(Modern, old, and ever around Tokyo)NOT THE MATTER OF HEALTH CARE BUT OF POVERTY
Late last Saturday night in Japan, a cable TV channel distributed "Sicko" produced by Mr. Michael Moore.
I think I have not yet watched it fully, but I saw different part this time, since I tuned to the channel midway.
The film did not show what excellent medical care you can receive if you become rich in the U.S. It tells that as the U.S. Government is too much stronger than poor American voters, free and high-level health care services are not provided for poor Americans.
So, more and more non-poor Americans must join the poor voters against the U.S. Government and the health-care industry.
SECTION I: AMERICAN POVERTY 13%
The ever-increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. is a result of poor religious education among the rich.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/2/41528678.pdf Yet the ratio of the poor among the U.S. population has been surprisingly stable in these decades. Or, despite one definitely poor man among eight people all over America, political power has been always in the hands of the very rich and super rich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States Life and circumstances of ordinary Americans and poor Americans have not been so much changed in these decades though they can see digital TV programs, use cellular phones, and access the Internet; they cannot spend one-month summer vacation in the Caribbean Sea, Africa, or Europe.
But, rich, very rich, and super rich Americans' life and circumstances have drastically changed as they have now so many options for the summer holidays in Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, around the world, and in the space.
Yet, a sensible balance was blown off in September 2008 with the Wall Street crisis, leading to awoken voting for Mr. Barack Obama.
SECTION II: Wnt vs. Alzheimer Disease
Japanese medical scientists have finally or first in the world identified a gene that might prevent occurrence of the Parkinson's disease, the Alzheimer disease, and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
The gene is called "Wnt" which preserves necessary and essential connections among neuronal cells in the human brain.
However, it is necessary to cut unnecessary connections between neuronal cells and separate them as a human being grows in order to make signal processing efficient.
In the brain of a newborn baby, most of neuronal cells are connected and linked together. But, this state is not efficient for signal processing in the brain. To have the brain function efficiently, unused routes or ineffective channels among neuron cells must be severed and separated. Accordingly, there is a mechanism embedded in the brain that performs this disconnection.
But, if this mechanism works uncontrolled or unmoderated, even very necessary neuron-cell linkages could be severed and cut apart, resulting in probably the Parkinson's disease, the Alzheimer disease, and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
But, the gene "Wnt" works to protect necessary neuronal-cell linkages from being severed and cut apart.
So, if the function of this gene is intensified, patients with the Parkinson's disease, the Alzheimer disease, and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) might be cured.
(Source: The Yumiuri Shimbun Newspaper
Reference: http://www.nature.com/neuro/index.html )
SECTION III: 100 Billion
There are 100 billion neuronal cells in the human brain.
If each cell has a length of one inch (2.5cm), the total extended length will be longer than the distance between the earth and the moon.
In this case, specifically, the total extended length of neuronal cells in your head is almost seven times longer than the distance from the earth to the moon, according to my summary calculation.
The number of different combinations and linkages among the 100 billion neuronal cells is almost infinite, so that one can receive a signal from Heaven.
In addition, it is said that health care fraud alone costs Americans $100 billion to $400 billion a year.
Now, you can lay one dollar coins side-by-side in one straight line to the moon in the amount of at least 100 billion to measure the graveness of medical crimes.
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(To be continued...)
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?