I had a conversation with an idiot three days ago. He's been through three crappy jobs that had no benefits the last two years. His health wasn't good so he couldn't get or afford an individual policy. Yet this idiot was glad we don't have a national health insurance plan because he didn't want "big brother dictating his insurance." I asked him as politely as I couild why he thought it was OK having a big company tell him he couldn't have health insurance. His answer was if he couldn't afford it he coild choose not to have it. That's when I got a little peeved that I was not only seated next to this idot, but that any human being could be that dense and blind to his own plight. I told him it wasn't his choice not to have health insurance. The health insurance companies chose for you by keeping the freaking premium so high you couldn't get any even if you did have a job. The idiot said I sounded like a socialist. I said you're one of the unemployed masses and I ain't bought a drink for yet. I must be a crappy socialist. The idiot must have felt bad cause he bought the third round also.
There are lessons to be learned here for all to see. #1 is that the lazy and stupid get sucked in by right wing propaganda. #2 is the right wingers are right but don't know why when the say we live in the greatest Country ever. I'm sitting in a bar next to an unemployed guy with no health insurance and still has enough money to buy me three Rolling Rocks plus apack of Camels for himself. God Bless America.
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If you are who I think you are it is good to hvfwave you back.
Lived in Australia for years.
They're just as democratic as America, with a right and left wing and two major parties. And they have free capitalism.
They have also had a national health care plan, since I think the early 1970's.
It just considered a given, for a modern country, that their people can get medical treatment, if needed, regardless of their financial situation.
There is zero culture war about it.
No ideological chasm.
No paranoia.
No fear for keeping one's house if a child needs an expensive operation and the family doesn't have private health care, either.
Even when their right-wing party holds government, as it did for ten plus years up to 2007, national health care is sacrosanct because - guess what? - they don't call it socialism. They call it "things working properly".
That's what the right-wing in America fears... once it's in, there's no taking it away. Because people will wake up and see it isn't the destroyer of God, capitalism, freedom and morals that the Right plays it up to be.
It's just taxes being used appropriately and in a well organized system.
Thank you Van Zan. The right would eliminate social security and medicare if it could to. The rights priority has always been profit no matter the pain inflicted.
I just stumbled onto your blog. You know what really scares me about your story? There's the fact that these people like the guy in the bar are perfectly content to kill off the rest of us with the diseases they'll walk around with thanks to the fact that they can't get health care. While he might survive being the carrier of some bacteria or virus, the very same disease might very well kill me and all the other immune-suppressed people he comes in contact with.
I wish we could convince all of these people (who are uninsured but rail against a national insurance program) to move next door to and work around each other. Let those of us who do want our children to be able to live in a country where kids aren't dying because they had an untreated toothache have our national health insurance and those who think it's too "socialist" for them can just continue on their merry little way.
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