Your healthare package is a moral leadership thing
With all the discussion about healthcare that will go on in the near future I want to encourage that our leadership [if such a thing exists] to always reject the idea that there is a distinction between physical and mental health. Most 'mental' illnesses are treated as physical illnesses by doctors who treat physical deficiencies in the brain using physical medication. I'm not a doctor but I can see the progress that has occurred in treatment over the years. We no longer have warehouses of people suffering from 'mental' ilness. Much of this is due to physical medications supplementing the physical deficiencies of the body. Progress is still being made.
What about the other 'mental' illnesses that are 'socially' or 'self' developed? Does the development of these behavioral disorders give rise to the discussion of original sin or the tendancy toward evil that could be the definition of original sin?
What percentage of the other illnesses are caused by lack of excercise and improper diet?
Social malformations or physical deficiencies? There should be no difference in treatment. Our leadership should be resolute and absolute in their demand that all mental illness be treated equally in the medical package that will be discussed in the coming year. Neglect in this is a reason for removal of any bishop. The American hierarchy must insist on discussion of the healthcare package as a whole and the inclusion of mental health as being integral to the package. Any insurance package that cherry picks with regard to age, nationality, deficiency, gender etc.etc.must be rejected.
Have our fearless leaders
Have our fearless leaders said anything about Healthcare yet?
Beware of the 'mouth' [just a new word for politician] that talks about 'socialized' medicine. Europe has no more socialised medicine than we do,it has national insurance programs. There has to be at least two elements in any medical plan. It must concentrate on wellness and it must not reject for pre-existing conditions. There is no such thing as MENTAL ILLNESS.
Ralph Nader is beginning to
Ralph Nader is beginning to look better and better.
Healthcare is a topic near
Healthcare is a topic near and dear for me.
I hope and pray there will be movement on this issue but I do not expect it. To me the crux issue is that health care is a limited resource that most people have some right to and it must be treated and allocated with that in mind.
Bill Moyers' on his PBS program _Journal_ has been putting together wonderful shows designed to bring together folks from the conservative and the liberal side of issues to show their, common shared concerns. This program features two folks talking about the real need for fiscal responsibility in Washington. This is a problem that we need to seriously attack and I do believe that we can attack this problem and offer health care for all Americans, but by definition it will not be a high end, every imaginable thing type coverage. I would encourage anyone to watch the Moyers piece:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02152008/watch.html
MollyJ, The Bill Moyers
MollyJ,
The Bill Moyers Journal program is one that I religiously watch and record on Friday evenings. It truly is a program where ideas are discussed in an intelligent and thoughtful way, providing for both sides of the issues without prejudice in order to get a real in-depth understanding of the issues and what possibly can be done. I am so grateful for programs such as his. The major networks are just too one-sided and do not get to the substance and tend to just focus on who said what about this or that. Thanks for sharing this information.
As a Catholic I can not vote
As a Catholic I can not vote for McCain because I don't think he's a nice guy. He should retire already from public life right along with immoral Bush and Cheney and Condoleeza Rice.
The last thing we need in the White House is another war-mongering, delusional politician for the corporations, oil companies, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
But, if you want more of the same old instability in the economy, more debt, more taxes, higher hospital costs, more cancer causing chemicals in our air, more cancer deaths, more foreclosures, more deaths and more injured soldiers, more suffering and hell on earth - by all means - use your free will to enable idiocracy to thrive even more! Just don't call it moral if you vote for McCain and use it in the same sentence with Catholic.
Sevenup - thank you for inspiring me on why I can't vote for McCain.
Hmmm, butterfly, so would
Hmmm, butterfly, so would you consider someone who would support the gruesome act of abortion, including partial birth, a nice guy?
As a Catholic I can not vote
As a Catholic I can not vote for McCain. He is a nice guy but his healthcare package is more of the same,bring it on. Too many people would suffer and die without a reasonable plan.
A revenue neutral
A revenue neutral plan......A congressman from Oregon was on Cspan this morning and has backers on both sides of the aisle for a universal healthcare plan that would be revenue neutral within five years. Obama, Clinton and McCain can take their plans to the museum.