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

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That's the thing that gets me. I HAVE money. I've always had money. In both the UK and Australia I just pay to use private medicine when I need it, and rely on public whenever I am run over. In fact, the public here was so good, I stopped my private insurance. With my money, I can make all sorts of decisions, taking advantage of the capitalist society I live in.

I think that decision making process is what Americans want to have, and I am fine with that, I like it, too!

But where we differ is that I think I have enough money to find the services I want, and therefore the government's theories on the health care that needs to be available should NOT be driven by people like me! It should be driven by people who CANNOT make those sorts of decisions because they lack the resources. That's why we have governments, to do the things that individuals can't.

Oh bugger it, now I sound French ...

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

I quite agree. Just yes to all of this. If I had enough money to make those choices for myself, I would hope that I would still care enough about the people who don't to ensure that there was something in place for them. But alas, most people are not particularly altruistic, which is why we need to elect governments that care about people.

Do you sound French? Like, grammatically or politically? Grammatically I think you sound fine, but I live in a city full of people who speak English as a second language to their French, so I'm possibly used to that. Politically, I just have no clue, hahaha. *loses*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It was the socialist idealism coming from the privileged ;-) Which I have to say, I don't mind!

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that was possible! I don't think it is on my continent!