Strum some public pain with this fistful of frustration and fret.

[jotsy]

Middle aged is an interesting way to describe having crested a century’s tide. The wet high ground promises a panoramic and circular view on a clear day, 360 degree clarity. But now is not such a time, clouds with shards of heavy rain and a fierce biting wind cause us to clamp our eyes shut, rendering us less likely to see what light might be where. It’s a cumbersome challenge to both the spirit and the senses to know only a gray sky that promises just varying shades of itself leaving us to wonder what we might have seen if the storm had let up for but a moment.

The difference between such natural phenomenon and the way all political matters are addressed, up to, including, and especially of late, the issue of health care, and how we define access to it. At the heart of the criteria are questions concerning the constitutionality of the governments role as a participant in the delivery system, or whether the current deliverers of the existing system should remain any part of the process.

The second I know that half a dozen chief executives of peripheral pass through, profit driven corporations are collectively compensated to the tune of millions, and that millions more are spent to counter any efforts to modify the fruitful system they provide little to no labor for, certainty that not all is as it should be is what sets in.

Among the many other things may be more than amiss, is the rate of rejection, and the array of handy reasons made up as means to claim absolution of obligation to pay up on a losing bet, as insurance in all forms is. As more than half of the nation’s bankruptcy filings are due to medical bills and a significant portion of those were insured, it’s not hard to walk that dog back to its inappropriate mess now, is it?

Welshers of old would ultimately be outcast as considerably less than credible, yet in the modern world we are asked to consume their products whether or not we are willing to interact with them.

…and so go us all to a mass shot gun wedding. With enthusiastic applause and Cheshire grins, the affluent flesh peddlers shackle what is left of middle ground America to a criminal enterprise as if they’ve saved the world rather than enslaved a society. Perhaps that’s truth, but only from their own duly elected perspective, which gets sold as a commodity where policy and position are swayed to swing in concert with that of the highest bidder. To serve such a peripheral part of a voting public is in and of itself treasonous, and telling of a truth significantly less than just.

Given the national body swims in a water of life filtered through the political realm, consider it as inhabited by a bevy of naturally toxic wet creatures. There are jellyfish, leaches and piranha or in more familiar terms, democrats, who have no back bone but carry a killer sting, lobbyists who only exist to suck you dry, and republicans who are designed to axiomatically chew you to the bone. Such species protect the shoreline to keep us in the deep where corporate sharks can split us from our limbs of livelihood in a feeding frenzy of our wallets.

To reach the shores of contemporary freedom in terms the founders could not have envisioned is a task they expected of newer generations, none the less and one we must see to. The opening statement of the constitution identifies the fabric of our foundation and there is no mistaking its intent when we define that more perfect union. What it calls for is the promotion of the general welfare of we the people. Health care is infrastructure to the general welfare of the body, and as such, is the governments obligation to provide as a constitutional mandate.

The free market principle as currently applied to this process has proven the theory that the nature of the corporate model has the mind set of a sociopath. People have died so others could enhance their bottom line and what we learn is less than laughable. None of the money that has ever been paid in the name of health insurance was necessary in the first place as it was, is, and should remain the people’s right to a single payer universal health care system.

Profit and the practice of medicine are as productive a duo as oil and water, it is a mistake to mix them and only practical that we not be made to answer this question again. Instead we are promised to modern day multi headed monsters and sacrificed to perpetual servitude as we bear witness to how consumerism takes on a whole new meaning.