MESS1 (MESS2 MESS3)

Mess 1 (like the others) is so immense that it will necessarily take up this full post.
This is the HealthCare mess in the USA today. It is something I've witnessed and at times been a victim of (such as my Halloween crushed finger disaster where after "1" emergency hospital visit I developed a debt reaching around $4,000– for "care" that may have perhaps taken less than 20minutes whilst spending some 6-9hours waiting, in a bunny costume, for medical help).
I sent Mickey an email and I tried to deconstruct these world-messes thus:

• Mess-"Healthcare"Insurance-Industry corruption(in USA- which actually is a significant subset of the the mess below)
• Mess-International Financial Crisis through (the creation and) exploitation of "markets"
• Mess-Militarism (ie: War) to sustain the Empire of Corporatism (which is directly connected with the mess above) and includes "proxy" conflicts

The collateral damage from all of this are lots of human lives AND also the environment (which includes lots of other life forms)

It FEELS as if perhaps we may be either at a crossroads or a "show-down" on this issue which has been discussed sicne President Nixon, then Carter and later by the Clintons and now (Ambivalently?) by President Obama. Michael Moores film Sicko makes the point well that Health for "profit" is unethical and is in conflict with the Hippocratic Oath.



Bill Moyer's interview of Wendel Potter Transcripts Here



This video is a full 32 minutes. Brief- "Washington's abuzz about health care, but why isn't a single-payer plan an option on the table? Public Citizen's Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Physicians for a National Health Program's Dr. David Himmelstein on the political and logistical feasibility of health care reform. "
Something is most certainly going on and POWER is flying throught he air and their in anxiety on every level. Propoganda has not been trotted out on this level in a very long time.
The "Charm offensive" has been mentioned by several people as the "method" that the health Care Industry will take to sustain an "Image" of being a "player" and "good" altruistic element who WANTS to "do the right thing". Its astounding to see the halls of power filled with the cautionary talking-points directly from the wordsmiths of the healthcare "insurance"industry who will have everything to lose if the reality of a "Single payer" health care system takes hold in the USA today as one sees in the UK and Canada. Power (and therefore money) does not relinquish power without resistence. What forms that resistence will take and it's calculatbale effects is can be seen with the successful campaign against the Clintons attempt. A preemptive propoganda strike has now been in well rooted ever since then. Large multi-national pharmaceutical advertizements in the press today (did not exist when I was a child) but currently must represent a handsome sum of revenue for numerous Newspapers and Journals. What effect might a newspaper predict if it launches an investagative offensive against the ethics of a healthcare for profit system when those who profit from it, which includes the Press companies, advertise in those journals. Deep critical commentary would be a fiscal shot-in-the-foot for any "news" concern willing to risk such open disclosures.

"Thousands of media outlets descended on Iowa, erecting a powerful wall of TV cameras and reporters between the voters and candidates. Bill Moyers talks with Dennis Kucinich who knows well the power of the press to set expectations and transform the agenda."