David Custis Kimball - blog

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
History, Human Affairs, Medicine

Back in the 1960’s when the euphemism ‘heath insurance’ was being offered, my dad, who owned an early Xerox machine, kept each patient’s finances on a card, and would copy the card and send it to the address on the card as the invoice. Some patients didn’t have a lot of money to pay; some payed quickly, and the most risky performance was when a patient’s teenage kids volunteered to ‘roof over’ our home’s shingle roof, and never having done it before, loaded the 100 lb bundles in the middle of a roof span, and proceeded to start the shingles from the top down, insuring that any water would find its way underneath the next shingle. I arrived home from college in 1968 and saw the porch roof bowing about 8 inches in the middle, and could not believe what was going on. Luckily, they had just started and the roof didn’t collapse.

Moral: there is a hazard of relying on the old fashioned way and barter.

But dad wisely noted that with insurance costs would double. You introduce a whole new layer of greed and fear. ‘Get profits while you can, and is my actuarial correct to make the policy so cheap.

For several most of my years, especially as self-employed I didn’t want insurance, or what I call, a ‘medical-industrial welfare system’. ‘Do no harm’ is a secondary consideration when any amount of money can be thrown at a problem. A relative was given the choice with malignant colon polyps to have them removed for $5k and they probably would come back, or $50k and never have the problem… ‘just remove the colon, get a bag, and whoopee. I can’t believe she chose the latter, but $400k later, after they twisted her bowel in the 1st operation and she almost died, the 2nd operation fully incapacitated her and a slow and limited recovery ended her life within 2 yrs. of the operation… from the operation. The insurance picked up the whole tab… thank you so very much.

Another: my son was victimized because we had only ‘emergency insurance’… and they did harm there; I won that lawsuit…but just enough to stop them from bankrupting me, for the harm they did.

Another: My mother, on Vioxx, cleaning up after a social event at home with daughter and husband, suffered a torn aorta.. she was revived, but died the next day. That medicine was to ‘cure’ the pain of arthritis.

There’s more, but it gets really personal.

Here’s the news flash: according to a health bulletin magazine I received it states that ‘stomach lining is replaced every 10 days, liver is replaced every 6 months, joints are replaced every 6 months, skin is replaced every 3 months… you get the point.

Well what makes them? What you eat, duh. So the more preservatives like nitrites in meats which cause leukemia, pesticide residue, selecticide residue, herbicide residue, hormones for animal growth …. all these thing compromise the ability of food to supply healthy replacement components to rebuild from those little DNA, RNA, etc. instruction programs. Many pesticides and other poisons are designed to mimick the building blocks and when they get there, they shut the system reconstruct down…even artificial sugars trigger a sweet receptor but when you need energy…. where’s the sugar then? I call artificial sweetners ‘neurotoxins’.

But we blithely spray our lawns, flowers, and foods with every excelerant of profit possible… or beauty. I don’t and I have a front lawn of now pale purple orchid-like flowers that bees have now just started to return to. This plant is kind of a serial-killer to other plants as like kudzoo, it climbs up over everything and seems to reach down into every flower pot and grow… I love the stuff… and my few honey bees that seem to be returning. Maybe this stuff has a cure for the virus or whatever is killing off honey bees.

I digress… but we have a government that instead of shutting down poison, claims a life necessary molecule CO2 is the evil doer… and hell-bent stupids are trying to ‘sequester’ CO2. All the while chopping down forests, mowing grass, paving greenspace, and eliminating the feedback loop which is photosynthesis for controlling CO2. All the while letting the poison manufacturers off the hook, or even encouraging them. Well I guess those political campaign funds are going to be kept full… because both sides don’t want to solve the problem, they just want to defeat each other. If the answer is 2, then one side says ‘ZERO’ and the other side says ‘FOUR’. And not just on the chemical feast of the golf course greenery.

I vote no.