Saturday, July 19, 2008

Healthcare

The economic prejudice in our country is unique among industrialized nations. If you have money, reasonable health care is afforded you. If you are poor, it's a big maybe. Depends on where you live, and if you know how to "use" the system. How can our government justify this atttitude? It's all about the bucks, and the lobbyists. The only real change is radical change. We must remove the health care system from private holdings, and make it nationalized and universal. Will it tear down our conomy? Throw people out of jobs? Stop research? Nothing of the kind. It will strengthen our people and strengthen our economy. The government will have to conduct buyouts, or convince the shareholders that the move is necessary to improve our nation. Sick people don't work, or don't work well. Neither do sick students study well. A healthy nation is a strong nation. Can we remove the private holdings little by little? Nope. it has to be well planned, but it must happen all at once, to effect meaningful changes. We need only look to the systems in France and the UK to know that it can be done, and it works well. Canada too. Much negative propaganda has been put out about our neighbor to the north, but my contacts say it is all lies, put out by big pharma, and the AMA. Yes, it's scary, folks, but so it the system we have now. Every person in this country deserves top notch care. Nobody should perish for lack of appropriate care or medication.

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