When Our Neighbors Wish Us Dead or Broke, We're in Trouble with More Than Our Health Care System

[ismnotwasm]

33. I tell people like that we could always bring back an old industry

Death wagons to pick dead and dying unfortunates off the street. He's an asshole. Plus 'working hard' doesn't guarantee shit. You can lose it all, and need government assistance. This, I've seen.

Being grateful for what you have, when and if you have it, having empathy and compassion as well as well as helping brothers and sisters in need or less fortunate is the healthiest response.

Where I work, (I'm a nurse) I'll occasionally hear a co-worker refer to a difficult, under or non-insured patient as 'a waste of resources'.

Fuck that. What leads to wasted resources is that attitude to begin with. Expanding medicare combines resources and allocate them fairly, cuts waste and holds health care providers and insurers responsible. Programs put in place for preventative care can only lead to improved health and health knowledge in the populace.

As far as the prison industry? It's a disgusting cesspit that needs a major overhaul. I wouldn't listen to anybody who uses anecdotal experience as a way to judge family members of the imprisoned (heh! I know this through anecdotal experience of my own)

And I was on fucking welfare at one time. Now I'm not. Thank God it was there, right along with food banks.