The US regime and their assorted media and NGO cohorts have been up in arms lately about the Russian and Syrian bombing of E. Aleppo, the last rebel-held part of the city.
The situation was brought about by the failure of the US to separate the so-called moderate rebel forces form the Al Nusra head-choppers and liver-eaters.
To make things worse, the US ‘accidentally’ bombed Syrian Arab Army positions near the city of Deir-Ez-Zor. But Syrian forces who survived the attack said that the day before the bombing, a US surveillance drone was flying overhead. After the attack, ISIS forces immediately started an offensive to overrun Syrian army positions.
Fortunately, the Syrian army was able to push them back.
This incident led to the breakdown of the ceasefire, which was to be observed for 7 days. Also, rebels started firing on Syrian army positions in Northern Syria after the army started to withdraw, in-keeping with the ceasefire agreement. This forced the Syrian army to return back to their positions, and announce the end of the ceasefire, which was exploited by militants to go on an offensive.
This was accompanied by Russian and Syrian air force bombardments of rebel positions in E. Aleppo and the surrounding areas.
The US regime and their agents immediately started screaming that Russia and Syrian are committing ‘war crimes,’ and all sorts of PR stunts, fake footage, and atrocity propaganda appeared all over the internet to showcase ‘Russian killing of innocent civilians in Aleppo.’
Front groups like the White Helmets, a creation of a British ex-weapons industry executive, and the Syrian Campaign, led by billionaire Syrian ex-patriate living in the US, started putting out pictures and videos of alleged Russian and Syrian bombings and ‘war crimes,’ showing dead people being pulled out of the rubble and other such tear-jerking scenes.
The White Helmets and the Syria Campaign, and SOHC (Syrian Observatory on Human Rights, which is a one-man operation which relies strictly on what the rebels tell him) are western government-funded psy-ops and disinformation groups. These outfits are pro-rebel, and funnel fake stories based on rebel eyewitness accounts, and nothing else, to western news outfits, who spread this biased news throughout the world as it were fact.
These groups also seem to only be around to help in rebel-held areas. They have no interest helping anyone killed or injured by rebel shelling in government-held areas.
The White Helmets and other western government-sponsored NGOs in Syria actually do more harm than good. They have even gone so far as to condemn the UN for daring to coordinate aid deliveries with the Syrian government, which is something the UN does in every country with their host governments.
This has resulted in the White Helmets rabble accusing the UN of ‘colluding’ with Assad government, and as a result, aid deliveries to rebel-held areas were turned around because they coordinated with the Syrian government. Many people are not getting help because of the White helmets and other such organizations hampering efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas. Groups such as the White Helmets are politicizing the delivery of aid throughout Syria.
Legitimate non-sectarian, non-political NGOs and other groups who truly want to help Syrians are upset and disgusted by the attitude toward aid deliveries by the White Helmets and other such politically-biased groups.
What is also not being said in the western media is that from 2011 Syria has been under very tight sanctions by the US and their vassals. This has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis because financial payments for aid cannot be made due to western blocking of access for Syrian banks.
These propaganda groups, and their western governmental and private backers claim to care about Syrian people, but the truth is that these groups don’t give a damn about Syrians. They peddle atrocity propaganda, accuse Russia and Syria of war crimes; all to further their desire for ‘humanitarian intervention,’ which basically means US and allied bombing of Syria-ala Libya in 2011.
Because as we know, civilians living in government-held areas of Syria don’t matter, and can be killed with impunity. This is the kind of ‘humanitarianism’ that the west promotes, stopping bombing with even more bombing.
But these groups and their backers aren’t concerned about Syrian people, democracy, free elections and humanitarian aid. This is just PR cover for their real aims: the overthrowing of the Syrian government, replacing it with pro-western puppets and corrupt profiteers who will bilk Syria and throw it into a never-ending IMF debt hole, just like Ukraine.
It’s about the domination of Syria in order to turn it into a pro-US/EU colony, and so the gas and oil pipelines that were planned years ago can be run through it from the Gulf to the Mediterranean, generating lots of money for the western oil companies and governments.
This is the real reason why the US has been training and arming Al Qaeda and other like terror groups in Syria to act as their proxies.
