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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
4:37 PM
If we look scientifically at the results of various systems in light of a good goal to promote health and care for all people in poor health, it is certainly not some governmental devil beast to choose together to give everyone the free option of going to the doctor when they are ill and to prevent illness, and to pay for it all together.
But the opposite has been tossed into the vicious pit of bought and sold demons in Congress, and in the name of healing. It is not oppressive socialism - it is a fascism of the rich, which forces everyone to purchase risk insurance from private companies. If I have a car I have to buy insurance, but I am free to take the bus; although health (and the bus) only work if we all pitch in to make systems work, but I am also free to walk if I want to. After all, without the bus to move workers around, rich people could never chase hot cars and big houses, and the workers would starve. While the bill regulates their most egregious violations of human dignity, it retains the putrid stench of the foul spirit at the core of our current system.
By omitting comprehensive public health care as a possibility, or even as a limited experiment, the current healthcare bill criminalizes some stratum of near-poverty economic wealth by leaving out a smaller, and incidentally more manageable population. By shrinking the population of Lepers, those cast out of basic dignity, but not caring for quite everyone, Neo-Roman America quiets the voice of the oppressed by reducing their numbers, making them more easy to manage, while retaining their suffering to be bandied about in the halls of Congress as poker chips, as hostages to exchange for unrelated political concessions by aspirant lords in a republican feudalism.
There can be no compromise with private health-mongers that satisfies our constitutional obligation to fight for equal protection of the law. That does not mean "an arbitrary formula with an equal sign in imbalanced rules labeled 'law' that the rich dudes wrote." It means that United States citizens deserve protection of our laws equally, and if we do not do that when we pass a law, then law cannot be adequately defined to satisfy the deeper morality that we know and work toward if we seek good at all. And we must, somehow, always seek it, together, to survive as a species.
Equally protecting the common dignity of everyone's health is an obligation of our Constitution, and it is the only fair thing to do morally and spiritually. If we truly got our priorities straight for taking care of life, there wouldn't be any abortion clinics because no one would be so desperate as to be tempted by one - and that would be the pressure of a truly free market economy at work.
And on the opposite pole of the false political spectrum, using such needs in the name of communist revolution as a means to stoke the flames of violence and overthrow an elite only accomplish the same goal, which is to replace the prior elite with a new one. Structurally, communism is not any more "fair," and in many ways incredibly becomes incredibly unfair as political decisions are divorced from all morality humankind has ever attempted to articulate.
As for being like the Swiss system, I don't think Rousseau would be as proud of them as of countries who take care of everyone, citizens and visitors alike, not because they are forced by thugs with guns, but because they are, as a people, charitable and kind. There is no reason why the United States could not take care of ourselves, flower the free spirit of caring for others throughout the globe, and heal ourselves and the world. It would certainly beat handing out truckloads of cash to weapons dealers. In God We Trust, certainly is a good maxim if not in the presence of money, and in money we should trust not.
Besides which, preventative care for everyone - and only if everyone - would save money. Instead, masses of Americans deceive themselves and allow themselves to be deceived, projecting an inverse image where caring means you want people to die whom you could easily help, and you express love for family by abandoning people to fend for themselves to "build character." Masses of Americans - mobs - allow themselves to be turned against one another in spite and rancor. Meanwhile, Congress sells us as slaves - literal economic slaves - to the highest bidder.
If fairly applied to protect Americans equally, taxes seem more fair than forced consumption in a system of concentrating profit to a small group of individuals. If we continue to act stupid forever, we will end up with the stupidest government ever, and we will all die, every last one of us and most everything else left on this rock, too. There is no need for any kind of revolution, a sentiment stoked by deceivers to exploit violence and division. We simply have to enforce the plain meaning of our current equal protection law, and it's the obligation of every citizen to do so.
inverse thinking
In a government of, by and for the people, that means us, everyone, poor people, rich people, as such things go, which means if we wanted a public option, or a single public-owned egalitarian cooperative, we could do that, if our cause is a good cause, to promote health and life.If we look scientifically at the results of various systems in light of a good goal to promote health and care for all people in poor health, it is certainly not some governmental devil beast to choose together to give everyone the free option of going to the doctor when they are ill and to prevent illness, and to pay for it all together.
