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Medicare For All: Costs Less, Works Better! Just Look at Canada... They Pay Less and Live Longer...


Remember: The Canadian Healthcare Costs People Less Money Than the American Healthcare System... and People Live Longer... 

Let's Replace our Broken System...

 Our Plan: "Get Sick, Die, Loser." 
is NOT the best Idea. 

England, Scandinavia, Australia, Europe... They ALL HAVE BETTER HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS... Let's Learn from Them.

For many critics of U.S. health care, the Canadian system of universal health care has long been viewed as an alternative, superior model for the U.S. to follow. Canada’s single-payer system is mostly publicly funded, while the U.S. has a multi-payer, heavily private system. While dissatisfaction with the U.S. health care system is widespread among Americans, Canada’s health care system enjoys high levels of satisfaction among its own population.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/lessons-can-u-s-learn-canadian-health-care-system/

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Shredded Rainbow Spiral Business Cards For Sale.

https://www.zazzle.com/shredded_rainbow_spiral_business_card-256163553649539936 <--- Click on the Link!

Shredded Rainbow Spiral Art for sale as Business Cards on Zazzle gregvan

Link to Spiral Art Painted on Bling: 

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On the Other Hand, 
Looking at Psychedelic Art
has Known Healing Power!

psychedelic art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

psychedelic art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

psychedelic art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

psychedelic art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Link to All My Medicare For All Merchandise: 

On FaceBorg: MN Said...  
I'm going to explain why we need Medicare-for-All. When J.F.K. was calling for Universal Healthcare, he said at the time we were not providing the same level of care as other countries.
In the 1990s I saw a woman testifying in Congress that her job working for an insurance company was to take high dollar claims that were coming in and pull the paperwork the patient signed while getting insurance, look for a mistake that had been made by the patient and use that mistake to deny coverage. She said she knew people had died as a result of her actions. The question we need to ask ourselves is does it make sense to give trillions of dollars each year to insurance companies that work hard to avoid paying for healthcare? The most obvious example of this is pre-existing conditions which came into play only in the U.S. so insurance companies could avoid paying for medical expenses. Those with pre-existing conditions had their medical expenses paid for by state aid, if they were lucky. This means we were giving trillions of dollars to insurance companies for the express purpose of paying medical expenses while also paying millions in taxes to cover the expenses the insurance companies refused to cover.
In 2020 millions of people in this country lost jobs because of the pandemic. A high percentage of those also lost insurance coverage because they could no longer afford to pay premiums. So there are those who lost their jobs, then lost insurance coverage, then got sick and went to the hospital ending up tens of thousands of dollars in debt. This happens every time we have a serious economic downturn. It's cruel and oppressive...people are dying in the name of corporate profits. The U.S. is the only country that allows people to go bankrupt because they got sick or injured. The number one reason citizens of this country file for bankruptcy is medical debt.
In Germany, single payer healthcare is working so well that a person feeling stress can have a doctor write a prescription for a free three week stay at a spa. Germany has a healthcare system that reduces stress while we have a system that CAUSES stress.
Recent studies have indicated that Medicare-for-All would save billions each year. The most recent that I'm aware of was done by Yale University. It concluded that Medicare-for-All would save approximately $500 billion dollars and 30,000 lives every year.
Medicare-for-All (or single payer) has the approval of nearly 70% of U.S. citizens. We won't have justice or democracy in this country until the government starts working for the people instead of working for corporations.

Medicare For All: COSTS LESS, WORKS BETTER! Embroidered Baseball Cap
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Vote for Freedom 2024 - Trump is ANTI-CHOICE - He Wants to Force Women to Give Birth to Unwanted Babies. THAT'S Q-CRAZY! Remember: Trump Appointed the Corrupt Supreme Court that Overturned Roe V Wade!


#Runaway from the GOP! Millions of Former Republicans FLEE the Madness... "They Never Get Anything Done!" Says Marge S. of Springfield... "Can You Name Anything That Republicans Have Done to Make Your Life Better? NO YOU CANNOT! Total Failure!"






Promises Made, Promises Broken button for sale...




Trump's Top 10 Failures:

#1 Over a Million Americans Died of COVID-19. It was NOT a "Democratic Hoax" Like Trump Said.

