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Scientists already know how environmental toxins overstress our livers and colons, making it harder for our bodies to metabolize fat and digest food. But beyond the effect on our liver and colon, environmental toxins have a much more insidious ability to sabotage our weight.

Many scientists believe that the human body, when working properly, has a built-in weight-regulation system, the result of a complicated interaction among hormones, organs, calories and physical activity. All things being equal, we should feel hungry when we need food, and full when we’re nourished. Our natural appetite should regulate itself to ensure that our weight stays at a stable, healthy level.

Sadly, all things are not equal. New scientific evidence now suggests that many environmental toxins, in addition to poisoning our bodies, behave as though they were specifically intended to disrupt our natural weight-regulation system.

In some cases, this is literally true. The feed that non-organic farmers give to their cows, lambs, pigs, chickens and turkeys is deliberately designed to cause those animals to gain weight, fattening them up for the marketplace. When we consume the meat and dairy products that come from those animals, we start ‘fattening up,’ too.

However, even industrial chemicals intended to kill insects, preserve wood or protect crops from fungus seem to have the fattening effect, disrupting our natural weight regulation and making us vulnerable to weight gain. Although most industrial chemicals have not been specifically studied for their weight-gain effects, virtually every study that has been done seems to point in this direction.

One of the pioneers in the field of ‘fattening chemicals’ is Paula Baillie-Hamitton, MD, a UK expert in environmental health and human metabolism. Baille-Hamitton has published an extensive study of the numerous synthetic chemicals currently pervading our environment. The conclusion she drew was nothing short of remarkable.

‘What I discovered was that these chemicals appear to be making us fat… Time and again, when I learned about a different group of pesticides or environmental pollutants, I would soon discover that they too could cause weight gain.’

Baillie-Hamilton explains that there are effectively two kinds of man made chemicals in the environment that are making us fat. There’s the man made chemicals and substances that are used by farmers to add to their animal feeds purely to speed up the growth of their livestock and to modify and increase, health group
, the animals metabolism. Then there’s the medicines,, health group
, pesticides, solvents, heavy metals,, health group
, man made materials, fire retardants and quite literally thousands of other chemicals, materials and substances that are released into our environment every, health group
, day.

This group of solvents, pesticides and other man made materials weren’t specifically created for use in the food chain, the effect they appear to be having is that of making us fat.

By disrupting the natural weight regulation built into our metabolism, this second group of chemicals makes it harder for us to know when we’re hungry, when we need to keep eating, and how much we need to move to use up the calories we’ve taken in.

There is further evidence for linking the, health group
, plethora of synthetic chemicals in our environment to the emerging obesity epidemic. Between 1930 and 2000, the number of synthetic chemicals in use skyrocketed – and so did the number of overweight adults in both the United States and Britain. Here are just two of many animal studies suggesting that chemicals are disrupting our metabolism and helping make us fat.

In one experiment, mice were exposed to dieldrin, an insecticide used from the 1950s to protect cotton, corn and citrus crops; to exterminate mosquitoes; and to preserve wood. Although dieldrin has been banned for nearly all uses in Britain since 1981 and in the United States since 1985, it is still present in our environment in high levels, particularly in America because it also exists as the result of the breakdown of another insecticide, aldrin, which was used in the United Stares for termite control until 1987.

You might think that a poison designed to kill bugs wouldn’t affect a mouse’s weight one way or the other. But in fact, the dieldrin-treated mice more than doubled their total body fat.

In a similar study, animals were treated with hexachlorobenzene (HCB), a substance used in making rubber, dyes and wood preservatives, as well as for treating fungus in wheat. The HCB-dosed animals gained significantly more weight than their untreated counterparts, even though they were fed 50 per cent less food than the HCB-free animals.

Given the effects of the fattening pesticides, pollutants and other toxins in our environment, why aren’t we all obese? According to Baillie-Hamilton, genetics, individual eating habits, variations in our exposure to chemicals and age all play a role in our actual weight, as does getting the proper nutrients and regular exercise. It’s encouraging to know that even under the assault of fattening chemicals, there’s still plenty we can do to keep our weight down.

But, Baiilie-Hamilton points out, the problem underlying our obesity epidemic is that most people’s natural ability to regulate their weight is being disrupted. Both the constant assault of toxic chemicals and a lack of the nutrients we need is making us fat.

I would add that those of us who support our liver and colon have an enormous advantage in the weight-loss battle, because these organs are crucial in the effort to rid our bodies of fattening chemicals. That’s why detox and cleansing are at the heart of a healthy detox diet.

