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What luck I& #39;m 2 for 2 on being forced to vote for the political equivalent of stale wonderbread because a bunch of old fucks can& #39;t pull their collective heads out of their asses. I know I& #39;m tweeting about this a lot but there is a valid reason behind it. 1/?
My absolute main issue on the table is Medicare for All or some form of nationalizing the healthcare system, and I& #39;ll tell you why. For those of you who don& #39;t know, my mother suffered a brain aneurysm and several strokes last summer while in Florida with her sisters.
If this were to happen in virtually any other country, all we would have to worry about is my mother pulling through her half dozen brain surgeries and then be able to handle the rehabilitation afterwards while she learned how to speak and walk.
Instead, my mind was half filled with all mentioned above, but also how are we as a family going to recover from this financially? We have insurance, but on top of the exorbitant premiums, we still end up paying for the majority of it all anyways.
I& #39;ll tell you the exact moment my heart snapped in half and my fear and anxiety transmuted into hate and anger. We had just got the call that my mother was heading into her first surgery, and the thought of her on the operating table was too much for my famously stoic father.
As we all gathered around ending up in a massive group hug, he said choking through tears, "I hope they take our insurance". I was fucking livid. As if the stress of potentially losing his wife wasn& #39;t enough, the looming fog of financial ruin already began to rise up.
After all was said and done, my mother is happy, healthy, and in good spirit. An ideal outcome, right? Except we are still paying off those medical bills, and that& #39;s because we were lucky enough to be able to get a payment plan.
And this is to say nothing of myself, who lives in chronic pain and routinely can& #39;t get out of bed because the pain is so intense, but doesn& #39;t want to go to the doctor& #39;s for fear of diagnostic bills or premium hikes. Those are my options.
I either live in constant pain every waking second of my life, or wipe my entire emergency fund on just figuring out what the issue could even be, let alone seeing a specialist, looking into treatment, etc. And what luck, that in my mother& #39;s case, brain aneurysms are idiopathic.
They can happen to anyone, at anytime, any place. Of course certain factors put you at more or less risk but its largely chance. My parents were effectively bankrupted by a chance occurance. Simply because the United States healthcare system is fundamentally broken beyond repair.
A system so broken infact that it& #39;s inefficiencies and cruelty in practice is known around the globe. Everyone knows our system fucking sucks. Nobody in their right mind would even try to defend a private healthcare system, the two concepts and diametrically opposed.
A healthcare system is meant to heal people, no matter their race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc. A private corporation& #39;s primary goal is to stack as much cash as possible no matter how cruel the method of extraction is. Those two together absolutely do. Not. Work.
The result is extortion with highest stakes imaginable: people& #39;s lives. Yet I& #39;m expected to go march to the polls and vote for someone who is in recent record of being against a better system? They can fuck straight off. Citizens United has rendered our political system impotent.
I& #39;m done. Joe can take his "centrist" policies and ram them up his ass, because his whole schtick is a return to normalcy. Normalcy didn& #39;t put us on the moon. It sure as hell can& #39;t fix systems that were already broken when whatever "normal" was.
The system was fucked in 2015, the system is even more fucked now, but if all we advocate for is normalcy we still end up with a busted pile of shit for a healthcare system. The only reason I& #39;m able to get any care at all is because of my university.
