Health Care, October 29, 2009
Like most children growing up, and like Dr. King, I too had a dream. I dreamed of being a doctor. I wanted to help people who were sick and needed help. I saw it very simply through the innocent eyes of a child; if someone was sick, someone should help them get better. Unfortunately for my childhood, and my dream, I had to grow up and learn of something called insurance and a health care system.
I wanted to be a doctor, as mentioned before, but that was before I learned that I could not just go out and save everyone that needed help. If someone was sick, I had to wait and see if they could afford the help that I was so desperately ready to give. I just could not do it, I could not go up to someone and say, “I am sorry, I cannot make you healthy; your insurance does not cover it.” How hopeless has the country or world for that matter, become that we need to be rich enough, in order to be healthy? Why should the well off be able to live the care free life, and not have to worry that each pill costs $100? Why do I need to pay to feel healthy and live my life?
I dare not go in-depth to the problem here in the United States, it would only frustrate me even more and most likely confuse me more than I already am. But I need not look at the healthcare system here at home, I just look at the outside world, where in many places, their people have never seen a doctor in their life. Have never heard of pharmaceutical drugs, or have even used a bad-aid before. We complain that we cannot afford the help of a doctor, when others don’t even have the choice of argument, they just die.
So with all the talk these days of healthcare reform, and the arguments of government run health care, I could care less who is right or wrong or who is running the damn thing, just get the people healthy so that they can enjoy and live their lives. It is already a written and unwritten law, that everyone on earth has the right to live and not have to suffer by the hands of others.
So for those of you that are in control of the healthcare in the world, and want to see the price of health care rise, and watch its scope dwindle to only the rich, it is by your hands that others have to suffer. You kill all of us that want to live like you. You let us peasants die on the streets as you pass us by, complaining about your cold. We don’t have your luxury of wealth, but we have a stronger yearning to live, and we would want to see you as healthy as we wish we can be. We do not want your pity or your donations; we want to live as you. We have the right to live and be healthy too.
Like most children growing up, and like Dr. King, I too had a dream. I dreamed of being a doctor. I wanted to help people who were sick and needed help. I saw it very simply through the innocent eyes of a child; if someone was sick, someone should help them get better. Unfortunately for my childhood, and my dream, I had to grow up and learn of something called insurance and a health care system.
I wanted to be a doctor, as mentioned before, but that was before I learned that I could not just go out and save everyone that needed help. If someone was sick, I had to wait and see if they could afford the help that I was so desperately ready to give. I just could not do it, I could not go up to someone and say, “I am sorry, I cannot make you healthy; your insurance does not cover it.” How hopeless has the country or world for that matter, become that we need to be rich enough, in order to be healthy? Why should the well off be able to live the care free life, and not have to worry that each pill costs $100? Why do I need to pay to feel healthy and live my life?
I dare not go in-depth to the problem here in the United States, it would only frustrate me even more and most likely confuse me more than I already am. But I need not look at the healthcare system here at home, I just look at the outside world, where in many places, their people have never seen a doctor in their life. Have never heard of pharmaceutical drugs, or have even used a bad-aid before. We complain that we cannot afford the help of a doctor, when others don’t even have the choice of argument, they just die.
So with all the talk these days of healthcare reform, and the arguments of government run health care, I could care less who is right or wrong or who is running the damn thing, just get the people healthy so that they can enjoy and live their lives. It is already a written and unwritten law, that everyone on earth has the right to live and not have to suffer by the hands of others.
So for those of you that are in control of the healthcare in the world, and want to see the price of health care rise, and watch its scope dwindle to only the rich, it is by your hands that others have to suffer. You kill all of us that want to live like you. You let us peasants die on the streets as you pass us by, complaining about your cold. We don’t have your luxury of wealth, but we have a stronger yearning to live, and we would want to see you as healthy as we wish we can be. We do not want your pity or your donations; we want to live as you. We have the right to live and be healthy too.
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