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From Upstate Medical Center to Frank Kobliski
Taxpayer’s alert: Michael Abbot, auditor for the State University of New York, states that when he got a complaint that Upstate Medical Center’s $50 million Institute for Human Performance had been sitting two-thirds empty since its construction in 2000, he … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Power, disability, disability rights, power wheelchairs, Fraud, advocacy, activism, American medical industry, Powerlessness, Poverty, Onondaga County, Transportation
Tagged disability, Centro, Call-a-Bus, transportation, FTA, Office of Civil Rights, Upstate Medical Center, Federal Transit Administration, citizen, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Frank Kobliski, Institute for Human Performance, Linda McKeown, OCR, CNYRTA, Betty Petrie, Michael Abbot, SUNY auditor
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Calling Washington
What Sally Johnston did was create a program whereby the client, i.e., the competent citizen, would hire, train, schedule and supervise the aide. The program would be embedded in an Independent Living Organization, such as ARISE, which would do the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, CDPAP, Centro, citizen, consumer directed personal assistant program, Enable, Frank Kobliski, Linda McKeown, paratransit, Sally Johnston, Sara Wall Bollinger, success, transportation
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From God to Linda McKeown–There’s a Trip
How do I know that God’s got my back? The first and biggest confirmation of this came about three years after I was diagnosed with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, which is a rare form of kidney damage that is caused by bad doctors … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Onondaga County, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Transportation, Values
Tagged Bus, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, complaints, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, Jenifer Rich, Linda McKeown, lithium, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, paratransit, Peter Cahan, power, power wheelchair, powerlessness, transportation
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Congress, God and Antidepressants
I write about how to be an effective citizen in the United States. Where’s God in all of that? Congress has passed some Godly acts, including Social Security, Medicare and the Americans with Disabilities Act. These are things that say “I … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, drugs, God, Government Services, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Power, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, citizen, Congress, Dr. Peter Breggin, God, Holy Bible, humility, love, medication spellbinding, neurotheology, psychiatric patient, religion, Rev. Craig Schaub
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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
Discovering Power
Kathy yelled “You’ve got to do something about this! If she’s treating you this way then she’s treating everybody this way! You are smart enough and strong enough to do something about it and you have to!” All I knew … Continue reading
Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, antidepressants, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, Citizens Review Board, citizenship, City of Syracuse, Crouse Hospital, David Sutkowy, depression, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, HUD, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS OMIG, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Office of Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, Onondaga County New York, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Police Dept., values, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA, Welfare
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Death of a Citizen; Birth of a Christian
In the homeless shelter, I was required to apply for Social Security Disability (SSD). In July 1991 I was declared totally disabled and awarded SSD; with that came Medicare and Medicaid. Transitional Living Services got me out of the shelter and … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, disability, drugs, God, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Christian, citizen, depression, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, Food Stamps, God, health care, HEAP, Holy Bible, HUD, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physicians, poverty, power, Social Security, values
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