"Rise up and walk."

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton predicted that Barack Obama would prevail in his bid to win passage of his health-care initiative and that some Republican senators likely would support the legislation.

Remember that guy who ran on "change?" So let's see. We have half of the Clinton Administration in office(s). We're about to get their idea of healthcare reform crammed down our throats because you will be fined if you don't get it (that's really a change for the better). The Medicare system is broke and broken so let's just add another 775 billion to the national debt.

The Washington answer is any change is better than nothing. Where do these people come from? Folks, anytime Big Pharma supports Washington, you better put your hands on your derriere and protect your sphyncter muscle.

The answer is stop fee for service healthcare. How many people have come to me and said "The doctors ran every conceivable test and everything was normal?" That's because fee for service encourages over testing.

Ever notice, if you google a disease, every single one is "incurable?" What do these people study in med' school?

Cuba exports more doctors to third world countries than any other nation! Hmmmm.

Another answer to healthcare is stop selling poison to everyone. The Hippocratic oath used to read "I will give no poison." It also used to say "I will perform no abortions."

They can't say that anymore. St. Thomas Aquinas was walking with one of his students through the splendor of Renaissance Rome and commented to Aquinas "We can no longer say 'Gold and silver have I none.'"

St. Thomas then responded "Yes, and we can no longer say 'Rise up and walk.'"

We have become Rome and if we don't do something fast...I mean FAST, we are in deep do do. Doctors need to become diagnosticians again and not pill pushers. The government needs to enact changes in how our foods are processed and sold. The FDA needs to become what it was intended to be and not a front for the drug companies.

Anyone remember thalidamide? Remember the children born without limbs? President Kennedy was enraged and made substantial changes to the FDA (which were promptly undermined).

Until we get rid of every single one of these profiteers who call themselves our representatives, we will continue to get exactly what we deserve...the best government money can buy.

I mean vote everyone of them out of office and do it FAST. We need to make changes. NOT their idea of change, but ours. If we don't do it, we will never "rise up and walk." We will forever be on our knees wondering what happened to the Republic that was these United States.