Sometime in 2007, the US tried to get Bashar Al Assad to turn away from Iran and Russia, and agree to a pipeline project from the gulf, through Syria, and to the Med. Sea. Assad said no, and from that moment on the US decided to overthrow him. This was the reason for the fake Syrian revolution. It was never about democracy or any such thing; that was just a convenient cover.
Assad said ‘No’ to the evil US empire, and had to be punished.
The western governments and the media know what is really going on in Syria. They know that the forces they are supporting are designated terror groups. They know that the anti-Russian demagoguery is fake. They know this, but they will keep on peddling these fake atrocity propaganda stories and using PR marketing of the lowest kind to label anyone who stands in their way as ‘evil.’
If the US and their immoral promoters truly cared about the Syrian people, then they would never have unleashed this violence upon them. They would let the Syrians peacefully decide and vote for what they want in a free election. But the US refuses to ask the Syrians about what they want.
The truth is that the US is openly supporting known terror groups in Syria. There never were any moderates to speak of, and that is why the US isn’t, and never will be able to ‘separate’ them.
As far as those so-called moderates, if there are any, and they refuse to separate from known terror groups like Al Qaeda and Al Nusra, then they’re not so moderate after all, which means that the US shouldn’t be supporting them at all, right?
The US is now expecting the world to buy the totally surreal argument that in order to fight terrorism in Syria, those who are bombing the terrorists must be bombed. That’s basically what the US has been threatening to do.
If this doesn’t give the US away as state-sponsors of terrorism that gives aid and comfort to known terrorist groups, then nothing will.
But that’s what the US has been doing in Syria since day one: training and arming terrorist groups and using them as proxies to overthrow the Syrian government. All those organizations that aid the US in this rotten enterprise, like the White Helmets, Syrian Campaign, SOHC are all giving aid and comfort to terror groups which have also carried out attacks in Europe and N. America. All the people involved in these groups are rotten liars who serve as propaganda army for terror groups. These groups don’t deserve any sympathy, help or any awards.
Those who lead these groups are greasy, corrupt opportunists who are after money and power. Regime change is their aim, because in it these vultures see only an opportunity to enrich themselves and their buddies off the dead carcass of the Syrian nation.
What must be known by everyone is that the western governments’ and media’s entire narrative on what is going on in Syria is false and wrong. Facts are being twisted or ignored. Rebel atrocities are unreported or glossed over. Devastation and death committed by rebel shelling, car bombs and chemical weapons attacks are immediately blamed on the Syrian government and army, without any proof or investigation whatsoever by any western government and media outfit.
Self-serving, sanctimonious, and hypocritical lamenting and hand-wringing over the devastation in E. Aleppo, and crowing about human rights by the western regimes are constant. Russia and Syria are being accused of war crimes, and of being ‘outlaws.’ The western regimes say this with straight faces, too.
Yet the western media totally ignores ongoing, western-supported atrocities and crimes against humanity in Yemen, Palestine, Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere. There are no White Helmets helping civilians in those areas after Saudi Araba or Israel bombs and starves them, with US connivance.
There are no accusations of war crimes against the US, and calling it an ‘outlaw state’ after it devastated Iraq based on false accusations; no UN meetings or hand-wringing in the western media after the US bombs hospitals, apartment blocks, weddings and funeral, and villages anywhere.
The US is the supreme war criminal. It caused the misery and chaos in Syria, fuels it by supporting various terrorist groups, then blames the consequences on others who are trying to stop it all. Those individuals, organizations, and media outfits that support this on-going US crime against humanity in Syria are no less guilty.
But US plans in Syria shall fail, because no policy or plan can succeed when it is based on lies and bad intentions.
Watch videos below for more info:
The Real White Helmets
The Tale of Two Boys
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
The True US System of Checks and Balances
Everyone who goes through what passes as the educational system in the US will sooner or later learn about the US system of checks and balances.
The US system of government is made up of three branches, the Executive (president), the Legislative (congress), and the Judicial (supreme court).
At least in theory, and on paper, the system of checks and balances is supposed to allow for each branch of the federal government to keep an eye on each other, so that none of the three branches abuse their powers.
This is supposed to keep anyone in government from violating the law, and act within the limits imposed upon them by the constitution.
That's how the US system of checks and balances is, or was supposed to work.
