Teresa Heinz Kerry shows her support for our veterans.

Now why hasn't anyone else come up with this idea? It seems so logical and certainly would make health care more accessible to many veterans.

"A quick fix for Vets"
"If the VA tapped the services of federally qualified health centers, many more veterans could get the medical care they need, say TERESA HEINZ and JEFFREY R. LEWIS"

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07315/832652-109.stm">link here

Federal law gives the Department of Veterans Affairs broad authority to secure health care for veterans by entering into agreements with other health-care providers, including federally qualified health centers. Thirteen already function as outpatient centers for veterans. Simply by agreeing to reimburse the health centers for providing veterans care on a per-patient basis -- much as Medicaid and Medicare reimburse doctors and clinics for their services -- the Department of Veterans Affairs instantaneously could expand its network of outpatient services with little red tape and modest investments. The working partnership between the department and the state of Virginia could serve as a model.

Even as Washington debates when and how to bring our service members back from Iraq, there should be no debate that every veteran deserves timely, accessible, high-quality health care when he or she comes home.

"In West Virginia, Montana and Chicago, the Heinz Foundation, in partnership with PhRMA (the trade association representing pharmaceutical manufacturers), is working with health centers to subsidize services for uninsured children in families that earn too much to qualify for the State Children's Health Insurance Program."

in any way. Most Dems even learn about this type of thing way too late to assess fairly.

I think they knew if people saw much of the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, even more people would have realized that John Kerry was the real deal. In fact, at a county Democrat event, as people were speaking of various candidates, said that she knew that he was honest and not sleazy because THK would not have married him if he were. If you look back into old magazine articles on Senator Heinz, it is clear that she had a long term reputation as a warm, caring, charming, brilliant woman - who was also strikingly beautiful.

Although I liked her as much as her husband in 2004, I am far more impressed by her brilliance and commitment through what I have seen in the years since the election. In 2004, I knew that she was brilliant from the first time I heard much about her. That was when Senator Kerry explained in early 2003 that his wife had noticed a trend in the level measured by the test for prostrate cancer and even though it was still below the threshold the medical establishment used argued that he should check it out further. She likely saved his health, if not his life.

When they had the book tour, there was so much I learned that no one knew in 2004. That she and Senator Kerry after meeting in Rio at the environmental conference where both were delegates, co-founded Second Nature, an organization focused on teaching students the concepts of sustainability so that they would incorporate those ideas in their future work. That she worked with Senator Wirth, a Democratic Senator who was a prep school roommate of her first husband to push Harvard to develop an environmental studies program. Her biggest contribution to green building was a case of leading by example. She hired Bill McDonough, an architect who had not done green buildings but is now one of the top names in that field, to design a green office for her foundation in Pittsburgh. Her office proved that green building could be done economically. This led to many green buildings in Pittsburgh, culminating in the building of the largest green building in the US - the Pittsburgh convention center.

She has also led work on women's pensions and her foundation has a guidebook on that issue. This was an issue that Senator Heinz had been interested in.

In addition, she has hosted a conference on women's health, oncology and toxins in the environment for 12 years. On the book tour, she described her role as creating the place where many researchers in the field hear each other's work and informally get together. Her chapter on toxins in their book is the chapter I was most affected by - in spite of the fact that I have been more impressed by the way Senator Kerry pulls environmental issues together than anyone else.

I also loved reading in the book that Teresa and her cousins as very young kids found a beetle that looked different from any they had seen before. When they couldn't identify it, they took it to a local museum. It turned out that it had not previously been cataloged - so it was named after them. This picture of a bright, curious, intellectual child was really charming.

She would have been an awesome first lady.

She is indeed a class act (like her husband), and she would have been fantastic in the White House (along with her husband).. Sigh. . .

I didn't know any of those stories -- except the Pittsburgh one -- and only knew it from an extremely reliable Kerry group personage.

You people were right from the start, of course. Bush is a ninny and the tall guy should be in the White House.

I don't believe a President John Kerry would nominate an utter fool like Harriet Miers to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, do you?

And I don't believe U.S. voters perceive the treasure they had in Teresa either. I want to spank anyone who didn't support our ticket, and I'm not really into violence. Still, a good whuppin' behind the woodshed might be in order.

It wasn't a grievous moment because my team lost, but because it was a lost chance for our country.

:thumbsup:

he won. Our nation would be very different.

Imagine a brilliant President, who was interested in diplomacy since he was a child, with a wife who fluently speaks 5 languages - and both with working consciences! Not to mention to people who were environmentalists for 3 to 4 decades, long before it became cool.

They are practical and solution-oriented, and when you factor in their indi=visual integrity it really makes for a dynamic combination. And THAT is why the corpmedia never wanted Americans to get to know either one.

country, too.

I don't like how we are being represented to the world. John and Teresa would have dramatically changed that landscape.

This is a solution that can be implemented almost immediately.

there doing something beneficial for our Veterans with the monetary means left in her care..She's an exemplary person.

Meanwhile, the idiot who sits in Gore's and Kerry's rightful office has a wife that goes out spewing and catapulting the propoganda.