Dear Congressman -- Another Good Idea

Dear Congressman,

Hers is another good idea. What if IRS Income Tax, government laws, and government regulations are option? The Democraps could raise taxes every time they like, and none of us good people would care.

With optional taxes the Democraps could send in their money to pay for all of their socialist programs. No problem. Let them enjoy their high taxes.

With optional laws and regulations, RINOs and Democraps could enact a million pages of oppressive government law and regulation designed to stamp out businesses, prevent incomes, destroy initiative, and create an ever increasing dependent class. The libtards could adopt all the laws and regulations they like and no free men would care.

This idea is so good,
it should have been thought of years ago.
In a country that calls itself "land of the free" an optional government is the essence of free men. Let those who want tyranny and oppression, high taxes and a nanny state have as much as they like. No problem. Just don't let it be forced on men who would be free.

Dear Congressman -- An Open Letter

Dear Congressman,

Here's a good idea that is going around on the net.

Just CANCEL the FY 2011 budget. If the Democraps don't want HR-1, just walk away. Get on with working on a FY-2012 budget. Let The Obama whine about not having any authorized funding until October 1st.

Democraps failed utterly to adopt a FY-2011 budget in the 111th Congress that they controlled. Now its time for the 112th Congress to be working on FY-2012. Its all their fault. The People's House did your part passing HR-1 the Whole Year CR, but if the Democraps don't want it, then WE THE PEOPLE are the big winners.

Canceling a FY-2011 budget would save WE THE PEOPLE a ton of our tax money, maybe half a trillion in spending would be saved. It would teach Democraps that WE THE PEOPLE are serious about cutting spending. MILLIONS of TEA Party voters would stand up and cheer. This suggestion is all over the web, it appears multiple times in comments in every recent news story about government budgets.

Last week many conservative columnists opined that House leadership is caving in. And its true. Don't cave.

HR-1 is there if the Democraps want it.
So tell Boehner to inform the Senate that you all are going to work on FY-2012 and never look back. Then hold a victory party. If they accept HR-1 or not, its a VICTORY for the people!

WE THE PEOPLE will stand up and cheer if you, Boehner, and the House come through for us. Just walk away and let the Democraps whine.

Call Emergency Services to Lighten Your Purse!

The Medical Industrial Complex has been running radio ads advising people to call emergency responders and get themselves turned over to the Medical Industrial Complex immediately if they have any symptoms of STROKE.

Well, I wondered what treatment is needed immediately for a stroke. Its not like they can pound on your brain or give you electric shock like they do for heart attack. So I did some reading on-line.

If you are having a stroke they give you a lot of "tests." The ONLY approved drug for stroke is a preventer/dissolver of blood clots which is said to be helpful in about 1/3 of strokes. The blood clot medication is supposed to be given within 3 HOURS to be effective.

They will probably give you oxygen, and IV (water) to rack up the bill. They will give you CT scans, and lab tests. $$$$$$. If you have high blood pressure you could take some nitroglycerin pills, or have it added to your IV. But many heart patients take their own nitroglycerin pills at home. If you are having a burst blood vessel stroke (not a clot blockage stroke) there is nothing they can do. Burst blood vessels are often fatal.

From reading the medical treatment, my conclusion is that calling emergency services for a stroke serves to greatly reduce the weight of your purse, but that's about it. If your stroke was caused by the weight of a heavy purse then emergency treatment would be effective, but heavy purse is not listed as a common cause of stroke.

Its not like a heart attack where electric shock, etc., can stop someone from dying. Has anyone observed any effective immediate treatment for stroke? Other than emptying your purse is emergency treatment for stroke effective or worthwhile? Or, are they running the radio ads because their income is down in a down economy? From reading on-line medical advice, it appears that reducing the weight of your purse is the primary reason for the radio ads.

Senate votes to block lower costs for health care

Seen on TV (CBS) news this morning, the US Senate voted 51 to 49 to continue the current law that makes it illegal for Americans to avoid their GOVERNMENT protected pharmaceutical monopoly pricing. The Senate killed a proposal to repeal the prohibition on purchase of medical drugs from other nations such as Canada.