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that this system has failed. It has been high-jacked by powerful, wealthy, and corrupt elements of the US establishment, and has become nothing more than a closed, rubber-stamp system for the wiles of the ruling class and their allies.
Today, the system of checks and balances merely serves to ensure that all three branches of government comply with the dictates of the true makers and shapers of US policy: the Federal Reserve, the Pentagon, and the CIA.
It is these three organizations that truly control the system. The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches are merely their servants; their 'public face.' The three branches only exist as a facade to fool the US populace into thinking that they're still in control.
The true system of checks and balances that exists in the US today is shown below.
The Federal Reserve, which is privately-owned by faceless international banksters, is the kingpin of this true system. It issues endless amounts of worthless debt (dollar notes) to buy real goods and services for free from the world.
It uses the other two branches, the Pentagon and CIA, as its foot soldiers and enforcers to extract resources from countries that refuse to buy its debt, and punish those that resist or stand in the way.
The only checking and balancing that takes place in this new system is to ensure that the military and intelligence branches are faithfully, effectively, and unquestioningly fulfilling the orders of the banksters on top who rule everything below them.
War is the quickest way to saddle a country with debt, which is then exchanged for real goods from compliant countries. In this way, the rest of the world actually, and maybe even unwittingly, serves as the enabler of the US system of global debt, oppression, and destruction.
Obama, Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Trump, Ashton Carter, are only the chief errand boys for the true rulers of the US corporation; because that's what the US has been since 1871-a corporation. Look it up, it's true.
That's why in order to stop the US, its criminal, exploitative, war-obsessed debt slave system must be starved of profits.
Ending the petrodollar system is one of the most powerful blows that can be struck against the US. This move alone will devastate the US economy, even more so than 1,000 ICBMs ever could.
If the world wants to see any semblance of stability and peace, it must turn away from the US financial system which is turning the world into perpetual debt slaves by means of violence and war. It must dump the dollar, and establish separate financial systems over which the US has no power.
Russia, China and others have started the process of dumping their dollars and establishing alternate financial institutions, free of any US control. This idea must be expanded as quickly as possible.
The sooner this is done, the sooner the US will be put in its place.
The US system of government is made up of three branches, the Executive (president), the Legislative (congress), and the Judicial (supreme court).
At least in theory, and on paper, the system of checks and balances is supposed to allow for each branch of the federal government to keep an eye on each other, so that none of the three branches abuse their powers.
This is supposed to keep anyone in government from violating the law, and act within the limits imposed upon them by the constitution.
That's how the US system of checks and balances is, or was supposed to work.
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that this system has failed. It has been high-jacked by powerful, wealthy, and corrupt elements of the US establishment, and has become nothing more than a closed, rubber-stamp system for the wiles of the ruling class and their allies.
Today, the system of checks and balances merely serves to ensure that all three branches of government comply with the dictates of the true makers and shapers of US policy: the Federal Reserve, the Pentagon, and the CIA.
It is these three organizations that truly control the system. The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches are merely their servants; their 'public face.' The three branches only exist as a facade to fool the US populace into thinking that they're still in control.
The true system of checks and balances that exists in the US today is shown below.
It uses the other two branches, the Pentagon and CIA, as its foot soldiers and enforcers to extract resources from countries that refuse to buy its debt, and punish those that resist or stand in the way.
The only checking and balancing that takes place in this new system is to ensure that the military and intelligence branches are faithfully, effectively, and unquestioningly fulfilling the orders of the banksters on top who rule everything below them.
War is the quickest way to saddle a country with debt, which is then exchanged for real goods from compliant countries. In this way, the rest of the world actually, and maybe even unwittingly, serves as the enabler of the US system of global debt, oppression, and destruction.
Obama, Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Trump, Ashton Carter, are only the chief errand boys for the true rulers of the US corporation; because that's what the US has been since 1871-a corporation. Look it up, it's true.
That's why in order to stop the US, its criminal, exploitative, war-obsessed debt slave system must be starved of profits.
Ending the petrodollar system is one of the most powerful blows that can be struck against the US. This move alone will devastate the US economy, even more so than 1,000 ICBMs ever could.
If the world wants to see any semblance of stability and peace, it must turn away from the US financial system which is turning the world into perpetual debt slaves by means of violence and war. It must dump the dollar, and establish separate financial systems over which the US has no power.
