We're in the midst of trying overhaul the health care system of our country, and debates are flying across cyberspace about taxation, socialized medicine, and the dangers of rationed health care. Did you know the roughly 60% of home foreclosures have their roots in a family health crisis? One major surgery can wipe out a lifetime of savings which, in a country where the primary means of independence in one's senior years comes from taking of yourself by saving for the future, is no small matter. These are just some of the reasons that the subject is important. Entrenched special interests are the reason this isn't easy.

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God has always been eco-friendly. On the third day of creation, he went green and never looked back. Whoever thought earth-love started with Henry David Thoreau or Al Gore never read the Old Testament. I wish green things weren't merely trendy these days, for it reduces God's good earth to political activism when it's really a divine fingerprint--a marvel to consider. 

Not everyone is embracing the neo-ecology movement. In my community, a columnist for the newspaper lamented what he calls “Nature Deprivation Syndrome”(NDS). Apparently, a bunch of the kids in our local city are hovering over computer screens in the dark, hunchbacked and pasty, moving from interior space to interior space with all the vitamin D absorption of rocks. A new crop of youngsters is “disconnected with the earth,” studies show, having lost contact with the soil and light that gives us life. They interact with laboratory food and plastic gadgets, and they spend their days flapping around in cages from one man-made perch to the next. I don't think my community is unique. 

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