Yeah, it's pretty heinous. It's heinous that people have to go to other countries to get the treatment they need, or to afford it, it's heinous that they can't afford emergency care, or when emergency care isn't available to them because of the quality of care available or its nonexistance. That, in a developed country that thinks so highly of itself, a mass of people can be killed in cold blood because of their gender and then the survivors are denied basic care for any reason--that's the kind of thing we think of happening Other Places and I hope that more people will take a look and realize that it isn't.
People are just very ignorant about the issues, here, and they've been lead by the nose with their ignorance until they are worked into a froth of fear, anger, and deliberate misinformation. And, unfortunately, no matter what the facts are a lot of people just won't hear it, because their minds are totally won over by greedy fear mongering.
If I had the heart or the time, I'd sit down everyone and calmly explain to them how a public insurance option works and how it's just a subsidized insurance option and paired with cuts in general health care costs it helps make sure that everyone can get life saving treatment and prevention when they need it and fewer loved ones and children and young people will have to die because they couldn't get the care they needed in a first world country.
(Guam does fundraising of the manual labor kind or the church collection kind for all kinds of big important things like health care costs and rebuilding people's homes or paying for funerals or whatever... I have no idea what the greater meaning of that is, aside from the community interdependence it's a part of)
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Yeah, it's pretty heinous. It's heinous that people have to go to other countries to get the treatment they need, or to afford it, it's heinous that they can't afford emergency care, or when emergency care isn't available to them because of the quality of care available or its nonexistance. That, in a developed country that thinks so highly of itself, a mass of people can be killed in cold blood because of their gender and then the survivors are denied basic care for any reason--that's the kind of thing we think of happening Other Places and I hope that more people will take a look and realize that it isn't.
People are just very ignorant about the issues, here, and they've been lead by the nose with their ignorance until they are worked into a froth of fear, anger, and deliberate misinformation. And, unfortunately, no matter what the facts are a lot of people just won't hear it, because their minds are totally won over by greedy fear mongering.
If I had the heart or the time, I'd sit down everyone and calmly explain to them how a public insurance option works and how it's just a subsidized insurance option and paired with cuts in general health care costs it helps make sure that everyone can get life saving treatment and prevention when they need it and fewer loved ones and children and young people will have to die because they couldn't get the care they needed in a first world country.
(Guam does fundraising of the manual labor kind or the church collection kind for all kinds of big important things like health care costs and rebuilding people's homes or paying for funerals or whatever... I have no idea what the greater meaning of that is, aside from the community interdependence it's a part of)