Posted by
SimplyNatural on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:00:00 PM
Senator Baucus of Montana (Democrat..) announced plans for mandatory medical insurance...for adults
I really felt like cussing him out, but contained myself, and sent this letter to him, instead:
"Any medical insurance plan is doomed to failure. The truth is that so many (great majority of) Americans are sickly that no matter how you plan to provide medical insurance, your plan will fail, while further devastating this nation's economy. Do you doubt this or that our health is still declining? "About a third of American children are overweight and one-fifth are obese. Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside." That's from a study presented to the American Heart Association on Nov. 11, 2008. Why are we so sickly?
It's as simple as the saying: you are what you eat. And what most of us eat is unwholesome, artificial and toxic. To dictate what people eat would trample on their liberty...only slightly worse than your plan for compulsory medical insurance. But government can lead people away from unhealthy diet choices just as it has done with cigarette smokers who have quit voluntarily. All foods with unnatural ingredients must be conspicuously labeled with "UnNatural". The font size and contrast of that wording would be mandated to be the largest of anything on the wrapper. If the government can scientifically demonstrate that a certain ingredient damages health, it should also mandate a similar "UnHealthy" label. The same mandate should apply to restaurant food/menu items. That's for starters. We also need to take away the legal advantages enjoyed by groups with a vested interest in disease.
Abolish the prescription laws and the FDA (as presently constituted), end the monopoly health care sought and maintained by the collusion of the legal system, the AMA and the drug industry, end the censorship imposed on the nutritional supplement industry, require the military and public schools to exemplify good nutrition, demand that doctors must make pricing available before patients become obligated to pay (in non-emergency situations), create a federal database on the on the internet, open to all, listing doctors qualifications and any malpractice verdicts made against them...to know more contact me."
For the readers of this blog, visit http://www.geocities.com/simplynatural@att.net/index.html for more details on what ails us and what can be done about it while respecting Liberty.