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<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nIt’s true that the health care debate has been interesting to the degree that it’s flushed out some startling viewpoints and has sparked some conversation, but the main thing it reveals is this.<\/p>\n
If the government does anything except militarize, and particularly if it helps people or strives to, there is a faction that’s going to scream about socialism. And since the government has, for the past year, spent somewhere around a trillion dollars buying\/bailing out banks and automotive companies, this is a ridiculous assertion; it reveals a selfish streak so deep the only way out of it would be for a person to actually need government assistance and finally put the argument down; and it betrays a deeper addiction to perpetual warfare and paranoia.<\/p>\n
This is not just getting boring, it’s been boring for a long time. I am being polite in my choice of this word.<\/p>\n
An interesting health care debate would include a discussion about how complimentary care prevents disease for a fraction the cost of “curing” it; it would include something about nutrition and its role in health; it would include a conversation about how we might reduce some of the stress we are under, not just so we might live better (naughty, in a puritanical society) but how we might reduce the stress on the health care system that comes from how we abuse our bodies and our minds.<\/p>\n
The fact that so many people spend so much money out of pocket on complimentary care — at the acupuncturist, the massage therapist, the herbalist, and so on, is not coming up anywhere I’ve seen. This, because it’s not scientifically established, because a massage therapist can’t reattach someone’s head, or because the pharmaceuticals don’t profit at all from massage therapy? This is really a conversation about who profits and how much, and I think we need to call it that. It’s not, at this point, a conversation about what is actually good for us. For a reference point, have a look at a film called Who Killed the Electric Car?<\/em><\/p>\n
As for the Pisces factor: we’ve lived with Uranus in Pisces for about six years, but I’m going to propose that we really don’t understand this influence. This is because Pisces is so difficult to discern even on a clear day. Its nature is not just twofold but manifold. (Most of the signs are dualistic, starting with the dilemma-styled horns of Aries and Taurus; moving onto the twins of Gemini; and the yin-yang of Cancer.) We seem to have this thing about dualism and we get nervous when it seems to founder. One example is the way that the intersex issue has come to the surface during Uranus in Pisces. We have gone from the perception of two nifty genders to perceiving a spectrum of possibilities and options.<\/p>\n
We don’t know what the Uranus in Pisces side of the equation represents, but I would propose that at least it represents fertile chaos. Often when there is a desperate or mendacious attempt to maintain the status quo or law and order, the best remedy is a bit of anarchy to bring out the nature of the beast. What we are perceiving as confusion and chaos in the discussion about health care may be the thing that raises the level of the conversation to where it needs to be, or opens the way for what we need to be talking about. Why is mainstream healthcare all<\/em> so expensive? What are the real options to $700 prescriptions?<\/p>\n
Over the next day or three, we might be getting a look at the Saturn factor, as we have the relatively rare phenomenon of a New Moon precisely conjunct Saturn, this time, in Virgo. To me the interesting angle of this debate is how we relate to government in the form of a parent. That is really a question about our psychology.<\/p>\n
There is something adolescent about this debate; it’s like the kids want to spend their money on anything they want and resent anyone saying that we have to spend some of our money on taking care of the community. One of the things this conversation highlights is a missing factor — a theory of community to go along with all this taxation and bureaucracy that we live with; a theory that might include some concept of sustainability. And that, among other things, is what needs to persist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two catch-ups from yesterday: what I meant by the health care debate being boring, and what I meant by Uranus in Pisces being persistent, or how it needs to persist. It’s true that the health care debate has been interesting to the degree that it’s flushed out some startling viewpoints and has sparked some conversation, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}