There’s a story about a farmer who had an award winning crop. The farmer was known for having blue ribbon vegetables on a regular basis year after year. When asked how he managed to have such prize winning plants the farmer would explain he simply shares the seeds from his award winning crops with his neighboring farmers.
One of the problems associated with growing a quality vegetable crop is contamination from the neighboring crops. Winds blow pollen grains across property lines. Animals carry pollen from one field to another. In a working example of the law of averages, the quality of the first field is infected and combined with the quality of the second field and both fields begin to mutate into a field with an average quality of both. In order to protect your crop and keep the average as high as possible make sure the quality of both fields is as high as possible. It’s not rocket science.
This morning I read a report on the abcnews website titled Superbugs Emerge Among Urban Poor by Carla K Johnson. The article explains that in recent years, drug resistant staph infections have spread to the urban poor, rising almost seven hundred percent. These infections are difficult to treat due to their resistance to penicillin based drugs. These infections can lead to pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and the seriously scary flesh eating disorder. Instances of this condition have jumped from 24 per 100,000 cases in the year 2000 to 164 instances per 100,000 cases in 2005. If the rate of climb continues its pace by the year 2010 the number will jump to over 1100 instances per 100,000 by 2010. By 2015 the number will be well over 7,500 instances. As time passes on these staph infections will become more difficult to combat and require more resources to control.
The ideal of a universal healthcare program for the United States frightens a lot of people who stand to loose their ability to make a lot of money or to help people who are less fortunate. A lot of people have bought the line that universal healthcare will bankrupt the country. And yet, these same people have no qualms supporting a war that is costing America two hundred million dollars each day it drags on. And each day this war continues the United States is directly responsible for the resulting destruction of property and lives, and for inspiring more and more people around the globe to join organizations whose primary goal is to stop the government of the United States. But to spend a dime trying to protect the health of the population is a cause with little perceived benefit.
Universal healthcare has the stench of socialism. But nobody can tell me what’s wrong with that. We allow socialism to protect our houses from fire with the local fire department. A social program is used to hire law enforcers to protect us from people who may try to do us wrong. Few people complain about the socialized military machine the United States uses to invoke our will on others by force. But a social program designed to make sure that everyone has adequate medical coverage is just too evil a concept. The weight of the bureaucracy alone would hinder the quality of our care.
But if the bureaucracy of the paperwork necessary to get care now is any indication I’d be willing to take that chance. Insurance companies hire tons of clerks, investigators, auditors, and lawyers to comb through client’s records for anything that can be considered a preexisting condition whenever their facing a huge payout that could impact profits. It is cheaper to pay an army of people to look for a reason not to pay a claim and deny coverage.
Universal healthcare doesn’t have to be expensive. If we implement a healthcare system that allows insurance companies, health facilities, lawyers and other legal agencies, health care givers, manufacturers of medicine, and other entities to continue making the profits per capita that they enjoy now then it will be tremendously expensive. The goal of these institutions and organization isn’t to help people improve their health. Like most entities in America the ultimate goal is to make money.
Because of the lack of preventive medicine in the black community it has become analogous to the canary in the coal mine. Unfortunately, American society doesn’t have the good medial sense to aggressively counter these potential health problems while they remain relatively easy to correct. Because the dominant community enjoys access to better medical care it is assumed that the majority won’t suffer from these super bugs like the black community will. However, the black community will be allowed to act as an incubator for the drug resistant bacteria until they mutate into super-duper bugs that are far more infectious and far more deadly. A stitch in time may save nine. However in this example, a stitch now will save lives not just in the black community but could save lives in the population in general.
The quality of people’s health in the United States continues to decline in the global ranks. Countries without the advanced medical technology of the United States continue to advance in the rankings while America plummets. Why? Because other countries apply whatever medical technology they have across the board and across class lines and racial lines while America’s medicine is reserved only for those who can afford it. If America doesn’t change its narrow minded focus on profits above all else we will continue our decline.
The blue ribbon award winning farmer who shares his seeds understands the correlation between his field and the other fields within his community. The farmer in the story understood that the law of averages would eventually catch him if he allowed the quality of his neighbor’s fields to deteriorate while he tried to improve the quality of his own field. Unfortunately, the lesson is lost on a population so deeply rooted in selfish behavior and the subjugation of people outside the traditional face of dominant culture America.
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The saddest of the sad about this is that preventative health remains the one thing African America’s urban poor do have within their power. Any universal health care program can only bring along with it the horror stories we witness with the health care industry as we witness it already. Nobody seems to make the connection between the policies and practices of the AMA and those of the Nazi Doctors in Hitler’s Germany. Nobody seems to question the blatantly whorish relationship of the FDA with the pharmaceutical mega-companies, nor seem to be aware that Doctors get paid to push inadequately tested ‘medicines’ to unsuspecting patients.
The conspiracy of AMA, pharmaceutical companies and the FDA has made it hazardous to support natural medical solutions which are available and effective and inexpensive. Like colloidal silver. A simple solution of water and silver colloids created by electrifying water in which has been inserted high quality silver rods. Colloids are the microscopic particles of silver detached by the electricity. They are suspended in the water as a result. Silver kills 99.9% of all pathogens, viral, fungal, microbial, including hiv/aids, including staph, herpes, hepatitis-on contact. It is simple to use, has no side effects, and is inexpensive.
Food grade hydrogen peroxide has the same powerful effect. It is cheap and deadly to disease causing organisms.
I can attest to these facts from personal experience. The medical industry relies on sickness to create wealth. Healthy people have no need for doctors. Careful attention to nutrition, avoiding overcooked food, eating plenty of fresh raw vegetables, drinking fresh raw juices and getting plenty of exercise is the universal health plan.
Amen! K.Koje, It is the prevention part thats important. Often times we are lead to believe that early detection is somehow the same as prevention. It is not. We need preventive care. We need wellness care. This isn’t to say that people should not have access to physicians when needed, yet that we need to change the hearts and minds of the people to look at health in the context of eating properly as a form of prevention. Drinking the proper amounts of water, eating fresh fruits, avoiding “feed” that’s killing the poor. If we increase the power of out immune systems the less we would be concerned about a universal health care plan. I’ll suggest the book Medisin by Dr. Scott Whitaker, very interesting read.
What’s really, really scary is the insistence of the large agribusiness companies on trying to force foods grown from genetically altered seed on the poor. With an almost universal rejection rate among Europeans companies, whose names I won’t mention here are dumping the rejected grains on Mexican, India and Africa. The black and the brown for sure and most likely the yellow as well. It is bad enough to have to abandon meats almost entirely because of steroids used to hyper-grow stock, now this.