BETTER HEALTH CARE
Our local health care system can be improved.
I was up until 2 AM this morning (and woke up before 7 AM), helping friends cope with the local health care system and a cancer diagnosis. I spoke to the Council on Aging this morning and then had to leave before lunch. At noon today, I called up a friend who is a cancer expert in another state, obtaining his kind assistance in helping the local family find answers and treatment. Some North Florida doctors were pushing the family into hospice, instead of providing and researching standard of care cancer therapies like monoclonal antibodies.
Albert Camus once said, :"we must first posit denial and absurdity because that is what our generation has encountered."
President Harry S Truman called for national health care in the 1940s. Every other industrialized country has health care as a right, except the United States. As a result we squander vast sums on corporate insurance bureaucracies, while doctors are turned into serfs, reporting to corporate oligarchs. Lives are lost needlessly as a result.
On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, doctors, hospitals, patients, employers and the Chamber of Commerce all agree -- there should be a single payer system, at the county level, protecting doctors and patients and saving money and providing care for everyone
For up-to-date information on Cape Cost's efforts to end the system of "mangled care" that kills Americans daily, see www.capecare.info
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