tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867770869531048977.post3922178080845498196..comments2016-03-24T08:23:53.222-07:00Comments on Universe-Project: Asking the QuestionEileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01230791277314505158noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867770869531048977.post-7646993250555918332009-08-12T08:41:18.568-07:002009-08-12T08:41:18.568-07:00I think the idea of healthcare either supporting o...I think the idea of healthcare either supporting or exploiting life - which is, of course, the essence of the matter for anyone giving a damn - isn't really what's at play here. (I might add that we, the easily-led-astray masses, are being fed our daily quota of emotional pap...pro or con... but that's just to keep us simple folk occupied while the powers behind the curtain make their utterly un-altruistic decisions.)<br /><br />Those decisions are based solely on our capitalistic obligation to make gobs of money for the elite. If saving lives would further those ambitions, we'd have it tomorrow. If curing AIDS or cancer spun gold in Washington, none of us would ever be sick again.<br /><br />Unfortunately in a nation of 400,000,000*, few who have leached themselves atop the ivory towers can see any profit to the notion. Forget the good of humanity (pthhhh, hardly a capitalistic notion) - it remains an issue of dollars and cents.<br /><br />Healthcare and our penchant for war should be treated similarly. In either case, front lines or ER lobby, send our elected officials in first. Forget the Marines; send in congress. Whatever attention they demand for themselves - whether an immediate cure or getting the hell out of the trenches - that becomes the national policy. In short time, we will have ended war, have ideal health care, drive better cars, watch better TV and all own a beach house. (In which case, we may have to conquer Baja first. Send in congress.)<br /><br />*btw, I've always thought our joy of procreation (not to be confused with that of sex) to be the problem here. 400,000,000 is just way too big a number to sustain itself. And humanely dwindling us down to, say, a nation of 150,000,000 is a whole can of worms unto itself.Davehttp://www.lafilmcritic.comnoreply@blogger.com