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More than 40 million uninsured Americans are one major illness away from financial disaster. The cost of health care for businesses and individuals continues to rise. Our high tech medical care is miraculous, but when you compare the health of Americans to people in other developed nations, we lag behind even though we pay much more for health care. Today, we're talking health care with former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson and Kathleen O'Connor, founder of CodeBlueNow!, a bipartisan group that's trying to form a consensus health care reform plan. Are you a patient or a health care provider? Where do you think our health care system is off track? What is to be done?

(This is an excerpt of the full video, also available on this channel, for those who would like to embed only the portion showing keynote speaker Donna Smith.)Donna Smith appeared in Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" after she and her husband suffered illnesses which brought them to financial ruin. She came to Binghamton on September 11, 2008 to make an impassioned plea for single payer healthcare. There are several reasons we do not have single payer healthcare in the US, the main one being that our government is of, by, and for the rich, and the rich don't need single payer healthcare. They can either easily afford health insurance, or if they are they are, for example, a US Senator, they already receive top-notch health coverage, complements of the US taxpayer...you and me. Socialized medicine is already here folks, but only for those at the top, and they are dead set against extending it to the lower rungs.Another reason is the entrenched bureaucracy which makes obscene profits from our grossly inefficient system. They will fight tooth and nail against any reform, and they have ample funds (formerly ours) with which to do so. Those who ask how we will fund single payer healthcare should do the math and ponder what we might accomplish if we were to dispense with this parasitic class. A third reason is that the US is now a worldwide empire, and an empire is a device for extracting wealth and amassing power, both at home and abroad. So using taxpayer dollars to provide for the people at home would run counter to the whole program. Those funds must instead be used to steal Iraq's oil and crush all resistance, or perhaps for yet another Wall Street bailout. To our deep national shame, many of us are just one major illness away from experiencing Donna Smith's story firsthand. Does everything in the US have to be "for profit?" Why should your next illness be some bureaucrat's next cadillac? Our society, indeed our planet, is being run for the benefit of a few people at the top.Wilton Vought, www.essentialdissent.net

Donna Smith appeared in Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" after she and her husband suffered illnesses which brought them to financial ruin. She came to Binghamton on September 11, 2008 to make an impassioned plea for single payer healthcare. There are several reasons we do not have single payer healthcare in the US, the main one being that our government is of, by, and for the rich, and the rich don't need single payer healthcare. They can either easily afford health insurance, or if they are they are, for example, a US Senator, they already receive top-notch health coverage, complements of the US taxpayer...you and me. Socialized medicine is already here folks, but only for those at the top, and they are dead set against extending it to the lower rungs.Another reason is the entrenched bureaucracy which makes obscene profits from our grossly inefficient system. They will fight tooth and nail against any reform, and they have ample funds (formerly ours) with which to do so. Those who ask how we will fund single payer healthcare should do the math and ponder what we might accomplish if we were to dispense with this parasitic class. A third reason is that the US is now a worldwide empire, and an empire is a device for extracting wealth and amassing power, both at home and abroad. So using taxpayer dollars to provide for the people at home would run counter to the whole program. Those funds must instead be used to steal Iraq's oil and crush all resistance, or perhaps for yet another Wall Street bailout. To our deep national shame, many of us are just one major illness away from experiencing Donna Smith's story firsthand. Does everything in the US have to be "for profit?" Why should your next illness be some bureaucrat's next cadillac? Our society, indeed our planet, is being run for the benefit of a few people at the top.Wilton Vought, www.essentialdissent.net To embed or email this video, click on the pie-shaped wedge at the bottom of the video player screen, then click on the appropriate tab and follow the instructions. There is also a tab which will allow you to subscribe to Essential Dissent.

March 12, 2008, Endwell, NY. Sister Marilyn Perkins, Vice President of Mission Integration at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, NY gives a PowerPoint presentation on health care reform. This video is from the 5-part 2008 Lenten Series sponsored by the Broome County Council of Churches.To embed or email this video, click on the pie-shaped wedge at the bottom right of the video player screen, then click on the appropriate tab and follow the instructions. There is also a tab which will allow you to subscribe to Essential Dissent.