Clearly demonstrated in this vote is a continuing Democratic support for the big corporation monopoly profits that have caused medical costs to soar out of reach for the average person. The Democratic solution is to tax all Americans to pay the bloated corporations whatever the hell they want to charge. The very concept of allowing freedom and competition to lower costs is voted down 51 (Democrats) to 49 (Republicans)

Obama Fascism strikes again.

Advice for doctors: Don't Wait to Provide for Men

Mike is a typical man and is as concerned with his heath as anyone. His life long experience with doctors is one horror show story after another.

The Massachusetts Medical Society now has a “Men's Health Committee” which is pushing the usual misnadrist crap about how men are to blame for the many longstanding problems that men have with the medical industrial complex. They have gotten an article published in the CNN Health Minute called Advice for men: Don't wait to see a doctor. Bob has some advice for the arrogant assholes of the medical industrial complex, Don't Wait to Provide Adequate Services for Men.

Men's health has been sorely neglected for all of the 20th century, and the 21st century has so far seen no improvement. A century ago the life expectancy of men was the same as women. In the 20th century, research funding has poured into diseases of women while funding for men's health has lagged behind. Men now die from all diseases at higher rates than females. The life expectancy of men is about 10% shorter than females, on average, in countries with modern “health care.” The response from the medical industrial complex has generally been a focus on furthering health care for females while continuing to neglect and abuse men. It is well that the Massachusetts Medical Society now has a Men's Health Committee, but it's a very small drop in a very large bucket, and doesn't appear to have actually done anything but blame men for their own massive failures.

Mike can tell you of the time he went to see a doctor because he had a sinus infection. He had to wait 4 days to see get on the doctor's appointment schedule. Mike took aspirin and over-the-counter decongestants during the days of waiting. By the time Mike found himself waiting in the doc's entry process his sinus infection was beginning to go away by itself. After an hour of leafing through year old magazines Mike was ushered into an inner room where he was told to sit in a chair that had a menacing looking headrest. The doctor came in and, without consultation or Mike's permission, started sticking probes up Mike's nose.

Like many patients Mike assumed the doctor knew his business and after waiting 4 days to see the doc, was hesitant to leap up and run out. That would have been the wise choice. Having gotten his sinuses reamed out, Mike was told to take some aspirin and come back in 3 days. It hurt to breath, it hurt with every breath, his upper nose was on fire. He could not sleep. The remnants of the original sinus infection was the least of his problems. In three days Mike's sinuses were finally healing up. He could breath without severe pain once more.

Being young and inexperienced with doctors and believing that he should follow medical advice Mike reported back to the doctor on the 3rd day. This time when the doctor broke out his tools to ream out Mike's sinuses, Mike got right up and left. The doctor and his nurse were left standing there around an empty chair. Mike learned another lesson about doctors.

Some years lager Mike was having a flareup of his gout. The AMA monopoly maintains strict control of medications by government sanctioned monopoly. In order to purchase medication for gout you have to have the permission of a government protected monopoly doctor, who makes you kowtow and pay for his permission.

It took Mike several days to get an appointment to see the doctor, and all the while his gout made walking very painful. Mike gets classic gout in his big toe. It swells up, gets hot, and hurts to walk. It can be treated easily with ant-inflammatory medications that work especially well if taken immediately when the flare up begins. If treated immediately the flareup usually goes away in two days. By the 3rd or 4th day, when the doctor condescended to be paid for permission to purchase medication, it was already going to be a long and painful three weeks.

Mike's company had changed Insurance providers since his last gout flareup so he was seeing a different doctor than last time. When the doctor finally disdained to visit the little room with the examination table where Mike had been forced to wait for an hour, Mike explained that he had these flareups off and on for years. All he needed, he said, was some gout mediation. No, said the doctor, not listening to Mike. We have to be sure what it is. We will need a lab test. The doctor went out and twenty minutes later someone else in a white coat came in bearing a large looking needle apparatus. We have to take a sample to test, he said, and stuck the needle into Mike's inflamed joint. Having a large needle stuck into an inflamed gout swollen joint is EXTREMELY painful. Mike didn't need that at all.

