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George Carlin made the analogy of being continually <br>
subject to the raw abuse of a red-white-and-blue phallus.<br>
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One part of the society seems to accept it passively.<br>
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Another part seems to enjoy it.<br>
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Perhaps another part doesnt even recognize it.<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><big><font
color="#993300"><i><b>Given that the USA will not have a <br>
"single payer system",<br>
what should you do?<br>
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Clearly the Teabaggers were right about one thing.<br>
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Fukuppy should take the place of the eagle as the symbol<br>
of the amerikan government.<br>
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<img title="Click to embiggen"
src="cid:part1.05050701.02030809@pigsqq.org" alt="" width="350"><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">"Hajimemashite. Fukuppy desu." =
"My name is Fukuppy. Nice to meet you."</span><br>
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I am shopping for a microscope these days. I note that some<br>
models of microscopes are not available for sale in the usa<br>
because they havent been approved for use there by the FDA.<br>
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The tentacles of Amerika reach around the world.<br>
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I think they should have held your federal government under the water<br>
until the bubbles quit coming up.<br>
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<div><b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="centralILJwJ@yahoogroups.com"
href="mailto:centralILJwJ@yahoogroups.com">JWJ C-U</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 18, 2013 6:33 PM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Fw: Grand Theft Health Insurance</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Forget the corporate controled DNC
propoganda about the fraud that is Obamacare, read this from a Working
class person dealing with the reality of Obamacare, NOT the propoganda
fantasy from non-Working class people who HAVE decent health insurance.</font><br>
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<h1 class="article-title">Grand Theft Health Insurance</h1>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/17/grand-theft-health-insurance/"
target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/17/grand-theft-health-insurance/</a><br>
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<div class="mainauthorstyle"><font size="5"><strong>by RUSSELL
MOKHIBER</strong></font></div>
<div class="main-text"><font size="5"><strong>Here I sit, in West
Virginia, staring down at January 1, 2014.<br>
That’s when my health insurance policy expires and I have a decision to
make — renew or not renew?<br>
Right now, I’m paying about $7,000 a year in premiums for a monster
deductible and yearly out of pocket of about $15,000 for myself and my
family.<br>
My health insurance company informed me yesterday that my premium will
doubled to $14,000 on January 1.<br>
I’ve been trying to get onto the Obamacare web site now for ten days to
search for an alternative. No luck. I made it through four pages
yesterday — then got a message saying I’d have to wait because there
was too much traffic. When I clicked the continue button, it wiped out
the information I had typed into the first three pages.<br>
But even if I do get onto the exchanges, it’s probably not going to
matter.<br>
I </strong></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/highmark-to-be-alone-on-wva-exchange-702974/"><font
size="5"><strong>read in a newspaper that Highmark</strong></font></a><font
size="5"><strong> is the only health insurance company on the exchange
in West Virginia. Yesterday, I called Highmark and spent an hour on the
phone with a nice young man — but the results were not good. The
skimpiest plan is going to cost me more than I’m paying now for a
higher deductible and out of pocket result.<br>
Thank you Obamacare.<br>
My insurance agent told me yesterday I had only one alternative — wait
for six years until Medicare kicks in and keep fighting for single
payer.<br>
Obviously, the Democrats and anyone who defends them are not going to
be of any help in the next round. They are irrevocably tied to
President Obama and Obamacare and even those Democrats nominally in
favor of single payer </strong></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2013/10/03/single-payer-bernie-sanders-and-ted-cruz/"><font
size="5"><strong>refuse to criticize it for the industry written law
that it is.</strong></font></a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2013/10/08/single-payer-advocate-quentin-young-passing-obamacare-worse-than-doing-nothing/"><font
size="5"><strong>I agree with Dr. Quentin Young of Physicians for a
National Health Program when he says that Obamacare should have been
