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NEW PRESS RELEASE -- AUGUST 17TH 2007
Governments worst nightmare!! When the public learns just how dramatically they can affect their congressman’s public pocketbook by donating to local community charities.
Case in point: as citizens begin to realize they can take advantage of IRS code section 170, (http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=134331,00.html) which explains that their tax dollars (which normally are paid to the state or federal government in the form of income taxes), can now be held at a local community charity level (i.e. in your own community); the government gets quite nervous.
As such, lets look at some very important statistics. "385,000 Americans are living with end stage renal disease (ESRD). By the year 2030, it is estimated that the annual number of people with new onset ESRD will exceed 450,000 in the United States alone, and those receiving dialysis or those having had kidney transplants, will exceed more than 2 million." **
The cost factors involved in these types of statistics for the patient, public health, and even the government are staggering! Current dialysis needs are costing the government Medi-Care system about 65,000 per patient, per year, that’s: 2,000,000 * 65,000 = $130,000,000,000. This means that in 23 years, at my current rate of kidney failure, I will be 51 years old, unless I am dead because no one can find a cure for my kidneys, and I am not going to be in the mood to help pay a 130 billion dollar healthcare issue that could potentially be fixed with a little bit of fundraising in Paradise, CA.
Believe it or not, the bigger problem begins when talented workers are taken out of the work force because they do not receive the proper health care and are either too sick to work from medications etc. or the medical treatments needed require too many hours away from the jobsite to be an asset to their company. These people are not only loosing their homes but, are being forced into divorces etc. simply as a last ditch effort to save their lives and meet the qualifications needed for Medi-Cal.
When these workers are taken out of the work force because of their health issues, it deprives the working citizens of tax dollars that could be funding free healthcare clinics, building parks, or funding understaffed libraries and a myriad of other public projects.
This then begs yet another topic for discussion and or question: if you think your health insurance from your current place of employment has you and your family protected; think again!
Patients have been known to max out a 1,000,000 dollar health insurance policy because they were required to receive dialysis for long periods of time waiting for a kidney transplant. As such, their employer driven medical coverage was exhausted! After your plan is maxed out what do you do? Medi-Cal states that if you have assets over $2,000 Medi-Cal won't help you much. Simply stated, this means you can kiss your pension, house, and your ability to provide for your family goodbye! Now comes the best part, you then get ready to rely on the government for your healthcare if you are one of the un-lucky ones with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Hence, the reason for the Paradise Kidney Foundation’s fundraiser to start a Kidney Intervention Screening Clinic (K.I.S. Clinic). These clinics facilitate early detection of CKD and have the potential to save the healthcare system and the government budget billions of dollars. We are urging local doctors to participate.
If 200 doctors and 100 agents participate in the Paradise Kidney Foundation fundraiser we will have raised $500,000.
Please forward this email to as many doctors as you know. Also, please ask them to participate in this very special fundraiser.
Lets raise 1 million dollars and find a cure for a disease that affects 20 million Americans!
100K funds a research lab with an experienced nephrologist for one year.
60K funds a research lab with a less experienced nephrologist for one year.
**Gilbertson D, Solid C, Xue JL, Collins AJ. Projecting
the U.S. ESRD population by 2030. US Renal Data
System: Data presented at the 2003 American Society
of Nephrology Annual Meeting. Available from: URL:
http://www.usrds.org/2003/pres/html/5U_ASN_
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