If the US wants to recreate the UK’s two tiered system that rivals its own in terms of not providing appropriate access to the less fortunate in our society and adds interminable waiting for months for reasonably serious complaints, go right ahead. We will get everything we deserve and more. The truth is that developing countries when presented with the antiquated UK system of health and the relatively modern French and German systems, they choose anything but an NHS lookalike. The NHS is broken, 90 people recently died in one NHS hospital because the staff, yes doctors and nurses, allowed some to sit in their own excreta for days and did nothing. This is only one example of large numbers of patients loosing their lives due to staff neglect. The staff’s reason? We were under staffed! What? The nurses and docs are really good at getting their faces on the TV when it comes to extracting as much money as they can from the government, but NONE of them thought about going to the press to tell them they couldn’t do their jobs properly as patients died. While we are on the subject UK GP’s are private sector contractors to the state system and are the best paid in the WORLD. That’s right, even better than the US. Try $500,000 a year on for size.

Be careful what you wish for in the US, you might get it, and it might just kill you.

WHEN THE US CONGRESS DENIED THE MASSES OF AMERICANS THEIR POSSIBLE FREEDOMS!Currently there are reported to be 100,000 falsely imprisoned Americans living along with the estimated 2,000,000 US prison population nationwide.America now has the very unique distinction of not only being rated the #1 in the World for having the largest prison population,but America also has the distinct rating of having the largest wrongfully imprisoned prison population in the World as well.Our US Congress affords themselves all the perks and salary most Americans could only dream about,but ask anyone of these Leaders Of The Free World to protect our Middle Class or Working Poor Americans from continuing to be falsely imprisoned endless decades due to the lack of federal appeal legal counsel being afforded them, and you just might be thought of as being crazy?The masses of the American people could never come close to ever being able to burden these federal appeal legal costs for themselves or for a family member,and should not need a lobbying group for this basic right of legal protection to be afforded them! Our Poster Child of this exact neglect by our US Congress is this young man named Manny Gonzales.Anyone interested in reading first hand how our US Congress is willing to allow our judicial system to continue keeping this now 21 year old young man imprisoned for 27 mandatory years for frightening someone with a hand gun(not even injuring the so called victim,) without affording him federal appeal legal counsel to properly be able to defend himself in our Federal courts of Appeal? Manny Gonzales The kid that everyone forgot in the CA prison system can be entered into any WWW search engine for the judicial ride of ones life! Tens of thousands of other Americans being imprisoned in the US are facing this same lack of legal counsel everyday, and with this lack of legal counsel being denied their right to new retrials,which in turn forces many of them to remain endless decades in the prison systems of the wealthiest country in the world! Just like the German people prior WW2,the American people and our National Media have not felt any concern or interest to speak out about our country having so many of our fellow Middle Class and Working Poor citizens being falsely imprisoned and not even being afforded the proper Federal Appeal legal counsel to assist in their attempt at exonerating themselves!
We thank all of you Worldwide who have also had a concern and are interested with this injustice being changed in the American judicial system for assisting all of us(who are also just interested volunteers ourselves)with your time and computer skills in posting this article on the WWW anywhere you think it might make positive change!
***THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE EVER BEEN INFORMED ABOUT THIS INJUSTICE ***

This article is very helpful, not just because we all want to live longer. The issue of an older man’s health being the result of what his younger years contributed to it is a very valuable insight. Poor whites suffer from premature death and serious impairments for many of the same reasons as blacks. The low cost of processed food in poor communities, and the availability of booze and cigarettes, plus other cheap escapes from the drudgery of low-wage work or spells of unemployment, are factors. The commercial grid which delivers every destructive “vice” as a guilty pleasure, contributes to the death-trip which wears down the body as it makes the spirit bitter.
As jobs dry up with our ruined economy, the media tells us to blame immigrants, not the asses who spent up all the money. I can only imagine things will get worse when our poor, battered veterans return from war.
So my idea is that we all are victims of what is pushing the statistic down for black males. It is generally a toxic environment, but for that group, we have let it become deadly.
By valuing one another we can heal our whole society, and I personally feel it would be such a privilege to have MLK or Mumia in our midst still.
So I think it will take a growing awareness of how to stay well, and some genuine public health experts, to assist our healthy survival, to prioritize every one of us before the demands of the drug industry, weapons makers, insurance parasites, and the corporate food industry. The victims of the system as it is, are proof it is dangerously imbalanced, not friendly to healthy aging. Our task is to create the healthy environment, to include black men in the right to it, and not to demonize them for embodying its failings.

As to Obama’s support for Lieberman in L’s primary vs Ned Lamont: the article leaves out the facts that (a) Obama respected the voters’ choice and did NOT give Lieberman any support when he ran as an independent in the general election, and (b) Lamont has endorsed Obama in the Presidential race.

A fuller discussion of Obama’s strenths and weaknesses as a progressive — a discussion which has evolved over the past two years — can be found here.

Thanks!

It’s his habit to go very far “off-label” in prescribing meds he feels might help me. So far I’ve gotten medications for epilepsy, diabetes, herpes, cardiac issues, and have been told to report to a psychiatrist.
Except for the cardiac issues, I have none of the above problems. CFS/F are not mental conditions. What they are, are physical illnesses that may sometimes cause mental aberrations.
That’s NOT the same thing, despite the obvious opinion of the several doctors I’ve consulted.

As with many CFS/F patients, I often react oddly to medications to the point I cannot continue their use or the medications have no effect whatsoever. Dr goes into a ham-actor version of showing frustration, rolling his eyes, grimacing his mouth, and frowning at me.
I’m sorry I have this problem. It wasn’t my idea to get it.

It’s annoying to be put through his act at the majority of my appointments with this man.

Having finally had enough, I called a local hospital and asked for names of MedicAid-accepting private practice doctors.
I was told to go to the county clinics. It seems the person at the hospital either didn’t hear or failed to understand the “private practice” phrase.
When I told the phone answering person the clinics were not a good option for me, she suggested I go through the phone book and call each listed physician to ask if MedicAid was accepted by each physician.

I’m sorry but when a Chronic Fatigue patient looks at such a task it’s much too daunting.
Such calls also interrupt the normal flow of business at a doctor’s office.
I really feel it would be possible for general operators at hospitals to answer my question…it’s truly not that complicated for a relatively healthy working person…and wouldn’t interrupt the flow of that person’s day for more than the minutes it took to utter the names of a few doctors.

Thanks very much for the option of posting this quandary.

Sincerely,
Lea Schorr.
ca21595423@mchsi.com