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Nurses launch national "Scrubs for SiCKO" campaign to endorse universal health care following Michael Moore's film Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: Starting June 29th, the launch day of the SiCKO documentary, nurses, doctors and other health care practitioners are launching a national campaign to urge support for a shift to a universal health care system. They'll be handing out flyers and recruiting people to support a campaign to shift America away from its current greed-based system of medicine to one that offers universal health care to everyone.

Adopting universal health care now could save us from the national health care disaster now brewing. If we do nothing and accept the status quo, continuing to financially exploit our sick while denying basic health care services to nearly 50 million Americans, our future is not in doubt: The United States of America will find itself ruined, diseased and bankrupt, with no way out. See my popular health care fable Welcome to the Town of Allopath for a fictional description of how this might work. (Yes, I'm the original author of the Town of Allopath fable.

NewsTarget fully supports universal health care. While the thought of government running health care is rather horrifying, the only thing scarier is the thought of greedy corporations running health care. I'd much rather have health care left up to incompetent bureaucrats than scheming profiteers who have no ethics. The very idea that drug companies and insurance companies are right now profiting from disease and sickness is bewildering. Shouldn't health care be more concerned about the health of the people than the profits of the wealthy elite?

Addicted to profit So if nurses, doctors, employers, state governments and nearly all the people in the country want universal health care, why hasn't it happened yet? The answer is simple: Because the corporations currently profiting from sickness and disease don't want to give up their control over health care. Big Pharma is making billions of dollars selling dangerous drugs to people who largely don't need them. Health insurance companies are raking in billions more by denying payment for medical procedures.

The corporations in power today are allied against any switch to universal health care because it would take the profit out of the system and deliver quality health care services on the cheap. Think about it: Americans pay the most, by far, for health care. We pay monopoly prices for pharmaceuticals. It's a great scam if you're cashing in as a drug company or corrupt FDA official. But the People just get the shaft. Isn't it time we took back our health care and investigated, arrested and prosecuted all the criminals who have been running this health care scam on us for the last few decades?

Canada relies on universal health care. So does the U.K., France, Japan, Taiwan and even Cuba, as is pointed out in the SiCKO movie by Michael Moore. Only the United States remains steeped in health care corruption, stuck in a system of greed, run by corporations who are out to make a profit, not to make people well. (And disease pays big bucks, by the way. That's why conventional medicine today has no real interest in preventing disease or curing disease. There's only a focus on treating symptoms and keeping patients addicted to pharmaceuticals for life.

Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In contrast to all this, Moore shows us the universal health care systems in countries like Canada, the UK, France and even Cuba... all countries where health care is free to everyone. It's called universal health care (or "socialized medicine"), and it's a system followed by nearly every modern nation in the world... and even some not-so-modern nations. Only America practices medicine in the Dark Ages, tied to a hopelessly corrupt system of financial exploitation and monopoly price controls, where Big Pharma gets richer, the FDA gets more powerful, and the American people get the shaft.

The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Check out its position on universal health care.) The result is that our current medical/ pharmaceutical model has created a default position on how to approach disease, and regrettably, most of us have bought into it. It goes like this: You have a symptom, you go to the doctor, she gives you a pill, the symptom is gone. Got asthma? Suck on an inhaler. Got allergies? Get a shot. Got cancer? Get chemo. Got a headache? Take an aspirin. Depressed? Have I got an SSR.I for you. Given this commonly accepted meaning of cure, I didn't want to use the word without explaining what I meant by it.

Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's called universal health care (or "socialized medicine"), and it's a system followed by nearly every modern nation in the world... and even some not-so-modern nations. Only America practices medicine in the Dark Ages, tied to a hopelessly corrupt system of financial exploitation and monopoly price controls, where Big Pharma gets richer, the FDA gets more powerful, and the American people get the shaft.

Where's the health in health care reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

So, when a politician comes along and says, "We're going to provide universal health care and cover everybody," people are going to say, "I'm voting for you!" But they don't realize what it means. What it means is financial bankruptcy because, again, if you don't address the health, there is no real solution. We are at a crossroads here in terms of the history of human civilization on this planet. What's going to happen to this particular nation, the United States of America?

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

But Scherer supports the notion of universal health care, which would invariably mean government efforts at cost containment and lower profits for drugmakers. "It's true they'd spend less money on research and development," says Scherer. "The tough question is, how many important new drugs would we lose? And what you would lose on average is products at the margin that probably don't make a difference between life and death.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Green Party candidate Ralph Nader challenged the American Bush-and-Gore mainstream positions, which ignored the most important issues of the environment, labor conditions, universal health care, military spending, growing inequalities between the wealthy and others, campaign financing reform, crime prevention, accelerating imprisonment of citizens, minority rights, and judicial and legal system abuses. Both major party candidates seemed like robotic, well-paid actors running on non-issues and vying to grab a bland political center.

We Americans have no universal health care, outmoded election laws and a Supreme Court which can now exclude from office winners of popular votes in close elections' such as the 2000 Bush-Gore fiasco. Whatever happened to the days when we were the good guys in World War II? Why do we have more than 35,000 firearm murders per year versus just a handful in other nations? Why the school shootings? Do our children sense a lack of hope coming from our leaders about the kind of world they will be inheriting? Things seem a lot bleaker than when I was growing up.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

We already have universal health care and a single-payer system for everybody aged sixty-five and over: It's called Medicare. For years, researchers, think tanks, citizens' groups, and health care professionals have advocated a similar plan for the rest of the population. Study after study has concluded that the most practical and cost-effective way to provide quality health care and to restrain costs is a single-payer system, but no plan has ever come close to adoption because of fierce opposition by the powerful health care lobby.

Truman advocated a universal health care system to cover everyone. The medical establishment—principally the American Medical Association (AMA)— opposed it with such intensity that the idea went nowhere. The AMAs position drew strong support from those groups who saw the Red Menace everywhere. It was the Cold War era, and any proposal for government involvement on such a large scale was thought surely to be part of a Communist plot, although oddly no one seemed to pin the label on the nation's mandatory and publicly financed education system. Truman's successor, President Dwight D.

Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

This society has achieved universal health care and education, and a birth rate as low as almost any Kerala: First World Quality of Life and Zero Population Growth Despite Third World Poverty U.S. and Canada Combined Kerala India Fertility Rate (children born per woman) 2.0 2.0 3.9 Infant Mortality Rate 8 17 91 Life Expectancy, Male 72 70 58 Life Expectancy, Female 79 74 59 Literacy, Male 99% 94% 64% Literacy, Female 99% 86% 39% GNP per capita $22,430 $365 $350 Source: GAIA Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities, and Economics, 1994, 3(4), 211.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

General Motors says the cost of providing health care to its workers and retirees now totals $ 1,400 for each vehicle sold in the United States, more than the cost of steel. William Clay Ford Jr., the chairman and chief executive of Ford, says, "employers in this country, and particularly manufacturing employers, can't compete internationally with this burden around our collective necks." This is why companies are cutting back, trimming, or eliminating health care for their retirees, and reneging on promises made to encourage workers to leave early.

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