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December 10, 2007
by Stephen Neitzke  
Part 1: Mired in Political Debate
No other developed nation's citizens have to live with the political debate over universal health care, to say nothing of the greed-driven lies that are part of that debate here in the US.
Kings, priests, and politicians have used a special political rubric since the tribal up-ramp to organized states. The special rubric elevates the speaker-author just for mentioning lofty issues and problems. But then the rubric dives into the muck and mire, instructing ordinary people to give up rights and life so that the governing, religious, and financial elites can have social, economic, and political power.
For example, the Inquisition Derivation: We must do everything we can to save the heretics' souls for the greater glory of God. Torture them to death or burn them at the stake -- and then bring us their gold, silver, and estate lands.
The Bush Derivation: We must do everything we can to save Islamic souls for Democracy and the greater glory of God. Gun them down, blow them up, torture them to death. Bring me their stray billions in cash in Brenner's diplomatic bags. Have Brenner break all the flow meters on the Iraqi pipelines so that my oil cronies can steal all they want. Allow my global central banker buddies all the war profiteering they can suck out of the "coalition of the willing" governments -- giving first priority to the private-owner central bankers of our own treasonous Federal Reserve. Give no-bid contracts to Cheney's Haliburton and to our private armies of mercenaries so that we cover up their treason. We gotta get outta here with all the money before the Yellowstone and Long Valley supervolcanoes blow up most of the western US, bury the breadbasket and national economy under several yards of volcanic glass, and shut off the sunlight for about a decade of global volcanic winter.
The Hillary Derivation: We must save the health of every American with universal health care insurance for the greater glory of warm fuzzy-wuzzy stuff. Have the superrich create hundreds of new insurance corporations that can gouge-rape the middle class a hundred times more than the Bush Medicare prescription corporations did. And then bring me the Diebold election selection. I wanna be the Prez. Let the Republicans find some way to gang-rape the middle class more than I can, and then the superrich will make one of them the Prez.
Of course, both Bush and Hillary are co-conspirators in the felony murders of US soldiers in Iraq. They should have been criminally prosecuted for that crime in 2003.
Hillary is one of the 373 members and senators of Congress whose October 2002 votes began the felony conspiracy to violate the rights of our soldiers -- the right to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress -- thereby violating 18 USC 241 and the Constitution's separation of powers -- war powers are a legislative branch function, not an executive branch function. Hillary's vote in the Senate was also an act of treason against the US, in accord with the Constitution's definition of treason, Article 3, section 3; and in accord with the finding of treason against the 1860s secessionist state legislators. Hillary's vote violated her oath to uphold the Constitution and its citizen rights, and the vote led to a war in which the vote gave aid and comfort to the domestic enemies against which US soldiers fought for their lives -- Bush and his minions being those domestic enemies. See especially, "Criminal Conspiracy and the Laws of War--Iraq".
But here's Hillary, five years later, still protected by the anti-Constitutional and illegal collusions that our 3-branch fascist despotism uses to obstruct justice and to overthrow Constitutional checks and balances. She's still living above the law -- when she should be in a federal prison along with the 372 other treasonous Congressional criminals in this heinous felony murder conspiracy against our soldiers.
And now she's a presidential candidate, hitching her star to the superrich and corporate profit motives of "universal health care insurance" -- and to the inevitable "adverse selection", with which the insurance corporations will maximize their profits by excluding those who most need health care.
Adverse selection might be subdued in the beginnings of any real Hillary program, but -- until we renew our Constitution to regulate corporations -- the superrich rule, and their corporations always win.
We need single payer universal health care -- not multi-payer universal health care insurance.
Getting there means understanding and clearing away the myths that the superrich's spin-masters and other liars have created to block our way.
(Article Continues Below)
Outline of a talk given by John R. Battista, MD,
and Justine McCabe, PhD, Moodus, CT, 04 June 1999
Used by permission of Dr. Battista
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1. Why doesn't the United States have universal health care as a right of citizenship? The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. 28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems, while 1 (Germany) has a multipayer universal health care system like President Clinton proposed for the United States.
2. Myth One: The United States has the best health care system in the world.
- Fact One: The United States ranks 23rd in infant mortality, down from 12th in 1960 and 21st in 1990.
- Fact Two: The United States ranks 20th in life expectancy for women down from 1st in 1945 and 13th in 1960.
- Fact Three: The United States ranks 21st in life expectancy for men down from 1st in 1945 and 17th in 1960.
