Deandra Howard
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120 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2023
last heard Apr 2025
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I would want appropriate access, but that's not always available for me or for anybody else.
Yeah. With that help. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's interesting. I think it would. I know that I've talked with a lot of people about single payer plans. But, you know, as you were talking, Stan, and again, this is my looping brain here. I thought politics, confusion equals money. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Politics, confusion, evil is money. So, you know, there's a certain amount of, and again, this is my thinking, is that there's a certain amount of, I shouldn't say value, but there's a certain amount of gain with a lot of this stuff that we're seeing
I think it would be very helpful for us as a nation to be able to have, as you just said, have access to be able to go in and to get the kinds of services that we need. But unfortunately, money always plays a part. Money always plays a part. It's interesting, Barry, you were talking about when you started. I remember when I was younger, My doctor came to my house.
And you know what? The thing, too, is that I think when we think about politics, we have this view of just government kind of things, but there's corporate politics, too. Oh, God, yes. That's what I'm saying is that, you know, and so sometimes there is a collaboration or a coordination between the corporate and the governmental entities, which can affect our health.
Because, you know, the government can pass laws that kind of restrict the organizations from doing certain kinds of things which might be very helpful for the community. They may not say it like that, but...
Yeah, all of these things, all these factors we have to take a look at and we have to, again, we have to be much more attuned to what's really going on in order for us to really affect our community's health. And that's one of the things for me, and I'll be totally honest with you. I was talking to somebody recently and I was talking about the work that we do at Human.
You know, at one time we did like 250 health fairs a year. You know, but, you know, that's that's that's that was a long time ago when I was much younger. Now I find that that it's important for me to be more involved in the public policy making. Right. Now, that's hard for me because, you know, I don't want to do nothing with politics.
but that's where we have to go in order to really make some changes in our communities. At least for me, at least at this point in my life, I see politics, health, really, really connected together. And so therefore I have to readjust myself to be able to do these things. And so it's a struggle because, you know, I'm like, I'm the Kumbaya kind of guy, you know, but yeah, Kuba, yeah, don't work.
Yeah, right. I mean, so.
Yeah. Well, you know what, Sam? I want to say this real quick, and again, I'm not being political much. I have to talk like this, okay?
But I remember when they were talking about, I think, Congress. Congress, they covered. I mean, you're a Congress person. You're going to get your stuff is covered. But sometimes when you are in a situation like that where you don't have to worry about something, you're not as sensitive to what other people might need.
And I think that that's part of the challenge that we have is that some people already got it made. They don't have to think about this. So this is not necessarily something that they have to worry about. But for other people, we have to think about this stuff.
And we have to utilize the political system in order to make sure that we're getting the kind of services that we need for our communities. So yeah, the politics is a big deal.
What, what, what are you thinking about? Yeah. I tell you, I tell you what a lot of people are talking about. They're definitely talking about mental health and politicians. There's a lot, there's a lot of, a lot of concerns people have about the mental health and the capacity and those kinds of things. As we, we started talking about this country and those kinds of things. And yeah,
That's a major thing. People are concerned. I mean, and that's at that level. But at the other level, at the community level, I mean, I'm walking down, I'm walking or driving through communities and I'm seeing that a lot of people A lot of people with mental health issues walk in our streets. What do we do as politicians?
I mean, what do we do as community members and as politicians to try to address that? A lot of that is political. I mean, having money to provide services for people. I remember when... Again, this goes back a while. I don't know if this is Ronald Reagan period or not, where they started closing down the institutions and started releasing people back into the community and things like that.
And it's like, it's just a snowball. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger. And we're starting to see more and more mental health issues that are starting to emerge. I mean, pressures that we talked about before, the food, the housing, all those kinds of things, those are stressors.
And if you can't address those kinds of issues, or if there's not a way for you to be able to provide for yourself, it's a health issue. It's going to be a health. And if it's not mental health, it's going to be a physical health. Right. You're going to catch a cold. You're going to get pneumonia.
All these things are just starting to point back to the fact that there is a strong connection between politics and the health of our communities.
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