| Despite coming from a family with no wealth at all, I had made it to an Ivy League school and looked forward to contributing to my country when my education was completed. Instead I've spent my whole adult life fighting, fighting, always fighting to keep health care coverage. Now I know that despite a painfully hard life I'm actually one of the lucky ones since over 18,000 unsung martyrs die every year in this rich country because they cannot access health care.
There isn't a food known that will cure lupus. I can't go into Whole Foods and buy an avocado and be disease-free. I need health care and so do others...and so will many who don't yet know now how much they will need it.
The CEO of Whole Foods turns out to be a dangerous, heartless, criminally selfish whacko. He wants to cut the Medicare that is barely keeping a lot of us alive, with its funding always in jeopardy thanks to it being confined to insuring only the elderly and the disabled/chronically ill--the most expensive folks. The premiums from the healthy ppl go to the privates, who are allowed to ban those of us who actually get sick. Nice for the taxpayer, isn't it. Anyway, genius CEO wants to deregulate these bloodsucking ins companies even further, and cut Medicare as well?
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I waited a long time for a Whole Foods to be finally coming to my area of the central coast. But now I won't be shopping there. There are other stores. There are local stands and farmers' markets. I can grow my own food. We have enough sunshine in California. I'm old enough to remember when food was grown rather than imported here anyway.
Boycott the radical far right. On health care reform, they are either falling for the big con job, or they are one of the con men. There is no third option if you oppose health care reform entirely.
We pay more per capita than any other country in the entire world for health care. And yet we let citizens die from having no insurance. We let countless others be underinsured and go through hell with their insurance if they develop a health problem. We also weigh our businesses down like a stone with expectations that they will pay for their employees' health care...not exactly a plus for competing in the global economy against some nations where food costs two bucks a day and other nations where health care is provided efficiently and cheaper without employers having to do it.
We are not getting what we are paying for. We are being ripped off. This should not be a partisan issue.
But it is a class issue. There are some people who are getting extremely rich off of the present system, and they are the ones funding all the smoke and mirrors that so many of our conservative citizens have fallen for hook, line, and sinker.
Where could all that missing money be? Hmm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
GOP, you have fallen in among thieves.
Everybody with a heart and a brain, please boycott Whole Foods. We don't need them in California.
Send a message to the robber barons, to the superrich elite types we thought we overthrew in 1776. That's right tea partiers; this time you're on the wrong side. Oops.
Oh and health insurers, Big Pharm and the rest...stop ripping us off on health care! Take your con game somewhere else! We former "easy marks" are onto you, now. |