#2 Trump Lost The 2020 Election to Joe Biden. That's Why Trump Lives in Mar-A-Loser and Biden Lives in the White House.

#3 Trump Failed to Overthrow the US Government and Crown Himself King on January 6th. Over a Thousand Trumpanzees Have been Arrested... Including Trump Himself!

#4 Trump's Trade War With China. That Harmed American Farmers, Manufacturing Businesses and Consumers. Russia Benefited by Selling Soybeans to China.

#5 Trump Failed to Build the Wall and Have Mexico Pay for it... It's Incomplete and People Simply Walk Around the End...

#6 Trump Failed to Repeal and Replace Obamacare... He Had No Plan "Trumpcare" - He Just wanted to Harm Americans...

#7 Trump Failed to Change the Course of a Hurricane Using a Sharpie Felt Pen... Causing "Sharpiegate" and Many Joke Memes!

#8 Largest Loss of Money on the Stock Market in History.

#9 Massive Unemployment - 14.7%

#10 Huge Lines of Americans Waiting for FREE FOOD because they Could Not Buy Their Own Groceries...

Trump Received Money From Roman Vasilenko (a Russian Businessman) for His 2016 Campaign. GOP operative Jesse Benton was convicted of funneling Russian donations. The "Russia Hoax" was Not a Hoax After All. Trump Actually Got Rubles to Help Him Campaign AND HE KEPT THEM!

Why Hasn't Trump Been Arrested and Convicted for This Crime?


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/18/gop-operative-convicted-of-funneling-russian-donation-to-trumps-2016-campaign-.html
Republican political operative Jesse Benton was convicted in federal court of funneling $25,000 from a Russian businessman to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Taylor Swift says VOTE 4 JOE - "I will proudly vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this year's presidential election. Under their leadership, I believe America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs."

Please Share These Memes Nationwide!





Taylor Swift explained why she's 'proudly' voting for Joe Biden for president...
https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-voting-joe-biden-president-endorsement-v-magazine-2020-10


"The change we need most is to elect a president who recognizes that people of color deserve to feel safe and represented, that women deserve the right to choose what happens to their bodies, and that the LGBTQIA+ community deserves to be acknowledged and included," she said.


A Taylor Swift Instagram post helped drive a surge in voter registration...
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1201183160/taylor-swift-instagram-voter-registration

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What Would San Francisco Be Like if Japan Had Won World War Two?

Bebop Cubist Goofball by gvan42

 


That's the Subject of the Science Fiction Book... "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K Dick... 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vwal-FySkQ <--- Link to the Book Read Out Loud. 

In the book, Characters throw the I Ching to help them decide what to do... In the Real World, The Author Actually Threw the I Ching while writing the book... to use the ancient wisdom to help write the plot of the story... How the story ends was absolutely chosen by "The Oracle" because the Author had planned for a different ending... 

also... The Author was working at his wife's custom jewelry business during the day... and writing the book at night... 

A Character in the Story Makes Custom Jewelry for a Living... and has a great deal of trouble selling it... The Rulers of San Francisco only like to collect "Authentic" Antique American Products... and there is a Huge Business Creating Fakes that look like the "Real" Thing... For Example: Colt 44 Pistols or Mickey Mouse Wristwatches... 

The Author was using vast quantities of amphetamines... That allowed him to work day and night... 

and eventually it killed him... a stroke and then a heart attack... but first he wrote a LOT of Paranoid Fiction... 

and there is a Book within a Book in this story... 

"The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" - is a Speculative Fiction about What San Francisco would have been like if America Had Won WW2... 

The Author of that book Lived in a Castle High in the Rocky Mountains near Denver, Colorado... a Fortress that could be Easily Defended... But he got too Paranoid about Taking the Tram up there because he thought the Tram Might NOT Stop at His Home but would continue all the way to Heaven... or The Stars... 

Here is an Autobiography:

and Here is VALIS... Which is Very Autobiographical BUT... Very Twisted! by Philip K Dick's Amazing Mind:

Link to "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" - by Philip K Dick - an Excellent Sci-Fi Book Read Out Loud:

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Here is some art of mine... 

