I posted to my personal blog on Saturday, about how fortunate I was to have lasted 8 years, after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma, without requiring any treatment, but also added in a few political rants about the US health care system.
I can't help it, no matter how much I try, it's just about impossible for me to forget how unfair the system is.
Anyways, I received a comment from one of my many fans, which wasn't expected, but it sure got me thinking.
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The commenter stated that while I
can disparage the US fee-for-service [health care] system, but that same system often works for the benefit of real patients, although the costs are astronomical.
The operative words I took from this comment were 'often works', obviously meaning not always, and 'the costs are astronomical', meaning many people can't get access to the health care they need.
He then added
But what is the value of life?
And that's what really got me going.
It seems obvious to me, in the US, what value is put on life is greatly dependent upon who you are, with some lives being valued more than others.
Sort of like Nazi Germany, don't you think? If you were a Jew your life wasn't worth much. You were considered inferior, and marked for extermination.
That sure sounds a lot like the preachings of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and most of the rest of the Republican party who preach health care as a privilege afforded only to those who can afford it. Less privileged [inferior] human beings (the ones who can't afford health care) are simply told 'you're not entitled'.
Now the Rush Limbaugh's and Glenn Beck's in the world, and the Republican party aren't [openly] promoting the genocide of everyone less privileged [inferior] to them. They don't have to. They just hide behind the guise that we can't afford to provide health care to everyone (while all the time our political leaders approve of spending of billions of dollars on two wars, and providing health care to themselves and all government employees with tax payer funded dollars), and simply deny necessary health care to less privileged [inferior] Americans, bringing about the systematic death of millions of citizens unable to obtain the care they need, and then divert attention away from their sinister plot by making wild accusations against those who oppose them.
So who are the true Nazis in America, and who is looking out for a nation, "of the people, by the people and for the people"?
The answers seem pretty clear to me, but..........