Our countries founding fathers were pragmatic leaders with a proclivity for extending their idea of democracy through unseen future generations.  The constitution is considerd timeless, and it’s ability to adapt, grow and evolve actually gives it the rightful identity of being alive.  It is not an ancient scroll, spoken in a dead language, voided from a lost civilization.  It is the reason behind our rightful freedom as human beings.

Looking around the financial republic and beyond (today is November 13th 2008), headlines like “global financial crisis” grip the headlines of the BBC, NPR and most other main stream media outlets on the web.  Most of which is being placed on the shoulders for our countries current tourch holders of politcal pragmatism.  By now we have all heard the rational behind America’s current fiscal calamity, and if you haven’t, you shouldn’t be getting your financial news from my health blog. 

The underlying cause in todays market meltdowns are often attributed to greed, and more specifically the deregulation of restricitons placed on institutions that sell credit.  Banks loaned money to people who they knew (who must have know themselves) could never payback that loan.  The housing bubble burst, credit freezes, and now the govermnet is throwing around billions upon billions of dollars of your money to help pay for their misuse of power.

Not exactly what the founding fathers had intended, I assume.

I just stumbled upon an interesting quote which represents a similar situation within the health care community.  This prohetic statment also comes from one of our founding fathers…

Dr. Benjamin Rush MD  -  “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship… To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic… The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.” Benjamin Rush, MD, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington