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Inicio / Álbumes / Washington DC, Spring 1994 - A Bridge to Freedom 33
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The Washington Post Tuesday May 3, 1994 Photo by Frank Johnston, the Washington Post: The picture is filled with a crowd of ADAPT marchers heading toward the camera. People are carrying Long Term Care flags, mouths are open with chants and determined looks on their faces. In the front are a blonde woman (Jennifer McPhail) in a wheelchair and an ADAPT T-shirt, a large man in a power chair (San Antonio Fuentes) with his left fist raised and a poster on his legs reading "Nur$ing Home$ suck", a man (Frank Krall) in an ADAPT shirt walking, and a gray haired and bearded man (Bob Kafka) in a wheelchair yelling and with a sign that reads Free Our People. Over his left shoulder you can see Justin Dart's cowboy hat. Caption reads: Disabled people cross Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial alter meeting with the president. Disabled Meet Clinton, Stage March Aim Is to Guard Their Goals While Health Care Is Debated on Hill By Liz Spayd, Washington Post Staff Writer Advocates for disabled people met with President Clinton yesterday and later formed a wheelchair processional across the Memorial Bridge as part of a boisterous appeal to ensure their needs are met as Washington lawmakers begin shaping a national health care policy. With the help of motorized wheelchairs, guide dogs and canes, about 1,000 people joined in the protest that began at Arlington National Cemetery and ended in a rally alongside the Lincoln Memorial. Eastbound traffic across the Memorial Bridge was blocked for nearly an hour as protesters made their way toward the District. Carrying a red and white banner that read “Real Health Care for All," the group met with stares and an occasional pumped fist from joggers running by. The group's chief goal is to get coverage of the cost of in-home attendants so that disabled people can live independently rather than in nursing homes. They also are pushing for mandatory coverage of prescription drugs and items such as listening devices to help the hearing-impaired. “We need the kind of services that will allow us to live like a normal person can, so we can be productive members of society," said Clyde Carvey, a wheelchair user from Reno, Nev. Though the Clinton proposal would cover much of what disabled people are fighting for, many competing plans on Capitol Hill would not. As the debate goes on, disability leaders are hoping to use what political muscle they have to get their needs addressed in any health care revisions passed by Congress. ln a morning meeting at the White House, Clinton implored a group of about 125 activists to join in his efforts to lobby Congress for an overhaul of the nation's medical system. “This is a battle that you may be able to lead for the rest of America. You can break through to those members of Congress. You can do it," Clinton said to applause. For Clinton, yesterday's generally congenial meeting was a refreshing turnabout from past confrontations with disabled people. While he was governor of Arkansas, demonstrators chained themselves to gates outside his office until he agreed to restore cuts in a program that provided in-home care for disabled people. While Clinton was running for president, his San Francisco campaign headquarters was blocked for hours by dozens of wheelchair users who successfully pressured Clinton into including long-term care in his health care platform. Capitol Hill is the battleground now. "We've got a long way to go to get what we want, and we've got to work on the legislators to get it,” said Larry Biondi, 35, a quadriplegic from Chicago. Biondi, who has cerebral palsy, manages with the help of a personal assistant who performs the basic tasks that enable him to live on his own. "That's the most important thing people need," he said.
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On a bright sunny day a large crowd fills the shot. In the center a man in an ADAPT T-shirt wearing glasses and squinting in the sun, smiles a huge smile. He is upright in his wheelchair and caries an American Flag with Long Term Care printed at the bottom. To his right an older woman (Barb Toomer) wearing sun glasses, sits beside him and between them is a large piece of equipment like a box camera. On his other side a woman (Grace Gotchalk) looks determined, and on her other side a man (Albert Sparky Metz) is beaming a smile. Others in the crowd have the long term care flags.
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The New Yolk Times NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1994 [Image] Photo by David Scull of theThe New York Times: Picture from a distance of a line of people in wheelchairs and people walking across a plaza in front of the Lincoln Memorial.The picture is from below, two steps are in the foreground and the Memorial stands in the distance against the sky. [Image caption] Disabled demonstrators marched past the Lincoln Memorial in Washington yesterday to urge a health care plan that provides universal coverage. David Scull/ The New York Times By ROBIN TONER Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, May 2 — Supporters of a Canadian-style system of government-financed health insurance announced a new advertising campaign today, hoping to build on their success in a recent grass-roots campaign on behalf of the idea in California. The new campaign pits the comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara against the Health Insurance Association of America's "Harry and Louise," two aging yuppies fretting about the future of health care in a series of television advertisements. Appropriating the tag line of the insurance industry's spots, Ms. Meara declares in one commercial: "Harry and Louise, there is a better way." The advertising campaign is small compared with the industry's: just $1 million, only a fourth of which has been raised, as against the more than $10 million spent by the insurance association. But the advocates of a Canadian-style system, in which the government pays nearly all medical bills, have already demonstrated substantial support at the grass roots. [Subheading] Million Sign California Petition Last week a coalition of consumer, labor and doctors' groups in California submitted more than one million signatures to put a measure on the ballot this fall that would create a government-financed health care system paid for by taxes. Officials must still verify the signatures before the measure goes on the state ballot, but organizers said the number was well above the threshold required. Around the country, advocates of a Canadian-style system hope the California experience helps them in their struggle to demonstrate the political viability of their plan. They are convinced that their principal problem is not the substantive merits of a national health insurance system, but the perception in the White House and on Capitol Hill, fed by the industry groups, that it is simply too radical for the American people. The House is considered the strong-est baSe of single-payer support, but even there the Canadian-style bill has fewer than 100 sponsors, well under the 218 necessary for passage. "The giant insurance companies have spent millions in advertising, campaign contributions and lobbying to push sii,gle payer off the table," said Sara Nichols, a staff lawyer for Public Citizen's Congress Watch. "But we're still here." [Subheading] Lobbying With the Disabled The new commercials, which will first be broadcast in Washington, are an effort to put some pressure on Congress as its committees begin moving toward a vote. The campaign's organizers included Public Citizen, Neighbor to Neighbor and Single Payer Across the Nation, or SPAN. In other developments on health care, President Clinton met today with advocates for people with disabilities, arguing that his health care plan would "empower" the disabled by providing an array of new assistance to help them work and live at home. "Does it cost more in the short run?" he asked. "Yes, it costs some extra money. But if you look at the population trends in this country, if you look at the people with disabilities who are surviving and having lives that are meaningful, if you look at the fastest-growing group of Americans being people over 65, and within that group, the fastest-growing being people over 80, this is something we have to face as a people." [Subheading] A grass-roots campaign that says, 'Yes, there is a better way.' "We will either do it now in a rational way, or we will be dragged kicking and screaming into it piece-meal, Band-Aid like, over the next 10 years," the President said. "But make no mistake about it: we cannot run away from this because we can-not afford either to have everybody in the world forced into a nursing home or living in abject neglect." Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton took her health care pitch to a local Safeway supermarket, which is putting a new message on its grocery bags: "Safeway Supports Affordable Health Care for All Americans."