Russia, China and others have started the process of dumping their dollars and establishing alternate financial institutions, free of any US control. This idea must be expanded as quickly as possible.
The sooner this is done, the sooner the US will be put in its place.
Friday, September 16, 2016
Another Ceasefire...
A ceasefire agreement has recently been enacted in Syria between Russia, the Syrian government and its allies, and the US and their trained militant monkeys.
This is the second such agreement after the one enacted in February of this year basically failed due to the inability, or refusal, of the US to separate the so-called ‘moderate,’ western-sponsored head-choppers from the violent, fundamentalist head-choppers.
Unfortunately with this second agreement, the same problem persists: mainly that the US is unable, or unwilling to separate the militants it supports from the militants it doesn’t support. Whatever the reason for this is, it is clear that the US signed this latest agreement in bad faith.
The US still supports those groups who have made it clear that they won’t separate themselves from the jihadi types, and won’t honor the ceasefire. The US regime also tries to muddy the waters so that the groups it doesn't support appear as if they're part of the 'moderate' opposition.
This lays bare the fact that the US ‘war on terrorism’ is nothing but a farce, and always was. How can the US win such a war when it supports various terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda and Al Nusra?
The US has no intention of honoring this agreement. Like with the last ‘ceasefire,’ it only wants a temporary lull in fighting to regroup and resupply their favored terror gangs, which were on their way to being annihilated by the Syrian army and its allies.
It seems that every time the Syrians and Russians are almost close to a total victory, the US suddenly screams for a ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and trots out some fake atrocity propaganda to make Syria and Russia look bad.
Why is it that anyone is even giving the US any consideration in Syria? After all, the US is operating there illegally, is the aggressor, and supports terrorist militias. Would the US regime allow foreign-sponsored, anti-government militants to take over parts of the US, and then agree to ceasefires with the foreign sponsor of the militants? Would it bargain away control of its own territory?
Every square inch of Syria belongs to the Syrian people, and must go back under the Syrian government’s control. This is not negotiable. There can be no Balkanization of the country; no ‘safe zones,’ or sectarian state-lets. This is illegal, and cannot be allowed under any circumstances.
No ceasefire in Syria will work until the US regime gives up its plans for regime change, and stops all support for terror groups within Syria. Until then, any and all ceasefire agreements are meaningless, and only serve to keep the western-sponsored militant vermin around, and Syria in perpetual chaos.
This is the second such agreement after the one enacted in February of this year basically failed due to the inability, or refusal, of the US to separate the so-called ‘moderate,’ western-sponsored head-choppers from the violent, fundamentalist head-choppers.
Unfortunately with this second agreement, the same problem persists: mainly that the US is unable, or unwilling to separate the militants it supports from the militants it doesn’t support. Whatever the reason for this is, it is clear that the US signed this latest agreement in bad faith.
The US still supports those groups who have made it clear that they won’t separate themselves from the jihadi types, and won’t honor the ceasefire. The US regime also tries to muddy the waters so that the groups it doesn't support appear as if they're part of the 'moderate' opposition.
This lays bare the fact that the US ‘war on terrorism’ is nothing but a farce, and always was. How can the US win such a war when it supports various terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda and Al Nusra?
The US has no intention of honoring this agreement. Like with the last ‘ceasefire,’ it only wants a temporary lull in fighting to regroup and resupply their favored terror gangs, which were on their way to being annihilated by the Syrian army and its allies.
It seems that every time the Syrians and Russians are almost close to a total victory, the US suddenly screams for a ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and trots out some fake atrocity propaganda to make Syria and Russia look bad.
Why is it that anyone is even giving the US any consideration in Syria? After all, the US is operating there illegally, is the aggressor, and supports terrorist militias. Would the US regime allow foreign-sponsored, anti-government militants to take over parts of the US, and then agree to ceasefires with the foreign sponsor of the militants? Would it bargain away control of its own territory?
Every square inch of Syria belongs to the Syrian people, and must go back under the Syrian government’s control. This is not negotiable. There can be no Balkanization of the country; no ‘safe zones,’ or sectarian state-lets. This is illegal, and cannot be allowed under any circumstances.
