I know it’s been a while since the last post; it’s just that I’ve been caught up in the daily living routine. It’s being like that until this afternoon when I had a conversation with my sister (I love her greatly) and she mention what do you think about the Healthcare reform debate that’s been going on for months now, and wow! that really ignited my spark again reminding me how great it is to be able to write and express points of view and share with others.
So in this opportunity I have decided to step aside from the main concept of this Blog which is motivation to write about some unanswered questions I have about the Healthcare reform, maybe more how I feel about it than anything else. I guess at this point you have probably heard about all the negotiations, votes, speeches, about the so called “Healthcare Reform”, pure demagogy at its best or as I like to called “plain bullshit”, give me a break! Is so sad to me to see how the interests of big “money” can overpower an attempt to provide health from a more humanistic perspective other than what is just lucrative, it’s time for big corporations and the government to stop profiting from the their own people’s illnesses.
Education, Health and Housing are supposed to be the pillars of any society that is proud of being categorized as a developed country, and even more if we are talking about the so called “Greatest Country in the World”, but surprise!!! This is sadly not the case here in the U.S. So how can the Healthcare system be reformed when the system that created it in first place has not changed?, yes that is absolute insanity. Change, as our now president had promised while campaigning to be elected can’t happen if you continue to play by the same rules that created this big healthcare mess in the first place.
How can it be possible to create more accessible health care for everyone without public infrastructure? How do you expect that those who run the healthcare industry are going to agree to make less money? And worst, how can this change be supported if you don’t make this reform easy to be understood for everybody in plain English?
I’ve always felt great admiration for this country but in this case I have to say that I am disappointed of it and to some extent of its own people that don’t seem to have the capacity to educate themselves about the pros and cons of this reform and make their voices be heard. It is actually sad and funny at the same time how some people from the government is trying to get healthcare for those that don’t care, how ironic that is? …
Are you conscious of what means to be healthy, what if you are not and can’t afford to get attention or medicines because you don’t have money, it has gotten to a point where literally if you have money you live and if you don’t you die. That should never happen in the most “powerful country”, but instead we see old people that keep a job just to be able to afford health insurance or others that have no choice to go bankrupt because unpaid medical bills while going deeper into poverty.
As I told my sister about it, now I want to share with all of you this great report from Frontline that shows us how other countries are doing so well what for many in the U.S. is becoming almost “impossible” to achieve. I know you will enjoy it as much as I did, here is the 1st chapter, if you want to see the entire report you can buy it from Frontline’s website, definitely worth it. I would love to read your comments regarding this important matter, thank you.
By: Rolando Ponce de León
Video source: pbs.org
Read all of the interviews in this report on Frontline’s website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist
