We are largely on the same page, albeit coming at most of the issues from a VERY different perspective and life experience (I lost the ability to have children at the age of 36,-children who I very much wanted, and for years hoped to find the right situation, including with the right man, to have, --lost to the cruelty and miseducation that is much of our medical and economic system at this point in this country’s history).
You and I being in agreement here and now, for the most part, though, is not just good, but “great,” insofar as the two of us, together, having quite a bit more than just 1+1 to offer this central government…and everyone else…as to where U.S. policy needs to go to get back to being about the “right” to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (can you hear it?–those millions of thoughts and quiet voices agreeing with every powerful point you or I make about what has gone terribly wrong in this country, and why, because of a “wealth-ist” political system that has absconded with the money that should be paying the actual providers of hands-on medical care and early human life “support,” as well as the real researchers and scientists who provide new modalities and clarity on what can be done, and also what should Not be done in matters of health, we are instead on the brink of all-out civil war. And though it’s almost never acknowledged, that politico-economic system has been doing all this evil while, at the same time, attempting to crush the love that is the underpinning of any healthy society…and that political system’s worst enemy at this point in U.S. history…)
I needed to go there first, my friend, because I am compelled to be the bearer of bad tidings in having to make the very strong point, your reply brings up another HUGE lie that’s been being fed to the American public–ALL of US,-including you–that happens to be at the heart of my advocacy (your X posts are powerful, hope to have some focused exchanges with you on those, at some point).
You state, “Women already have access to free healthcare (Medi-caid) or regular insurance. We are no longer denied because of pre-existing conditions.” This, my friend, is categorically untrue. My “pre-existing” condition was an economic one (ACA doesn’t cover those, nor any other legislation, because this government does not admit this is happening all the time, including to people who have “insurance”). I know about this untruth, because I should be the painful (as in years of ‘to the point of considering suicide’ painful) poster child for this ugly, American untruth. The much invoked “safety net” which Medicaid and now the Affordable Care Act supposedly “handled” is just yet another POLITICAL lie trying to cover the fact this central government has failed to provide equitable acce$$ to high quality healthcare services (including meds) to ALL Americans, unlike what every other modern, wealthy (not in constant political civil war) nation does for their people.
The short version, in my case, was that because I had been managing desperately to keep on WORKING (on legs that doctors would later wonder how I could walk on at all), in my medical professional job that required quite a bit of movement, agility, and strength to do, I did not qualify for Medicaid (under my state’s system–another problematic area–federal program and money but states make the specific rules–should sound familiar b/c of what they’re trying to do with abortion, now. I may have qualified in CA–why you don’t know as much as you are led to believe you do about healthcare services offered to less-wealthy, including working, people, all over the country.). And, because of felony theft and fraud crimes committed against me by Capital One and Bank of America (the kind of felony theft crime that happens every three seconds every day, all year, year after year in the USA while federal law enforcement does absolutely nothing about it), in conspiracy with the Small Business Administration of the U.S. federal government (and their accomplices, the other “bailed-out” federal loan shark banks, and the should-be-illegal, so-called credit reporting bureaus), along with the lazy, delinquent, and “wealth-ist” U.S. tax code,-because of all these things and their financial rape of me, in part BECAUSE I am a woman,–one who was running her own small business (there are many definitions of rape) I DID NOT QUALIFY for reduced rate health insurance under the ACA because my income was too LOW ( I have shown a LOSS in excess of over $100,000 on my US individual tax return every year since 2010–completely legal, prepared by a CPA, and completely nuts-, and am likely to do so for the rest of my life–something called a “carry-over loss” designed to allow wealthy people such as Donald Trump, or Kamala Harris, or Joe Biden, or way too many members of Congress OR all of their BIG donors to buy failed and bankrupt smaller businesses (or houses in foreclosure due to bad, Big bank loans, e.g. sub-prime mortgages, etc.) on the government’s, i.e. the other taxpayers’ dime, by taking the loss off the wealthy person’s tax returns, so they can then turn a profit in future years by “restructuring” what is left of the destroyed business (or turn the private home into a rental unit–that the foreclosed-on previous owner could never afford-- to pay the already-wealthy new owner on into the future).
