The fiasco over "health care," which should be called "sick care" is an amazing case of bad focus or problem definition by our Congress if what we hear of their solution is correct.
Speaker of the House Ryan is working hard for what can only be called "ObamaCare Lite." Like the beers after which it is named, it is "Love in a canoe," alluding to a more earthy phrase, does not solve the problem in any case.
"Health Care" is a misnomer. It is sick care you seek when you are ill. My good friend, William Doran Canon, creator and screen writer of "Mad, Mad, Mad World" a great hit in 1966, was a classic hypochondriac who frequently said to me, "I don't understand you! You're never sick!" Try as I would I could never convice Bill the human body is a self-healing mechanism and you need only wait and respond to it.
One day while in a grocery store in Santa Monica I saw a huge bin of turnips. They just looked wonderful to me. I immediately put six in bag and checked out biting into one in the car! I ate another an hour later and they were all gone the next day! There was something in those turnips my body wanted. I ran with it! It is just that simple.
Bill could not be in a town two hours without having found an internist and a psychiatrist, "Just in case..." He knew Mel Brooks well and I am sure was the inspiration for the "High Anxiety" script.
Bill died at age 65 on his sailboat in Santa Barbara harbor after having collapsed, I suspect from one of his medications, hit the back of his head. His widow told me she filled three bushel baskets with his pill bottles. I would have listed his cause of death, "Doctors" were I the presiding physician. Their mistakes are the second leading cause of death in the United States. We can only imagine the cost of Bill's pills, but the Writers Guild has a lavish insurance plan. Bill was not unique. Studies show America is on a pill kick and we have been utterly oversold on the efficacy of the medical profession.
Doctors practice within the severe constraints of medical practice and it takes years, if not decades, for improvements to get into their literature and finally hands. We know the development of new medications has a history of many accidents, both in ways of finding and overlooking compounds that could be helpful if not effective.
The popular picture of scientists in jungles seeking unique plants is a fable. What they really do is talk to natives who try chewing on leaves, making teas from barks, compounding poultices and through alchemistic procedures trying them on people immediately! After money or goods change hands these potions are brought home for analysis and the mistakes begin!
One flaw designed into the process is that of "isolating the active substance." Manufacturing and photographic chemists know well chemical reactions benefit from the presence of other compounds. They facilitate reactions, but are not obvious as they are reconstituted in the process. They are catalysts.
Water molecules facilitate all reactions happening in solutions by forming intermediary compounds in a series of steps. Even the simplest reaction may have 15 steps to completion and not the one neat expression we teach. In school you get an inkling of this in Physical Chemistry: A course guaranteed to give you at least one headache every day.
This is demonstrated by "clock" reactions where two solutions are mixed and in a certain number of seconds, depending on concentrations of components, the solution goes from clear water to a deeply colored, ink-like solution in a blink. The time interval can be seconds to months. The reaction for the setting of pavement asphalt takes four months, for example. Concrete is similar so buildings and bridges are not loaded for periods of time depending on the cement engineers formulate for timed curing.
Like much else in physical science, reactions are not the simple expressions we write on chalkboards. They have many tiny steps very like walking down a staircase. We do not leap from upstairs to downstairs and this is the reason mathematical models don't work as long molecular reaction pathways may wander.
Mathematical equations are abbreviations of reality, but where each step happens in 1/5,000,000th second, the molecular collision rate, that is invisible to us, but there are ways of halting them or exposing the steps. It is all tedious, time and money consuming research, but should be done as much will be learned that will be useful.
The point is that we have much wasted, misappropriated money and talent in "climate change," "Man In Space" and weapons research such that we can say responsibly we have been badly led by people with personal agendas that have done great harm to many millions of people.
There is a "natural" business cycle that correlates with our Senatorial term and elections. This is a clue to what is really running, and ruining, America, the elected ruling class.
Suppose you are in the US Senate and on the Foreign Relations Committee considering the tariff on Japanese motorcycles. A man calls one of your deputies offering to put $1 million in a Credit Suisse number account for your man in return for a vote eliminating that tariff. In day or two it is done and the Senators man confirms by moving the funds to the Senator's number account in the Panamanian branch of the Bank of Santander.
The only problem with this is that the Senator cannot spend much money without attracting attention, but once out of office he can as he is out of the spotlight and "Who cares?" Meanwhile he realizes his ill-gotten gains would go much farther if he and his friends can engineer an economic downturn permitting them to buy assets "on the cheap," then, ride them to great profits in the rebound which is again controlled by his striped pants buddies.
Where our economy is largely in these people's hands this is an opportunity we suspect they have taken as the dips always seem to correlate with Senatorial elections. Japanese motorcycles come in with no tariff while ours going to Japan suffer a 100% protective tariff.
All of this can be uncovered by investigation and that is why the people of Washington, DC are so upset. Many of them are in the games and the most recent of them is called "Health Care."
