As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
I am all for healthcare REFORM and I am for any and ALL REFORM that truly is REFORM. Are you getting the sense of what I am saying here? As I look at nearly everything that GOVERNMENT tries to REFORM it makes it worse! Way back in 1913 the Federal Reserve was established to bring reform to our financial system and PROTECT the US$, which has lost 98% of its value in the last 95 years!
Need we look any further back than the Cash For Clunkers program?
Do we need to review our bankrupt social security program, the fiscal failure of Medicare and Medicaid? Has the postal system or Amtrak been successful? Can you imagine how much worse off the automobile industry is going to be now that it's RUN by the U.S. government. But, let's take a look at healthcare specifically.
Healthcare in America NEEDS REFORM! What we don't need is the government to take it over. REFORM, not destruction!
Why don't we take LESSONS from those who have gone this route before us? The Canadian national healthcare system is a shambles and getting worse by the month- by their own admission. And what we're seeing in England who has been working a national healthcare system the longest is more than scary! Thousands of women in the UK are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds. The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
We want this? :-(
Health chiefs in England admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labor being turned away from hospitals because they are full. Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:
>63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals
>117 births in A&E departments
>115 births on other hospital wards
>399 in parts of maternity units other than labor beds
We're just talking about one area of medical needs.
REFORM yes! But yet another government run MESS? Hell no!
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