I need to vent.
Tomorrow I have an exam on Health Care Systems and, surprisingly, it's not as I boring as I thought it would be - doesn't mean i'm not gonna flunk, seeing how i'm writing this instead of reading the other 100 pages i'm supposed to. Still, completely unrelated to that, i was checking out some funny blogs this morning and ran into this comment:
"left-wingers are backing off of ' public option ' health care after the awesome response from regular Americans that still want this nation to be free and not Socialist"So i put off my studies and decided to check the US' Health Care reform and see what that "backing off" crap was all about. I must say, i'm pissed. I'm not pissed at the HMO companies for being against a government sponsored health care plan - damn, i GET their point of view, even if i disagree. What I'm - seriously - angry at is that kind of childish, abhorrent way of thinking. The Cold War is OVER. This "if it's not private, it's communist" mentality makes me ashamed of being HUMAN. Hell, I usually laugh when I read a few -usually- americans' distorted notions of politics, geography, religion or anything (forgive the stereotype for actually being true for some of them
even if i have this theory of cause/effect but thats for another time), but THIS kind of opinion (and from what i read in online newspapers websites, it's not a ONE person opinion...) is acid.
Acid, damaging, disturbing in way too many levels for me to just swallow it into a "oh what a retard" laugh and joke about it. And I'm not even in that hemisphere! I COULD care less, but today i'm choosing not to. Come ON, people, to be against a public health care option is to be a retard, not a patriot. It means that because of your slow mind, an important share of the population that does not have [money/access/conditions for] a private HMO gets to die on the streets from random stuff what wouldn't kill them even in the lamest corners of Brazil. THAT kind of mentality is egoistical and narrow minded. It's destructive.
When studying Health Care Systems, one of the few things I learned (and i really should finish writing this and get back to studying) is that there are 3 kinds of Health Care Systems. In a nutshell: Cuba's, Europe's and America's. America's is the only one that is NOT sponsored by the government. And STILL, Europe is not socialist. Instead, they have the best Health Care System in existence. How come?
And if a narrow mind can be enough to halt a reform, an open one can be enough to overhaul it. This is something that SHOULD be discussed ASAP. You seriously don't want to leave it for when you get hit by a car, fall from a flight of stairs or get struck by lightning.
I feel better.