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> Let's try to dial back our theoretical/ideological arguments to stuff >that's actually happening at present. David Brauer List manager
Louise Bouta here:
Not before I get my licks in. This following message is regarding having money available for health care that is needed and beneficial or that anybody wants. This is influential in the bus strike. It is also regarding Minneapolis property taxes being used for medical care that is destructive and debilitating and is forced on people for no good reason. The SD 60 legislators said Saturday that property taxes are the only money available to provide services.
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Before I quote from Mpls 3 44 Mark Snyder quoting Mark Anderson, I want to ask:
Is this a private fight or can anybody get in it?
>Could there be other factors in how businesses get ahead, like buying favors from elected officials?
From a third person:
> If the way to get ahead in business is to satisfy > one's customer at the
> lowest possible cost, how do you explain> pharmaceutical companies? They seem
> to be both high-cost and low-satisfaction and yet> are among the most
> profitable industries out there right now.
LB: If you need the drugs the pharmaceutical companies sell, it’s because they have a monopoly on the media and on the medical/hospital/pharmaceutical industry. The medical model has had a monopoly on people’s perceptions for so long that nobody recognizes it.
There are other health cares out there.
In a federal suit in Chicago (in 1987, I think), the chiropractors won a lawsuit against the American Medical Association and their monopoly because they had lied in restraint of trade. Insurance companies had found that people who had back injuries recovered and went to work twice as fast if they had received care from a chiropractor rather than a medical doctor. The US Supreme Court refused to hear it, so the decision still stands, at least in the Chicago district, anyway.
One example: The people in charge of providing care for people who have some overwhelming stress in their lives, or sadness, or allergies, or multiple chemical sensitivities, or adrenal or thyroid problems are woefully unschooled. I mean here the people who have charge over the people committed as “mentally ill.” I have finally got on the Hennepin County Advisory Committee for Mental Health. In that capacity, I was talking to one of the higher-ups in Hennepin County Mental Health. He has no knowledge of the reason people in “the system” “cycle.” That is, they become worse from time to time and have to be returned to the hospital “to have their medications adjusted.” He is under the impression it is because of “the disease” of “mental illness.” How to make people understand that the millions of us who have got off the deadly drugs do not cycle any more and do not need their superfluous “care?” Since the County, in their infinite wisdom, as advised by the family groups subsidized by the drug companies, refuses to allow us to start a group home, foster home or consumer-run communal living place, and the state hospitals being full, the people who “cycle” have to be admitted to a community hospital at a cost of $1400 to $1800 a day.
There are other health cares that do help a person and people are asking Well Mind Association every day for information on how they can get them. The cost for evaluation is only the cost of one day back in the hospital. The continuing cost for vitamins and supplements is about one-tenth the cost of a stay in a hospital. People are champing at the bit to access these health cares and get back to work and to living their lives. Unfortunately, they can’t because they can’t afford that minimal cost and the Medical Assistance only pays for what makes and keeps people sick. And also because
the County hires someone to come to their doors and watch them take their “medications.” The “medications” cause some of the following: 60 pound weight gain, diabetes, heart or liver problems, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, allergies, tardive dyskinesia, akathesia (inner restlessness which sometimes causes them to commit suicide.) The latest I found out, the “medications” another word for poison, is causing Parkinson’s Disease.
The medical community cannot provide a remedy for any of these and so has no business causing them in so many people.
I never object to paying taxes for better schools, for buses, for any public good. But for destroying people’s lives or killing them for no good reason, I draw the line.
Sincerely, Louise Bouta Well Mind Association of Minnesota 4003 Pillsbury Avenue Minneapolis, MLN 55409 Phone: 612-823-8249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wellmindminnesota.org
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