Because we live in a capitalist country we have this glaring issue with the absense of healthcare access by tens of millions of people. This is sort of the tip of an iceberg that also includes disaster preparedness.
As people have been shorn off the insured for healthcare rolls, the country's ability to provide proper medical attention in the event on a huge disaster is severely limited.
So much so that In a Massive Disaster, Care Will Be Scarce: State Guidelines Lay Framework for Deliberately Letting Some People Die.
That's right. Make the jump.
Older, sicker patients could be allowed to die in order to save the lives of patients more likely to survive a massive disaster, bioterror attack or influenza pandemic in California.
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The new "surge capacity guidelines" released by the state Department of Public Health, depict a post-disaster health care environment that looks and feels nothing like the system most Californians depend on.
It provides for scenarios in which patients could be herded into school gymnasiums for life-saving care or animal doctors could stitch up the human wounded and set their broken bones.
Just like in New Orleans. The addition of letting veternarians treat folks is new. Doubtlessly they will be steered to the non-white and poor.
This following part really disturbs me - it hands the insurance compaines, and the Government they partly own, what they have always wanted - the ability to ignore any and all of our rights.
The plan lists, for example, which responsibilities and patient protections can be waived if the governor declares a state of emergency.
Hospitals will not have to report births, deaths, infectious disease outbreaks, medication errors, and suspected child or elder abuse. Existing rules that protect patients' privacy also can be tossed out.
This opens up some avenues for some very heinous behavior, like letting minorities die, overlooking what will be rampant police abuses of the people (physical abuse) and generally being able to eliminate unwanted people under the guise of "emergency".
This "disaster plan" is another aspect of this: a fascist agenda nearing completion.
This business owner says he attended a small InfraGard meeting where agents of the FBI and Homeland Security discussed in astonishing detail what InfraGard members may be called upon to do.
"The meeting started off innocuously enough, with the speakers talking about corporate espionage," he says. "From there, it just progressed. All of a sudden we were knee deep in what was expected of us when martial law is declared. We were expected to share all our resources, but in return we’d be given specific benefits." These included, he says, the ability to travel in restricted areas and to get people out.
But that’s not all.
"Then they said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted," he says.
The powers-that-be, and all those who profit from cooperating with them, have plans to use some huge disaster as a large-scale coup, disguised as "disaster planning"
Many people will suffer so that a handful - wealthy and white - can get the proper care and the available resources.
Everybody else will see a veterinarian, be herded into stadiums and/or allowed to die.
It's the Katrina Model and it worked in New Orleans.
Now it's part of California's disaster plan and "hailed" as a model for the rest of the country.
This is simply unacceptable.