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“I have spent the past twelve days in St. Joseph’s Hospital on inpatient psychiatry (Unit 3-6) with Dr. Roger Levine attending. I am now going to file complaints with the New York State Dept. of Health, NYS Office of Mental Health, … Continue reading
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On Being Loaded
As a society we maintain a fiction that electric wheelchairs enable people with disabilities to be independent. The fact is that people with disabilities no longer have anyone upon whom they can depend to push their wheelchairs; that’s why we … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Medicaid, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Catholic Church, Centro, Christopher Community, disability, East Syracuse, family, HUD-subsidized housing, Kathy Hart, Linda McKeown, Medicaid transportation, power, power wheelchair, PTAC Syracuse, Public Transportation Advisory Committee Syracuse, segregation, service, St. David's Court
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Transportation: From Medicaid to Centro
The only significant consequence of my meeting with County Legislator Kathy Rapp was that my vendor stopped carrying me. He started kicking my rides back to Medicaid dispatch and saying that he couldn’t provide service in the time frame requested, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Medicaid, Onondaga County, political corruption, Poverty, Republican Party, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, government, Kathy Hart, Kathy Rapp, Medicaid transprotation, Onondaga County, Republican Party, Wayne Freeman
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From Executive to Legislative
I talked to people. I called up lots of offices and talked to all kinds of people. What I learned was that all kinds of people were hot to trot to prosecute Medicaid recipients but nobody in the world was … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Government Services, Medicaid, Onondaga County, political corruption, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Republican Party, Values
Tagged citizen, citizenship, County Legislature, David Sutkowy, Dept. of Social Services, District Attorney's Office, DSS, DSS Commissioner, Kathleen Rapp, Kathy Hart, Medicaid, Medicaid Fraud, Medicaid transportation, NYS Attorney General's Office, Onondaga County, Republican, Wayne Freeman
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Shit from Albany
Speaking of “wrong” vendors—Medicaid dispatch appeared to be violating the vendors’ right to fair trade. One vendor was talking to his lawyer about filing RICO charges against Wayne Freeman, et al. RICO is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law. … Continue reading
Crippled by Medicaid Transportation
I started using Medicaid transportation sometime in the 1990’s. I had regular appointments with a doctor whose office was on the seventh floor of a downtown building, and there was no seating in the lobby. I had been on Social … Continue reading
The Contractor and the Contractee
No, as it turned out, the ACLU could not help me. The local branch apparently consisted solely of an executive director with no staff. I was sitting out there battering my head against Mike Addario, general manager of Rural Metro; … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Onondaga County, political corruption, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ACLU, conspiracy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, John Mulroy, Kathy Hart, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Mike Addario, Nick Pirro, Onondaga County, political corruption, Post-Standard, poverty, power, Republican Party, Rural Metro, Stephen A. Rogers, Stephen Rogers, The Syracuse Newspapers, values, Wayne Freeman
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Being Followed
Kathy Hart, director of Medicaid for Onondaga County, retaliated. A few weeks after she read my email, I was followed. I went to a doctor’s appointment. When I came out and got into Thomas’ van for the return trip home, … Continue reading
Taking Note of Kathy Hart
People like to talk and what they like to talk about most is themselves—so listen, already. You want information? Call somebody up, ask a couple friendly questions, and then sit and listen. Affirmatively say “uh-huh” from time to time, but … Continue reading
Power: The Cure for Depression
I was a formerly depressed person. Sometime after I stopped taking antidepressants—but was still frequently depressed—Mary Lou Rubenstein, a friend, told me that the trigger for depression is the perception of powerlessness. Everybody in her family was depressed—parents, siblings and children—but she … Continue reading