No ceasefire in Syria will work until the US regime gives up its plans for regime change, and stops all support for terror groups within Syria. Until then, any and all ceasefire agreements are meaningless, and only serve to keep the western-sponsored militant vermin around, and Syria in perpetual chaos.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
US Health Care Crisis
One of the clearest and atrocious pieces of evidence that exposes the US as a place where human lives don’t matter is its broken and failed for-profit healthcare system.
The US spends more money on healthcare than any other nation, yet has some of the unhealthiest people.
This is due to the private for-profit healthcare system controlled by private health insurers.
Not only that, but thousands of Americans die needlessly every year due to either not being able to afford health insurance, or because the health insurer denied needed care that would’ve kept the person alive.
The US health care system is not only dysfunctional; it is criminally-negligent.
Hundreds of billions of dollars flow into the private, for-profit health insurance companies from individual, employer, and government coffers, yet the accessibility and quality of care is a big problem.
Whenever anyone demands single-payer, government-funded healthcare, there is immediate howling from for-profit insurers and hospital chains about ‘socialism,’ ‘government death panels,’ and all sorts of lies are then put out by these healthcare cartels and their paid media and special interest lobbyist whores to fool people into thinking that government must stay out of healthcare, and that private for-profit healthcare is the only good option.
Yet the evidence says otherwise. The government-funded Medicaid system delivers better care with much less overhead than the private, for-profit system does. Contrary to popular belief, it is the private for-profit healthcare system that is wasteful and forces people to face ‘death panels’ which deny their care.
When it comes to Obamacare, it is a dismal failure. What it basically does is force people to buy private health insurance that is still unaffordable, and of questionable quality. To add insult to an already bad injury, it punishes people by making them pay a penalty for being unable to afford private health insurance. This is just plain fucking disgusting!
But even though the US healthcare system is bad, many Americans have been convinced by false stories and fake evidence that socialized healthcare is much worse.
Well, if that’s the case, then how come virtually all the countries in the world have socialized form of health care? And why doesn’t any other country want a US-style health care system?
Whatever the flaws of a socialized health care system may be, it is still far better than the for-profit US-style healthcare system (if you can call it that).
Some years ago, when the effort to enact Obamacare was starting, the for-profit healthcare crowd trotted out a Canadian lady with a convincing sob-story about how horrible Canada’s socialized healthcare system is.
The story went like this: The lady was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors in Canada then put her on a long waiting list for surgery, something like 4-5 months.
The lady freaked out and went to the US to get her surgery. Then the for-profit insurance cabal enlisted her for their campaign against government-funded healthcare by running TV ads featuring the Canadian lady tumor victim telling her story about how terrible the Canadian healthcare system, and socialized healthcare in general, are for making her wait so long to get surgery.
But what was conveniently, and deliberately, not said about the Canadian lady’s medical situation was that the tumor that she was diagnosed with was benign, not life threatening, and she could’ve easily waited those months, gotten her surgery in Canada, and lived.
Another argument that the for-profit healthcare cartel puts forward against government-sponsored healthcare is that it puts people on long waiting lists, and that people needlessly suffer, and may die before their wait is over.
But let’s use some common-sense here.
Long wait times in countries with ‘socialized’ healthcare systems aren’t simply due to the system being socialized.
A country with a socialized healthcare system automatically gives everyone, rich and poor, equal access to healthcare. It doesn’t leave anyone out.
This naturally means that more people will now be in line for health services. So yes, everyone will have to wait longer. That is just a natural consequence of equal access to health care.
Also, regardless of whether a health care system is private or socialized, there are only so many doctors around, and they have to balance their workloads. There aren’t hundreds of doctors within a particular hospital or clinic. There are also resource and time limits. No hospital, whether private or public, has hundreds of laboratories, MRI machines, operating rooms and thousands of hospital beds available for each and every person all the time.
Besides, Americans also have to contend with long wait times for medical procedures within the private, for-profit healthcare world in the US.
It would be interesting to see how long Americans would have to wait for healthcare services in the US if everyone in the US had health insurance. I guarantee that even that Canadian tumor lady would take her ass back to Canada super-fast and wait for her surgery there, if this was so. Her wait in Canada would be a short blip compared to how long she’d have to wait in the US!
To drive the point home, let’s just compare the populations of Canada and the US:
Canada= 35.16 million (as of 2013)
US= 318.9 million (as of 2014)
So which country would make one wait longer to receive health care if the citizens of both countries had equal access to health care?