The debate over national health insurance extends well beyond the issues of economics and political ideology. Rising costs, rising numbers of uninsured citizens, negative impact on families and businesses, and poor outcomes make the debate over healthcare reform one of the most important issues on the nation’s agenda.Medical care costs in the United States represent $2.4 trillion annually or $7,868 per capita. The cost of medical care has risen 75% over the past 8 years, outstripping inflation and per capita income increases by several multiples. Even though the United States spends almost 20% of its GDP on healthcare, millions of Americans are either uninsured or underinsured. 47 million Americans have no health insurance coverage at all. 25 million adults are underinsured, up 60% from 2003.The United States is unusual among industrialized countries; it is the only wealthy industrialized nation that does not ensure health coverage for all of its citizens. As the United States loses jobs, workers become increasingly uninsured or underinsured, leading to huge personal financial problems. According to a study by Harvard University, 50% of all individual/family bankruptcies in 2001 were the result of medical bills.Although the United States spends the most money on healthcare per capita, global indicators of health such as mortality, infant mortality and incidence of various diseases remain strikingly lower than many other industrialized and emerging economy countries. Taken together, the following indicators suggest that the U.S. healthcare system is in chaos – too expensive and not effective enough.(1) The 2007 U.S. infant mortality rate of 6.4 deaths per 1000 live births is comparable to Croatia, Lithuania and Cuba. Most analysts currently rank the United States 28th in the world in infant mortality, far behind other industrialized nations such as Sweden, France, Japan and Germany.(2) Life expectancy is currently 78 years. According to NationMaster data,, health group
, the U.S. is ranked 44th in life expectancy compared with the 220 countries in its database.(3) Even in the area of heart disease the United States’ rate of 106.5 deaths per 100,000 population is higher than almost half of the other 26 countries for, health group
, which data was available.The U.S. healthcare, health group
, system is a competitive marketplace, paid for by a combination of private insurance and several national or quasi-national healthcare insurance programs. 68% of Americans are insured by private healthcare insurers, either as individuals or individual families or in a group plan through an employer or association. 8.2% of Americans, mostly those aged 65 and over participate in the Medicare program, a national health insurance program that pays for most but not all medical costs. 14% of Americans are insured by Medicaid, state/federal health insurance programs that provide coverage for families who meet guidelines for low income. Many healthcare providers simply refuse Medicaid insurance,rendering them effectively uninsured. 3% of Americans receive veterans’ medical benefits and lastly 15.6% of Americans are uninsured. The percentages add up to more than 100% because some people are counted in more than one category.One of the areas of confusion in the national health insurance debate is the difference between national health insurance and socialized medicine. Both systems are in operation in the U.S. today. Medicare and Medicaid represent forms of national health insurance, albeit limited to specific populations of people. The Veterans Administration’s separate medical care system represents the socialized medicine approach where the government owns and operates all medical facilities. The current national healthcare insurance debate does not include discussion of government-owned facilities. Instead the debate centers on whether there should be a single governmental payor for care, such as an expansion of Medicare or modifying the current private insurance system.The national health insurance debate is, at its roots, a debate about the role of government in people’s lives and money. Proponents supporting NHI present the following arguments:(1) Government should play a role in safeguarding the health and safety of Americans.(2) Every American has a right to a basic level of quality healthcare. Access to a minimum level of healthcare IS a right that every American should be able to count on; it’s a cost of being a part of our great society.(3) Reductions in the enormous administrative burden caused by many different insurance programs combined with an emphasis on long term preventive care will more than pay for the increase in coverage costs. NHI will save at least $200 billion annually (more than enough to cover all of the uninsured) by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private, investor-owned insurance industry and reducing spending for marketing and other satellite services. Global evidence shows that every country that offers some kind of national health, health group
