Normally, I don't write journals about political matters.
That isn't what this website is for, and I want people of
every political persuasion to be comfortable here. Of
course, the people of the extreme left and the extreme right
are never comfortable anywhere that every detail of their
ideology isn't served, so they don't count. But certainly,
liberals, moderates and conservatives deserve to be
comfortable. I have not seen any evidence that people
suffering abductions and close encounters are exclusively
limited to any one political ideology, and our
responsibility is to provide a forum that reflects that.
So this journal is really not about the political debate. Of
course, neither side has it right, but that's beside the
point. If we want an efficient, intelligent and generally
acceptable solution to the healthcare conundrum, all we need
to do is to change to a nonprofit system. Not a government
run system or a profit-based system, but rather one that is
simply designed to pay for itself without the added burden
of providing profits for shareholders.
The administrators of such a system would tasked to make
certain that their clients are as healthy as possible in
order to minimize their ongoing costs, and to make the
system as efficient as possible in order to make certain
that it doesn't go into deficit.
You will notice that neither side in the current debate has
brought this obvious solution up. Everybody is bending over
backward to placate Wall Street by keeping the private
health insurance companies alive. The president is giving
lip service to a government-funded option. Of course, it is
true that Medicare works well, but a nonprofit option,
self-reliant and independent of government control, is
obviously the only intelligent choice.
It is, however, non-ideological, so it is irrelevant to both
sides. Too bad.
All of that said, we need a healthcare system that is more
open to the problems of close encounter witnesses. I have
had post-traumatic stress disorder for years, but in order
to get it treated, I would be compelled to lie about its origin.
I will not lie about its origin, and I don't think that any
of us should have to do that. Back in 1986, I was treated
for the rape I experienced with protective antibiotics. The
injuries were not severe enough to warrant surgery, but I
have experienced pain ever since.
I deserve to be treated for this, as does everybody who
suffers with me in silence. To me, no healthcare system has
any legitimacy unless it recognizes the trauma of the close
encounter experience and offers useful help for those of us
have experienced it.
The nonprofit option will never come up because it is
anathema both the the big companies who profit from health
insurance and to the far left, who want a government
program, just on principle. Whatever the outcome, most
Americans will end up in some way ill-served. Conservatives
will see more govern ment debt and control. Liberals will
see more profits taken out of the hide of the sick.
Neither side needs to be ill-served, but both will be. But
even more ill-served will be the millions of us who must
keep our true suffering secret.
