The Best Quality Health Care for Everyone for “Free” (First Draft)
by Richard Martin Oxman

NOTE: Very little on this archived site is functional. It’s all quite dated except for the last several articles.

When I say “free” I mean for no more than you’re paying now… whether or not you have coverage. But — for everyone — I’m talking about the quality and extent of your care being enormously increased, in historically unprecedented proportions.

I’m totally serious. But the whole shebang requires that you get off of your butt, and stop expecting career politicians (whether they look nice, talk well and/or have a reputation you believe in). You must leave the gangsters alone. Stop compounding ignorance with ignorance by playing their electoral game.

What’s demanded is that you take a firm stand against our military abominations (both against foreigners abroad and domestically, in terms of the greatest rip-off perpetuated against any people in history, financially and environmentally). [Check out http://www.zcommunications.org/defense-elephant-in-americas-living-roo m-by-saul-landau to confirm what I'm saying about the financial scam, and feel free to request definitive documentation on my other points.]

My proposal for action requires that you do something in solidarity with other citizens following a new paradigm for change. Letting go of the obsolete models for change which just about everyone is trying to hold on to, except those who have resigned themselves to doing… nothing.

For starters, I recommend that you read http://www.counterpunch.org/landau03052010.html . Then, once you do, add what’s below in boldface to the author’s concluding remarks.

Let’s begin by noting that health care — even at the most prestigious institutions in our country — is often poor. And let’s underscore that for the vast majority of citizens who have health care coverage it’s disgustingly below par when contrasted with the best health care in the world. On virtually all counts. And that’s counting in the equation the fact that many people come here from abroad for specialty treatment. Note: The fact that we have some hard-to-come-by machines here and certain medical professionals with particular reputations is neither here no there respecting my declaration. The fact is that none of that crap — in and of itself — means that the quality of health care is high. For instance, if someone from a Third World country manages to squeeze into our system so that they can be the beneficiary of a CAT SCAN which was unavailable in their native land… well, they’re not better off (necessarily) if the device used on them subjects them to radiation leaks, are they? [I've got a hundred and one other examples to provide upon request, including citation of the carcinogenic air which cancer patients are subjected to when they visit the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota or the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.]

I say that the National Defense Medicare bill (which Landau and Valdes mention in their final paragraph) should provide health care coverage which is infinitely better than what Medicare provides today. And it should provide free medical education for any minority in the country who fancies that he or she would like to enter the medical profession. Including former gang members (who may require a little remedial reading first, along with some other prep). And ditto for interested Caucasians, of course. EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All geared to moving the nation from a society which encourages medical professionals to be greedy and less concerned about patient care than they should be. That sort of thing, which has a hundred and one first cousins which need to be tackled too.

HOW to move this whole shebang along? I don’t waste my breath these days explaining such essential stuff (answering such worthy questions)… UNLESS the person inquiring is willing to move in solidarity, all else being equal.

Your move,
Richard at 831-688-8038 at my home at any hour. Or tosca.2010[at]yahoo.com