Healthcare

It's time for universal healthcare in America. It angers me when people oppose it with idiotic reasons like: "why should I pay for someone else's insurance?" or "this is another step toward socialism" or "this is anti-American". My question is, what happened to the benevolent American? All the Republicans who want to help those poor, ass-backward Middle Easterners by bombing the shit out of them and building democracies into their countries' systems loathe the idea of helping their fellow Americans have a better life. Perhaps it's that we have the supposed possibility of attaining enough wealth in America to pay for it ourselves whereas the same is not available elsewhere. Yes, I'm sure if we lassoed in the insurance companies enough that they weren't completely gouging, lying, and generally being the scum of the earth (+), we could all afford insurance that actually ensured we would have what was necessary in times of need. But that doesn't happen in the land of capitalism! You want good health, you gotta pay for it! Since we won't reign in the insurance companies, we need the healthcare to come from elsewhere. Either by government sanction or goodwill. The latter has manifested itself in the form of free clinics which are great but they aren't hospitals.

By now, you should know what happened at King-Drew Medical Center in L.A: A person died in the emergency room's waiting area. They called 911 from the emergency room because no one was doing anything! Those who can't afford insurance, wait until the unsustainable pains in their body finally compel them to go to an emergency room which is filled with many others of the same mind. These aren't the unemployed or the welfare collectors; these are tax-paying citizens who can't afford health insurance for their kids, family, and themselves because it's too damn expensive.

If you're paying for the War on Drugs, the war on Iraq, the war on Afghanistan, the healthcare of Congresspersons, aid to nearly every country in the world, and $1000 toilets in the Pentagon, you bet your ass I expect you to pay for universal healthcare in this country!