Face Triggers:

We need to face our red flags, and see the private health insurance industry for what it really is: a business that seeks to make a profit from healthy people who don't need it very often.

These corporations just keep striving to reduce coverage for "pre-conditions", and they lobby against legislation to extend national coverage to the sick, poor, and elderly.

Some hospitals are red flags, because they are corporations who profit from becoming more specialized, bureaucratized, mechanized, and computerized.

Then there are the doctors who become red flags. Some embrace their dark secret of unlimited income, rather than remembering their oath to do no harm to those who suffer and need relief from pain.

Our government is a red flag because for too long it has submitted to the will of medical lobbyists, insurance corporations, and pharmaceutical companies.

Why can't government be more sensitive to the needs of a majority of Americans buckling under the strain of our health care crisis?

Face Feelings:

Possibly, the healthcare industry and our own federal government are simply too fearful to try new approaches to reform and change.

I assume they don't want to lose money, power, or influence. It makes me angry to sense they refuse to face their own dark secrets.

They claim a national health care system would decrease the quality of health care by taking away the profit motive. Of course, they avoid facing the fact that the profit motive is precisely the cause of our health care crisis.

It is sad to think that CEO's of these corporations are making six figure incomes off the suffering of more than 47 million Americans who don't have any health care coverage. How do you really feel about that?

And why do our political and business leaders seem so reluctant to look at the pros and cons of national health systems in Canada, the Netherlands, England, Germany and other European nations?