nothing is right about this
Oct. 8th, 2008 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I cannot believe that I sat on the couch last night watching the men vying to be president seriously (such as it is) debate whether health care is a right or a privilege. Leaving aside matters of capitalism and socialism, our broke ass country and our ideological fears -- doesn't everyone have a right to live? to be helped if they can be helped? Isn't it simple? At least philosophically?
The situation makes me heartsick. I believe making the medical industry a for profit one is probably one the greatest collective moral failings in the history of humanity.
One of the folks I met during my very first trip to NYC is in the hospital right now because he had a stroke. He's only 44, and a freelancer with no health insurance. What the hell happens now? I know an ICU stay isn't cheap. That the financial cost of his care even had to be a factor in deciding whether to go to the ER is horrifying.
Fuck, it is 10am and I'm crying again.
I cannot believe that I sat on the couch last night watching the men vying to be president seriously (such as it is) debate whether health care is a right or a privilege. Leaving aside matters of capitalism and socialism, our broke ass country and our ideological fears -- doesn't everyone have a right to live? to be helped if they can be helped? Isn't it simple? At least philosophically?
The situation makes me heartsick. I believe making the medical industry a for profit one is probably one the greatest collective moral failings in the history of humanity.
One of the folks I met during my very first trip to NYC is in the hospital right now because he had a stroke. He's only 44, and a freelancer with no health insurance. What the hell happens now? I know an ICU stay isn't cheap. That the financial cost of his care even had to be a factor in deciding whether to go to the ER is horrifying.
Fuck, it is 10am and I'm crying again.
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Date: 2008-10-08 03:34 pm (UTC)This is why we have to vote, and encourage our friends and family to vote, and so on. So that the guy who flat out says that health care is a right can be in office to sign if the Legislature puts a good plan on his desk.