Dead bodies and cash.

Dead Bodies and Cash.

"The system now is nothing short of an abomination"... from the Newsweek Article..

As an emergency physician and entrepreneur working with other small business people, Mr. Wilkes summery of the payment side of American health care is right on.

Ask yourself how the most powerful country in the world tolerates 50 million uninsured and perhaps an equal number who are under-insured (which can be as horrific). 

Dead bodies and cash.

Every time one of the endless pharmaceutical commercials airs... I cannot help but think about the millions that have been spent on these ads.  How many due you see a day?  How many people in your circle are struggling one way or another with medical bills?

It is almost absurd... As profits from other sectors level out (less and less new prescriptions are written for their brand name of drug)... the pharmaceutical industry has committed much of their hope on, the great deliverance of humanity, sleep agents. 

So, while we pay billions for managed care, insurance, medical bills... just the pharmaceutical industry alone spends millions of dollars....and will make BILLIONS - just on sleep.

And the estimated cost of affordable, universal health care? - but a handful of the first billions the pharmaceutical major shareholders will make year after year.

There is profit being made at every level, in every back door of health care, in boardrooms across our abundant lands....  to a handful of executives who rape the system taking flamboyant, wasteful, and abhorrent bonuses for increasing profits (often at the expense of overall quality!).  Yet more profit for the plutocracy and a further abomination.

Dead bodies and cash.

Moreover... how do many of us then 'pay' for these health care bills... borrowing with credit cards.  And we all know how this industry has bought our government to pass laws favorable to their vile usury of the same families who are under-insured.  Yet more profit for the plutocracy and a further abomination.

Dead bodies and cash.

Billions upon billions are being made in profit each and every year, year after year by the biomedical, medical equipment, pharmaceutical, insurance, and private health care industries.  It is a free-for-all orgy of cash, power and influence... while one-third of our people struggle to pay for their basic heath care.  Yet more profit for the plutocracy and a further abomination.

Dead bodies and surplus cash.

While examples from other countries with universal health care may leave much to be desired relative to wait times, rationing, etc... here in America, think about it.... despite our market driven system.... We still rank in the bottom quartile of life expectancy and infant mortality.  There must be a better way..

It is time to pause and decide - today - I have had enough - we must collectively act as a people...

I propose a decentralized universal health care mandate, run by each state, funded by taxes on the for-profit health-care-related industry and tobacco, alcohol profits... with taxation of personal income as necessary, approximating what is deducted for health insurance now. 

I further propose we rapidly pull America's soldiers out of Iraq... and turn the peace-keeping over the UN (like it or not they will have no choice but to intervene)... we then divert those funds to the healthcare mandate, and also a massive buy out of health care related personal debt.

Finally, we create national standards for Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Department care.... -we fund the much needed rehab of the floundering front door of acute access to health-care....

This universals access the favorable, basic health care inevitably spawns further entrepreneurship... what would happen if the small business owner had no fear of providing 'health benefits' for themselves and/or employees?!

We know state run insurance, is more efficient than for-profit (profit kind of hurts efficiency.... the profit itself is responsible for approximately 10-fold more overhead!).  The heath profiteers can still ‘advance' medical technology while we as a people can bask in the glory of affordable world-class heath care for all Americans.  Imagine that.  We'll all, I suspect, sleep a little better or at least, won't care.

So one may debate the prudence of one plan over another, but I think from a logic standpoint a clever way does surely exist to provide basic, earnest, healing and compassionate health care to all Americans.

It is said, to defeat an enemy do not seek to kill them... an ill target is more damaging than a dead one.

Furthermore, most empires throughout history, particularly the most  prodigious have used two things most notably to satisfy their selfish ends... 1) conquest and 2) human slave labor.

Let's halt (or at least limit, for Pete's sake!) our government's conquest, and...

 let us become aware that perhaps either.... we are in one sense  slaves (and with all due respect to the spirits of all persecuted humans everywhere) or are we the enemy?

I believe a sensibility of the people, will one day prevail over the folly of ego....

There is a saying from my ancestors, sustained with generations of storytelling...  It's so simple, because in part the fable is meant for children... but are we really that different from then... or from them ?  The saying is a charge that one evokes to members of the tribe (men and woman)... while young, and during moments of greatest turmoil... it is equally virile a charge... of self, to self....

you love me, and I will love you.

you trade with me, and I will trade with you

You be my brother, and I will be yours

Amish Hay Rake

We took a drive down Engine Creek Road, East of Yuba.  it was golden hour.... Our last light filtered and waining... the air 40 below... our hearts inspired and radiant.

Upon Solving the World's Problems

  Daughter and Mother

The solutions evoked,
and but hours before departures
Until Sprint then.

Harvest Remains

Last Sun on Broken Paine

She said... that was so-and-so's house... boy, I wonder what happened to her.  Funny thing is... the house looked just like it does now, except the windows weren't broken.

Corn Stalk -30 Degrees

hooded blue

Lounge pad

Inversion

part of our plan for tribalization includes universal health care for all members of the 'tribe'

Do health-related expenses effect your life?

Be Blessed,

Tony