servides should be “services”
availalable shoule be “available”
inclues should be “includes”
vererans should be “veterans”

An article in NJ CPA Magazine (March-April 2012)with regard to Financial Planning for Veterans and their families by Jaime Campbell, CPA, page 22:

“Medical Insurance: With a wide array of services, including preventative care, emergency care, surgeries, maternity care, mental health servides, and pharmaceutical, the VA medical system may easily save vererans tens of thousands of dollars [a year] versus commercially availalabe medical insurance and services. Many services may bear minimal or no cost. Financial planners should also be aware that the VA medical system inclues nursing homes[!].”

Tens of thousands of dollars a year in savings?
Holy cow! I wonder if CPAs reading that article know this is socialized medicine.
Alert the media!

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/7805-the-empire-holds-its-war-council-in-chicago
by Glen Ford

If anyone has doubts about what it means here at home when the U.S. seeks to militarily dominate the world, take a trip to Chicago, this week. There, you’ll see the Chicago police, the second largest force in the country, reinforced by cops from Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Charlotte, North Carolina, and backed up by two high decibel noise machines that were first used against American civilians in Pittsburgh to blow out the eardrums of protesters, back in 2009. Overall security for the NATO summit meeting is overseen by the FBI and the Secret Service, who in recent months have been given unprecedented police state powers, thanks to President Obama and a bipartisan Congress.

With dignitaries on hand from the more than 50 countries that have done Washington’s bidding in Afghanistan, there will be lots of opportunities for the feds to invoke their new powers to put demonstrators in prison for up to ten years if they set foot on property containing any person under the protection of the Secret Service. That could include huge chunks of the city. And, of course, who knows what kinds of plots the FBI is conjuring up through its squads of agent provocateurs embedded in the ranks of demonstrators. Thanks to the preventive detention without trial legislation signed into law by President Obama this past New Year’s Eve, every American has lost her Constitutional right to due process of law. Which means that a reconfigured and far more principled U.S. anti-war movement now confronts a growing fascist infrastructure here at home, as it opposes imperial crimes, abroad.

The Chicago police claim they don’t plan to turn the eardrum-busting sound cannons on full volume against the demonstrators – just loud enough to convey “messages” to the crowd. The protesters are sending their own message, one that has become far more popular and general than could have been imagined, a year ago. Since the emergence of the Occupy movement, last October, millions of Americans have come to understand what Latin American peasants have always known: that the nexus of war in the world is Wall Street, and the Pentagon is its servant – as is the White House and most of the Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. War is waged for the purpose of global economic subjugation and, therefore, peace can only be won by dethroning the financial bad guys: the Lords of Capital. So, much of the peace movement now sees itself as an expression of the 99 Percent, against the warlike and greedy 1 Percent.

Once that lesson is learned, it cannot be shouted out by police sound-blasters.

President Obama has made skillful use of NATO, to make it appear that he is not a go-it-alone cowboy, like George Bush. Obama has drawn closely to his side the old imperialists of Europe, who looted and pillaged the earth for five hundred years, establishing the planetary racial hierarchy that has only recently begun to crumble. The Black man in the White House is seen, ironically, as the last best hope of the old colonial racial order and the rule of capital. The Global One Percent can only be maintained in power by the U.S. war machine. Ultimately, the world needs only one thing from the American people: that they dismantle the machine.

this article first appeared on Black Agenda Report

Thanks for you comprehensive, well-researched article, Dorothy. Every day there is more and more evidence supporting your point of view. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/04/report-israeli-model-underlies-militarization-of-u-s-police/ The U.S. is sending police to Israel for training by Mossad (they are experts in torture and sexual humiliation of Islamic men — the U.S. used their techniques in Iraq).

Both Dave Lindorff and John Grant are friends of mine – they write on a blog called, “It Can’t Be Happening.” Here’s an article by John, http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1159, entitled, America Loves a Good Killer.

Americans are personality disordered – projecting the evil onto others that they cannot face in themselves.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/14/did-the-white-house-direct-the-police-crackdown-on-occupy/

Thanks for another incisive analysis of the political situation and health care. Your run down of various predictions about SCOTUS’s likely decision is fascinating, but we have to keep in mind that real lives hang in the balance. Expanded and improved Medicare for all is the obvious solution.

What is “adequate”, when will we know when it has been reached, and what will be the incentive to provide it apart from the profit motive?