I’m sure I speak for many- we’re ecstatic you are back on your soapbox! Rural healthcare suffers from inadequate payment from health insurers and Medicare and Medicaid. Iowa has one of the worst reimbursement rates per capita in the nation. Yet we still have dedicated health care providers like those that helped you. We need to recognize and thank them as often as we can. We must tell our elected officials that reducing funding for medical research and payments to health care providers is terrible for Iowans and our entire nation.
Hurrah for Art Cullen. Comeback player of the year! And thanks to docs Nanette Reed and Megan Parrott & the whole crew at UIHC, for saving another one of us!
I had every confidence that you'd come through this, but I'm glad to see it in writing.
I think we need to thank President Johnson and Medicare. Before Medicare, people just died of "old age", but they really died from a lack of funds to care for the old. Do you think that the richest 1% of old people would have been enough economic clout to create angioplasty, stents, pacemakers and such? I doubt it.
Hurray for the commons and the creation of senior healthcare!
Congrats Art! A happy Monday knowing that you still share the surface with us! Most rural folks don't realize how much Medicare and Medicaid contribute to maintaining even the modest medical facilities in their town or county. The federal HRSA Rural Health Program also helps. The drives might become longer - - or impossible.
Welcome back! You are a great witness to the good things about the healthcare system and asking very good questions about why everyone does not have access to good medical care. I hold out no hope for anything changing anytime soon. It is going to get a whole lot worse before we will be able to come together and make healthcare, good healthcare, available to everyone. That is my prayer.
I joined the Holy Riff Raff at the state capitol today shouting and chanting for transgender rights. While there, in the capitol rotunda, I gave thanks for your voice Art, said three Hail Mary’s and gave a sacramental nod to St. Bonaventure for your recovery. Not bad for a United Methodist minister who yearns for the day when our state will stop condemning people who are different for various reasons while believing in a malignant Christianity.
Great news, Art, glad you're back. And, yep, on the flip side, the way Big Pharma and their ilk are winnowing down health care, especially those who are not in the high income category. The Greed Channel is loud and obnoxious.
It makes our day to read your wise words after your surgery.
UIHC macular degeneration unit has maintained my vision for many years longer than predicted.
Iowans received the best care for the least cost in the beginning of Medicare so the percentage of annual increase has increased the disparity of reimbursement ti the point that Iowa is dead last even worse than Puerto Rico. Senator Harkin had a 12 year plan to fix it, but did not fly.
The whole thing is horrifying. It’s a very sad state of being when one needs to be an investigative reporter to find adequate healthcare in this country in a rural area. Appreciate your voice crying in the wilderness and so glad you are still able to use it from your soapbox.
It just astounds me that the Trump/MAGA world is stunting, if not closing down, MEDICAL RESEARCH! Think about that one America. We will have to recalibrate our assumptions that with each passing year new treatments and better techniques will be available when we need them so that these clowns can make points with the CPAC crowd. They are absolutely nuts.
Glad it went well, Art. You and I are of the same faith tradition. Illness in the family and divorce (yes, one of my old padres said we fisheaters get divorced at the same rate as anyone else) will put you on your knees faster than Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a rowboat. I have a thumb rosary in my pocket and a long prayer list. May God bless and comfort you and your family through all this.
I lost a Courier friend to the widowmaker in 2016. At the funeral dinner, my Jewish editor told me in no uncertain terms to get my Irish Catholic backside to a doc post haste. I did.
And I'll tell you something else you already know. Nothing's cooler than having a big brother by your side when the chips are down.
Hurrah Art and Iowa City! My father, a 1940 Winterset High School graduate, had open heart surgery at Iowa City hospitals in the 1970s to replace the aortic valve damaged by rheumatic fever in childhood (before antibiotics). The groundbreaking medical technology that enabled him to draw and paint for almost 20 more years was available in Houston or Iowa City.
I’m sure I speak for many- we’re ecstatic you are back on your soapbox! Rural healthcare suffers from inadequate payment from health insurers and Medicare and Medicaid. Iowa has one of the worst reimbursement rates per capita in the nation. Yet we still have dedicated health care providers like those that helped you. We need to recognize and thank them as often as we can. We must tell our elected officials that reducing funding for medical research and payments to health care providers is terrible for Iowans and our entire nation.
