OpEdNews - Page 3 of Article: Marijuana, Health Care and Obama

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And that brings us to the part of the essay where I discuss a better health care plan.

I envision a form of "Single Payer Healthcare" that includes the following provisions:

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* It must be completely independent of the work place. In other words your health insurance should no longer be tied to your place of employment and if you are unemployed you should still have full access to health care. This should eliminate the 50 percent of bankruptcies due to loss of health insurance.

* It must be implemented in such a way that no illegal immigrants or visa overstays get any coverage whatsoever. To make this stick I suggest a complete moratorium on all immigration into the United States. I would also insist that every worker in the United States is put through the E-Verify system to determine if they are Illegal Aliens or Visa Overstays. Of course both are essentially Illegal Aliens. Not only will this reduce the overall cost of health care -- it will also free up between 8 and 20 million jobs for Legal American Citizens.

* Both "chain migration" and "anchor baby" programs should be immediately ended. And those that came here through "chain migration" should be made to to prove that the relative that "got them here" really is a relative through non-invasive genetic testing through mouth swabs of both relative and immigrant. All those that fail should be biometrically identified, in case they return, and deported within 6 months.

* Marijuana should be completely legalized under the MERP Model so that Marijuana can freely compete with Pharmaceutical drugs in order to reduce their costs. Vaporizers and Marijuana foods should be recommended in order to minimize the amounts of the combustible organic matter that ends up accumulating in the lungs of smokers.

* Regulation of Tobacco is unnecessary and Obama's recent move to put it under the discretion of the FDA is a joke as they are nothing but "whores" for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Years ago Surgeon General Sir Evertt Koop revealed that 95% of the lung cancer, from cigarettes, was due to the radioactive Polonium-240 which is found in the phosphate fertilizer used in tobacco production. Instead we should immediately look for solutions to remove this substance from the tobacco. We should also investigate alternative smoking solutions such as "electronic cigarettes" and "vaporizers," both of which would eliminate nearly all of the combustible organic matter that ends up accumulating in the lungs of smokers.
Here is a great summary of why we need a Single Payer Health Care System in the United States:
Every month another 14,000 Americans lose their health care or are denied coverage for a specific, often life-saving procedure, even though they have paid for their insurance. This continues to occur while the Congress "debates" the merits of the single-payer option.
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So what do the Democrats holding town hall meetings and the mobs trying to disrupt the meetings have in common? No matter which side wins, millions of Americans will still go without coverage, hundreds of thousands will go into financial ruin over health-care costs, and insurance CEOs will laugh their way to the bank.

Don't be fooled by President Obama's plan for "mandates" and promises of a "public option," which mean continued skyrocketing health-care costs and huge taxpayer-funded subsidies to insurance companies; the public option has been taken off the table.

The only real solution is the single-payer plan, which covers every American regardless of income, age or prior medical condition.

Under single-payer, physicians and patients make decisions about medical care, not government or corporate bureaucracies, and everyone can choose his or her own health-care provider. Single-payer will save billions of dollars, because it eliminates the administrative costs, waste and high CEO salaries of for-profit health insurance.

Single-payer could be Congress's gift to working people and businesses alike. Single-payer will boost the economy by relieving businesses of the costly burden of providing health benefits.

Whether the Obama plan passes or Republicans get their way and no health-care reform is passed, insurance companies will win and the American people will lose. The health of the American people is more important than corporate profits. Let's make health-care a right for everyone and pass HR 676, the single-payer bill. For more information, go to hr676.org.
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To better understand the concept of "Single Payer Health Care" I would highly recommend the following Wiki article on the subject. I would also recommend that you read through the citations within the article:

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Single-payer health care
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care
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