HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN THE U. S.
If you are not one of the people who have no health insurance, you may be paying financially crippling premiums for your coverage. The people of the U. S. need to have an in-depth and vibrant conversation on the subject of health care. We need to discuss who will make the decisions about individual care, and the extent to which control can be taken out of the hands of the average citizen in deference to the wishes of the powerful.
Is it acceptable that the wealthy use the natural resources for their own benefit; polluting the atmosphere, water, and food supplies that are the birthright of each U. S. citizen, whether the citizen is rich or poor?
The defilement of the environment by the privileged few has occurred gradually, resulting in quiet acceptance by the masses. The story told to the masses is that the privileged few will use the resources for the good of everyone.
In truth, the average citizens are used for the benefit of the powerful as surely as our natural resources are used.
The lack of concern for the pollution of natural resources extends as callously to the populace. The populace is affected by pollution as completely as are the natural resources.
The result of pollution and toxicity on humans is disease. After the callous infliction of toxins on the populace has occurred, the medical profession is expected to make the individual well.
One could place more confidence in the health care system if said system were honest enough to point out the efficacy of keeping people healthy in the first place, rather than “fixing” them after they had succumbed to pollution and toxicity by way of disease.One would indeed be cynical to wonder if the income derived by said “fixing” could be described as conflict of interest.
A hospital in Upstate New York advertises their use of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Apparently this is a medical treatment that involves delivering high doses of oxygen to the body. This treatment ostensibly is used to reduce swelling, control infection and to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels allowing for many conditions to heal when they otherwise would not.
The first thought that pops into the mind is that if oxygen therapy is helpful to mitigate disease, perhaps we need to be more careful of our natural supply of oxygen.
Hyperbaric Oxyge Therapy (HBOT), is impressive technology and certainly useful to one with a disease. However, this same institution is silent on the subject of local pollution. Apparently it is acceptable to simmer the populace in a toxic stew, so long as the venerable health care institutions can provide the means to make them well again.
Case in point is the onslaught upon this innocent populace by the huge gas drilling conglomerates, who have decided they will move into the area and remove the natural resources that are held deep within the Marcellus Shale Deposits. Little concern is articulated about the toxins and poisons that will be forced into the ground beneath one’s feet.
The heavy-handed determination of the companies presupposed that this insult is to be forced upon a population. After the wealth has been extracted, the diseases will be borne by humans. The noble health care institutions will step in to heal the disease that has been caused in pursuit of profits by corporations. Of course, the health care institutions will also charge a goodly sum to accomplish this end.
One wonders why the health care system doesn’t research and speak out against the causes of disease as stridently as they do about curing the disease itself.
The profit-making activities by the privileged few, has turned the idea of the vision of the Founders in 1776, into a joke. The rights as set forth in the U. S. Constitution is a fond memory, to be nostalgically taught in a classroom.
The populace is run through the grinder of profit making right along with other natural resources. People are told this is for their own good. Taxes are kept so high that a fearful populace is kept on a treadmill of work/buying/paying taxes/following mandates.
While the average person is kept on this never-ending treadmill, the people in power can use our natural resources in any manner they choose.
Our first responsibility is to start a deep and serious conversation about how we are to proceed as human beings. The U. S. citizen still has the framework of the U. S. Constitution to draw from.
A discussion of whether the masses should be ground up in the profit-making machine along with the other natural resources for the personal gain of the few.
And why are the natural resources of the United States the property of only a few, rather than the whole?
If you are not one of the people who have no health insurance, you may be paying financially crippling premiums for your coverage. The people of the U. S. need to have an in-depth and vibrant conversation on the subject of health care. We need to discuss who will make the decisions about individual care, and the extent to which control can be taken out of the hands of the average citizen in deference to the wishes of the powerful.
Is it acceptable that the wealthy use the natural resources for their own benefit; polluting the atmosphere, water, and food supplies that are the birthright of each U. S. citizen, whether the citizen is rich or poor?
The defilement of the environment by the privileged few has occurred gradually, resulting in quiet acceptance by the masses. The story told to the masses is that the privileged few will use the resources for the good of everyone.
In truth, the average citizens are used for the benefit of the powerful as surely as our natural resources are used.
The lack of concern for the pollution of natural resources extends as callously to the populace. The populace is affected by pollution as completely as are the natural resources.
The result of pollution and toxicity on humans is disease. After the callous infliction of toxins on the populace has occurred, the medical profession is expected to make the individual well.
One could place more confidence in the health care system if said system were honest enough to point out the efficacy of keeping people healthy in the first place, rather than “fixing” them after they had succumbed to pollution and toxicity by way of disease.One would indeed be cynical to wonder if the income derived by said “fixing” could be described as conflict of interest.
A hospital in Upstate New York advertises their use of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Apparently this is a medical treatment that involves delivering high doses of oxygen to the body. This treatment ostensibly is used to reduce swelling, control infection and to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels allowing for many conditions to heal when they otherwise would not.
The first thought that pops into the mind is that if oxygen therapy is helpful to mitigate disease, perhaps we need to be more careful of our natural supply of oxygen.
Hyperbaric Oxyge Therapy (HBOT), is impressive technology and certainly useful to one with a disease. However, this same institution is silent on the subject of local pollution. Apparently it is acceptable to simmer the populace in a toxic stew, so long as the venerable health care institutions can provide the means to make them well again.
Case in point is the onslaught upon this innocent populace by the huge gas drilling conglomerates, who have decided they will move into the area and remove the natural resources that are held deep within the Marcellus Shale Deposits. Little concern is articulated about the toxins and poisons that will be forced into the ground beneath one’s feet.
The heavy-handed determination of the companies presupposed that this insult is to be forced upon a population. After the wealth has been extracted, the diseases will be borne by humans. The noble health care institutions will step in to heal the disease that has been caused in pursuit of profits by corporations. Of course, the health care institutions will also charge a goodly sum to accomplish this end.
One wonders why the health care system doesn’t research and speak out against the causes of disease as stridently as they do about curing the disease itself.
The profit-making activities by the privileged few, has turned the idea of the vision of the Founders in 1776, into a joke. The rights as set forth in the U. S. Constitution is a fond memory, to be nostalgically taught in a classroom.
The populace is run through the grinder of profit making right along with other natural resources. People are told this is for their own good. Taxes are kept so high that a fearful populace is kept on a treadmill of work/buying/paying taxes/following mandates.
While the average person is kept on this never-ending treadmill, the people in power can use our natural resources in any manner they choose.
Our first responsibility is to start a deep and serious conversation about how we are to proceed as human beings. The U. S. citizen still has the framework of the U. S. Constitution to draw from.
A discussion of whether the masses should be ground up in the profit-making machine along with the other natural resources for the personal gain of the few.
And why are the natural resources of the United States the property of only a few, rather than the whole?