Of course wait times in the US would be longer.
So I rest my case.
Granted, countries with public, government-funded health care systems aren’t perfect. They also face some of the same constraints as private, for-profit systems.
But socialized healthcare systems are still far better than private, for-profit systems, mainly because they include everyone automatically. They don’t cater just to those able to afford health insurance, and ignore those who can’t.
The truth is, that those who know about how the US for-profit health care system works don’t want it at all, regardless of their complaints against their native ‘socialized’ healthcare systems.
The fact is that all these scary stories and other bullshit spread around within the US by the for-profit healthcare cartel against socialized healthcare are simply about protecting the for-profit healthcare cartel’s profits. That’s all that it was, is, and ever will be about for these filthy creatures.
A socialized healthcare system would threaten their profits and personal wealth, so they will fight it tooth and nail. They will make up all sorts of absurdities, lies, and nonsense to prevent it. They will trot out malcontents with sob-stories taken out of context, and cherry-pick information to serve their self-serving, greedy interests.
But what can be done to fix the broken healthcare system within the US that is failing so many, and consigning them to unnecessary pain and even death simply because they cannot afford to pay for health care?
1. Medicaid must be made to cover everyone, rich and poor, 100%; no exceptions. Income must also be eliminated as a determining factor for healthcare eligibility once and for all. Everyone is universally covered. If you pay taxes, you are 100% insured from the cradle to the grave.
2. Eliminate private insurers altogether. Hospitals and clinics can stay in private hands, but prices for services, medicine and other items are negotiated to be realistic, and waste in the form of unnecessary services is eliminated. This will significantly reduce expenses not only for the government and individuals seeking care, but also the overhead expenses of hospitals since they will need much less staff to process payment requests to only one entity- the US government- and only have to follow one set of rules. This is how it works in Canada, and the majority of Canadians are happy with it.
3. If the US regime isn’t willing to socialize medical care altogether, then it must put into place stringent regulations as far as private health care goes, and enact price-controls to ensure people aren’t being fleeced, so that everyone can afford it and is included. The Netherlands has such a system, and it seems to work.
The US spends more money on the military, wars, and interventions than any other country. So money is clearly not the issue.
If the US put as much care into healing people as it does toward killing people, then the US would have the absolute best health care system in the world in which no one is left out.
The US spends more money on healthcare than any other nation, yet has some of the unhealthiest people.
This is due to the private for-profit healthcare system controlled by private health insurers.
Not only that, but thousands of Americans die needlessly every year due to either not being able to afford health insurance, or because the health insurer denied needed care that would’ve kept the person alive.
The US health care system is not only dysfunctional; it is criminally-negligent.
Hundreds of billions of dollars flow into the private, for-profit health insurance companies from individual, employer, and government coffers, yet the accessibility and quality of care is a big problem.
Whenever anyone demands single-payer, government-funded healthcare, there is immediate howling from for-profit insurers and hospital chains about ‘socialism,’ ‘government death panels,’ and all sorts of lies are then put out by these healthcare cartels and their paid media and special interest lobbyist whores to fool people into thinking that government must stay out of healthcare, and that private for-profit healthcare is the only good option.
Yet the evidence says otherwise. The government-funded Medicaid system delivers better care with much less overhead than the private, for-profit system does. Contrary to popular belief, it is the private for-profit healthcare system that is wasteful and forces people to face ‘death panels’ which deny their care.
When it comes to Obamacare, it is a dismal failure. What it basically does is force people to buy private health insurance that is still unaffordable, and of questionable quality. To add insult to an already bad injury, it punishes people by making them pay a penalty for being unable to afford private health insurance. This is just plain fucking disgusting!
But even though the US healthcare system is bad, many Americans have been convinced by false stories and fake evidence that socialized healthcare is much worse.
Well, if that’s the case, then how come virtually all the countries in the world have socialized form of health care? And why doesn’t any other country want a US-style health care system?
Whatever the flaws of a socialized health care system may be, it is still far better than the for-profit US-style healthcare system (if you can call it that).
Some years ago, when the effort to enact Obamacare was starting, the for-profit healthcare crowd trotted out a Canadian lady with a convincing sob-story about how horrible Canada’s socialized healthcare system is.
