The American psyche is often very perplexing to those that still want to assign some human decency to it. I am not one of those.

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Nearly 45,000 Americans die every yearâ??that's 122 deaths a dayâ??due to lack of health insurance. That's the startling finding of a new study that appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Source: Democracy Now

All societies have a type of world view or Weltanschauung. This is a way of looking at the world that arises from a shared experience and forms into a societal psyche.

The American psyche is often very perplexing to those that still want to assign some human decency to it.

I am not one of those.

Not that there aren't plenty of good and decent people in America. It is just that the American soul is sick. Like a good physician trying to heal a disease, Americans need to examine their soul sickness so that they can find the remedy.

The American psyche is one that has been formed from years by a mass propaganda effort that has reduced the human spirit to one of Consumption.

In the American world view, a human being's value can only be determined by that person's ability to Consume. That means if a person has a lot of money then that person is valuable because he or she can Consume a whole lot.

We are now called Consumers and the word citizen has been wiped from common usage. Consumers have no basic human rights other than their right to Consume as much as they can afford.

When we apply this world view to health care, we see immediately why many Americans are so against it on principle. Americans don't believe that the poor, the working poor, and all those on the lower income scale have much value.

Why?

Americans, deep down inside, don't want to give something as valuable as life saving health care to those that they see as undeserving. Americans, through years of conditioning by the mass Military Industrial Media Complex Culture, see the poor or near poor as undeserving because they are not good Consumers and thus not that worthy or even valuable.

It's as simple as that.

After decades of purposeful mass Corporate and Government propaganda, most Americans have a world view that they have been programmed to see. They have been conditioned to only value Consumption. They have been brain washed to see the world in terms of buying and having. Those that have the greatest ability to buy and have are the truly worthy of America.

Thus, when we look at health care we can see this world view playing out.

The Corporate 'talking heads' in the Media and many programmed consumers complain about the expense of health care. They don't want any extra money being spent so that people can suffer less and live longer. Well on the face of it, this argument seems highly selfish but perhaps we can see some reasoning to it. But when you really examine it, there is no reasoning to it. As we know, Americans allowed the super Consumers, the wealthy financial elite to suck away trillions of their tax dollars and there was barely a whimper. Rational people should be irate about bailing out the few fabulously wealthy. Rational people should want scarce resources to be better allocated among all of society so that their whole society could grow and prosper.

But Americans aren't rational and they don't like to think at all.

Americans are conditioned to act based on the highly materialistic and limited worldview of Consumption. The idea of all Americans having access to a highly valuable commodity like health care is, well, plain un-American in the minds of most unthinking Americans.

The absurdity of this Conusumerist conditioning can be seen by the fact that many people that have no health care are actively protesting against health care for all .

America is in the midst of a soul sickness that is ripping apart the society. Americans are caught between their programmed illusions and the reality of a country being destroyed by its wealthy. They can't act to correct the problems because that would mean they must abandon their Consumerist programming. So they act irrationally and blame the victims, and those willing to make a change, as the problem.

Nearly every American has either been without health insurance coverage, or has someone in their family or close to them that has been without insurance at some point in their lives. Many Americans have first hand experience of going bankrupt for not having health insurance coverage or having inadequate coverage

Any thinking American knows that the private health insurance system is broken. We can see it everywhere.

But Americans are good Consumers. They love Consumerism and any other alternative is seen as godless communism. Health care for all in a well managed government run program cannot be considered as an option because it is rewarding, in their view, the least among us. The least are those that are limited in their capacity for Consumption and thus not worthy of health care or any other care.

This love of Consumption can be seen in the bodies and lifestyles of Americans. They are very often obese and they love to buy the biggest and impractical material items, no matter the cost to themselves and their environment.

This soul sickness of Consumerism has been programmed into nearly every American. It is quite literally killing Americans. Sure many Americans don't want health care reform and they don't want all people covered. They don't care how many die from neglect. They don't care how many suffer from neglect. Americans only care to carry out the true mandate--Consumerism.

Yet this deadly Consumerist Weltanschauung is not only killing people, it is killing the country. But the American psyche is finding it nearly impossible to move toward health and life. The health care battle is a battle of the American psyche to either choose healthy, life giving alternatives, or to stay programmed in Consumerism and to continue to stay stuck in the sick and deadly.

Authors Bio:

I am a progressive.