Hi Jon, this is a great idea. I wish it was mandatory to get at least
one massage a month. Just like it is manadatory to vote in Australia.
It would end all war. This alone would make it worthwhile. Jon this is
such a great idea. Could you bring it up at this year's World Massage
Festival in New Braunfels, Texas at the symposium? It would make a
great topic. 

Thanks,Mike
http://www.worldmassagefestival.com

--- In sanantoniomassage@yahoogroups.com, jon sullivan
<seniormassage@...> wrote:
>
> Hey Y'all,
> 
> I wanted to see if I could get your quick help. I'm not sure if 
> you've heard, but there's a movement of citizens inspired by the 
> presidential campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think 
> the Obama Administration should change America. It's called "Ideas 
> for Change in America."
> 
> I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could quickly vote 
> for it. The title is: Therapeutic Massage Service Corps/Touch Care 
> for All. You can read and vote for the idea by clicking on the 
> following link:
> 
> http://www.change.org/ideas/view/ 
> therapeutic_massage_service_corpstouch_care_for_all
> 
> The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama 
> Administration on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a 
> national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than 
> a dozen leading nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a 
> real chance at becoming policy. In brief, my idea is:
> 
> An initiative to fund skilled appropriate touch in all aspects of 
> health care: preventative, skilled care(pre/post natal,homeless, 
> infants,children, teens, orthopedic, psych., geriatric, diabetic, 
> alzheimers, parkinson's) palliative, end-of-life care, survivor care. 
> trauma, cancer, cardiac...every need addressed every burden of care 
> level, every facility and new programs to help the aged.
> Did you know that years ago nurses gave their pt's. a massage every 
> day? first with alcohol then with lotion? ask an old nurse they'll 
> tell you it eased the pt's suffering and they required less drugs.
> That sort of therapeutic touch is absent in most care facilities 
> today. Nurses don't have time, Medicare doesn't allow therapist's the 
> time, insurance won't pay usually.
> Where do you get the benefit of appropriate massage care? Maybe when 
> you get into hospice, if there is a massage volunteer, or maybe not 
> ever...help millions of suffering elderly receive regular skilled 
> touch with well trained massage therapists. Then let's partner with 
> schools and facilities to begin simple hand or foot massage training 
> to help the burgeoning population of diabetic conditions in our 
> nation. The research is there that says massage helps all conditions 
> by reducing the seat of disease, stress. Now is the time to wrestle 
> back quality in healthcare, not status quo Medi-crap. Down with 
> drugs, up with touch!
> Thanks for the support,
> 
> jon sullivan, LMT, Austin TX
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Thanks for being part of the moment for change in America. And good 
> luck!
> 
> - The Change.org Team
>