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  2. Created By
    Bruce Allen
    null, IL

If claiming the air we breath in the name of corporate profits and economic growth were at all possible, believe me, a small group of men on a board of directors somewhere would have made it so.

Since the right to breath air has not been taken away from us, or the right to use a pen or a keyboard, we can state the obvious here for all to see.

That in fact:

All people have the right to exist, and being that existence depends on "health", All people have the right to health. And being that health is dependent on other livelihood fundamentals such as a home, heat and food, no entity can force people to substitute one for the other by whatever legal means.

Unless it is otherwise collectively agreed upon that, only certain people with material, inherited or other means have the right to exist, then corporate America stands indefinitely both corrected and shamed.

This petition is for the immediate stomping of all such ill practices in the area of health and medicine that violate and deprive human beings from their natural born right to exist. These include, but are not limited to:

Sales of medicines deemed to be necessary for the existence of a human being, being sold for more than 10 times the cost of manufacturing. Corporations must show legitimate proof to the public on television why they might need to charge more than this. If no legitimate proof is shown within a certain time frame, the above rule goes into effect.

Hospital costs being broken down. Cost's that exceed normal services must be explained to and approved by the public, not special interests. Prices on Equipment and supplies sold to hospitals must be approved and justified by the public. eg. Why a piece of electronic equipment for hospitals costs 10 times more than the same piece of electronic equipment I have in my home.

Malpractice law rewritten so that a doctor may be punished in ways other than exorbitant financial fleecing by the patient with often no real result other than the patient using the opportunity to receive money he or she never worked for, and often didn't deserve. In turn the doctor pays less for malpractice insurance, pushing the savings on to the patient.

All of these elements go into the "health" equation, therefore a humans right to exist outweighs any other non-empirical excuse or explanation to cause widespread poverty and struggle to the public corporate America might have in response.

The will of the public is not to be underestimated or ignored.

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Dear Representative,

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> The question has been lingering and now festers after years of apathetic complacency, Why is health care so expensive?

To understand this question does not require an economics degree from an expensive college or lots of possessions. It is difficult to sort through all the opinion and get down to the reason mainly because so many people have built their profits and in a way, their rich lifestyles on this highly broken system.

The elements that make up the health industry must be looked at closely. It only takes the fleecing of one element within the system to cause the whole thing to fail, or close to it. The hospitals overpaying for electronic devices they need to keep people alive get passed on down to the patient in the form of bills that cost more than what the patient makes in a year. The fleecing of malpractice law by deranged patients looking to get something for nothing, causing doctors to charge more. Cause and effect.

For certain elements the cause is obvious as in the case of pharmaceuticals. Human history is filled with tyrants. First in the form of conqueror&#39;s, then kings and queens, and in the modern age, corporations. The law system in the U.S. should not be designed so that corporations can charge whatever they so please in a way that deprives human beings of their livelihood. There is no excuse for this.

The question ultimately comes down to this:

Who will have the courage to tell the individuals making a rich and spoiled lifestyle for them and their family off of the destitution of the American working class, that they are indeed not going to be able to do it anymore? Who will be the one to
identify the truthful causes of this broken system?

Will it be you?

Regards,

[Your name]