If you want to bring the country back on the right track, you must listen to me. I am Raj Gandhi, MD. I was born and raised in India. There, after graduating from medical school I did six years of graduate and residency training. After that I did four years of training in England, and four more years in the US in and around New York. For the last 35 years or so, I have been engaged in the practice of chest surgery in community hospitals in Atlanta. Long years of experience and education over three continents have given me a perspective which is comprehensive and unique. I know what I am saying. Please pay attention.
Everyone living in the United States of America has a stake in its welfare and must join hands to bring this country back on the right track. The problems are many and challenging, like mountainous national debt, large and recurring budget deficits, an inefficient and very costly healthcare system, disparity in power and wealth between one and ninety nine percent, and extreme ideological divide in Washington. All these problems are interconnected. For example, doctors keep on ordering expensive tests and procedures to avoid potential lawsuits. Attorneys with their strong lobbying power, do not allow Washington to enact sensible tort reform laws, which will encourage doctors to practice cost effective medicine in place of defensive medicine. Pharmaceutical companies charge their customers in the US three to five times as much for prescription drugs as they do in Canada or other developed countries. With their lobbying power along with that of HMOs and insurance companies they do not allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. Through direct to consumer advertising they use patients to push doctors to write more prescriptions. And they fly some doctors, first or business class, and pay them well to lecture other doctors in large groups, selling them the benefits of very costly new drugs which enjoy patent protection for a long time. The sole purpose is to fatten the bottom line, with which they unduly reward the CEOs and pay lobbyists heavy sums to do their bidding in Washington. Banking and finance industries and other special interest groups use similar strategies to gain influence, power and money. All this makes it possible for one percent including politicians to enjoy at the expense of 99% and maintain status quo.
The Wall Street Occupiers do not need slogans. They need substance and a plan. That is exactly what I have provided. The substantive message is in the book named "Sense of Direction It Needs to be Restored" and the plan is at the website, www.sodhealthcare.com
In addition to fixing the healthcare mess and making healthcare affordable for everyone, it fully deals with the problems of Social Security, budget deficits, national debt, corporate greed and other important issues of the day. Although written for and dedicated to all people living in the United States of America, the message is especially suited for Wall Street Occupiers. They can virtually occupy Washington by sending a million copies of this message to line up the hallways of the Capitol and the White House. They will be able to achieve everything they want without suffering insult and injury at the hands of Police around the country.
There you have it my friends, an all American movement, that will bring the country back on the right track. If Mahatma Gandhi were alive today, he would approve it and call it American Satyagraha. If Martin Luther King Junior were alive today, he would fully endorse it.
So people, especially Wall Street Occupiers, what are you waiting for? You must immediately get on with it, so that you may accomplish your goal in a short time. Thank you and God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.