Today there are 45 million slaves in USA!
By Manuel Luciano da Silva, Medical Doctor
In 1860 there were 4 millions black slaves in the territory of U. S. A. They had no rights, they were not American citizens and they had NO Medical Coverage.
Today we have TEN and HALF TIMES MORE SLAVES in USA who do NOT have Medical Coverage! There are today 45 million Americans without Medical Coverage!
Why? Because of the same reasons that existed for 4 million slaves in 1860. The rich dominated the poor! The big fish always eat the small fish! One hundred and forty years ago the slaves worked on the plantations of cotton and tobacco so that the landowners could be rich. The black slaves then had no rights and no healthy protection.
Today the rich Americans, the medical insurances companies, the pharmacies and the pharmacological manufacturing companies all make tons of money, while 45 millions cannot afford a National Health Service!
With the present economic crisis every one has lost many thousands of dollars in the stock market, while the Medical Insurances Companies have made a PROFIT over one hundred percent! Why? Because they continue to exploit the American people, and all this is legally in this country because of the so call free enterprise!
The companies that are connected with providing medical and healthy services in USA make so much money that they can buy under the table the politicians in Washington and this is the reason why President Obama has a difficult time in having a National Health Service became a Federal Law.
There are more people working for the Medical Insurance Companies in USA than we have men and women in the America Armed Forces. And of course the people that work for the Medical Insurances have a much high salaries. This is the reason why more that FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS are spent, UNNECESSARY, per year in health care in USA. The people of the Medical Insurances Companies NEVER SEE ANY PATIENT, they are ONLY interested in getting the Patient’s money!
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1776, on the Declaration of Independence: “Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness!”
What he meant by LIFE was HEALTH. The American Government has the DUTY, and the RESPONSIBILITY to provide National Health Care for EVERY citizen in this country.
Democracy is EQUALITY for everyone, not just for a few, such as the rich.
The rich do not want to have National Health Care because they foresee that if there is equality in the Medical Services, they will have to GET ON MEDICAL LINES like everybody else, and the rich want to be separated from the common people, they want to be above all other citizens!
The Medical Insurance Companies are the CANCER of the Medical Health Care in this Country. What do we do when Cancer is diagnosed? We extirpate it, we get rid of it. That is what should be done to ALL the Medical Insurances companies in USA. Eliminate them. Pulverized them, for the benefit of the American People.