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this is so wrong

02 Sep 2007 11:48 (Edited: 02 Sep 2007 11:48)

I posted this in my myspace blog yesterday

Current mood: enraged

We live in one of the richest countries of the world but way too many have too little access to health care that should be a basic right for all.

I have known too many people who put off going to the doctor, the dentist or the eye doctor because they couldn't afford it. Some have suffered needlessly and gotten over it. Others have suffered permanent damage or needless disfigurement. We should be ashamed to allow such third world conditions to exist. Our streets have way too many homeless that need mental health care and help getting off their addictions. Our society needs to become more compassionate so that people do not reach the levels of stress that lead to so much of that. We could eliminate so much crime and misery by taking better care of people.

Last night, another tragedy happened. My mom has a friend who did the best she could with not enough aid to take care of her adult daughter who was born disabled. In the last few years the daughter had had emotional problems that made it harder and harder for this tiny older lady to handle. My mom is only five feet tall and this lady is even smaller than her. A few months ago, she very reluctantly placed her daugher in a place she knew was not very good but was the best she could do given what she could find and afford. As I visitied my mom's home over the last few months I heard the lady worrying and hoping to find someplace else but she had not been able to do so yet. Los Angeles is in the midst of one of the worst heat waves I can remember. It was 110 here yesterday. It has been nearly that hot for days. My mom's friend received a call last evening that her daughter was having breathing problems and symptoms of heat stroke and being taken to the hospital. This place had no air conditioning and apparently, she did not receive adequate monitoring to have prevented this. She died this morning. When are we going to decide that we as Americans care enough about each other to demand a health care system that makes decent medical, dental, vision and mental health care available to everyone? How many more deaths will it take?

 

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  • by deadlove @ 12 Sep 2007 20:58

    I meant to comment on this last week, but ya know..work and hassle..

    I agree.. It's strange how the richest countries in the world treat the citizens in such a poor way. I feel we only exist to service and make wealth for the rich 5% at the top. My father had a saying "Fodder for factory and battlefield" and he was so right.
    Don't like quoting Orwell.. but sometimes it's needed.. They say we in the west live in a classless society, but I'm very aware that "all animals are equal, it's just that some are more equal than others"
    It stinks and it's wrong. But without taking the fight right to the doors, in fact through the doors of the rich and dragging them out into the streets screaming and bleeding will we ever get a change in the way things are... The trouble is now they have put in place laws designed to silence the dissenting voice and to stifle any suggestion of social justice.
    the only way we have a hope of winning is by rising up in armed struggle and taking the war to them.. Otherwise we will continue to be downtrodden sheep believing all the lies we are fed every day.
    Unlike the majority these days I have read and understood 1984 and every day the parallels become more clear. With every new law they strip our voices and our choices from us. Soon there will not even be the voices like ours left to speak out..they would like to silence us right now.. take our only chance away. Then the boot will be stamping forever and ever.

  • by Estuansis @ 14 Dec 2007 23:12

    Kinda late... eh...

    That is so true. My friend's brother was involved in an accident when he was really little. He fell in a pool and almost drowned. This has left him permanently disabled and almost an invalid.

    Now they are having problems taking care of him and it is becoming harder to find a specialized nurse to help take care of him. They have to send him to a special home that takes care of him, but they can only see him a few times a month because of the distance.

    If our nation's leaders truly cared about health care, this boy would live at home. And he would live there for free.

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