I was reading an article about a woman in NJ who had a 51 pound tumor in her belly but waited until she was 65 to have it treated because she didn't have healthcare and couldn't afford the surgery or the cancer treatment she would need afterwards. And then I once more made the mistake of reading the comment threads, because I am a freaking masochist. But since I was already really pissed off anyway because of other assholes and their self-delusional irony clouds, I just kept on. After a while I had to respond, and I was rather proud of it, so I am putting it on this here blog. I know how much everyone loves my political ranting. In any case, this was in response to someone's post on how Obama and the Affordable Care Act completely ignore preventative and wellness care and how it's going to make insurance premiums shoot through the roof- both of which are complete bullshit. I will state for the record that I do think the woman could have gone to the ER and the surgery would have been done if it was life-threatening; I've had to take the boys to the hospital on a few occasions and have never been turned away, nor have I myself been. Now, for my brilliant commentary. Seriously, I think I need a 12 step program to stop reading those boards.
"That's actually, again, patently false. The ACA absolutely does address preventative care and wellness visits by requiring them to be 100% covered, with no copay. The whole idea of this is to allow everyone-or at least everyone who wants it- the ability to care for themselves and their children if and when they need it, or even when they don't, so that minor issues do not become major ones. And also, any time either of the Obama's has talked about things like getting America to exercise, or mandating healthy lunches in our children's schools, conservative wing-nuts started having apoplectic fits, saying the First Lady could pry the cheeseburgers from their diabetic, cold dead hands and waving around the Constitution like any of them had any idea what was written in it. I swear to God, if I were the President I would be banging my head against a wall every night after having to hear this ignorant, ill-informed, moronic drivel from the very people he has been trying to help day in and day out. Who the hell would want that job? I'm getting so fed up with the American sensibilities I can barely stand it; I can only imagine how frustrated the President and First Lady must be. Because they, unlike you, actually do know what's entailed in the Affordable Care Act. He's probably taken the time to peruse it once or twice before spouting off rhetoric. The President also most likely doesn't get 100% of his information from Sean Hannity.
It shouldn't matter if it raises costs, even though it doesn't. It shouldn't matter if every tax payer has to pay an extra 30 bucks a month in taxes, even though that's not true. What should matter, even though it doesn't seem to, is that everyone who is alive today has the basic right of feeling safe in the fact that if they get sick, someone is there to take care of them. Or if their children get sick, or get hit by a car, or their husband or wife has a stroke, or any manner of things that can happen to anyone, whether they be rich or poor. I'm so tired of reading comments about free rides, and how they "don't want to pay for some poor person's healthcare". What is wrong with you people? If you saw someone dying in the street, would you go help, or just step over them? Would your answer change if they weren't wearing Armani? And it isn't even as extreme as all that. Like someone else said, we are 34th in the world in health coverage. We are 49th in infant mortality. Are you people paying attention? South Korea, Cuba, , the Czech Republic, all of these countries are safer places to have babies than what is supposed to be the leader of the free damn world. The country with the greatest life expectancy? Yeah, not us. It's Macau, a place I didn't even know existed before I looked it up for this comment. We should, every one of us, be ashamed that we live in a country that cares so little for the people who live in it. Actually, not every one of us, because there are still people in this country who are fighting to make it better, fighting to make it safer and healthier, and the only thing stopping them are arrogant, greedy, selfish jerks who would rather see the poor dead than spend an extra few bucks so that maybe everyone gets a chance for that whole pursuit of happiness crap everyone keeps talking about.
You know what's the most ironic? The people who say that we shouldn't help those in need are almost always part of the religious right. I seem to remember something about Christian charity, and that Jesus guy, he seemed like a pretty good example of a socialist. Not that any of you people actually know what that word means."
I think that's a blog entry all by itself.
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