[Peace-discuss] Fw: Health care news worth sharing

[E. Wayne Johnson]

The problem with "health care" and the 
medical-pharmaceutical-insurance/liability industrial complex (the 
"health care industry") that has a stranglehold on so much of America is 
not who is paying for it,
any more than the problem with the military-industrial complex is how 
those toys and chattels get paid for.

The modern day story of the Good Samaritan goes something like this...a 
battered and wounded man is picked up by an ambulance driven by the 
"good Samaritan" and hauled
to a hospital, THEN he falls among thieves.  Those guys on the Jericho 
Road were mere amateurs.  They missed the real opportunity for plunder.

Americans just don't seem to be able to "get it" that they are being 
cheated and robbed by the health care industry, which tends to drive 
tacks with sledgehammers because it makes more money that way.

We are being ripped off.  Robbed.   Cheated.  The hospitals and clinics 
are doing with a pencil what Jesse James required a gun to do.  
Americans are terrified about their health
and afraid that they are going to die, and have a sense of entitlement 
that sets them up to be the natural prey of the healthcare industrial 
complex.

The answer to America's health care crisis is like Lord Buckley's bear 
dance,
so simple like the Jitterbug that it plumb evades.

I really don't expect very many people to come to their senses on this 
any time soon.

As Robert Crumb had one of his characters to say (in 1993) about 
America's integral decline and demise,
" Yo' fo'fathers wuz some Bad Asses, but yo' be weak!"

Some body else will pay for my troubles.

On 5/13/2009 11:29 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>     Obama’s Health Care Charade
>     By Glen Ford
>     05/13/2009
>
> President Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress 
> advocates of single-payer health care. He has choreographed a grand 
> theater of faux-change, in which he "seeks to create a façade of unity 
> along lines that do not threaten corporate power." The goal is to 
> "sidetrack, possibly for decades, the most broadly supported idea in 
> American politics, today." This "requires elaborate reconstructions of 
> reality," starting with "methodically erasing single-payer advocates 
> from the picture, with the enthusiastic collaboration of the corporate 
> media." Thus, Obama and compliant Democrats on The Hill stage 
> "summits" and "public roundtable discussions" on health care from 
> which majority U.S. opinion is totally excluded...
>
> Obama’s conduct of the health care non-debate gives the lie to his 
> supposed credo – that he seeks to unite Americans around issues of 
> common concern. In reality, Obama seeks to create a façade of unity 
> along lines that do not threaten corporate power. He is determined to 
> shut down the Left, and will succeed in doing so as long as 
> “progressives” persist in believing that, deep down, this president is 
> on their side.
>
> Full article at 
> http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=print/content/obama%E2%80%99s-health-care-charade 
>
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