Hurrah for Art Cullen. Comeback player of the year! And thanks to docs Nanette Reed and Megan Parrott & the whole crew at UIHC, for saving another one of us!
I had every confidence that you'd come through this, but I'm glad to see it in writing.
I think we need to thank President Johnson and Medicare. Before Medicare, people just died of "old age", but they really died from a lack of funds to care for the old. Do you think that the richest 1% of old people would have been enough economic clout to create angioplasty, stents, pacemakers and such? I doubt it.
Hurray for the commons and the creation of senior healthcare!
Congrats Art! A happy Monday knowing that you still share the surface with us! Most rural folks don't realize how much Medicare and Medicaid contribute to maintaining even the modest medical facilities in their town or county. The federal HRSA Rural Health Program also helps. The drives might become longer - - or impossible.
Welcome back! You are a great witness to the good things about the healthcare system and asking very good questions about why everyone does not have access to good medical care. I hold out no hope for anything changing anytime soon. It is going to get a whole lot worse before we will be able to come together and make healthcare, good healthcare, available to everyone. That is my prayer.
We seriously need a different direction in DC 🙀
I joined the Holy Riff Raff at the state capitol today shouting and chanting for transgender rights. While there, in the capitol rotunda, I gave thanks for your voice Art, said three Hail Mary’s and gave a sacramental nod to St. Bonaventure for your recovery. Not bad for a United Methodist minister who yearns for the day when our state will stop condemning people who are different for various reasons while believing in a malignant Christianity.
Great news, Art, glad you're back. And, yep, on the flip side, the way Big Pharma and their ilk are winnowing down health care, especially those who are not in the high income category. The Greed Channel is loud and obnoxious.
How great thou, Art😊
It makes our day to read your wise words after your surgery.
UIHC macular degeneration unit has maintained my vision for many years longer than predicted.
Iowans received the best care for the least cost in the beginning of Medicare so the percentage of annual increase has increased the disparity of reimbursement ti the point that Iowa is dead last even worse than Puerto Rico. Senator Harkin had a 12 year plan to fix it, but did not fly.
Appreciate the St Bonaventure hint; thanks!
The whole thing is horrifying. It’s a very sad state of being when one needs to be an investigative reporter to find adequate healthcare in this country in a rural area. Appreciate your voice crying in the wilderness and so glad you are still able to use it from your soapbox.
It just astounds me that the Trump/MAGA world is stunting, if not closing down, MEDICAL RESEARCH! Think about that one America. We will have to recalibrate our assumptions that with each passing year new treatments and better techniques will be available when we need them so that these clowns can make points with the CPAC crowd. They are absolutely nuts.
I think you should run the picture of you with the dog on the gurney.
Soft porn
Speedy and full recovery, Mr. Cullen!
We need you here up on your soapbox! :-)
Glad it went well, Art. You and I are of the same faith tradition. Illness in the family and divorce (yes, one of my old padres said we fisheaters get divorced at the same rate as anyone else) will put you on your knees faster than Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a rowboat. I have a thumb rosary in my pocket and a long prayer list. May God bless and comfort you and your family through all this.
I lost a Courier friend to the widowmaker in 2016. At the funeral dinner, my Jewish editor told me in no uncertain terms to get my Irish Catholic backside to a doc post haste. I did.
And I'll tell you something else you already know. Nothing's cooler than having a big brother by your side when the chips are down.
Keep fighting the good fight, Art.
In the immortal words of The Moody Blues:
"It riles them to believe
"That you perceive the web they weave
And keep on thinking free."
I'm glad you're on the mending. We all need your writing.
Hurrah Art and Iowa City! My father, a 1940 Winterset High School graduate, had open heart surgery at Iowa City hospitals in the 1970s to replace the aortic valve damaged by rheumatic fever in childhood (before antibiotics). The groundbreaking medical technology that enabled him to draw and paint for almost 20 more years was available in Houston or Iowa City.