eleetbob: (Kudos to you, btw)
In a country with so much wealth there should be no reason why there would be a problem both? We could be supporting homeless shelters for dogs and taking care of every man, woman, and child in this country but instead of using the wealth in this country to help those who need it, the Bush, Cheney, and Company made sure during their 8-year theft of office to ensure the richest of the rich got even richer while the middle-income families dropped into poverty and the low-income families dropped into even more poverty. The middle-income families who have bore the brunt of the taxes paid over the decades are losing everything that they once paid taxes on in order to pay for many programs that helped people while the rich families do nothing because they believe because it doesn't affect them directly then to hell with the "little people."
Everyone is broke including the country because BC&C (Bush, Cheney, & Company) raided our treasury acting as if it was their own private piggy bank making certain those who didn't need tax cuts were the only ones who got them while those who needed them most didn't get a damn thing.
Middle-income families are losing everything including their homes, which generated tax income for the country but now there are fewer and fewer people the government can screw out of their money b/c there are fewer home-owners around to pay taxes into the system. The rich people have their loop-holes and shelter funds to prevent paying anything in but the rest of us are screwed. Families of veterans who never made it home are living with relatives or in the street because there was no money set aside after Shrub and his Repug Cronies started an illegal war against an intangible enemy knowing they could drag it out for as long as they liked because let's face it, how does one go to war with terrorism? You don't! A large portion of veterans who did make it back came back medically disabled so therefore they were discharged from the military and no longer eligible for any medical care with the exception to the VA Hospitals who are so overrun now they can't take care of anybody. These disabled veterans and their families are losing if they haven't already lost everything they had. The veterans who are able-bodied after returning are often psychologically damaged and therefore put out of the military losing any chance at getting help. They are unable to get health care insurance because of the loop-holes in health insurance policies that state they do not cover for injuries or conditions as a result of war. There are news broadcasts all across the country where these men and women who served in our military putting their lives on the line even though it was for an illegal war but they did their job as ordered and now they are taking their own lives b/c they believe their families would be better off without them when it is just the opposite. Husbands, wives, and children need their parents. Parents need to have their children come back to them safe and sound and if that's not possible, it is incumbent upon us as a country to take care of these veterans because they served this country by putting the only thing they had toward the safety of the country and that was their lives... Instead of taking care of these men and women, VA hospitals and even civilian hospitals, doctors, and specialists are turning them away because they don't have a million dollars to pay for their medical care for life or support their families or even themselves for that matter.
The non-profit organizations that are out there to help people rely on donations from the public but since Shrub with his BC&C tanked the economy, there are few to no jobs so there is little to no money coming into the programs from donations. Retail doctor visits (those without insurance covering part of the bill) can cost upward of $300 to $1000 a visit not including various tests to get to the root of their problems then treat them for the conditions they have. It's the same with civilians who didn't serve in the military for whatever reason be it age, pre-existing health problems making them ineligible, or the fact they were the primary caregivers and breadwinners to support their families and could not leave their families else they end up on the street with nowhere to live; however, this is happening regardless and the heartless bastards in their billion dollar homes with their BMWs, Mercedes, and summer homes on Martha's Vineyard, etc... don't give a damn because it doesn't affect them directly. They have made it abundantly clear they don't want any part of helping others. They scream and yell socialism but yet they have no problem with services provided by the police, fire department, school system (most, if not all of them send their kids to private schools b/c they believe they are too good to send their kids to public schools like the rest of us out here), and other similar programs. They don't think those programs are socialist yet if anyone brings up the need, the desperate need for a national health care program they scream and spew their hatred by calling it socialism and then proclaim the "government" isn't taking their money to help others who have nothing regardless of the fact that most people who are financially strapped or bankrupt are this way through no fault of their own. They didn't choose for Bush to bankrupt the country so he could go play dictator over other countries then spout off about how HIS GOD told him it was right. If an average person proclaimed then proceeded to play soldier against any group in this country, that person would go to jail or to mental health yet Bush, Cheney, and Company did it and the ignorant fools in this country allowed it rather than put the ones responsible for this mess in a padded cell for the rest of their lives.
People can't afford to buy medications, life-SAVING medications. Hardly a week goes by when people are not dying all because they cannot get adequate health care and access to medications that are LIFE-SAVING! The JACKASSES who are fighting against a national health care plan for everyone have no clue as to the long-term savings we would see if we did have national health care available for everyone.
Think of the unpaid ER bills where far too many people must go to get any medical treatment because they can't afford the $300 to $1000 they'd have to shell out in order to see a medical doctor in an office. Of course, if they can't afford the doctor's visit, they sure as hell can't afford the prescriptions the doctor will write to help with their conditions. If everyone were covered under a national health care plan, there would be fewer bankruptcies, fewer absentees from work, fewer absentees from school, and over time with proper and regular health care treatment, many diseases that would otherwise leave people disabled for life would not be disabling if caught soon enough to treat the problem before it becomes disabling. If we capped pharmaceutical companies where they can't charge the citizens of the USA 1000% over what they charge for the same drug in other countries, you'd find that more and more people could afford necessary medications to treat their illnesses. A prime example of how the pharmaceutical companies screw Americans... the Depo Provera birth control injection that is given once every 3 months costs about $50 to $100 plus the cost of an office visit for a nurse to inject the drug. It requires no tests, just an injection. The same drug is available in other countries like India and etc... for $7. What is wrong with this picture? An entire county's employees were buying their medications from Canada where they are considerably cheaper. It pissed off the pharmaceutical company CEOs to the point they sent their lobbyists into congress under Shrub's administration pushing to the point that the law threatened to put the governor of the state and the leaders within the county in jail for allowing their employees to save money by ordering their medications from across the border. The pharmaceutical companies claimed there was a danger in contamination. Well, tell me how their drugs are contaminated when they are sold in the exact same identical boxes and bottles as they are here in the United States, where they are shipped out of the country mind you, yet none of the Canadians got sick from "contaminated" drugs? The drugs get even cheaper when ordered from China, Japan, Britain, England, Australia, etc... and these drugs are produced and packed by US pharmaceutical companies then shipped to these countries where they are sold WELL BELOW COST of what WE PAY HERE! Why? Because people in those countries would not pay what we pay here for our drugs. They'd open their own pharmaceutical companies, throw out our distributors and create pharmaceutical companies of their own who wouldn't be scamming them out of their hard-earned cash the way they do here.
Doctors in other countries seem to care more about their patients than about their income. In the Sicko Documentary, a physician who was interviewed lived quite well on his salary without forgetting why he went to medical school in the first place, which was to SAVE LIVES! All our physicians want is to earn a wad of cash and it doesn't matter to them who they have to steal the money from to get their cash either. They don't care that 80-year-old Mrs. Smith is unable to work and because her Social Security Check is based on what she earned when she was working regardless of the fact that the cost-of-living when compared to her SSA check is not enough to support one person by keeping a roof over her head, groceries in the house, utilities paid, fuel to run errands and pay bills, in addition to doctor appointments, tests required to ensure she remains as healthy as possible, and any medications she requires to remain as healthy as possible. In other countries where health care is available to everyone, Mrs. Smith doesn't have to fear whether she will have to give up her life-SAVING drugs to remain healthy or buy groceries and pay rent, or give up half her groceries and all her medications just to cover utilities.
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