good analogy, us and germans in Nazi Germany. but we’re not silent. we can tell someone. just keep telling everyone you know, even the ones you don’t think will listen. do it with a reasonable voice, reasonable language. but this has got to end. too much time left for them to do even more damage to this country and our standing in the world. this could even embolden the Chinese. my son was worried they might see this as an opportunity to take back Taiwan.

You’ve said it best. See you all later. This was a wonderful talk.

For his sake, sounds like it might be nice not to start a history.

that sounds lovely…

For those fortunate enough .. pay for all outpatient mental health services in cash (with physicians who have ample samples).

For those without means/health coverage….many non-profit clinics treat patients and never know the patient has provided a “false*” name/identity.

[….for people who can afford their own care or have health coverage, don’t go to the non-profits just to hide identity - stealing health care from the poor is very bad karma.]

some people barter with physicians, local pharmacists, local med labs (in rural areas, esp).

people who use Medicare, Medi-cal, and private health insurers have their data stored every time they use their benefits. Inescapable.

The same megacorps that own Big Insurance own Big Finance.

Big Finance has pulled lines of credit from people with depression.

Only posible protection:

(1) All Americans get equal health insurance regardless of history. One price for all. “Pre-existing” conditions no longer matter in this system.

(2) Federal criminal law prohibits use of medical data for any non-medical commercial purpose (explicitly including banking/ auto insurance).

One Congress. Two laws. One veto override. How many months?

(*..medical ethics compel me to observe that honsety in the physician-patient relationship is of paramount importance. as the purpose of the relationship is the patients’ well-being, mere survival may lead a person to be less accurate in providing their identity than those ethics would prefer.)

. Then is now and we are they.

This is so obvious to me, I just don’t understand why everyone doesn’t see it.

Why do psychologists prefer to use Bushies rather than rats in experiments?

There are some things rats won’t do!

then I have a couple of experiments I’ve always wanted to try.