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Big Bird &
co. educate so many kids at the preschool level and beyond, teaching that
learning can be fun if not a joyous experience.
Obamacare is a
landmark and salvation for so many, far from single-payer or public option, but even farther
from the indifference that has cut off more than 40 million people from
insurance. Think of Appalachians receiving medical care for the first time in
their lives, think of availability of coverage for those of us with
pre-existing conditions. Who doesn't have one? Being human is a pre-existing
condition. That hale and hearty youth who pays five cents a month could be struck
by some kind of hazardry that could keep him in the ICU in a coma for the next
five years.
Actuarial
statistics guarantee that he'll be insured anyway, because chances are so slim.
The utterly
obtuse alternative to Obamacare? GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM? A guaranteed tax
increaser, Rom. Who pays? We pay! Why not pay for Obamacare instead? We could
treat dozens at least that way instead of one.
Medicaid cares
for the poorest and most handicapped among us. But those populations are the
least likely to vote, losing more and more power every day.
Maybe Hurricane
Sandy is the wrath born of threatened, further deprivation in this wealthiest
of all Promised Lands. Let's hope the power lines go down and stay down, that
power of the very few sucking out the blood and guts of the many.
Massive flood
alerts threaten beach homes up and down the coast. Think of THE flood that
wiped all but the Noah family and innocent beasts from the face of the earth.
Who owns those
homes if not Rom's people? Oh, well, they'll build others, even if their
designer insurance policies don't cover acts of God.
ACTS OF GOD.
Just as in Haiti,
those in the flimsiest habitats will suffer the most, though.
Is that the best
God can do in this hapless, hopeless twenty-first century?
Place perpetual
storm clouds above the heads of the Kochs and their brothers and sisters.
Waterboard them for a while. Let them visit Haitian lives for an extended
vacation, instead of Nassau or Jamaica.
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