropic community education project with the mission to promote aging and end-of-life care resources, including Blogtalkradio’s noncommercial Hospice Radio. She has held teaching affiliations with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Medicine, Caritas Christi Healthcare in Boston and now works in Florida.  Her work in the field of Hospice and Alzheimer’s has been cited by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and The National Council on Aging.   Dr. Lewis is an active member of the DAR in the Miami Biscayne Chapter.
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