Urgent Care only from 8 until 5

Yesterday evening I was cleaning in my kitchen and cut myself badly with a sharp knife. After kicking myself for failing to be more careful I called my sister-in-law and went to find an urgent care so that I could get the deep cut stitched up.

Well I and my sister-in-law found out that Presbyterian closes their urgent care offices at 5:00 p.m in our city. I can honestly say this makes no senses to me. Why would you want to overflow emergency rooms in this city and cause people to wait hours just to get treatment that at best only takes half an hour to treat.

Hospital care systems are making huge amounts of money by forcing patients to go to emergency rooms after dark. This is poor management at best and simply cruel behavior at worst.

Now I know that I am one of the luck ones because I am holding on for dear life to my healthcare insurance still I am one of those individuals who is under insured because like many I cannot always afford the co-payments when I need medical treatment.

We pasted the reform bill but I still don’t see reform for the people who need it most. Were are our representatives and why are they no taking the floor in angry defense of the people they represent against the republicans like that congressman in New York? Representatives should understand that the greatest heath care system in the world is no help at all if the doors close at 5:00 p.m while health insurance corporations rake in hugh profits.

Do Kids Count in New Mexico?

Today the rankings came out for the Kids Count and New Mexico fell to 46th in the country. When education is cut down by State Senators like Tim Jennings and John A. Smith on a regular base in the conservative media and public education is cut past the bone then students and parents get the message loud and clear that children in this state just don’t matter to people in power.

Our Governor Bill Richardson has worked hard over the past eight years to try and make things better for our children with little to no appreciation for all of his hard work but he has had to fight tooth and nail just to bring this state along on issues like child and family safety, education, transportation and resources for low income families.

Now with budget cuts thanks to a past republican president and a republican in control of our fair city we have little hope to make things better for our children. Life is getting harder and no one is listening to the people on the front lines any longer. School administrators and coaches are getting million dollar sweetheart deals while teachers are facing layoffs.

Republicans and Red Dog Democrats have pushed charter schools and now the numbers are out and the issues are the same the money goes to administration and not to provide a quality education for our children. When will republicans be stopped from harming our children in this state?

When will what the lobbyists want stop coming before the well being of our children in Santa Fe? How can we possibly put an end to lobbyists buying republican votes in Santa Fe?

If Democrats don’t get out and vote this year our children will only face harder times in the future.