[Peace-discuss] David Gill gets one thing right

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Gill will do very well.

The tea party will oppose single payer and obamacare because it is 
coercive not because it is beneficent.
I think they are correct that coercive medical programs are 
unconstitutional.  The socalled left will support
coercive medicine because they believe in the beneficence of the nanny 
state.  The socalled right will oppose it
but will in fact support coercive medicine because it brings money to 
their poor wealthy friends and
because it maintains the American Standard of Medical Care.  Sir, yes, sir.

It is difficult for me to imagine that the creation of a government 
bureaucracy to administer health care will
solve the problem.  It will create jobs.

My view is that the problem is systemic, not a matter of who pays after 
the system has processed you.

In many countries other than the USA one can buy medicines 
over-the-counter that are either completely unavailable
and forbidden in the United States or are on a prescription-only basis, 
for a small fraction of what those same medicines
cost in the US.  This is the result of "crony capitalism" in the USA system.

In many countries other than the USA when you go to the hospital, they 
give you your medical records
and your x-rays and you can take them home and study them yourself.  In 
the USA you are not smart
enough to even peer at them, even if you spent the night at a Holiday 
Inn Express.

In many countries other than the USA if you are sick or injured or have 
some problem with your body it
is easy enough to find a doctor, even one who will come to your home and 
see about you.  In countries other than
the USA they know that most medical procedures are so simple even a 
Caveman could be trained to do
them in about 15 minutes, so intravenous sets and saline bottles are 
readily available over the counter
so you can go home and give yourself an IV in the privacy of your own 
living room or the toilet of your choice.
In the USA the people are not smart enough to do this for themselves, 
they need a health care professional,
a member of the guild, to do this for them.

In the USA the number of health care professionals is strictly limited 
so that there is always an undersupply of
available care for you, the little guy.  The Galatians are being milked 
and bilked.  Minor surgery
is when they cut on someone else

It's unfortunate that movements with great promise are turned aside by a 
little bit of pepper spray.
The medical lobby is powerful and holy and believes in blood donation as 
good leeches should.

As Fred Natural observed, Americans are soft.


On 6/21/2012 9:01 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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