In these times of fervent emotions and high expectations our duty is judge not, but become our highest ideals.
To open the heart and the mind is essential. Point of view is very personal, and, lacking telepathic mind reading ability, POV is almost like magic- one sees what one expects, despite the truth.
I believe that America must grow up and realize that the people need clean air and water, and universal health care. We can at this time in history follow the highest spiritual guidelines: to care for the Earth and all who live on it; to abandon what seems false: us and them mentality.
Even to confuse care and for-profit rationing and denial of benefits escapes natural logic. Care
is the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
We can even argue that the elimination of unnecessary military spending; allocating those funds for health care also betters the economy. It will ease us away from weapons and toward healing others. It will teach our children that ethics and nurturing heals us all. Brute force is not a positive attitude or action in a great nation.
At this time, out of control profit driven insurance and pharmaceutical companies compulsively raise prices, and almost unregulated drug promotions seem more likely to harm us all. Around the world governments insist that these businesses be non-profit, or in the case of the insurers, cease to exist. To use well regulated, nation-wide sharing and funding of research sciences will provide better medicines and provide research monies for better health. The discoverer of insulin, Dr Banting, took $100 for opening his patent rights, "so that diabetics can live."
Please seek "Sick Around The World" and "Sick In America" by PBS Frontline. View Moore's "Sicko" too. These documentaries are truthful. And remember that over 30 cents of every dollar spent in the States on healthcare goes for CEO salaries, profits, and redundant paperwork.
Remember the definition of care.
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