Another half hour later the doc came back and said that the test had confirmed gout. Mike told them that when he arrived, but the doc wouldn't listen. The doc finally condescended to allow Mike to purchase some medications, and even an extra supply so he could take some immediately next year if it flares up again. Mike was not pleased with the crappy monopoly grade services provided by the medical industrial complex. They had turned a two day inconvenience into a painful and debilitating 4 week ordeal while inflicting extreme pain. Some years later when the pharmacy refused to allow Mike to purchase any more gout medications without another new permission sheet from the Docs, Mike learned how to order it on-line from Mexico where they don't have government controlled monopolizes to bribe or die.

Stories like those of Mike can be heard from every man Bob has ever talked to. The medical industrial complex eschews the business of men, treats us like cattle, refuses to listen to us or our needs, won't provide services in a timely manner, and organizes their office process to be psychologically offensive to men while catering to females. And of course they still sexually mutilate more than a million little boys in the United States every year, a heinous barbaric crime that outnumbers all other violent crimes against children and all other violent sex crimes combined.

It's no different in any town or city you go to. The AMA, and the medical industrial complex caters to females and generally ignores the needs and health of men. The process of visiting a doctor is designed to be suitable for females, but is psychologically unacceptable to most men, according to various studies and the experience of men. Instead of revising their process to be suitable for men, the doctors blame the men.

In every city the hospitals advertise special departments for women. There are Women's Health Centers. But in several decades I have never seen or heard of a Men's Health Center at any hospital in any city. Maybe a men's health center exists somewhere, but there are women's health centers in every city. What message does that convey to men? Does it say “welcome men” or “we care about men”?

Now Ms. Judy Fortin, CNN Medical Correspondent, writes this misandrist hate piece blaming men for the ongoing and pervasive failures of the medical industrial monopoly to provide adequate services for men. She says that females are responsible while men are irresponsible and bad for avoiding the female centric medical monopoly. The misandrist bitch quotes, Dr. David Dodson, who is a self proclaimed expert on men's health at the Marino Center in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Dodson recommends that healthy men under 50 get a regular checkup every 18 months. After 50, he suggests, men should see their doctors annually.

If you read the web site of the Marino Center, you find their list of services.

Services
Acupuncture
Allergy testing and treatment
Chelation therapy
Chiropractic
Environmental medicine
External Counterpulsation
Flu Clinics
IV Therapy
Mental health
Massage
Nutrition
Neurology
Physical medicine
Physical therapy
Primary care
Women's health

Missing from their list are services for Men's Health. Yet CNN Bigot Ms. Fortin, and Dr. Dodson blame men while their own organization's web site proves that Men's Health services are not provided.

I have some advice for Dr. Dodson. Blaming men for your lack of services and sexist bigotry is counterproductive. Start taking care of boys and men. Fix your fucking misandrist monopoly. Doctor, heal thyself!

Affordable Health Care For All

America needs to improve medical care while doing something about the horrible medical industrial complex. Just yesterday Bob was told about a man who went to a hospital for a 3 year follow up of a bypass surgery. While there the hospital gave him a drug resistant staph infection and a blood infection. The poor guy almost died. He will take weeks to regain some semblance of health. And what’s worse, the statistics on bypass surgery is that it DOES NOT extend life, on average. The average 5 year life expectancy after bypass surgery is no better than without bypass surgery. The surgery patient gets NO expected increase in life expectancy, but does get a guaranteed 6 months of severe physical pain and suffering. He also gets a severe depletion of his life savings, which the medical busine$$ takes.