The story went like this: The lady was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors in Canada then put her on a long waiting list for surgery, something like 4-5 months.
The lady freaked out and went to the US to get her surgery. Then the for-profit insurance cabal enlisted her for their campaign against government-funded healthcare by running TV ads featuring the Canadian lady tumor victim telling her story about how terrible the Canadian healthcare system, and socialized healthcare in general, are for making her wait so long to get surgery.
But what was conveniently, and deliberately, not said about the Canadian lady’s medical situation was that the tumor that she was diagnosed with was benign, not life threatening, and she could’ve easily waited those months, gotten her surgery in Canada, and lived.
Another argument that the for-profit healthcare cartel puts forward against government-sponsored healthcare is that it puts people on long waiting lists, and that people needlessly suffer, and may die before their wait is over.
But let’s use some common-sense here.
Long wait times in countries with ‘socialized’ healthcare systems aren’t simply due to the system being socialized.
A country with a socialized healthcare system automatically gives everyone, rich and poor, equal access to healthcare. It doesn’t leave anyone out.
This naturally means that more people will now be in line for health services. So yes, everyone will have to wait longer. That is just a natural consequence of equal access to health care.
Also, regardless of whether a health care system is private or socialized, there are only so many doctors around, and they have to balance their workloads. There aren’t hundreds of doctors within a particular hospital or clinic. There are also resource and time limits. No hospital, whether private or public, has hundreds of laboratories, MRI machines, operating rooms and thousands of hospital beds available for each and every person all the time.
Besides, Americans also have to contend with long wait times for medical procedures within the private, for-profit healthcare world in the US.
It would be interesting to see how long Americans would have to wait for healthcare services in the US if everyone in the US had health insurance. I guarantee that even that Canadian tumor lady would take her ass back to Canada super-fast and wait for her surgery there, if this was so. Her wait in Canada would be a short blip compared to how long she’d have to wait in the US!
To drive the point home, let’s just compare the populations of Canada and the US:
Canada= 35.16 million (as of 2013)
US= 318.9 million (as of 2014)
So which country would make one wait longer to receive health care if the citizens of both countries had equal access to health care?
Of course wait times in the US would be longer.
So I rest my case.
Granted, countries with public, government-funded health care systems aren’t perfect. They also face some of the same constraints as private, for-profit systems.
But socialized healthcare systems are still far better than private, for-profit systems, mainly because they include everyone automatically. They don’t cater just to those able to afford health insurance, and ignore those who can’t.
The truth is, that those who know about how the US for-profit health care system works don’t want it at all, regardless of their complaints against their native ‘socialized’ healthcare systems.
The fact is that all these scary stories and other bullshit spread around within the US by the for-profit healthcare cartel against socialized healthcare are simply about protecting the for-profit healthcare cartel’s profits. That’s all that it was, is, and ever will be about for these filthy creatures.
A socialized healthcare system would threaten their profits and personal wealth, so they will fight it tooth and nail. They will make up all sorts of absurdities, lies, and nonsense to prevent it. They will trot out malcontents with sob-stories taken out of context, and cherry-pick information to serve their self-serving, greedy interests.
But what can be done to fix the broken healthcare system within the US that is failing so many, and consigning them to unnecessary pain and even death simply because they cannot afford to pay for health care?
1. Medicaid must be made to cover everyone, rich and poor, 100%; no exceptions. Income must also be eliminated as a determining factor for healthcare eligibility once and for all. Everyone is universally covered. If you pay taxes, you are 100% insured from the cradle to the grave.
2. Eliminate private insurers altogether. Hospitals and clinics can stay in private hands, but prices for services, medicine and other items are negotiated to be realistic, and waste in the form of unnecessary services is eliminated. This will significantly reduce expenses not only for the government and individuals seeking care, but also the overhead expenses of hospitals since they will need much less staff to process payment requests to only one entity- the US government- and only have to follow one set of rules. This is how it works in Canada, and the majority of Canadians are happy with it.
3. If the US regime isn’t willing to socialize medical care altogether, then it must put into place stringent regulations as far as private health care goes, and enact price-controls to ensure people aren’t being fleeced, so that everyone can afford it and is included. The Netherlands has such a system, and it seems to work.
If the US put as much care into healing people as it does toward killing people, then the US would have the absolute best health care system in the world in which no one is left out.
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