Fusion center report and Universal health care

In response to reports, including one in the Washington Post today, April 2 about "fusion centers", state run intelligence gathering agencies under the never limited powers granted government snooping since 9/11, are comments that such government corruption and exploitation are arguments against expanded government involvement...eg universal health coverage.

While fear, the father of the 9/11 laws and of our reluctance to tackle the corruption and exploitation in our own government, including aspects that affect health services, has and remains a great motivator, its motivation is temporary as the exploitation and corruption expands until we the consumers will finally say no more.

We've seen consumers say no more in the only real way they can right now, by opting out of health insurance coverage that neither helps pay for needed medical care enough to avoid fiscal disaster nor is affordable enough to have at any quality level (premiums are too high for the ever-decreasing coverage). Governmental response has thus far been like the last gasps of Godzilla in some ancient horror movie, a burst of fire directed at the consumers...laws mandating insurance coverage or imposing a penalty, more policies weeding out those pesky sick, old people who "drain" the golden pockets of insurers, and the AMA pushing its support for universal health INSURANCE (not care) "for our health's sake" because it is the current best way to assure some level of payment for physicians.

Still, in response to the details of fusion centers, gathering information and creating dossiers worthy of J. Edgar Hoover, we can read the frightened citizens say, and you want to trust the government with health care?

The answer is yes, but not this government. Arguing against jury trials by parading out those cases that seemed to pervert justice (such as the OJ case), arguing against welfare laws by parading out those who profited by scamming the system, arguing against Medicare because of provider fraud is a weird way of arguing for less government as the obvious solution to bad government.

Jury trials were not allowed in many countries, did this make the trial system more just? From the inquisition to vigilantism, we've seen the horrendous consequences of free market economy justice... Similarly, there were many countries that chose to ignore the poverty and starvation of their citizens...in Africa today, we have governments that overlook the abuse of their citizens either because of their own weakness or their complicity in the profit-earning at the expense of human life. The Irish potato famine was an instance of some watching the demise of many. And Medicare provides us with ongoing horror stories of corruption but such corruption is not exclusively part of government-payer health care...please.

At some point we must fix, modify and in the case of universal health coverage, expand existing laws and programs already in place. Clearly more attention and resources should be put towards oversight...instead of supporting snoopers, cheats and thieves within government. A reallotment of fusion center money to oversight of health services providers and insurers would save more lives and more money than spying on US citizens. And most importantly, government, insurance companies and medical services providers should not continue to reap rewards by cooperating and conspiring with each other for financial benefit at the expense of consumers. Universal health care coverage is not undercut by the fact that our current corrupt government has run wild on citizen rights by exploiting our fear...fear did not create this country and fear will not perpetuate it...accountability, oversight and enforcement of laws with MORE vigilance and stricter consequences for governmental representatives who abuse or misuse their PUBLIC TRUST meaning a shift from fear to courage and a demand for more serious consequences for government representatives than ordinary citizens when they show themselves to be bad cops, bad doctors, or bad government employees instead of endless cover-up, forgiveness, and a free pass.