For decades the AMA has held a tight monopoly on medical treatment, a monopoly authorized and ensured by the federal government. Breaking the monopoly of a single provider pricing at extreme “pay or die” prices should be a first priority. Breaking the pharmaceutical monopoly should be second. A month’s worth of pills that costs $0.25 in Africa will cost $25 in Europe and $250 in the US. The monopoly pricing must be broken, and Americans must be able to buy from low priced sources at home or abroad. Better information is needed. People need to be told before their $400,000 bypass surgery that the average patient doesn’t live any longer, but does suffer 6 months of surgical pain. People need to know that hormone treatments given to females for 40 years kill more patients than they save. Men need to know that prostate tests have more false positives than correct readings, and that even if you know you‘ve got it, there is no effective treatment for prostate cancer. The US medical business is fairly good at fixing broken bones, but beyond that they are often worse than useless.

For some years we have heard numerous Democratic politicians whining about guaranteed medical care for everyone. But NONE of them is even willing to talk about actually doing anything to improve medical care. All they ever propose is to write a massive blank check to the medical industrial complex at taxpayer expense. The medical industrial complex, AMA, doctors, hospitals, and drug companies all pay huge sums to campaign funds to buy politicians.

Hussein Obama plans to write a blank check for universal health care Here

Senatrix Hitllary plans to write a blank check for universal health care Here

John Edwards plans to write a blank check for universal health care Here

Bill Richardson plans to write a blank check for universal health care Here


On the Republican side there is a little less uniformity, some attempts at innovation, and fewer proponents of blank check solutions.

Senator McCain advocates restructuring the medical industrial complex to bring competition into health care. Here

Rudy Giuliani focuses on “insurance” coverage which, again, is simply writing a blank check to the medical industrial complex. He talks about “innovative approaches” but missing is any thought of breaking the AMA monopoly or the pharmaceutical monopoly. Here

Mike Huckabee recites much of the same old saw about improving “insurance” blank check medical care. No improvement there either. Here

Ron Paul talks about making health care more affordable by elimination of government regulation, but has no specific proposals. He also does not mention breaking health care monopolies and monopoly “pay or die” pricing. Here

Fred Thompson talks about innovation lowering costs and reducing regulations to allow competition. No blank check is proposed Here

Mitt Romney is a big city liberal who’s narrow vision focuses on ways to pay the blank checks demanded by the medical industrial complex. Here

Bob’s suggestions
1. We need to break the AMA monopoly on doctor education and licensing. High prices are maintained by limiting the number of doctors and unreasonably extending the difficulty of new doctors in medical schools. End the government sponsored AMA quota system that limits medical school enrollments. Allow medical schools to train as many doctors as they are capable of training.

2. We need to allow some lesser practitioner for lower technical medications. Routine medications should just be available from trained pharmacists. Stitching up cuts and bruises doesn’t need 6 years in medical school. Save the high priced doctors for the highly technical or unusually difficult, non-routine, injuries and illnesses.

3. Surgery should be subject to the same kind of “safe and efficacious” standards that drugs are subject to. Hundreds of thousands of needless or harmful surgeries should just be eliminated, surgeries that do not prolong life or increase quality of life.

4. “Heroic” end of life care should be drastically reduced. One report said that 80% of “health care” is spent in the last 6 months of people’s lives, after which they die. Much of the time the only effect of the “treatment” is to reduce the quality of life during the person’s final few months, and to empty their life savings into the bank accounts of the doctors.

5. Medications should be available on Internet order from the lowest cost provider, whether American or off shore. A month’s supply of pills that costs $0.25 in Africa should be available by Internet order for about a buck plus shipping. The $250, pay or die, pricing of American monopoly pharmacies must be broken. There is no reason to require me to pay another $100 to visit an AMA member for permission to pay $250 for overpriced medicine. I can read the manufacturer’s web site with all the “doctor” information just as fast as the AMA member can. I am the consumer who has to pay. I have a right to buy from the low priced supplier without government standing in my way.

I don't see any of the politicians talking about the real solutions that Bob has proposed. Only John McCain even talks about real reform, but his platform is not very well thought out.