Anyhow, I went on working as a licensed medical doctor (of a different kind), in agony, for almost a decade before, close to death, I was declared permanently disabled, and because of my age (60), was put on Medicare a little early. It was as I sat on a bed, non-weight-bearing on my left leg, recovering from a complete foot and ankle reconstruction (11 procedures through nine incisions during 5 hours in the OR–the first of five major orthopedic procedures and four joint replacements), that I started to study this country’s overall healthcare system in greater depth than just my own extensive, and questionable experience, e.g. sick with chronic respiratory disease, asthma, allergies and complications throughout my childhood; twice now-most recently in 2014–having declined medical treatment for suspected cancer my own education and background told me I likely did not have. My studying inevitably brought me to the abortion issue as you well know would happen to anyone who undertook such a search.
I’d certainly done my own million miles of thought on abortion already (as you have seen, above)–I was 15 years old in the year Roe was handed down–but with the advent of the internet and social media (FB being the only one where I’ve felt compelled to make the effort to become somewhat proficient), and able to do nothing but rest and heal, I was appalled, frankly, to discover how much misinformation and vitriol was out there, especially among younger, child-bearing age women, but in reality among everyone, period, because, if you look at it long enough, it inevitably tracks back to money and American wealth-ism’s misuse of it to ALWAYS insure the wealthiest (a handful of people) keep getting richer at the expense of everyone else’s life Redirecting.... …especially now, the lives of more than 60,000,000-sixty million never allowed to be born, children…many of them conceived, not because of love, but because of money, and the expectation by this society that women should be offering sex to men to have access to enough money to live a modest modern American life, because we sure aren’t going to pay women, or these days anyone, male or female, in much of the middle class and downward, enough to live independently.
So, it was as I sat there in 2019, having been denied ever having my own children, and also denied, by a criminal federal money system, ever being able to adopt a child (I’ve fantasized about being able to take in, perhaps, sibling teenagers stuck in foster care who need and want a permanent home) that I started to ask myself, OK, how can we do this as a country? How should we be paying for medical care as we’re slaughtering thousands upon thousands of healthy, very young children every year, in secret, with seeming indifference, and to be forgotten (though not really, or ever, in each individual case) because, one way or another, her or his mother/parents feel like they cannot AFFORD to let them live, and we are an incomprehensible $35,000,000,000,000+ -35 trillion- dollars in debt, more than $100,000 for every man woman and child, as a country.
Of course the ever-increasing 2020 political rhetoric was on my television constantly, as it ALWAYS is in America. And that’s when I said, “that’s how.” Let the people who have created this abomination of hate, pain, death, and disaster, PAY for not only fixing what can be fixed, but for making and keeping it better, always, ever after. And I wrote the People’s Mandate People's Mandate Healthcare for All Americans https://www.facebook.com/100036084640155/
-Yes, this country has become [more] anti-women (anti women being whole adult female human beings who think, and work, and feel, and have ideas and goals, not just Hollywood, porn’s, and “fashion”'s, bo-toxed, carved up, pumped full, plasticized caricatures of a supposed fantasy common to ALL men (but not really–though any man denying it will pay dearly, one way or another, sooner or later). But I ask you to recognize this is a wealth-ist position that encompasses both parties.
-we need a LOT more things fixed in our profit-driven (<<that being No.1) medical system than just the deplorable way we treat working women who become mothers, though I fully endorse the thought and sentiment behind your advocacy, I take issue with the idea we can just provide social services Congress decides to offer without being financially responsible, for all 35 trillion and more reasons as I note above, in how we do it. To not do so, is to sentence those children who are allowed to survive, to working in debt slavery for the rest of their lives.
-Education. Applause to all of your thoughts, but as you may imagine, I have dozens of concerns I would like to add-in and have addressed along with yours (that go all the way through to graduate school–hope you’re up for more posts!). For purposes here, I believe the People’s Mandate, when enacted, should be taught about in schools beginning in kindergarten, to have children appreciate the importance of providing for medical/child care when needed, as a society, so we never get back to where we are now, again. *Under the PMHfAA those five-year-olds will have their own Health Savings Accounts (managed somewhat by their parents at that age) which was provided to them by a deposit made into it every year since they were born by our political system and the excess profits of our most successful businesses (which are even more successful because they are no longer charged with buying health insurance for their employees) The kinderkid’s HSA, every one of them having the same amount of money being put into it, every year, the day before Thanksgiving, can be the main talking point to these lessons which are then expanded to explain the responsibility that goes along with being given this money to help protect their health as the kids move on through school.
-And lastly, it does not matter who wins this election, or any election. What you and I are talking about needs to be enacted now, with or without White House support. RFK, Jr., in my opinion, is the right man, perhaps the only man in this current generation, who can spearhead seeing it gets done.