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As many of you already know, I live in a society that provides healthcare or mandates some for of health coverage. Listening to this debate in the US and the nut job byproduct arguments of right just test my faith in humanity.
During the abysmal years under Bush I read and watch discussions about the S-CHIP program and was appalled by the resistance of people to care for our young ones. Then it struck me that my fair nation is too greedy and profit driven to put things into perspective.
National security was a favorite talking point of Bush's talking heads. I have always wonder if the nations security is really on the agenda and a major issue why are we not making it mandatory that at least 90% of the US populace is prepared for a biological attack. You know, if people had an up to date status of their health they would be better prepared for such an attack. Or during the last 'bird-pig-chicken-cow-fish' flu wouldn't the US be better of if the system and the population had mutual trust and respect to prepare for something that could wipe out the human race. Doesn't the adage "we are only as strong as our weakest link" ( I don't know if that is right, but you get my point) mean anything?
Our strength is knowing and accepting our weaknesses. Our strength is not the lack of weakness but the ability and the access to pull on resources that can and will mitigate any damage from the weaknesses that we all posses. We are the ills' healthy counter part and vice versa. We learn from the care we give to the ill how to care for the ourselves and how they would care for us. Maturity and will are gained in the process thus giving us a stronger will to live and fight on. It's our human duty to respond to each with a sense of responsibility, to care for another. That other may be our strength and savior one day. The health-care debate, if not a smoke screen, is a dumb and baseless debate. It is indicative of how far out of touch we have become with each other, how much contempt we have for one another.
It's absurd and downright selfish to deny the rights that we enjoy from someone else. It is immoral, in my opinion, to not have a sense of responsibility for each other based on some preconditioned attitude toward that person. If we are intelligent or at least conscious of our frailty, the debate of caring for someone is a waste of time. The astro-turf protesters are exercising a derivative form of loud mouth bigotry, denying right or privileges to other groups based on their preconditioned attitude.
With that being said, I am in no way a blind supporter of anything the government does. I am the first to distrust the government, retain rigid skepticism, and question everything. This bill is not perfect but it bring the a real human issue to the table. It at least puts US back in the U.S.
