US HEALTHCARE, A MISNOMER; US HEALTHCARE DOESN'T CARE

There was a time in our society when bosses cared about employees and work to keep the company making a profit that was reasonable.  That is no longer the case.  Profits today don't even go to the shareholders.  What is not creamed off the top by the CEO, COO, and other high positions sits and grows in the company's accounts.  Premium paying patients get the least for their expenditures.

Recently a Columbia University research as to why Americans have a shortened life span than many other countries makes a somewhat shocking report about our current healthcare in the US.  If only more Americans believed in Martin Luther King's words on the subject, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

In an article about our system, it is asked whether we are the best or just the most expensive.  Our death rate proves we are not the best and the fees charged indicate we are the most expensive.  For more details on this thought, click here.   Despite so many efforts to change things, which includes the free clinics that Keith Olbermann has featured on MSNBC, these effort are like spooning out the ocean with a teaspoon...not that even a few teaspoons make the effort less than a great humanitarian gesture.  As did Dickens' Oliver, we should all hold up our bowls and demand "more!"  However, our country is being held hostage by the stupid moves, especially of the last administration, in allowing lowered or fewer standards and more foreign takeover of our economy, jobs, trade balances, and so much that cost jobs and started the destruction  of our way of life which now exists.

Will the American public bypass the lies on some media and come out of the mesmerized state they are in and begin to think for themselves?  I can only hope that the majority will not be pulled down by the greatest of the liars to believe that God (who is being misused by those willing to sell religious snake oil) is behind the homophobia, racial hatred, and greed in our country.  Wake up Americans before it is too late for us all!