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Remote Area Medical

Here is an article about

Remote Area Medical, and bless them for what they do.

However, they should not be needed in this country. Click on the link below for the article.

Health Care and Insurance Companies

Health care. All of us need it from time to time. Health care reform. This is not so clear to many people. All agree something needs be done, but it would appear no one is agreement about how to go about it.

There is so much controversy surrounding health care, that we now are going to be bombarded with television ads.
Now those same insurance companies are supposed to be paying for the health care that the businesses and individuals have been paying for, are instead spending tens of millions of dollars on the television ads, telling us that government health care would ruin this country.
Hmmm…..let’s get real on the lack of health care coverage for millions of people, 45 million it is estimated, that have no access to health care.
I have heard all the selfish arguments about how, “If they had a real job, they’d have health coverage.”
Or “If they had a real education, they’d have a job that pays them enough so they could afford health care.”
I even had one person tell me that if they got cancer they would not want to live, so therefore they should not have to pay for someone that does want to live. Absolutely no logic in that statement.
Now…these arguments come from people that who have health care coverage through their employer, or they are well set financially and can pay for health care.
Brass tacks are as follows…read the bullet points.

If you had/have an existing condition, cancer, diabetes, or any other disease that is considered chronic and/or will require medical treatment for months or even years, you cannot buy health coverage that you can afford.
If you had coverage, and you were laid off work, you have access to COBRA which is a federally subsidized health care coverage for a period of six months. If you had an existing condition, and your COBRA runs out, you are screwed, because no insurance company is going to cover you. If you had cancer and it comes back, you are going to die.
If you get very ill, cancer, etc. and you have no health care and no money, you are going to die. There is no state or federal aid for you, you are going to be sent home to die. It is really that simple.
If you are indigent or poor, the only health care you will get is emergency. If you get a serious illness that requires long term treatments, you are going to die.
If you have worked all of your life to have a nice nest-egg so that retirement can mean taking trips you never had time for and just enjoying life, and your house is paid for, you have no excess bills. You have health care coverage through Medicare and perhaps a private insurer like Blue Cross-Blue Shield. If you get sick, heart disease, cancer, Medicare only covers certain costs, Blue Cross-Blue Shield only covers certain costs. Guess what? You are going to lose everything you ever worked for to pay your medical bills. You will lose your house, your retirement funds, your 401K, EVERYTHING. And end up living on the streets or with one of your children, if they will have you.

Diet and Crime?

Here is some research on diets and crime. It is of course a small study but it shows how it is possible for diets to affect a person’s behavior. Links to pesticides and herbicides are a very good possibility.
I encourage you to read this article and to check out some of the others.

And before you attack me…I am not saying criminals need a better diet and that’s what causes them to be what they are. I am saying that there are possibilities in some instances.

Crime Times

Once you are on the website, scroll down until you come to the word "Diet" and click on the article.

Have a look at where your beets are coming from:

From the Eugene Weekly

Excerpts from the article:

Four years ago, sugar beet processors decided to convert the entire U.S. sugar beet production to Roundup Ready GM varieties, developed by Monsanto Company. The processors said farmers needed GM beets for better weed control.

The sugar beets are genetically modified to withstand sprays of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. This allows farmers to spray their fields with Roundup, killing the weeds, but not the transgenic sugar beet plants. And it helps Monsanto make more money.

Field trials of GM beets began in the Willamette Valley in 2005 — quietly, Morton says. “The initial stages of GM beet seed production were carried out in secrecy for at least two years without other sugar beet seed growers having any knowledge or notification that GMOs were in the air, literally.”

The Oregon Department of Agriculture did not ask for public comments nor notify anyone about the trials. “A farming technology revolution went on silently for three years, and was definitely not televised or bragged about,” Morton says.

Healthy People v Not So Healthy People Now…there is also the complaint about not wanting to pay for people that will not take care of themselves, overweight, alcoholics, drug addicts, etc.
Let’s go through this.
It is cheaper for people to buy a pound of spaghetti for 89 cents and a jar of sauce for 1.49 than it is to buy a ‘bunch’ of broccoli and a lean pound of hamburger. Guess which foods have the most sugars and starch? It’s a no-brainer folks.
If that same person can only afford spaghetti and cheap sauce, just where in hell are they going to get the money to go to the doctor for preventative care, let alone getting help when they get really sick.
As for drug addicts and alcoholics. People we are already paying for them in our taxes for extra police and larger or more prisons.
Even if you have health insurance coverage, do you think they are going to pay for the best care if you get cancer? NOT! You are going to get the care they will pay for, which may or may not be substandard.
You can bet your sorry ass they will not pay for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Too expensive…it is cheaper to let you die. They must make their profit for their shareholders…and if you have stock options out there that you pay little attention to, you just may be a shareholder of the company that IS NOT paying for your health care!
Health care is a right, not an option. There is no right in allowing a person to die because they have no insurance or money.

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