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On January 14th, 2009, the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), a 501(c)(3) charity whose motto is “Taking Care of Our Own,” took 100 elderly and infirm residents, their families and the entire Hollywood community by surprise when it announced the closure of their long-term care facility, also known as a nursing home.
This historic and vital facility has cared for many of Hollywood's greats, including Bud Abbott, Stanley Kramer, Larry Fine, Hattie McDaniel and many, many more. But now, the current generation of Hollywood heavyweights, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso, Casey Wasserman and Hawk Koch, among others, have decided unilaterally to abandon this charity's stated mission to "take care of our own" and are evicting these seniors, subjecting them to deadly transfer trauma.
Many of the residents of this historic Home -- writers, directors, actors and craftspeople -- signed over their lives’ savings and assets with the promise that this Home would be where they lived out their remaining days, surrounded by the community of their peers.
Instead, they’re being subjected to the emotional and physical trauma of forced relocation. Melody Sherwood’s mother, Kay Meyer, 94, “is in a panic believing she’s going to be thrown out and can’t go back to her room because she personally owes 10 million dollars.” Continues Sherwood, “She always believed that this was going to be her Home for life.”
Please sign our petition at www.tinyurl.com/mptfhome and join us on Facebook and at our website www.savingthelivesofourown.org. Every day that passes puts another elderly life in jeopardy.On January 14th, 2009, the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), a 501(c)(3)... more
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I am one of more than 40 million Americans who cannot afford health care -- and I think America SHOULD have government-funded health care, as Bill Maher points out so eloquently in less than two minutes.I am one of more than 40 million Americans who cannot afford health care -- and I... more
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Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a wealth of healthcare experts on the realties of this nation's healthcare crisis and proposals for potential solutions. This is part 4 of the five part series that provides highlights from the confernce including remarks from:
-US Representative Jim Cooper, (D-TN)
-US Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN)
-Stephanie Kennan, healthcare policy expert and author of the "Healthy Americans Act"
-Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former member of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, author of "Healthcare Guaranteed" and current Chair of Bioethics at the NIH Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a... more
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Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a wealth of healthcare experts on the realties of this nation's healthcare crisis and proposals for potential solutions. This is part 3 of the five part series that provides highlights from the confernce including remarks from:
-US Representative Jim Cooper, (D-TN)
-US Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN)
-Stephanie Kennan, healthcare policy expert and author of the "Healthy Americans Act"
-Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former member of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, author of "Healthcare Guaranteed" and current Chair of Bioethics at the NIH Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a... more
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Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a wealth of healthcare experts on the realties of this nation's healthcare crisis and proposals for potential solutions. This is part 2 of the five part series that provides highlights from the confernce including remarks from:
-US Representative Jim Cooper, (D-TN)
-US Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN)
-Stephanie Kennan, healthcare policy expert and author of the "Healthy Americans Act"
-Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former member of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, author of "Healthcare Guaranteed" and current Chair of Bioethics at the NIH Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a... more
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Student government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a wealth of healthcare experts on the realties of this nation's healthcare crisis and proposals for potential solutions. This is part one of the five part series that provides highlights from the confernce including remarks from:
-US Representative Jim Cooper, (D-TN)
-US Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN)
-Stephanie Kennan, healthcare policy expert and author of the "Healthy Americans Act"
-Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former member of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, author of "Healthcare Guaranteed" and current Chair of Bioethics at the NIHStudent government leaders from across the country attend a conference and hear from a... more
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Imagine a freak accident in which health insurance industry lobbyists and rare circus animals melded together genetically to create human-animal chimera that shill for the health insurance industry! Now imagine that they had a 1980's Saturday morning cartoon show! And at the end of that show there was a helpful and educational PSA! That's what this is!Imagine a freak accident in which health insurance industry lobbyists and rare circus... more
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