A side note

[blamebrampton]

Dear Americans,
Outside of your strange, strange country, most of the developed world has this marvellous thing which we like to call health care for all. I'm reading an interesting mpreg (that will teach me not to read the warnings!*) story from hd_hols and the poverty-stricken pregnant one is in despair as his health insurance will not cover it. On the off-chance it was written by someone on my flist, the good for society news is that in the UK, this is not the problem you might think it is! And I have my fingers crossed that in the US, it won't be for much longer, either.

(And if anyone is planning to respond telling me that socialised healthcare is evil, I will LAUGH AT YOU, and then I will QUOTE REAMS OF STATISTICS until you FLEE.)

XXX
BB

* And yes, my dislike of mpreg is not supported by the excellent writing that occurs within that genre and the imaginative plots that many superior writers bring to bear on the concept. But I still don't like it!

Comments

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

...yeah, that's not going to happen in the US for a while. :| There are too many enemies of it.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Those enemies are EVIL and almost wholly in the pay or sway of huge corporations that care only for their bottom lines. I have this childlike hope that the combination of Obama and GFC will allow for a once-in-a-lifetime major cycle of change in the US that will see most of its citizens finally benefitting from the nation's potential.