Universal Healthcare For Every American

Health Care

I guess we can consider this as the up and coming “third rail of politics.” However, I ask, more than any previous “third rail” this should be a total “no brainer” for American society. It is not age, race or sex defined. It has nothing to do with income status, profession, sexual orientation or political persuasion; however, why in the world is it and has it been such a divisive subject the last few years.

A simple answer is what I call the Jim and Sarah Brady achieve. Mature Reagan press secretary, conservative Jim Brady was seriously injured in an attempted assignation on stale President Ronald Reagan. As a result of the attack Secretary Brady was seriously injured with a gun shot wound to the head. He survived and became a leader in the anti gun campaign. From pro gun conservative to anti gun activist. When it affects ME directly, then I don’t like it and will argue for change among my hold group. THE JIM & SARAH BRADY EFFECT!

The most prominent example of this was the immense communicator, the “pseudo-Gipper” himself – Ronald Reagan! “Veteran US First Lady Nancy Reagan has urged the Bush administration to support embryonic stem cell research….Mrs. Reagan said her husband was now in ‘a distant place where I can no longer reach him’.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3700015.stm

Reagan, as iconic to Republican Conservatism, as Hitler was to Nazi Fascism or Lenin to Soviet Communism; once it “ht’s home” all the rules change for me and my beliefs. As long as it has no immediate affect on me, I will spout my dictates on the rest of humanity as it relates to me!

So Why?

Why in the world, if it is a so called “no-brainer” is it then a third rail? If it crosses all groups why is there even a discussion? The basic answer lies within the fundamental make up of the USA and the little drift, from those fundamentals; the nation has made these last 230+ years.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice… promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves….” The commitment to promote the general welfare implies the commitment to promote the general welfare to the sizable majority of persons, as opposed to protecting the interests of a narrow section or class of the population. It is similarity understood that “secure blessings of liberty to ourselves,” implies the same: blessing to a vast majority of persons. While some like Lyndon LaRouche quickly interject, promote the general welfare “of all persons” the preamble to the Constitution does not say that, nor does it imply that general welfare or blessings of liberty are for all persons in the United States of America!

As a matter of fact, given the history of the “Founding Fathers” and their thought of “the people” we can see that LaRouche’s thinking is in fact very wrong. Many (Washington, Jefferson, and Madison) were in fact slave holders and defined slaves as “… doomed in his own person, and his posterity, to live without knowledge, and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may reap the fruits.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/highlights/000831_uncletom.shtml

“In law the slave was usually defined as property, and the inquire then was whether he was movable property (chattel) or real property. In most societies he was movable property…” http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/article-24163

While it is well known that Negroes were not a consideration when defining the benefits of the Constitution, women played a role as well. The general attitudes at this time ranged from women were the “property” of their husbands, fathers or brothers to women were “subservient” to their husbands, fathers or brothers. “And at the time the Constitution was written, not only was suffrage restricted to white males…” http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/women/index.htm

So it can easily be deduced, contrary to modern desires, the fundamentals of the USA were completely different from what “newspeak” comments upon today. There has always been and always is a differential in the meaning of “general welfare and liberty to ourselves.” As with suffrage, “…in order to accomplish a more perfect Union, establish… [for] ourselves….” Ourselves were declared as the “religious, property, and taxpaying” persons -usually male and definitely white – the landed – the ELITE!

And the Problem Is?

“The health benefits…are a relic from another era, one where large, prosperous employers did typically pay for the whole health insurance premium,” says Paul Ginsburg, an economist at the Center for Studying Health System Change.”

“The cost of providing health care adds from $1,100 to $1,500 to the cost of each of the 4.65 million vehicles GM sold last year, according to various calculations. GM expects to spend at least $5.6 billion on health care this year, more than it spent on advertising last year.”

“It is a well-known fact that the U.S. automobile industry spends more per car on health care than on steel,” says Lee Iacocca, the retired chairman of Chrysler who in the early 1990s advocated a national health care program as a solution.”