, insurance experiences lower costs and better outcomes than the United States.(4) NHI would create a healthier America which in turn will create greater productivity and ability to compete in the world marketplace including helping corporations by equalizing the burden of healthcare across businesses and allowing US corporations to become more competitive in the global economy.(5) NHI would reduce clinicians’ fears of the corporate dominance of medical care,(6) NHI would make it possible to set and enforce overall spending limits for the health care system, slowing cost growth over the long run.(7) One of the factors that drives healthcare costs is the plight of the uninsured. These Americans typically do not receive preventive care and avoid seeking medical care until the need is acute. As a result, the cost of providing care for the uninsured is much higher than it needs to be.(8) NHI would increase choice, highly valued by Americans, as opposed to HMOs which limit choice.(9) A NHI program will invest in longer term prevention that will improve outcomes across populations.Those who oppose national health insurance believe:(1) Healthcare, like any other commodity to be purchased, will be made most effective and efficient by being subjected to the marketplace where competition will drive innovation and quality and efficiency.(2) They further believe in limiting the role that government plays in people’s lives, preferring to provide money directly to citizens so they can make independent choices about healthcare, according to their own needs. The U.S. system acknowledges the American belief that every person has a right to make their own decisions such as purchasing the amount of healthcare they need at a price they can afford. Distributing healthcare creates entitlements that are subject to abuse.(3) The current government system of Medicare and Medicaid imposes a huge burden of rules to follow and justifications required for reimbursement. This massive bureaucratic overlay would not disappear under NHI. The U.S. has an extremely poor track record of government being able to manage large scale programs effectively; in contrast, corporations have an excellent management track record.(4) Choice will, health group
, continue to be eroded under a NHI. Medicare, the model for NHI, uses HMOs as a cost containment strategy.(5) Many corporations use medical insurance programs as a recruiting and retention tool; NHI would marginalize that competitive advantage.(6) The U.S. government has shown that when it manages medical care, it reduces costs by making, health group
, broad cuts across the Board, forcing physicians to be unwilling to accept government programs such as Medicaid.(7) Most national health insurance programs in other countries create rationing for necessary procedures. “Research has indicated that Medicare and Medicaid patients face obstacles in getting the care they need, such as required prior approval for certain drugs, limits on prescriptions and co-payments that they can’t afford.” Similar obstacles to care exist in most countries, implemented with the goal of reducing unnecessary costs.(8) Even though there are many uninsured American citizens, they still receive healthcare when needed.(9) NHI will establish healthcare as a right. That status will make it very difficult to dial back the system if costs become unmanageable, like the social security situation.(10) There is only so much money available for healthcare. This money is best used to support public health programs to, health group
, limit environmental health hazards and the spread of infectious and communicable diseases.(11) Healthy, responsible people should not be penalized by subsidizing people who choose not to take care of themselves by smoking or overeating. Similarly, young working people should not need to subsidize the elderly.Is there any middle ground? Although many of the arguments represent polar opposite beliefs, there are some areas of middle ground where a discussion can begin.(1) The fundamental competitive system of hospitals, physicians and other providers can remain intact, providing choice and driving innovation. NHI is merely a payment mechanism.(2) It’s possible to review and slash some of the administrative burdens and make those a high priority.(3) Both sides are interested in some government role in matters of health. Although, health group
, there are analysts who argue against an incremental approach, it may be possible to add another group to the Medicare program, people aged 55 and older, the age where chronic diseases begin to appear.(4) It would be very useful to increase programs of consumer-directed spending through health savings accounts within the current Medicare and Medicaid systems.While there may be middle ground, the debate over national health insurance will likely be fought on issues of ideology and finance.

