Medical Admin has died.

[NJCher]

2. what an exceptional person

I hadn't seen this, so I am grateful you brought it to my attention.

We are all the poorer for the loss of this exceptional individual.

What a story. What a life story, for one, and then what he had to go through since the two accidents. The U.S. regulatory system let him down, in every way, which is why he wrote:

I will die soon and the ONLY REASON is that I don’t live in a civilized country.

I think we all seek to find a way to come to terms with such disturbing, awful stories.

This is how I think of it: we're a nation at war, not just in Afghanistan or Iraq (yeah, I know, ostensibly over), but civilly, too. The war is economic and it's against our own citizens. It is the economic system vs. the people. MedicalAdmin points out:

It has been estimated that about 100,000 people die in the USA a year from lack of proper care. That is more people every 2 weeks than died on 9-11. We spent about a trillion in response to that event. So why aren’t we responding to this with the same passion and strength? (bold face mine)

It's always about money, and not even life or death interferes with that goal. This story, which I heard on NPR, illustrates it: LBJ was asked why he didn't get out of Vietnam. Finally, asked one time too many, he said in exasperation, "I can't get out! My friends are making too much money!"


Cher