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A cool video, a little ranting
2011-Jul-06, Wednesday 12:21I love this, and appologise in advance for the mild rant it induced once I started thinking about things as they stand and how they have effected me in what is touted to be (one of) the wealthiest nation(s) in the world. (dependent on whether you include the EU as a whole or not as I understand it, there is a bit of switching back and forth just now.)
I love this guy's last line "Pretty neat, huh?"
I would like to see a version that shows the disparity in the USA. I can pretty much guarantee that most people in the US still believe there is no such disparity, however, I know it's there, I've experienced it, and I've seen people MY AGE, have serious health problems ignored or given very minimal treatment until they became to sick to work. This was permanent in one case I know, that was given very minimal treatment for a serious heart condition which could have been treated and kept her working at the same time. Ultimately she had to go on permanent total disability, and then she could get medicare to pay for the CORRECT AND PROPER treatment now that it was too late to heal her well enough to ever come back to work, and I promise you she WANTED to come back to work badly. So now that person is living on everyone else's dime, deprived permanently of the ability to earn her own way, because some people think that a shared and equal health care plan for EVERYONE here is the worst idea in the world. Would it not have been better for us all to pay a few pennies towards her proper treatment so that she could also continue working and paying into the system? Yes. it would have been better for her, for her family, for her self-esteem, and also for US...the rest of us down here on the bottom.
I love this guy's last line "Pretty neat, huh?"
I would like to see a version that shows the disparity in the USA. I can pretty much guarantee that most people in the US still believe there is no such disparity, however, I know it's there, I've experienced it, and I've seen people MY AGE, have serious health problems ignored or given very minimal treatment until they became to sick to work. This was permanent in one case I know, that was given very minimal treatment for a serious heart condition which could have been treated and kept her working at the same time. Ultimately she had to go on permanent total disability, and then she could get medicare to pay for the CORRECT AND PROPER treatment now that it was too late to heal her well enough to ever come back to work, and I promise you she WANTED to come back to work badly. So now that person is living on everyone else's dime, deprived permanently of the ability to earn her own way, because some people think that a shared and equal health care plan for EVERYONE here is the worst idea in the world. Would it not have been better for us all to pay a few pennies towards her proper treatment so that she could also continue working and paying into the system? Yes. it would have been better for her, for her family, for her self-esteem, and also for US...the rest of us down here on the bottom.
