Comments on: Cancer on the Brain… and a Perspective on Health Care

By: revday

revday — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:13:46 +0000

I was glad to read your piece Adam. There are many studies that point to stress inhibiting the body’s ability to fight illness and that it will create illness. Stress Kills. I would research and add more sites but I’m just too sick. I only have Medicaid (Thank-y’all. Really.) so it’s substandard care for me. Call me saddened. It is difficult to know my country wants me to just go away and die. I won’t go away until they peel my cold bones from the keyboard, too bad for them.

I would also like to add that experiencing a strong safety net allows us to relax and gain in a greater sense of our value, which is so necessary to thrive, Maslow and all.

When our country says it’s ok that 45,000 people die every year from lack of care, the meta message is that some don’t deserve to live and they/we can just go die, too bad for them/we. IMHO the current rampant immorality and evil of this message creates suffering for us all. To devalue one person is to devalue all.

Blessings and Peace.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:52:44 +0000

Thank you, Adam.

Would that Obama –even Michelle — would come here and read it.

How can “Our President” remain so intellectual and “detatched”? Doesn’t he hear these stories?

As Lawrence O’Donnell said on MSNBC some time ago, the Democrats should have started, when health care reform was defeated in the 90’s, to educate the American public about the real issues. Then, when this “opportunity” [Dem. president + [in theory, at least] Dem. Congress came along, there would be public support for change, and an understanding of the need for it.

But no, Dems were all too busy with NAFTA and repealing Glass-Steagall.

By: Pachacutec

Pachacutec — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:11:04 +0000

Warmest regards, Adam. My mother also has brain cancer. Started chemo and radiation today, on her birthday.

By: Ruth Calvo

Ruth Calvo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:45:58 +0000

As you say, we could go around in several areas, it’s just my impression that our educational level has declined radically in recent times, while in FR and pretty much in EU as a whole, they are pushing upwards. But I live in a rural area, where good grades do not result in good SAT test scores.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:44:52 +0000

Ah, I get it now. Original thought is original sin. Sex and thinking, the two greatest evils of all time. I need a drink.

By: nahant

nahant — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:42:47 +0000

Prolly hasn’t had an original thought in decade

Come on SD you must know by now that people like that feel the they can only think about what their “Tea Party” says they must think about…
Original Thought is s sin according to their rules.

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:37:19 +0000

Blue Texan's regularly scheduled post is ready: “Michele Bachmann Leads Health Care Protest on Capitol; Teabaggers Arrested”

By: HelenaHandbasket

HelenaHandbasket — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:35:35 +0000

FTA "In this public-private system, they have costs to bear (such as that few Euros charge for visiting a doctor) for treatment but those costs will not overwhelm a family’s budget." My brainstorm of an idea: Universal coverage by a health care tax of a percentage of one's income at a rate that 'will not overwhelm a family’s budget.' And, to win the support of the regressives, make it a flat tax! We all know how they love the flat tax.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:34:02 +0000

Judging from Ruth’s pic at 35 I’d have to say the dude spends a lot of time in front of the tube ingesting glucose-based food products. Prolly hasn’t had an original thought in decades.

By: ronbon

ronbon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:33:54 +0000

Viva la France !!!