- Fact Four: The United States ranks between 50th and 100th in immunizations depending on the immunization. Overall US is 67th, right behind Botswana.
- Fact Five: Outcome studies on a variety of diseases, such as coronary artery disease and renal failure show the United States to rank below Canada and a wide variety of industrialized nations.
- Conclusion: The United States ranks poorly relative to other industrialized nations in health care despite having the best trained health care providers and the best medical infrastructure of any industrialized nation.
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[SN Note -- Much of Facts Two, Three, and Five above are due to the American medical industry's suppression of EDTA chelation therapy, beginning in the mid 1960s. EDTA chelation is a primary preventive-curative therapy in many countries for atherosclerosis -- the sludging of the vascular system. EDTA chelation is an IV-infusion treatment that, in a sufficient series, results in a biochemical cleaning of the vascular system. Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of many deadly and debilitating diseases triggered by its restricted blood flow, which inhibits the body's natural healing mechanisms. The list includes such killers as heart disease, stroke, cancer, adult onset diabetes, gangrene, and kidney failure -- diseases from which the medical industry makes obscenely excessive profits.
Having received a 25-treatment series of EDTA chelation from an outside-the-VA doctor as a gift from a colleague, July 2005 to February 2006 -- at a time when atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease had me close to death -- I can testify to its success in the cleaning of the entire, head-to-toe vascular system. (Coronary artery disease is nothing more than system-wide atherosclerosis that especially effects the coronary artery in a particular patient.)
The balloon angioplasty offered to me by VA Medical would have opened only several inches of just the coronary artery near the heart. At the same time, it would have left all the systemic vascular sludge in place to continue blood-flow restrictions throughout the body and to cause other life-threatening diseases. Some few years later, sludge from the rest of the vascular system would have migrated into the ballooned and stinted coronary artery, re-sludging it, and repeating the need for balloon angioplasty or even on to open-heart surgery.
Without the suppression of the relatively inexpensive EDTA chelation, the medical-pharmaceutical industry would lose hundreds of billions of dollars every year from hospitalizations, surgeries, and prescriptions. Losses in health care insurance would be similarly catastrophic to those gouging corporations.
Suppression of EDTA chelation starts in the National Institutes of Health, Congress, and health insurance board rooms and carries down through medical school curriculums, hospitals, and county medical boards with the use of many tactics. Of course, the suppression is upheld by Medicare, Medicaid, and VA Medical.
The heart of the matter: the probable cost-effective adoption of EDTA chelation as a preventative-curative treatment for atherosclerosis is surely one of the leading reasons that the US does not have universal health care.
Artherosclerosis, and its spin-off diseases, costs us over one million needlessly early deaths every year. The disabling diseases and early deaths take loved ones and friends, causing wide circles of unnecessary anguish and grief. The hard medical science done from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s could have halted the unnecessary anguish and grief repeated among millions of Americans every day. However, hard science and medical ethics were eclipsed by the mid-1960s-development of the heart-lung machine and the advent of hugely expensive and unnecessary open-heart surgeries by the thousands every year.
Forget Lasagna's modern version of the Hippocratic Oath. Since the mid 1960s the American medical industry -- in league with the pharmaceutical industry, our fascist national government, and medical insurance corporations -- has not followed the prior work of imminent medical scientists. For all those years, the American medical industry has followed greed. This combination of industries and government has been a world-class evil, historically second only to the Nazi Death Camps. With over 30 million needlessly early American deaths since the mid 1960s, the medical industry's use of artherosclerosis for profit and power, while suppressing EDTA chelation, is the American Holocaust.
Happily, not all doctors are part of the medical industry.
There is a large, cogent literature that backs my claims here. See especially the biblio page, EDTA Chelation Therapy, on Dr. Elmer Cranton's web site. Health food stores with good book sections are good resources for print media and books on EDTA chelation.
Clearly, we need a single payer, universal health care system in which EDTA chelation is not corruptly and greedily suppressed, but is freely available. Universal health is not liberal, conservative, capitalist, socialist, or communist. Universal health does not have an ideological label. End, SN Note]
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Stephen Neitzke [send him email] is the founder of the Direct Democracy League. He is the author of "The State of the Republic, 1776-2004" as well as a number of other works, which can be found at www.ddleague-usa.net and on his blog at http://ddrevival.blogspot.com/
© 2007 Stephen Neitzke
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