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Rachel is correct. Health care is a battle between the righteous and the corporate interests.
We are ruled by corporate interests. Some might say we live under a dictatorship of corporate interests. Many, if not most, of the people we elect to represent us, do not, in fact represent us, but rather serve those corporate interests which provided the wherewithal to get them elected and hold the purse strings to the dollars needed to stay in power.
Why do so many folks in this country fear "socialism," which they often define simply as a "government" program, but do not fear the absolute rule corporate interests hold over their lives?
We don't have health care for all because of corporate interests. We don't have cheap medicine in this country because of corporate interests. We don't have cheap oil because of corporate interests. We go to war to serve corporate interests (and with a couple of exceptions that has always been the case in recent years!). We don't have a decent minimum wage because of corporate interests. Our air is filthy and our forests are devastated because of corporate interests. We're are unable to fight global warming effectively because of corporate interests. Our food is untested and the animals we eat are raised amidst filth and disease because of corporate interests. Jobs by the millions have fled this country to those places where labor is cheap because of corporate interests. We waste billions and billions of dollars every year to incompetence, fraud and outright theft because of corporate interests.
And, ladies and gentlemen, it was corporate interests and the greed of those corporate interests that built a financial house of cards which crumbled in front of our eyes and is causing untold hardship for millions of our American citizens and people around the world!
4 comments:
I agree but the voters keep voting for people that will not change it. Why would some poor, low paid guy vote for people that do not care about them, regardless of party affiliation?
They believe all sorts of lies and nonsense. It is a puzzlement.
How dare you impune our corporate overlords?!? Of course you are right. Well written. I plan on using this as a personal rant for years to come. Thanks
A corporate oligarchy. That is what we deal with. Hell the Military Industrial Complex alone should scare the shit right out of most people. As far as the VA healthcare and military healthcare being great? Um, only if you are a Congressman or maybe an officer or sr enlisted person.
That stuff aint so great for everyon. The VA treats its female vets like shit. And it is a long long wait for treatment. I have known people with serious heart problems have to wait six months to even get an appt to be seen. And not even with a cardiologist. But then they age into Medicare and suddenly, they are seen in a timely manner and the quality of care picks up.
Military care, when you get the worst of it is comparable to care on poor Indian Reservations through the BIA. Scare stuff. And some of the doctors that are considered incompetent but who squeeze by getting their liscense yanked often end up in the BIA system.
You dont want our single payer plan to emulate that.
Its very important to look at where things are right and where things can be done better. There is nothing saying that we have to pick something that has already been done and make no improvements on it.
Single payer health care plans should not mean that like the military we have to deal with being deprived of a means of recourse for malpractice, through something like the Feres Doctrine.
So I think that Wiener needs to be educated in that respect.
I would also like to say we need to change how we attract medical professionals into the field. We make it sound like everyone who becomes a doctor should live in a gated community and marry a trophy spouse while driving a sports car. Um==if that is the only reason someone goes into a healing profession, then I would say lets discourage that.
It should be a respectable profession that brings in a decent living, but doctors shouldnt profit so much that only the rich and famous can afford to see them. Esp if they are specialists.
And I am really turned off by the desire to remove aspects of women's health off the table for religious reasions--hello Civil Rights Violation and Separation Clause. And that nothing is in there to cover dental. Dental is something that is prevenative to a lot of other conditions, one of them being heart disease. Just a thought.
These people have been so busy fighting over money that there are some other important issues that have been neglected. One of them being common sense items that deal with prevenative care, and the other being, not allowing religious fanatics to dictate the kind or quality of care to women.
Boy, Seeing Eye Chick, you hit several nails on the head with that diatribe! Yes, yes, yes!
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