february 15, 2010
Healthcare Brawl
A guy walks into the bar and slips on a patch of wet floor. The bartender watches him get up and points to a sign which loudly boasts: WET FLOOR!!!! He the says in a coarse voice, “Hope you got healthcare.”
That would be my healthcare commerical, well, not really, but I am sick as hell of watching these stupid commercials. Cancer survivors saying that a public health plan means she would’ve died. Small business owner who can’t afford their healthcare anymore. People who lose their coverage because they get laid off/fired and they have a disease which means no other insurance company would cover them. A giant bag that says, “TAXES” and some ominous voice talking about how much the public plan is going to raise taxes and increase government as the bag inflates. I am in no way belittling this issue. I’m just through with the way the media is handling it. Fear, fear, fear!
The truth is that no, a public plan wouldn’t work until we change the way that healthcare/medicine is viewed; healthcare/medicine is an inalienable right and not a business to make money. What? I know ignoring the money factor in our society is difficult, but I think we could get passed it if we all really wanted to look out for each other and weren’t worried that I might lose something that is MINE and that I worked to hard for. I get it. I don’t want to pay more for my healthcare, but I sure as hell want to make sure that all the kids that I take care of don’t die because their parents can’t afford it. And I don’t want their parents to die either because the government only takes care of kids or allows the insurance companies to do business they currently are. So, in the end take some more out of my pay check or charge me more for healthcare, I want to see everyone get the chance to grow and flourish.
Speaking of growing and flourishing why can’t our government just stop working the party lines. Is it too hard to work to get something done for the people without trying to make each other look bad? Make Obama look bad by hoping all his effort to fix things fail. HAHAHA! that’ll show ‘um! That’s a load of shit and you know it. Plus, in my opinion Obama is making himself look bad by backing down on things and he and the democrats need to say things clearly or it sends people into a panic. Just work together and get it done. We don’t need to kill the republican party to fix things. We need to work together.
Stepping off my soapbox, only to find a crate that lifts me higher,
Dastardly Dainty