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) follows up on his earlier remarks made on the Senate floor to encourage a free-market approach to health care reform. Vitter kicked off the discussion weeks earlier and has been joined in his efforts by several of his freshmen GOP colleagues on the Senate floor.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) discusses health savings accounts (HSAs) during a speech on the Senate floor and explains what Congress can do to help make health care more affordable and portable for the American people (May 1, 2008).

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) introduces an eight-week long health care reform discussion that he and other GOP freshmen senators started this week on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Other senators involved are Jim DeMint (S.C.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Mel Martinez (Fla.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.) and John Thune (N.D.).

Author: my3scums Added: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:46:18 -0800 Duration: 57Caught up in the fervor of Y2K paranoia in the months leading up to the end of 1999, two low budget filmmakers make a documentary about everyone's insanity. In this excerpt, the two discover a twisted family that is planning on consuming human waste as a form of food substance in the wake of a food shortage. "The real impressive aspect is, where does director Jim Ojala find his actors and how does he get them to do these things?!" - Richard Thomas, The Northland Reader

Author: my3scums Added: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:46:18 -0800 Duration: 57Caught up in the fervor of Y2K paranoia in the months leading up to the end of 1999, two low budget filmmakers make a documentary about everyone's insanity. In this excerpt, the two discover a twisted family that is planning on consuming human waste as a form of food substance in the wake of a food shortage. "The real impressive aspect is, where does director Jim Ojala find his actors and how does he get them to do these things?!" - Richard Thomas, The Northland Reader

Author: my3scums Added: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:46:18 -0800 Duration: 57Caught up in the fervor of Y2K paranoia in the months leading up to the end of 1999, two low budget filmmakers make a documentary about everyone's insanity. In this excerpt, the two discover a twisted family that is planning on consuming human waste as a form of food substance in the wake of a food shortage. "The real impressive aspect is, where does director Jim Ojala find his actors and how does he get them to do these things?!" - Richard Thomas, The Northland Reader

Author: my3scums Added: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:19:32 -0800 Duration: 79In this excerpt from this mockumentary about the panic ridden months leading up to Y2K, an apparent food shortage is reported and mass panic ensues. Food fight!

Author: my3scums Added: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:19:32 -0800 Duration: 79In this excerpt from this mockumentary about the panic ridden months leading up to Y2K, an apparent food shortage is reported and mass panic ensues. Food fight!

Author: my3scums Added: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:16:20 -0800 Duration: 46One man's candid vision of where we are in America and where we need to go.

Author: my3scums Added: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:16:20 -0800 Duration: 46One man's candid vision of where we are in America and where we need to go.

Researchers are devising new and interesting ways to reform health care.

Researchers are devising new and interesting ways to reform health care.

Interview with Functional Medicine doctor and teacher, Dr. Mark Hyman: Introduction to Functional Medicine, The change from medical specialties based on organ systems must change, A personal journey leads this doctor to Functional Medicine, Simple diet advice and the myths of popular diets, The elimination diet is a great diagnostic tool to detect food sensitivities, Advice to doctors wishing to practice Functional Medicine, Individual genetics are critical in defending against environmental toxins and selecting the appropriate treatments, News item about how proton-pump inhibitors raise the risk of osteoporosis

The state legislature will take up health care when the session begins in a few weeks. A proposal from the chair of the Senate Health Care Committee, Karen Keiser, would provide universal health care to all Washington residents. A Republican member of the governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on health care, Bill Finkle, says universal coverage increases costs. He thinks the answer is to provide more choice to make insurance affordable for all. I'm Guy Nelson. Today on The Conversation we'll hear about these two approaches. And we want to hear from you. How much do you spend on health care? What do you think about universal health care? What do you think is the best way to reduce exploding health care costs?

www.superlativesolution.com/Podcasts.htm Meet Massachusetts Gubernatorial Candidate, Lt. Governor Kerry Healey. Lt. Governor Kerry Healey gives her views on important business issues in this 4 part mini series.