But the opposite has been tossed into the vicious pit of bought and sold demons in Congress, and in the name of healing. It is not oppressive socialism - it is a fascism of the rich, which forces everyone to purchase risk insurance from private companies. If I have a car I have to buy insurance, but I am free to take the bus; although health (and the bus) only work if we all pitch in to make systems work, but I am also free to walk if I want to. After all, without the bus to move workers around, rich people could never chase hot cars and big houses, and the workers would starve. While the bill regulates their most egregious violations of human dignity, it retains the putrid stench of the foul spirit at the core of our current system.
By omitting comprehensive public health care as a possibility, or even as a limited experiment, the current healthcare bill criminalizes some stratum of near-poverty economic wealth by leaving out a smaller, and incidentally more manageable population. By shrinking the population of Lepers, those cast out of basic dignity, but not caring for quite everyone, Neo-Roman America quiets the voice of the oppressed by reducing their numbers, making them more easy to manage, while retaining their suffering to be bandied about in the halls of Congress as poker chips, as hostages to exchange for unrelated political concessions by aspirant lords in a republican feudalism.
There can be no compromise with private health-mongers that satisfies our constitutional obligation to fight for equal protection of the law. That does not mean "an arbitrary formula with an equal sign in imbalanced rules labeled 'law' that the rich dudes wrote." It means that United States citizens deserve protection of our laws equally, and if we do not do that when we pass a law, then law cannot be adequately defined to satisfy the deeper morality that we know and work toward if we seek good at all. And we must, somehow, always seek it, together, to survive as a species.
Equally protecting the common dignity of everyone's health is an obligation of our Constitution, and it is the only fair thing to do morally and spiritually. If we truly got our priorities straight for taking care of life, there wouldn't be any abortion clinics because no one would be so desperate as to be tempted by one - and that would be the pressure of a truly free market economy at work.
And on the opposite pole of the false political spectrum, using such needs in the name of communist revolution as a means to stoke the flames of violence and overthrow an elite only accomplish the same goal, which is to replace the prior elite with a new one. Structurally, communism is not any more "fair," and in many ways incredibly becomes incredibly unfair as political decisions are divorced from all morality humankind has ever attempted to articulate.
As for being like the Swiss system, I don't think Rousseau would be as proud of them as of countries who take care of everyone, citizens and visitors alike, not because they are forced by thugs with guns, but because they are, as a people, charitable and kind. There is no reason why the United States could not take care of ourselves, flower the free spirit of caring for others throughout the globe, and heal ourselves and the world. It would certainly beat handing out truckloads of cash to weapons dealers. In God We Trust, certainly is a good maxim if not in the presence of money, and in money we should trust not.
Besides which, preventative care for everyone - and only if everyone - would save money. Instead, masses of Americans deceive themselves and allow themselves to be deceived, projecting an inverse image where caring means you want people to die whom you could easily help, and you express love for family by abandoning people to fend for themselves to "build character." Masses of Americans - mobs - allow themselves to be turned against one another in spite and rancor. Meanwhile, Congress sells us as slaves - literal economic slaves - to the highest bidder.
If fairly applied to protect Americans equally, taxes seem more fair than forced consumption in a system of concentrating profit to a small group of individuals. If we continue to act stupid forever, we will end up with the stupidest government ever, and we will all die, every last one of us and most everything else left on this rock, too. There is no need for any kind of revolution, a sentiment stoked by deceivers to exploit violence and division. We simply have to enforce the plain meaning of our current equal protection law, and it's the obligation of every citizen to do so.
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