"At this point, you need to get serious about explaining our plan to your readers, so I am bowing out for now so you can do that on your own."
"Yes, Lord, thank You."
MEDICAL PLAN FOR A HEALTHY/WEALTHY AMERICA. This plan covers those under-employed or unemployed, or in any way not covered by comprehensive health insurance plans of their employers.
In this plan, All American citizens whether they pay Income taxes or not will be issued, The Income Status Card*, (just as they receive a Social Security Card) by the government, stating their income level or lack thereof. The Income Status Card* shall be the basis of any charges for healthcare. Whenever anyone uninsured needs medical care, they shall make an appointment and present to doctors, hospitals, clinics, dentists, psychiatrists, pharmacies and all other health care facilities, The Income Status Card*. If their income changes to move them out of their previous range the Alphanumeric, Income Status Card* will be updated or replaced.
Then, by and through, The Income Status Card*, they shall be charged or not charged. Tentatively, those making under $50,000 a year income pay nothing. Those making more than that, in escalating increments, according to income, shall pay more. On the other hand, they can all be treated freely, depending upon the balanced budget of funding. This card would offer comprehensive health care cost coverage to those with no insurance and temporary (until the rest of the bill is operational) to those underinsured, lacking Major medical or catastrophic Insurance coverage.
The plan can be implemented in one of two ways. 1)-No one, regardless of income, will pay anything but a moderate surcharge and the poorest will pay nothing. Or 2)-Everyone will be charged on a sliding scale according to their income level excluding those under a certain income level. (More details below under funding sources). Treating non-Citizens is optional. If they are to be treated, a trust by donors can be designed for them and funding discussed. *The Income Status Card This Card will be supported by new funding sources, which cost citizens of America NOTHING. These sources will be defined below.
RATIONALE AND FUNDING SOURCES FUNDING Funding will, in the main, be derived from taxes upon Corporations which pay the lowest average salaries and benefits, those which outsource jobs overseas or off-shore, to fund the HEALTHY/WEALTHY AMERICA PLAN, however, there will be other sources defined herein, as well. These funds will make up one of the several sources of income needed for this enterprise. The incentives for tax savings will inspire more growth in a brotherhood of profitless healthcare in America. It does no good to create a healthcare plan that utilizes one of the sources of middleman profit and interference in the medical strategies of the Status Quo Paradigm. Therefore, the first order of business is to reject profiteering insurance companies from participating in the plan.
Our first responsibilities of true business is taking care of our citizens and rescinding the effects of corporate greed, as so excellently highlighted by the corruption displayed in insurance companies which seem more interested in creatively constructing ways and means of avoidance of honoring as many claims as possible.
Moreover, outside of insurance company meddling and profiteering the "private sector" no-bid contracting in Iraq and in the wake of Katrina, has gone to great lengths to rob our citizens of health, dignity and life. The $5.6 Trillion Surplus left by the Clinton Administration, plus the nearly $1 billion wasted in a phony war have all been thrown away on the wealthy, creating for them and the dank administration the opportunity to pass on much of that money in the form of campaign contributions for another cycle of the same avarice and mass murder.
FROM WHENCE SHALL THE FUNDING COME AND HOW? Companies, which pay all employees the highest wages, benefits and pensions, will make the lesser contributions to the general HEALTHY/WEALTHY AMERICA PLAN and Healthcare taxation for those unemployed or underemployed. (Which, by the way must be placed in an invulnerable trust, escrow, against which NO ENTITY MAY EVER BORROW)? Such companies shall be in favored status and will likewise receive generous tax incentives for their higher salaries and benefits packages. This shall be the incentive for other corporations to follow suit. The present ideological philosophy of greed and death encourages avarice, selfishness and cruelty.
To successfully create a revolutionary a health care plan, as the HEALTHY/WEALTHY AMERICA PLAN we can at the same time defeat, it's opponents, not cooperate with them. The opponents to such a plan are fascistic corporations and politicians. This plan, creates a revolutionary approach to health care and all other necessities of life by taking the profiteers out of it and outlawing their participation
One of the sources of poverty is corporate compensation to executives of most corporations in the USA. Before and directly following WWII, the average CEO made approximately 25 times the average compensation package of all his corporations' employees. In many successful companies in Europe, that formula still holds true. Today in America, CEO compensation packages are approximately 400-550 times the average compensation package of all employees. Recently a CEO was given a $270,000,000 compensation package and not long ago a CEO of a Stock Market was given an $187,000,000 retirement package. To my mind, such ludicrous compensation packages are nothing short of piracy on land. When the very few have such power to raid corporate treasuries, they reduce or eliminate the cash available to the greater number of employees not only of that corporation but the shareholders as well. Why, because Boards of Directors are often rewarded for supporting such outright culpable behavior.
In addition, allowing so much slack/slush in corporate treasuries in criminal enables greater avarice and destroys the economy by creating unhealthy economic gaps between workers and executives. Moreover, with such loose use of publicly financed funds, are created questionable sums to fascist politicians as campaign contributions. This must also stop. It is the service of stealing from taxpayers, shareholders and the government, as well as reducing the wealth available to employees and therefore the greater good
For those reasons and more, Executive compensation packages, now rip away from the larger number of people great chunks of cash, just as greedy animals and sharks, rip away chunks of flesh-THAT MUST END, NOW. We hear much from the fascists about how we are a "Christian Nation," but we see little evidence of the practice of those preachments.
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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