Adrian Vance
Speaker of the House Ryan is working hard for what can only be called "ObamaCare Lite." Like the beers after which it is named, it is "Love in a canoe," alluding to a more earthy phrase, does not solve the problem in any case.
"Health Care" is a misnomer. It is sick care you seek when you are ill. My good friend, William Doran Canon, creator and screen writer of "Mad, Mad, Mad World" a great hit in 1966, was a classic hypochondriac who frequently said to me, "I don't understand you! You're never sick!" Try as I would I could never convice Bill the human body is a self-healing mechanism and you need only wait and respond to it.
One day while in a grocery store in Santa Monica I saw a huge bin of turnips. They just looked wonderful to me. I immediately put six in bag and checked out biting into one in the car! I ate another an hour later and they were all gone the next day! There was something in those turnips my body wanted. I ran with it! It is just that simple.
Bill could not be in a town two hours without having found an internist and a psychiatrist, "Just in case..." He knew Mel Brooks well and I am sure was the inspiration for the "High Anxiety" script.
Bill died at age 65 on his sailboat in Santa Barbara harbor after having collapsed, I suspect from one of his medications, hit the back of his head. His widow told me she filled three bushel baskets with his pill bottles. I would have listed his cause of death, "Doctors" were I the presiding physician. Their mistakes are the second leading cause of death in the United States. We can only imagine the cost of Bill's pills, but the Writers Guild has a lavish insurance plan. Bill was not unique. Studies show America is on a pill kick and we have been utterly oversold on the efficacy of the medical profession.
Doctors practice within the severe constraints of medical practice and it takes years, if not decades, for improvements to get into their literature and finally hands. We know the development of new medications has a history of many accidents, both in ways of finding and overlooking compounds that could be helpful if not effective.
The popular picture of scientists in jungles seeking unique plants is a fable. What they really do is talk to natives who try chewing on leaves, making teas from barks, compounding poultices and through alchemistic procedures trying them on people immediately! After money or goods change hands these potions are brought home for analysis and the mistakes begin!
One flaw designed into the process is that of "isolating the active substance." Manufacturing and photographic chemists know well chemical reactions benefit from the presence of other compounds. They facilitate reactions, but are not obvious as they are reconstituted in the process. They are catalysts.
Water molecules facilitate all reactions happening in solutions by forming intermediary compounds in a series of steps. Even the simplest reaction may have 15 steps to completion and not the one neat expression we teach. In school you get an inkling of this in Physical Chemistry: A course guaranteed to give you at least one headache every day.
This is demonstrated by "clock" reactions where two solutions are mixed and in a certain number of seconds, depending on concentrations of components, the solution goes from clear water to a deeply colored, ink-like solution in a blink. The time interval can be seconds to months. The reaction for the setting of pavement asphalt takes four months, for example. Concrete is similar so buildings and bridges are not loaded for periods of time depending on the cement engineers formulate for timed curing.
Like much else in physical science, reactions are not the simple expressions we write on chalkboards. They have many tiny steps very like walking down a staircase. We do not leap from upstairs to downstairs and this is the reason mathematical models don't work as long molecular reaction pathways may wander.
Mathematical equations are abbreviations of reality, but where each step happens in 1/5,000,000th second, the molecular collision rate, that is invisible to us, but there are ways of halting them or exposing the steps. It is all tedious, time and money consuming research, but should be done as much will be learned that will be useful.
The point is that we have much wasted, misappropriated money and talent in "climate change," "Man In Space" and weapons research such that we can say responsibly we have been badly led by people with personal agendas that have done great harm to many millions of people.
There is a "natural" business cycle that correlates with our Senatorial term and elections. This is a clue to what is really running, and ruining, America, the elected ruling class.
Suppose you are in the US Senate and on the Foreign Relations Committee considering the tariff on Japanese motorcycles. A man calls one of your deputies offering to put $1 million in a Credit Suisse number account for your man in return for a vote eliminating that tariff. In day or two it is done and the Senators man confirms by moving the funds to the Senator's number account in the Panamanian branch of the Bank of Santander.
The only problem with this is that the Senator cannot spend much money without attracting attention, but once out of office he can as he is out of the spotlight and "Who cares?" Meanwhile he realizes his ill-gotten gains would go much farther if he and his friends can engineer an economic downturn permitting them to buy assets "on the cheap," then, ride them to great profits in the rebound which is again controlled by his striped pants buddies.
Where our economy is largely in these people's hands this is an opportunity we suspect they have taken as the dips always seem to correlate with Senatorial elections. Japanese motorcycles come in with no tariff while ours going to Japan suffer a 100% protective tariff.
All of this can be uncovered by investigation and that is why the people of Washington, DC are so upset. Many of them are in the games and the most recent of them is called "Health Care."
Adrian Vance
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