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Startpagina / Albums / Washington DC, Spring 1994 - A Bridge to Freedom 33
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Photo: From across a pool of water you can see a very large crowd of people is gathered in a plaza and on some steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Nashville Banner FROM PAGE ONE Tuesday, May 3, 1994 A-2 [Headline] Midstate woman with MD marches for health reform By Judy Holland Banner/States News Writer WASHINGTON — As she guides her electric wheelchair in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, it's clear Wynelle Carson is a woman set on independence. Her wish to live free of a nursing home prompted this 34-year-old Mount Pleasant woman with muscular dystrophy to join more than 2,000 people with disabilities in a march on the U.S. Capitol. Carson was part of a contingent from Middle Tennessee who joined other activists from across the country Monday in lobbying lawmakers and President Clinton for health care reform that includes payment for attendants who can help them live at home. It wasn't the first time members from ADAPT — Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today — picketed to draw attention to their plight. Last fall in Nashville, the group disrupted operations at the Opryland Hotel and the state Capitol while the American Health Care Association—which represents most of the nation's nursing homes — was in town for its annual convention. The protest which threatened to disrupt the Country Music Awards, erupted into a melee with overturned wheelchairs that ended in the arrests of 97 activists. Monday's rally, which included speeches and songs, was one of the mellower protests for the group, which has occupied offices, blockaded buildings and forced mass ar rests to draw the spotlight to their cause. Disabled rights activists, who want 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars diverted from nursing homes to home health care, say civil disobedience is the only way they can combat the powerful nursing home lobby. "People like me are being forced into nursing homes if we can't pay someone out of our pocket," Maury County's Carson said. "It's horrible." Carson said her father, a retired machine operator, shells out $900 a month for an attendant who helps her dress, bathe and prepare meals in her own apartment. Her mother also comes over often to lend a hand. "I feel really guilty all the time because I'm taking away from them," said Carson, who works part-time at the Technology Access Center in Nashville. "I worry if something happens to them and they've spent all their money on me, what are they going to do?" Carson joined others on scooters and in wheelchairs who waived signs such as "I don't want a handout, just a hand," or "Would you like to live in a nursing home? Not." While Canon prepared for the "Bridge to Freedom" march from Arlington Memorial Cemetery to the Lincoln Memorial, Diane Coleman of Cumberland Furnace in Dickson County joined disabled rights activists in a visit with the president. Clinton, whose health care plan would phase in $65 billion to $70 billion for community and home-based care, urged the activists to lobby for his proposal in Congress. "A lot of disabled people spend their entire lives with their parents the and then go into a nursing home when the parents die," said Coleman, Tennessee organizer for ADAPT. "In Tennessee, it's very difficult to get any in-home services if you are disabled. In that regard, it's one of the worst states in the country."
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USA TODAY TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1994 [Headline] Clinton takes healthcare pitch to disabled By Judi Hasson and Judy Keen President Clinton discussed his campaign for health-care reform Monday with some of the people who may need it most, the disabled. Even though his plan would not immediately give the dis-abled as much long-term care as they want, the president told 125 people, many of them in wheelchairs, his proposal must be passed now. "Otherwise, the forces of disinformation organized disinformation will think that the American people actually prefer to have the most expensive, wasteful, bureaucratically cumbersome health-care financing system on the entire face of the Earth," he said. Clinton lashed out at radio and TV ads criticizing his plan. "What do our adversaries say: We're trying to have the government take over the health-care system. False." He said his plan would provide "private insurance, private providers, empowerment for this man, this woman, these children, their families and their future." Clinton's plan would phase in community-based alternatives to nursing homes and provide a tax credit for 50% of care services, up to $15,000 a year. Disabled groups want, but probably won't get, immediate coverage for care-givers who go to their homes. Disabled groups from 26 states were in Washington to protest insurers' limits on their benefits. "Free our people! Free our people!" the crowd yelled after Clinton spoke. After their stop at the White House, the disabled activists led a procession to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally. Clinton's pitch was the start of another week of campaigning for his reform bill. Also Monday, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visited a supermarket that provides insurance for its workers. "Other people who are competing with you have not paid for health insurance," she said. "It is time everybody paid." Today, small-business owners will be at the White House supporting Clinton's controversial proposal requiring all businesses to Trey 80% of the cost of their workers insurance. Meanwhile, a coalition sup-porting a major switch to a gov-ernment-financed health-care system Monday unveiled its own version of "Harry and Louise" TV ads. The characters, a creation of the insurance industry, are be-coming two of the most imitat-ed people on the air. Advocates of a "single-pay-er" health system like Canada's — where the government collects taxes and pays negotiated fees to cover all the doctor and hospital bills — launched a campaign parodying the yup-pie couple scared about what reform will mean. The president and first lady did their own video spoof of "Harry and Louise" last month for a Washington press dinner. In the new version, comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Mean play husband and wife as they are in real life. In one ad, Mears recalls Harry and Louise's theme— "There's got to be a better way." And Stiller answers: "There is. The single-payer sys-tern where everyone's covered, you get full benefits and you choose your doctor." [Headline] First lady picks a pepper, rice, mango and support First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton turned first grocery shopper Monday and revealed herself to be an average, if health-conscious, consumer. Defending her husband's health-team plan and its reliance on employer-paid Insurance at a Safeway supermarket in Washington, Clinton paused to pick up a few things. 'This sounds funny, but even when my husband was governor, I'd go to the store, and I felt like a normal person," she told late-morning shoppers and store worker's, "My daughter and I would go up and down the aisles, and we'd buy things, and we'd take it home and cook it... "I know this sounds funny, especially for the women in the audience, that you would ever miss going to the store, buying things, and taking them home and cooking them. But trust me, you would." [Image caption:] By J. Scott Appiesvhite, AP. In Washington, D.C.: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton shops at a grocery store. So after remarks on the benefits of requiring employer-paid insurance, Clinton picked up a red handbasket and made like a regular shopper -- with a dozen cameras trailing. She picked out a mango, a jicama root she planned to use in a dip and a pasilla pepper. Then she grabbed a bagel, brown rice, two cans of tuna, some non-fat sour cream, two biscotti and a small container of fiesta salad. At the checkout, Clinton grabbed three magazines Woman's Day, Family Circle and Reader's Digest — and paid the $15.50 tab with a $20 bill from her pocketbook. --Richard Wolf