Thanks for thinking about me :-). But it was Melissa’s comments that really got my attention. I like the way she was bringing an integrative perspective into the discussion of health care. Mulga response is really addressing the tax question because the taxes are about protecting profits of big phama.

Deadbeat…I agree with what you say about Single Payer emerging piecemeal. That is exactly what has just happened because the law does NOT provide for Single Payer. Also, Single Payer does not prevent one from working for a clean environment, better housing, etc.

Deadbeat, I am surprised that there are not more comments about the tax code I suggest in the article. I had you in mind when I wrote that.

Melissa questions are in the right direction. Those questions are integrative. How can you have health care without housing, clean food, a clean environment, education, and REDUCED stress. All of those aspects TOGETHER what provides good health.

One of the reasons I was AGAINST the demand for single payer in the current way “activist” are demanding it is that if of emerges piecemeal, like liberals tend to do, then those people who have access to the other health factors will not feel the need to struggle for an integrative approach. They have what they need — see ya!

Again this is the time to really dig deeper and ask more PROFOUND questions about the Capitalist system and consider what the world would be like WITHOUT it.

You are near an important distinction about taxes . . . something about incentives vs. dis-incentives. I think there is something punitive about the legislation fever to ‘regulate’.

I still demand safe care, when I need help, but these rollercoasters of hype about health care deliberately marginalize the foundation of health. Further, how to help others access foundations of health? The “Great Debate” (TM) always slides around those little bits. You, know, that elephant in the room of real air, water and FOOD pollution . . . you know, those GMOs, those, chemicals that are now called artificial flavors . . . you know all of this.

Just when we should be crowing about getting off of an engineered hampster wheel regarding the Medical Industrial Complex, we are somehow on our knees begging for another pill to take . . . shhhhhh. Go back to sleep.

How can we guarantee safe air, water and food for all? With a prescription for highbloodpressure? Or will access to Abilify (TM) launch that solution into our midst?

I continue to have more questions about the Great Debate (TM) than I have answers for. I do remember, though, that I first started hearing the “sell” for it at a seminar in 2006/7, where the theme was “Socio-economic Disparities” and the keynote speaker was a representative (I think CEO) for Blue Cross Blue Shield. She said it was a win-win scenario from a business standpoint; “of course I think everyone should have a card from BCBS in their wallet”. She said it, or some other collection of words with that meaning.

I’m not even going to get into censored treatments by Medical GateKeepers.

Peace,
Melissa