Health care insurance and other benefits cost employees, health group
, thousands of dollars a year — on, health group
, average about 30% of their total compensation.But many employees wait until the last minute to make selections, do precious little research and make big mistakes that cost them in multiple ways. Two examples: paying more upfront for benefits they may not need; and making poor decisions that show up when a health or other emergency, health group
, arises.The 2010 open enrollment season at workplaces nationwide is ramping up as fall arrives.Given what’s at stake, experts say workers should pledge this time around to make better selections. There’s a lot of ground to make up: Only 6% of consumers feel completely prepared to deal with health care costs, according to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. And most employees spend 30 minutes or less choosing their health plans, according to Cigna.”People don’t put a lot of thought into enrolling in their plans,” Cigna spokesman Joseph Mondy says. “Typically, people spend like half an hour deciding. Compare that to how many hours you agonize before you buy a TV.”Some tips to get the most out of your employee plan:Don’t wait until the last minuteEnroll, and do so on time. Don’t assume that you’ll be automatically enrolled in the plan you chose last year.”We have this whole month to review things, and we wait until the night before we have to make the decision to open the booklet,” says Lenny Sanicola, an employee benefit specialist with WorldatWork, an association of human resources professionals.His recommendations: Sift through materials early; discuss plans with family, health group
, members; make a list of questions; and attend your company’s face-to-face meetings. If you don’t get the answers you need, go to your human relations officer or supervisor. Understand what you’re signing up for and what your out-of-pocket expenses are going to be.”As you get into the 2010 decision-making, there are fewer simple decisions,” says Cigna’s chief learning officer Karen Kocher.Include others in decisions. Family members may think that taking advantage of legal coverage, a pet insurance option or flexible-spending account make sense, even if you don’t. Those opinions should matter.Check eligibility requirementsBefore you make a decision to jump to your spouse’s plan in this rocky economy, make sure you’ll be able to return to your employer’s plan if you waive enrollment now and your spouse loses his or her job later.Also, determine whether your adult children are still eligible or newly eligible for your family plan.”Eligibility is where people can really get tripped up,” says Michelle Connor, a senior benefit consultant at CBIZ Employee Services.Employees should also realize that companies are auditing to ensure former spouses or unqualified, health group
, adult children are not lingering on family plans. Don’t be surprised if your human resources office suddenly requests your offspring’s college schedule.Think about health coverage costsThe single most important question when choosing any health insurance plan is, “What is my annual liability?” Connor says.Add likely out-of-pocket costs to the premiums being deducted from your paycheck. When you determine likely out-of-pocket costs, put that amount in a pretax flexible-spending account.Kocher says employees must understand their needs and the available options: “The absolute best fit will not only get you the best coverage, it will also assure your out-of-pocket costs are minimized.”Mondy says websites can often be go-to places for prescription-price comparisons and, increasingly, for cost-and-quality comparisons of medical professionals.”Find out all the programs your company offers. You may be pleasantly surprised,” he says.One program many people don’t take advantage of: flexible-spending accounts.”One of the things that scares people about an FSA is the use-it-or-lose-it provision, but you can always run out and buy a whole season’s supply of cold and flu medication or a new pair of eyeglasses” at the end of the year, health group
, to use money in the account, says Ken McDonnell, program director for the Employee Benefit Research Institute.Consider life, disability insuranceIf your age or health make it expensive to get private life insurance, your employer can be a good place for that because it’s usually less expensive and requires little or no medical underwriting, says Barry Petruzzi, vice president of group benefits for Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. He says employees can use an online calculator to determine whether they should buy more insurance than an employer already provides for free.Connor also recommends buying short-term disability insurance “every day and twice on Sunday” because it ensures your paycheck.She says six out of 10 employees will be on disability at some time during their careers, and most will be on short-term disability.Pregnancy, for example, falls under short-term disability. She says even the group she calls “the young infallibles” are exposed to plenty of risk of short-term injury from sports and auto accidents.Educate yourself about investmentsJane White, president of Retirement Solutions of Madison, N.J., says employees need 10 times their final year’s salary for a retirement nest egg, so save accordingly.To do that in the best way, says WorldatWork’s Sanicola, employees should take advantage of financial seminars and online tools offered by companies, and keep an eye on investing fees.If you can afford to contribute enough to your 401(k) or other such plan that’s eligible for a company match, do it.”Your net pay won’t go down 6% if you contribute 6%, because you’re using pretax money,” Sanicola says.Also, if your company provides its match in company stock, divest out of it as quickly as possible, White says. A diversified portfolio is insurance against losses if your company stumbles and the stock price plummets.Get and stay healthySome employers and insurance companies offer financial incentives to employees who use gyms or attend smoking-cessation programs.Ask if your employer provides any reimbursements. If they do, make lifestyle changes to take advantage.

