9th Inning: One last pitch to RAW
I tried replying in the comments of the previous blog post, but it was too many characters. So, here goes:
When I say Government is the lazy way out, I am not saying the poor are lazy.
I meant society, in general, practices lazy man’s ethics … you could blame it on societal distractions (TV, Internet, Radio, Movies, Sports … i.e. stuff that has no tangible meaning); the majority of people choose distractions over getting to know their neighbor.
South Florida is PRONE to this; people hardly ever get to know their neighbors, let alone what they are going through.
People do bond with their workmates, and those connections can lead to friendships.
In the case of the jobless, unless they already know their neighbors or have family nearby, they are screwed.
Laziness is an epidemic in our society. People don’t help each other out because they’re afraid of getting sued or taken advantage of.
***
One more time: duh. Our current system definitely has weaknesses. When it comes to my son … it took five years before we had a decent idea of what was wrong with him … five years of pediatricians downplaying his constant illness, five years of antibiotics, colonoscopies, CAT scans, skin lesions … I have cursed the doctors and the system many times over the past seven years.
I have also had great insurance, bad insurance, and no insurance during this time, so I’ve seen all angles of this debate. On a side-note: I’ve had no insurance during my life as well, and gone to see doctors who specialize in helping immigrant communities; my mom and wife have seen DENTISTS who do that, too.
Look, in the U.S., you have to take command of your health care. Pediatricians tend to practice LME because they’re afraid of lawsuits. So they play it safe and give you platitudes, and because they see sooooo many patients, they don’t have time to think straight and give you individualized care …
too many distractions.
If you rely on doctors to just give you the answer, you’re hurting yourself. Doctors don’t know it all. You can sometimes learn more by searching for your answers and then talking to your doctor about the info you found, rather than expecting the doctor to magically know how to solve your health problem.
Having Government-run healthcare isn’t going to eliminate the need to take control of your own healthcare.
Of course, healthcare is already quasi-government run already. I’d rather have choices than one path.
***
Do you realize that liability insurance for doctors is a big reason why healthcare is sooooo expensive? The Congress has the power to reduce that cost, via Tort reform, and refuse to pass legislation to do so.
If the Democrats and Republicans really cared so much for us, that would be their first move to fix the excessive cost for healthcare. They deserve more blame than the corporations you.
I’m not here to suggest corporations are pious, but they don’t deserve all the blame.
***
Based on your comments, RAW, it appears you’ve prayed the Universal Healthcare premise into your heart! Your faith in the Book of Sicko is unshakable.
I mean , it’s all good, bro. We’re just chattin’. No hard feelings.
I mean … I wish you would defend the massive wait times in England and Canada, as well as unnecessary deaths related to those waits, and I wish you would explain how the weaknesses in a Universal Healthcare system are not as bad as the system here in the U.S., but I know you’re rooting for your team. I know your a team Democrat kind of guy. I understand these kind of political conversations usually break down to who you root for, regardless of facts.
It’s all good. It’s okay. Like I said before, you will get your wish. Your team won in 2008, and that’s that. Universal Healthcare will happen. I don’t expect anyone to change their mind because of me! So, please don’t feel threatened by my stance! I have Earth-Zero influence!
Like I said, I’m just going on the record, and so are you. It’s cool, man. It’s all good.
You can have the last word, bro. Bottom of the ninth. Your final turn at bat. That’s my pitch. Enjoy.
Similar Posts:
- Healthcare debate: Specialists
- L.R: Kudos to Beck; Health Care
- Random Questions: Footballs and Doctors
- Obama Healthcare: Can He Save It?
- Obama Healthcare Speech Before Joint Session of Congress
- Random
- Health Care Reform 2009
In the period of time that I was unemployed and looking for work, I got the chance to sit down and commiserate with about 5 or 6 of my neighbors who were going through hard times just like me.
These are grown men who look for work during the day, some self employed who are working sometimes a 3 or 4 day workweek because they cant find the opportunities, the money simply isnt out there.
the comments I made were directed at all my critics in general and not anyone in particular.
I myself dont trust doctors very much.
As far as i am concerned they killed my father with radiation and chempotherapy, it was not the cancer that killed him but what the doctors did.
I saw it all myself and the medical establishment did more harm than good for him.
Im not a big fan of tort reform if it means those without money cant go to court, and thats what it often looks like.
the corporations fund the government and therefore get to buy the lawmakers, this is true in almost every aspect of society.
for the record, Ive thought long and hard about the kind of changes that need to take place in society for the livelyhood of the aerican people to improve and realized that both parties would stand against anything that needs to be done to improve the economy/country on the fundamental levels that need to be changed.
its not so much that I am a democrat, its just that ive already heard what the republicans have to say and its too predictable.
I dont think universal healthcare can work if it means allowing the same system to continue but putting the government into the role of paying the bill.
the amount of money it would take would be unsustainable, I dont mind doctors working directly for the government if it means they can eliminate the ceo's, shareholders and middlemen of this business, but i know that neither party has got the guts to do this.
what they do instead will be to make it the governments job to pay the bills because nobody has the money to prop this industry up and its very possible that if they do it this way the same thing will happen to healthcare as did the real estate market.
there is nothing personal about this debate.
I know I will not change anyones mind either.
there is just something deeply immoral about denying someone treatment because they are poor, so therefore their lives are deemed worthless.
I just gotta be on the other side of this issue.
thanks for mentioning me, or valuing my opinion enough to do a whole post about it.
to me the whole thing is just an issue of morality.
We have something in common: my father died of cancer after failed chemo treatments as well.
***
I understand your position. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.