I Got Mine, To Hell With You

Went to a demonstration in Valparaiso, Indiana at Senator Lugar's office in support of National Healthcare last week. On the other side of the street was a counter demonstration against National Healthcare.

Out of curiosity, I moseyed over to the counter demonstrators to speak to some of them and read the signs they were carrying. Low and behold, each and every person I spoke to had health insurance. So those who considered themselves all set, and OK as far as their own health insurance was concerned, for some reason, were satisfied with the uninsured or underinsured staying just the way they were and just going without.

Let me try some of my Hobart High School math again......The population of the United States is about 300 million........It's said that about 50 million people are without health insurance.
That means that one sixth of the American people are without health insurance.

We can't afford National Health Care?

We are the most powerful nation on the face of the earth?

Every other industrialized country on earth provides health insurance for their people.

We could, if we wanted to. I think that understanding what it must be like to be unable to afford health insurance is what the meaning of empathy is.

It's sort of like speaking badly of a person, or demeaning a person for having to ask for food stamps, or government aid........until you lose your job......then it's a different story...

I met a lady yesterday who works part time in a local hospital as an xray technician. She can't afford to purchase health insurance. Now that's pitiful.

But so many right wingers think that the emergency room is good enough for those who can't afford health insurance. Just like former Congressman Chris Chocola here.