Police/Fire - Non Profit...Shouldn't Medicine Be as Well???

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Wednesday August 01, 2012 · 9:53 AM PDT

2012/08/01 · 09:53

There are a variety of services necessary for a civilization to function.

I am not against profit at all providing competition/regulation exists to keep players honest; however, police and fire are not run for profit. Certainly one needs to pay people properly, but it never gets into earnings per share or the head people earning millions or tens of millions per annum.

The cost per capita of health care in Germany is roughly half of what it is in the US. If we are to get proper access to health care for all then it has to be less expensive - something I think is very doable if lobbying is gotten under control and competition exists.

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Tuesday July 31, 2012 · 8:56 AM PDT

2012/07/31 · 08:56

I don't know how many on the blog have been through a bad hurricane, but the result is a lot of destruction and a lot of hours huddled inside waiting for the worst to pass.

Post hurricane profiteering is disallowed and aggressively prosecuted as it's not a good thing to profit on the misery of others.

This of course begs the question - why is big pharma, insurance and oncology allowed to profiteer on those that are seriously ill or dying of cancer?

Are chemo and rad the best we can do?

The way the entire medical industrial complex is structured and operates needs to be rethought if we are to have proper medical care for all.

Cancer and other serious illness is like a multi year hurricane for patients - so like hurricane victims - the profiteering needs to go.

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Monday July 30, 2012 · 5:00 PM PDT

2012/07/30 · 17:00

The most difficult thing about getting cancer is that it took over a year for the seriousness of my diagnosis to sink in.

I did not do much work for about 1.5 years and started doing manual labor, as my back permitted, this April.

The manual labor has been good as I have gotten stronger, lost weight and have gotten back into the work flow with everyone else.

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Wednesday July 25, 2012 · 11:53 AM PDT

2012/07/25 · 11:53

The difficulty of going green is both technical and lobbying related.

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