All state health plans have failed in their missions to provide health to all in a financially sound program. All such programs have either reduced benefits, eliminated participants, or rationed care. A federal program for the U.S. would do the same.

On the southeast coast of the Big Island of Hawaii is a little park with a beautiful black sand beach.
As I described in my Hub The Island of Hawaii and its Six Volcanoes the black sand is the result of the continuing volcanic activity on the island. The black sand is created when hot,...

A visit to the Big Island of Hawaii, which is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean island chain that makes up America's 50th state of the same name, provides a perfect example of both the beauty and destruction that results from volcanic activity.
Volcanic activity created this lush, tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Like the thousands of other volcanic islands that dot the Pacific Ocean, the tropical climate, the ocean, the flowers, the sunsets, the beaches all combine to evoke the images and feelings of romance and desire to escape the stress...