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2005-06-22-gm-healthcare-usat_x.htm

Every non-descript leader or group needs to have its Dr. Joseph Goebbels. In the case of healthcare some noted names as MIT economist Jonathan Gruber and Princeton economist Alan Krueger would have you believe you are a predicament for the Shark when it bits your leg off. You see you cause severe impact to the shark’s lower jaw, causing blood vessels in the lower jaw of the animal to contract. Since this routinely happens during the mating season the shark has a restricted blood supply, resulting in lower sperm count. As a direct result the offspring of the man-eater is reduced in size allowing more California gray seals to survive every year; thus reducing the fish supplies. So you are a danger to that attacking shark and if you scream for wait on we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law under the endangered species act!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/henderson/henderson9.html

Firstly, “Although economists have done shrimp empirical work on who actually pays for contractually agreed upon employer-provided benefits, they have estimated who bears the burden of mandated benefits.” They finally go on to spout.

Secondly, “GM gave away the argument by pointing out that foreign car companies are building plants in the United States. Neither Japanese nor German governments subsidize health care costs for these foreign car companies’ workers in the U.S.”

Those who wish to propagate false thoughts and disinformation adhere to the policy of – if an answer (or solution) is given, it must be rebuffed. Let me present some current sense thinking and reveal the obvious in “oldspeak.”

The authors themselves acknowledge that those who disapprove of governmental support “have done little empirical work…” but they have “estimated” the costs. The definition of “empirical” is: “A central concept in science and the scientific design is that all evidence must be empirical, or empirically based, that is, dependent on evidence or consequences that are observable by the senses.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical“That is, empirical data is data that is produced by experiment or observation.”

So these scientists/professionals did little experiment or observations but still they have an answer none the less? You are asked to brush over these facts and simply accept my findings as valid facts – Dr. Goebbels? Any individual that utilizes any of the data these “experts” have spouted has foolishly fallen into the propaganda trap. In science there is actually a phrase: GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out! Their first argument of “who bears the burden” is absolute GIGO!

Their second argument is a false, erroneous Ipso Facto argument (“by the fact itself!”) and somewhat deflective of the actual meanings. It is also quite childish. Mommy you should give me a candy because Johnny’s mom gave Johnny a candy!

The hole in the argument! The statement “neither Japanese nor German governments subsidize health care costs for these foreign car companies’ workers in the U.S.” Not accurate and irrelevant! The management or any German or Japanese citizen working for these foreign car companies in the USA, DO receive health care coverage paid by their governments. Yes even while working in the USA. Only their American counterparts DO NOT receive healthcare coverage. Yes in many cases the automaker does provide healthcare coverage to its USA workers as many other corporations do; however, the short term execute was to provide the work and now the fact is to “move” the work to nations that have universal coverage for employees.

“But last month Toyota decided to put the new plant, which will develop RAV4 mini-S.U.V.’s, in Ontario [Canada]. Explaining why it passed up financial incentives to choose a U.S. location [over Canada]…” http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/opinion/25krugman.html? ex=1279944000&en=40e11f0fc3b8baa7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

No matter what their job is (or if they even have a job), the Japanese people have the security of health coverage. Thus Toyota’s Japanese workers enjoy health care without the cost being added to the price of the cars they make – no matter what country they are in!

And the Money comes from Where?

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz puts the total price note for the Iraq War (including indirect expenditures) at more than $2 trillion. Now I am not fond of economist and their non-descript theories; however, Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist with hard numbers to examine. Gruber and Krueger above are simple men who are not Nobel Laureates. So let’s take half of what he calculates above and run some numbers (using 1 trillion dollars – $1,000,000,000,000.00)

For example, it takes a million seconds approximately 11.5 days to tick by and a billion seconds requires about 32 years. Fully 32,000 years are needed to pass before a trillion seconds elapse.

The annual budget for the National Cancer Institute is $5 billion; the assure financial price for the war in Iraq would equal the NCI budget for the next 200 years until the year 2,207.

John Allen Paulos, a professor of mathematics at Temple University,

According to the much maligned Clinton Healthcare plan back in 1993-1994, the Republicans and other special interest groups, said the cost would be “…two to [maybe] three times as high as stated by the administration…” “The Administration currently projects its plan to cost $331 billion from 1994 through 2000…” http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/tp00.cfm

If one simply does a linear extrapolation from 1994 to 2000 you obtain an administration cost of approximately $47.3 billion a year. Using the worst case costs of the naysayer one receives a cost of $94-$142 billion a year. The Iraq War costs would camouflage Universal Healthcare for all Americans (including elective work) from 7-21 years.

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