It should be obvious by now that the U.S. health care system is not going to, health
, be happily corrected from the top down. If we truly had a free-market competitive system with many insurance companies vying for the public’s business, that should bring prices of their service down, right?

How can our President be an honest broker in a negotiation with the fabulously wealthy health insurance corporations, the pharmaceutical industry, and others who were major contributors to his election? It simply is not going to happen. These folks have spent a lot of money and time to get their corporations into a position where they have got the most profitable game in town, and — as we have seen with the heavy Wall Street influence on this administration — they are not going to be forced to give it all up, just to make the American people happy.

An article recently appeared in the newspaper by T.R. Reid, which gives a rundown of the administrative costs of various health insurance plans, health
, around the world, with ours included. The U.S. topped them all at 20% being spent on paperwork, reviewing claims, and marketing. The European countries and Canada ran about 4-6% administrative costs. Taiwan came in the lowest at 1.5%! It shouldn’t require private, health
, detective sleuthing, health
, around the corridors of power in Washington to help us figure out that Americans are under the thumb of an uncompetitive and — I may as well say it — corrupt system.

We have a system where the people with the most to gain, “gain, health
, access” to our political leaders with the help of well-connected lobbyists to get their views heard. Then, when election time rolls around, mega-contributions flow into the appropriate party’s account in return for favorable legislation that allows the corporations to maintain their strangle-hold on our shrinking American economy. It’s all a highly-ritualized dance here, but in any Third-World country the same general process is called corruption and influence-buying. The results are the same, whatever we call it.

So how do we, as a nation, break free of the hold the Health Care Industry has on our economy? It is really very simple, health
, . We must use one of the few freedoms we have left: Boycott these industries that have been overcharging us for years. And give up the naive notion that your elected representatives will negotiate, health
, a fairer deal(for you and me) with the industries that paid to put them into office.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “If I give up my current health insurance and something happens to me or one of my family, we’d be sunk!” You have a point, there.

It’s a shame to live in fear of something, out of your control happening to you, isn’t it? But what about the elements of your health that you CAN control? So much of our long term disability develops from simple everyday choices we make that lead to our weight gain, or whether we smoke, whether we drink too much. These are all controllable if we choose. I choose –, health
, do you?

Are you doing everything you can to reduce your need for health care? There are many peer-reviewed medical studies showing the health benefits of a primarily vegetarian diet, combined with daily cardiovascular exercise, being very effective at reducing bad cholesterol, lowering, health
, high blood pressure, maintaining a healthy weight, etc. Are you availing yourself and your family of these proven do-it-yourself healthcare measures?

Both Health Reimbursement and Health Savings Accounts Offer More Treatment Options and Lower Costs

If you can afford to enroll in a Health Savings Account and live with a $5000 deductible health insurance policy, this has many advantages, not the least of which is slashing the tribute you pay for unused medical care you will get through a standard health care policy. If you are in a high-risk profession where major injury is possible, then this may not work for you. For most people, however, it will.

How about we boycott the pharmaceutical drug industry to the extent we can?

Take a hard look at the prescription drugs you and your family take. How many are really necessary? In many cases, Big Pharma has just cooked up drugs that are letting you slide by without changing your unhealthy habits of eating, drinking, smoking, and not enough physical activity. They have, health
, dreamed up new “medical conditions” like GERD (gastric reflux) which in many cases is just caused by what used to be called indigestion — you ate a bunch of greasy, fatty food just before bed and, as your stomach churned and labored to digest this overly-rich mess, the stomach acid backed up your esophagus. Are you willing to stop eating like that, to save yourself money and be part of a movement to get the attention of the pharmaceutical industry?

Are you willing to quit eating pepperoni pizza for a midnight snack? What ARE you willing to do to get your freedom back from the sickness-care and prepared food industries who are getting rich off a tag team attack on your health?

In these hard times — and no, the downturn is far from over — wouldn’t it be smart to stop paying so much for fattening foods and the medical problems they cause?

Go down the list of pharmaceuticals you take, read some books on the subject of legitimate alternative diet and health practices that would make these drugs unnecessary. Then, take personal action yourself to correct the problem. I must warn you, under threat of prosecution, that if your doctor has you on statin drugs or some other major medication, that you must get the help of another doctor to help wean you off them. Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell, health
, Esselstyn have some good books out that can give you solid proof that what I am saying is true and do-able.

Dr, health
, . Esselstyn has a list of health care professionals on his Web site who can help transition you off many pharmaceutical meds. Another good source for this information is Dr. John McDougall — offered for free on his Web site.

It can be done, the only question is whether the American consumer of so-called health care products and services will have the courage and gumption to do anything about it. The average American has a clear choice here: to continue their comfortable habits, even though they are growing slowly fatter and sicker, or to make a stand for freedom, when all the odds are stacked against, health
, them? It won’t be easy, but nothing feels as good as freedom and trouncing a bunch of rich fat-cats who have been ripping you off for years!

Our politicians don’t care as much about our little votes as they desperately seek the huge campaign contributions of the Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance Industries. We have no power unless we learn — and we can learn — to live without most of these rip-off-priced health care services.

It will take a consumer revolt — a Boycott, health
, — over a period of time, to get the attention of the industries that own the political power in the USA.

All Big Pharma understands is the bottom line. If their sales in this country go down, they will be forced to listen and do something. (Have you read the list of side-effects? You are better off not consuming these pills anyway — there are legitimate doctors who can provide you with healthy alternatives.)

