6 Votes altogether with a consensus of anti-Americans ( perhaps ) not celebrating the fourth. I remembered it for what it was. One spent the fourth in the traditional way. I don't know who's who and what's what, but that isn't the point. It's just knowing how people look at the fourth. I haven't looked at it the same for years now. There was a time I did of course. But times change. And there will be hopefully a time I do.
In other news, national health care. Somehow politicians on the hunt for the big house know the talking points to get elected. What they do afterwards is at times something completely different, like Bush still being president. But in national health care wouldn't it be nice if you could go to any doctor for any reason? Say you have a health condition that you are aware of but it's not considered one that Doctors look for, under national health care you could. Because under national health care, you are as an American already a patient of that Doctor that specializes in that ailment.
So you can get the help you need and the diagnosis you can get confirmed.
Is this in any bills for national health care? Probably not. But it should be. Maybe I should run against Norm Colman who probably doesn't have a program idea for health care.
I see socialized medicine good for all. And perhaps a national registry that can follow you to any doctor, anywhere in the united states. Can you imagine that? Red tape gone and no need to register as a new patient as you already are. And no need for referrals. And any beauty of any health care system is the openness of patient doctor relations where second opinions are commonplace. Sometimes they are necessary, but patients do not like to step over that line, but with this system they are free to do so, as it is part and parcel of the system.
Socialized health care, Universal, National, whatever it need be, is an open system where medical integrity and the Hippocratic Oath will mean something again. In a stump speech Joe Biden suggests national health care for all and supports labor and unions.
Socialized healthcare scares some people, as some did 60 years ago. They opposed healthcare for the same reason they do today, national security.
What?
Well 60 years ago Truman suggested it and it was deemed by the republican party to be a communist plot. And for some illogical as hell reason today the right again sees national health care as helping terrorists.
As an Idea of how the wrong side of the track thinks. And this fool wrote a book. I wonder if the author bothered to separate his paragraphs in his book. It again bashes Michael Moore and looks more at the failings of other countries, which of course is normal. They do not have the capacity to be objective where it comes to their own nation. Typical.
There may be hope though at this time. The national health care of children is at stake and the AMA supports the extension of national health care for children. There is a huge lobby for health insurance providers. HMO's have privatized medical services with appropriate and listed Doctors that you can see. Is this system good? No it is not.
Everywhere you go, everywhere you work, health care is privatized and you have only certain practitioners you can go to, and to go beyond that practice you have to have a referral. Is this system good, or even adequate? No it is not.

Here today gone tomorrow. The end of health insurance and the beginning of real honest health care. Health care isn't a plan. Health care shouldn't even be a thought or a second guess. And today, because of privatized health care and health insurance it is. It is time to end all of that.

