There can be no doubt the loss of blood and treasure to secure access to the vast untapped Jurassic Oil Slick beneath Al Anbar for the future profits of Exxon Mobile et. als., and the King of Saudi Arabia, nice pipeline, could have been much better spent with much greater positive results for the American people and the Republic opposed to the rape of America by our own, over the past decade in the lust for corporate profit!!! Lets eat our own!!!!

Slavery is predicated on discrimination. The same type of discrimination utilized by corporate health insurance. I sure as hell cannot change the color of my skin just as one cannot change the realities of contracting lung cancer from second hand smoke or any number of chemicals used as commercial additives, to ensure and enhance profitability???

Will Congress protect the profits and status quo business interests of the the health services or will they protect Americans. Will Congress protect Life and Liberty or will they pull a “Dred Scott” and protect the business interest and profits of many “tax exempt health service entities,” like Blue Cross Blue Shield.” Jane, Dred Scott was related to property status by an SJC decision which protected the institution of slavery, in light of the plain and clear language of the “Bill of Rights.” Today the god given rights of every American is threatened by a similar mentality. Protect corporate health care’s profits, just as Justice Taney’s decision in Dred Scott required the “suspension of logic and reason, “to protect the institution of slavery for the economic reasons………….

Mandated Healthcare imposed on Americans in the absence of effective cost control measures within a service industry lacking tax liabilities and insulated from use of tax incentives and disincentives, is CORPORATE SERVITUDE an not all that much different from being rendered to property status, a slave and a means to profit while you and your family suffer from diseases caused by ??????? Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, compromised by an in accordance with the dictates of “”Corporate America!”" Corporations vs Americans folks….. Jefferson’s worst fear for the republic. Constitutional usurpation under the color of law in the lust for endless profit. “The enemy from within??”

However, next time you should try to get better audio and video so it can be more effectively circulated.

The first is access to health care. And, Jane you spoke to this, in this political moment, powerfully and beautifully.

The second is that the health care itself is based on the same monetary models defined and fought against in the first.

So we may change the model of how to get access but we will still need to change the model of what health care IS.

Good health includes clean water, clean air, interaction with nature, and lots of love. It includes TIME to BE. Not just time to DO. It includes the remedies of the earth… the herbs… the abundance of plants… the interrelatedness of health and environment… the correlation of oppressed peeps and oppressed nature… it includes healthy lifestyle — And by healthy lifestyle I don’t mean a consumerism workout at the gym and super juices.

It includes less… period. Less processed. Less chemicals. Less …

While I very much support, and consider the necessity of the first issue, I personally avoid doctors… I may become one of their statistics. Let me rephrase that, I WILL become one of their statistics. My grandmother, who happened to live to 99, held that one of her tenets to good health was avoiding doctors. This did not mean she never saw one, but in between she lived with people who knew natural remedies.

I see a resolution of the second fundamental issue as paramount to all of our health… “all” being the natural world… mineral, plant and animal… and a shift in our economic system.

Best,
Lab

Ahhh, Alberta….our Texas….Yup, that’d be where quite a few of our whack-a-doodles get their start…..

Regardless, as you sugget, even Albertans who break their arms or get diagnosed with prostate cancer can walk into any hospital in that fine province and get treated without fear of having to hock their car to pay for it.

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