What we need to do is make it clear that Big Health Insurance is next on our boycott list

To a great extent, what I am proposing is already taking place. Many people, like, health
, me (and perhaps you, too?) are offended by the high costs and narrow options for treatment our present medical/insurance system offers, so we’re not participating. The Obama administration has made some noises about making it compulsory that everyone — Everyone?! — pay into a health insurance system, except Senators and Congressmen and -women and, of course the President. We’ll see how that goes over.

Most of the diseases that kill us and those that disable us are preventable. Our diet is the biggest source of our fatal diseases. We have been brainwashed since childhood to overlook this obvious culprit that causes us so much pain and frustration. It is up to us to start seeing the elephant in the room and retake our freedom and a large part of our personal budget back from the people who are profiting off our food-caused sickness.

The only question is, ” How much abuse will Americans take at the hands of the overpriced Health Care Industry before we stop being played for suckers?”

Stop begging the politicians for help and get healthy. It’s free! Show the Symptom-Relief industry you don’t need them any more!

Then prices will come down as we negotiate from a position, health
, of power. Cut out the middlemen — the insurance industry — and pay cash for services you want. That’s how the consumer gets a bargain in any negotiation, not by asking the federal government to add a new layer of bureaucratic expense.

Michael Moore’s movie Sicko, is apparently designed to educate the American public regarding the issues of health care. The movie presents a comparative analysis of the health-care systems in America, Canada, France, England and Cuba. Michael Moore and his film crew actually visited all the countries discussed in the film, interviewed health-care professionals, and patients, and presented the fact in understandable details.

Based on the film, health-care in America is very controversial. It is also a highly contested area in the legal and administrative arenas. The film shows how the health-care industry operates with hidden agenda, which is based on profit making. As a result, the average citizen is denied access to health-care payments for frivolous reasons. Such actions at times resulted in the unfortunate death of individuals being denied insurance coverage, or a family member who desperately needs the coverage to pay for medical bills not being covered.

The film shows various former employees of the health-care industry providing information on what they used to do for their respective employers. The information is depressing. The actions of the insurance companies as portrayed by the former employees are ruthless, based on capitalistic motives, and show a lack of sensitivity for the health and welfare of others who are sick.

One must consider the impact of the film on politicians. It actually computes in monetary terms the value of how much the health-care industry spends annually to buy politicians and get them into its corner. With the winning over of politicians, the health-care industry is then able to obtain votes and influence the passage of legislations in its favor which affects Americans across the spectrum.

The film heightens ones awareness regarding the ongoing, health
, battle over healthcare coverage, and in particular, the health care debate and proposals by each candidate regarding where he or she stands on the issues. It shows the benefits to be derived from having a health-care system that is universal, and how it improves the quality of life for citizens of that country.

The following is my poem regarding the health-care system in America, entitled This Land:

This Land-America!

This land we fought and died for

Ancestral legacy buried in its midst;

This land we shed our blood for

Descendants suffering in its midst;

This land we cried and, health
, bled for

Future generation will be ticked;

This land we stood and prayed for-

Lord help and keep us on Your list!

General Reactions

Sicko is a present day reality of America’s broken health-care system. It is beyond any reasonable comprehension to acknowledge the fact that the wealthiest country in the world is not even rated in the top 25% of countries world-wide for providing health-care to its citizens. This realization is just deplorable! It is an injustice to humanity to know that Americans are dying in the streets on a daily basis because America does not have an efficient and effective health-care system to provide for its citizens.

One could assume that the ruthless practice of the, health
, health-care industry is designed to further continue the unjust act of covert genocide on certain segments of the American population. The system impacts African-Americans and other minorities the most. It is a further reflection of how capitalism and monopolistic practices by the upper class continue to act in a repressive manner to alienate those considered inferior by unjust standards.

The timing of the film could not have been better especially being released before an election year. If watched by Americans, this film should provide them with enough information to make an informed decision on where they should, health
, cast their votes on the health-care debate. Americans have suffered enough under the current unjust practices of the health-care system. It has stripped their pockets book, bank accounts, home mortgage equity, and other finances to pay for coverage the insurance companies, health
, should have been held liable for but refused to pay.

The following is my poem about the health-care, health
, system taking care of our people.

Taking Care of Our People

Let’s take care of the sick

They are dying in our streets;

Let’s take care on the homeless

They, health
, are sleeping in the streets;

America has money to spare

Let’s spend on the sick their share;

Build homes for the homeless,

Lift up humanity to where-

America is, health
, truly the Land Of The Free

And proud to be: The Hand Of The Brave!