Universal Health Care

And because of these beliefs, they tend to be really self righteous and imagine that there are some people out there (people without jobs, people without homes, people who aren’t running on the giant hamster wheel and making the world go “round) who don”t deserve adequate health care because they can’t afford it and they’re not carrying their own weight. These people often have no clue what it’s like to be mentally stunted and emotionally crippled by early childhood and/or adolescence.

A boy born of a crackhead, single mother in the projects simply does not have the same life chances and opportunities as a boy born of a mother who has never done drugs and has a supportive husband and family and will be able to be a stay at home mom. That’s reality. So, why don’t we all imagine how few people would be left behind to fend for themselves with unsatisfactory life skills and tools, if we could offer them help with their issues. Of course, as a compromise, we could surely insist that for continued care one must take random drug tests…including, but not limited to…tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, meth etc. And for those of you whom not even that would satisfy…my suggestion is this…go live in Iraq. That’s what I was told to do when I said I didn’t want to financially support your war.

“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ~John Donne