Bananas for sale in San Salvador
Some say that the Health Care bill set to be passed tonight by the U.S. House of Representatives is historical. To that I say ‘Bananas’. From what I can gather the Health Care Bill being passed in Congress is not historic but neither is it as disastrous at some critics make it to be. It turns out that the bill emerging from the congress is almost identical to one written by insurance companies in 2009. It certainly is not universal health care or universal health insurance which most of the world enjoys. Check out this Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill.
On the other hand what I have heard about bananas is that they truly have healing powers. They provide an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Also they can help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions like depression, anemia, constipation, hangovers, heartburn, ulcers, Seasonal Affective Disorder and many others. A talk a professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class about the origin of the phrase “going bananas” describes all the many benefits.
Many countries from a poor country like El Salvador to rich countries like Canada or France to populous countries like India enjoy some form of universal health care. Health care is a right paid for by everyone in the country, not a privilege. We can only hope this bill being voted on is a step toward a form of universal health care coverage for all.
Bananas, on the other hand are a universal healthy food. On our pilgrimage of peace to India, to my recent trip to El Salvador, bananas are plentiful. At the Natural Cure Health Center where we stayed in India bananas were provided to each guest room. The difference of bananas available is one of color. I noticed that the bananas for eating in El Salvador and India were what we would call ripe, ready for banana bread, in the U.S.A. We like our bananas yellow, not yellow with black spots.
Recently I faced a health care dilemma that neither the new, about-to-be health care bill nor bananas can solve. I have had the same personal doctor for the last 15 years through different types of health insurance my wife and I had. However, now without changing health insurance companies my doctor is suddenly not covered by our health insurance. It seems like the type of health insurance, now called POS plan, has changed and my doctor’s network is covered but not him personally. I found this fact hard to believe but after checking with our insurance company and my doctor’s office this seems to be true. He is not on the approved ‘list.’
Where is this historical health care bill or bananas when you need it?
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