defeated</strong></font></a><font size="5"><strong> because it
enshrines and solidifies corporate domination of the health care system.<br>
But what to do next? Well, first thing is to watch a movie called </strong></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://healthcaremovie.net/"><font
size="5"><strong>Healthcare — The Movie.</strong></font></a><font
size="5"><strong> It’s a short documentary — 62 minutes — but packs a
big punch. The movie was produced by a husband wife team — the wife
Canadian — Laurie Simons — and the husband American — Terry Sterrenberg.<br>
The movie toggles back and forth between the USA and Canada — with
Americans struggling with bankruptcy, death from lack of health
insurance and the dark cloud of health insurance armageddon menacing
their lives from cradle to an often early grave.<br>
The Canadians, by contrast, are living in a relative health care
nirvana, thanks in large part to Tommy Douglas, a boxer and Premier of
Saskatchewan who stood up to the red baiting being dished out at the
time by the Canadian medical establishment. Douglas emerged victorious
and his efforts resulted in the creation of Canada’s single payer
Medicare for all. The movie is narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland —
Tommy Douglas’ grandson.<br>
The film features great historic clips — including a remarkable scene
where a CBC television show host asks the question — who is the
greatest Canadian? And then, in reality show format, puts it up to a
vote.<br>
“After six weeks, ten finalists, and more than a million votes,” the
CBC host says, “it ended tonight with one name . And I have the
envelope here. The greatest Canadian as decided by you is — Tommy
Douglas.”<br>
Imagine that — the country says that Tommy Douglas, the father of
single payer in Canada, is greater than its greatest hockey player —
Wayne Gretzky.<br>
Tommy Douglas’ courageous act — standing up for the people of Canada
against the vicious attacks of the powers that be — has resulted in a
system that delivers health care for all Canadians — no complex bills,
no deductibles, no deaths from lack of health insurance, no medical
bankruptcies — all funded by a progressive tax system.<br>
The movie profiles Canadians with serious medical illness — who come
out financially unscathed — no bills, no bankruptcy, no health related
financial worries.<br>
And then compares those Canadians to the suffering human beings south
of the border.<br>
The movie does a good job of making us Americans feel like crap
compared to our cousins up north.<br>
Check out this sequence, for example:<br>
How many people in the United States die each year because they have no
health insurance?<br>
45,000<br>
How many people in Canada die each year because they have no health
insurance?<br>
Zero.<br>
How many people go bankrupt each year in the United States because of
medical expenses?<br>
922,819<br>
How many people go bankrupt each year in Canada because of medical
expenses?<br>
Zero.<br>
How many Americans do not have health insurance?<br>
50 million.<br>
How many Canadians do not have health insurance?<br>
Zero.<br>
How many Americans go without medical care because of costs?<br>
115 million.<br>
How many Canadians go without medical care because of costs?<br>
Zero.<br>
One of the stars of this film is a young American from Portland, Oregon
named Lindsay Caron.<br>
“I was a free-lance artist for a long time,” Caron says. “I gave that
up to go sit in an office and file papers so that I could have health
care. And it amazed me that other people in other countries never had
to think about that. I kept hearing that Canada’s system was broken,
and that Canadians were flocking over the border to get US care. And
so I wanted to go to Canada with a camera and ask a couple hundred
people. I bought a ticket up to Vancouver, Canada. I rented camera
equipment. And I took my bicycle. I thought maybe I would stay in
Vancouver for a couple of days and cycle on back to Portland. I ended
staying there the whole week. I got up in the morning, set up a camera
on the street and just start asking people questions.”<br>
Caron finds out what polls in Canada consistently confirm — that the
vast majority of Canadians would never in a thousand years give up
their Medicare coverage for the nightmare south of the border.<br>
It all came about because Tommy Douglas had the guts to stand up to the
political and medical establishment and do what is right for the
Canadian people.<br>
Canada did it.<br>
There is no reason we can’t do it.<br>
It’s simply a matter of reordering our priorities.<br>
Let’s put aside, for a moment, our millions of copies of Grand Theft
Auto 5 and start playing a new game — Grand Theft — Health Insurance.<br>
The goal of the game is to become a boxer, like Tommy Douglas — and
fight back against the insurance industry and its Frankenstein monster
— Obamacare.<br>
Repeal Obamacare.<br>
Replace it with single payer.<br>
</strong></font><em><strong>Russell Mokhiber</strong> edits <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/">Single
Payer Action</a>.</em><br>
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