In the deepening recession, community currency may help us obtain health care in our local community. It also help us move away from dependence on pharmaceutical-driven medicine and the other industries that have grown out of the pharmaceutical industry, such as the health insurance industry and the hospital industry. Health care may finally scale down to a level of quality for individuals, families and communities, instead of scaled to size for corporate profit-making.

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Also adding a link to this podcast from Open Source Radio, interviewing American med students in Cuba. They are getting training that emphasizes preventative medicine and education instead of heroic but astronomically expensive organ transplants, etc. A poor country like Cuba has better basic healthcare than the U.S. Makes you think... When the elites and the corporations believe they should profit from diseases,we get "heroic" medicine that saves lives for money. There is not so much… Continue

To kick things off I'm linking to this editorial by Deepak Chopra, called "Alternative medicine to the rescue", which points to the weakness of our present allopathic, corporate medicine-based healthcare.