The Best Health Care Is Reserved for Congress

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from Caveat Press, via AlterNet:


The Best Health Care Is Reserved for Congress

By Don Sloan, Caveat Press. Posted July 11, 2007.



In an excerpt from his new book, Practicing Medicine Without a License, Don Sloan, M.D., shows that members of Congress enjoy health coverage with unlimited doctor visits, no deductibles and no co-pays -- all for $35 a month. So what about the rest of us?

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Practicing Medicine Without a License! The Corporate Takeover of Healthcare in America.

Nothing happens in a political vacuum. Nothing. The toe bone is connected to the head bone. Healthcare's place in a country agenda is but a microcosm of where a nation ranks its social consciousness. It reveals the quality of our purpose, our economy, our priorities and where they are placed on the chain of command. Along with education, healthcare tells all about a government and its people.

For without a healthy and literate people, a society cannot succeed. World history has proven that over and over again. Where then does America stand on the ladder of accomplishments when stacked up against the rest of the nations of the world? Sadly, with all of its opulence, power, wealth, and resources, nowhere near high enough.

U.S. foreign aid

For openers, we have often bragged about how generous we are toward the rest of the world as measured by our foreign aid. Politically, it is no secret that we base our aid not on need, but on its service as a tool of our foreign policy. Countries that are friendly to the U.S. power structure are the beneficiaries of our benevolence. Thus, the nations that receive by far the lion's share of our foreign aid are Israel and Egypt, the two nations in the Middle East boiling pot that are most politically aligned with our ideals and ambitions.

If generosity has been properly defined as the giving of what you have little of, then in that context, no matter how benevolent we might seem, we are not a generous nation. Even now, there is that brouhaha over our rehab funding of Iraq. Revelations come daily of contracting through the Halliburton empire and other corporate friends of the Administration, based not on value or need, but on the size of contributions to the various political campaigns or their political connections. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/56439/

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1. I have been saying this for years - they vote down everything for us

while giving themselves raises unheard of in our jobs and have incredible health care while reducing medicare and denying universal health care - if they had to do like all of us without insurance because it is too expensive or if we get sick, we can't pay and therefore would have no insurance anyway. They are the entitlement group and keep labeling us that when we want health care and ss and other benefits that they all enjoy - they get very good pension based on our taxes

The reason they want to cut our programs is to give more to them