Original Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
an Alien with his Spaceship

Original Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
The Carson Mansion in Eureka, CA

Original Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Original Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
Hand Drawn Flower of Life on a Newspaper

Original Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Original Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
Photo of Solar Powered Butterfly and Dragonfly


Digital Rainbow Spiral by gvan42
Link to All My Rainbow Spiral Gifts on Zazzle/gregvan:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?qs=Spiral


Link to My NEWEST Rainbow Spiral Gifts:

Logarithmic Spiral - gvan42


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Interesting TV Shows: "The Fidel Castro Tapes" on PBS ...and... "The Windsors" on CNN - Hours of Real Film of Castro With English Subtitles... The History of England During WW1 up to WW2

For Example: I did not know that King George the Fifth of England, Wilhelm of Germany and Czar Nickolas were Cousins and They All Looked Like Twins.  George V Refused to Allow Czar Nicholas to Flee to England with his Family after the Russian Revolution and so All the Romanovs Died...

The Fidel Castro Tapes has Films of Him Doing TV Interviews Before the Revolution in Cuba with Ernesto "Che" Guevara... Then they Show a Hero's Welcome Parade in New York City with Thousands of Americans Cheering Fidel... and Castro Meeting Vice President Richard Nixon... and Actual Film of Soldiers Invading Cuba at The Bay of Pigs.... They Show Film of Castro at Every Age All the Way to His Funeral and Raul Castro, His Brother Becoming Leader... With English Subtitles... Fascinating...

In 1959, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba. He has been one of the most controversial figures in the world ever since. This is the story of the Cuban dictator's turbulent career, told in part through media reports, rare images and recordings.
https://www.pbs.org/show/fidel-castro-tapes/

The Episode I Saw of "The Windsors" was Mostly About England in the Era of World War One thru the Late 1930's. King George the Fifth CHANGED HIS NAME from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor to avoid The English People's Hatred of Germans... after all, there was a War Going on and British Boys were Killing Germans. He took the name from the Castle that his Family was Living In.   

His Son, Edward the Eighth, Did Not Want to Do the Formal Work of Being Monarch and Spent his Time Traveling the Globe talking to Subjects and Trying to Convince then that Having an English Man as King was a Great Idea... Eventually, he failed completely and there were Revolutions in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and Asia... Edward fell in love with a Married American Woman, Wallis Simpson. She got divorced and They Got Married BUT... The English People Insisted that he STOP BEING KING if he wanted to Marry her... So he abdicated the Throne... Difficult to Believe... but That's what life was like in 1936... 
https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-windsors-cnn-original-series

Lucy Sky Diamonds - psychedelic ART by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 

Great Books:The "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy by JRR Tolkien. "The Hobbit" Classic fiction popular with Hippies in the Late Sixties. Made into Great Movies and Led Zeppelin Songs.

These are great books to read while stoned on marijuana... It's a total fantasy world that a smoker can inhabit...


Tolkien invented a World that was loosely based on Rural English Countryside before the Industrial Revolution. It was populated with Hobbits, short people that lived in harmony with the Earth. Wizards, Tree People, Elves, Dwarfs, Orcs, and... a Powerful RING... That made the wearer invisible but eventually enslaved the wearer... and turned him to Evil... Golem, a man that reminds me of a heroin addict...

They have EPIC adventures where they fight evil... and have mighty battles against monsters enslaved by a Dictator from Mordor.

Inspired by World War One... With the English (Hobbits) fighting the Germans (Orcs)...

The Elves in the Story are based one people that lived in Remote Finland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings
Discussion of what it all means...

Rock bands of the 1970s were musically and lyrically inspired by the fantasy embracing counter-culture of the time; British 70s rock band Led Zeppelin recorded several songs that contain explicit references to The Lord of the Rings, such as mentioning Gollum in "Ramble On", the Misty Mountains in "Misty Mountain Hop", and Ringwraiths in "The Battle of Evermore".

Green Ring

One Ring to Rule Them All




Massive Anti-Trump Protests in England... Angry Baby To Fly Over Parliament/Funkadelic!



Trump UK visit: 'Angry baby' balloon gets go ahead to fly over London during US president's stay

‘Following a huge groundswell of public support for our plan, it looks like City Hall has rediscovered its sense of humour. Trump Baby will fly,’ says activist Leo Murray

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-balloon-angry-baby-fly-london-uk-visit-working-khan-a8433121.html

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