"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend for itself, it will do more for if you paralyze by encumbering it with remedies." - Leo Tolstoy
I really gotta stop using quotes that even I can't fathom.
Okay after much deliberation in the last few months and a long drawn out battle between the right wing and the left wing, the healthcare reform is passed. Now President Obama has been talking about healthcare reform since like the second he got into office. How we should have universal healthcare every person living in the United States can afford and have access to before dying in the lobby of some emergency room. I like this idea, healthcare for years has been a system in which doctors milk you dry or deny health insurance however they can. You know how you can't get insurance if you had a pre-existing condition, I remember a story at one point in which a girl stricken with cancer was denied insurance because of her pre-existing condition: acne. Yeah when a hospital makes you a poor victim of cancer because of acne, you know healthcare's fucked up. And how about a personal story from the Guru himself? Alright, so a couple of years ago I had a terrible tooth infection that kept me out of school for more than two weeks and my face swelled up and hurt like hell. Finally I was taken to the dentist, they managed to pull out the infectious tooth but told my mom to take me to the ER to get a second opinion and maybe be taken care of better than the dentist could. I hadn't been to any hospital in years, and my mom a lot longer. When we got there, we waited in the lobby for about two hours until they finally saw to us. And then I spent another two hours lying on a bed watching TV while the doctor/nurse was "going to be back". In the end all I got out of these four hours was three things: I got to watch The Simpsons and Seinfeld, I got doped up real good with an IV, and the doctor told us we should see a dentist. Now isn't that helpful. And you know what my parents got out of that four hours of nothing? Nearly bankrupt. God bless America.
Now the right as always is bitching a storm like the control freak it is. All I've heard from them is a neverending chant of healthcare is evil, healthcare is faschist, healthcare is socialist. Yeah mainly that's all they've said: the healthcare reform is socialist and the republican masses have followed suit. Funny that they did so, considering most of them probably couldn't even tell you what socialism is. According to internet sources, socialism is a system where the government can have control of virtually all aspects of a society. It also states that everyone within the society gets their share (not bad, the wealthy have had theirs for so long, it's time the rest of us get some too). We've hit another level of hypocrisy when a group of people whose main trait is having control of our society uses that same thing as the pinata. Everyone says this supposedly socialist reform is the first step toward a socialist form of government. Seriously. I don't know what fantasy world these guys have lived in for the past decade, but I lived in the Bush-Cheney America. Does anyone remember fear of the Patriot Act, that was complete with spy planes and talk of tapping phones all over the country. The government already has control, they can do whatever they want. I was a paranoid bastard back then, and now when all of that is over and I get a small sigh of relief, everyone gets paranoid of a guy who means well and is trying to do good for the entire nation. I'm sure other people out there (high and mighty bigots no doubt) will be enraged by the everyone gets a share policy of this reform. I'd advise them to grow up and get with the times. This isn't the 17th century, its not only WASPs who are getting healthcare anymore. Everyone in this country has a right to good health, be it the law abiding the upper class, the bong smoking middle class, or the shanty town lower class.
Once again, I can't stress that I am only sixteen, with a very limited knowledge of the big picture of politics, but I am smart enough to know that we live in a time of change. I suppose I am liberally bias toward this whole situation. Hilary Clinton made promises and failed to get us better healthcare back in the 1990s when I was just emerging into this world. I was born with cleft lip and was given enough surgeries to look normal. Let it be said, I am no Phantom of the Opera, just have a scar. But now as I'm getting older, my face is stretching out and the surgery will eventually come undone. I talked about how getting nothing from the hospital nearly bankrupted my family, imagine what surgery at Reilly Hospital would cost.
Okay too personal, back on topic. To end off, I say I am happy about this reform. I hope it gives more than it takes from the people of America in years to come. There were a lot of moments I was sure this would not pass, like when Ted Kennedy's senate spot was lost to a once nude posing Republican. For anyone who says Obama has not done anything since his election here you go.
This has been a not so modest return to politics from Your Modest Guru. Thanks for reading.
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