I'm a pretty smart cookie, or at least I'd like to think so. My grandma thinks so, my husband thinks so. But there are some things I just don't get.
One of them is conservative university employees: You do realize that the Republicans are trying to budget cut you out of a job, all the time, right? Not just when times are tight, but always.
Another is people who acknowledge that a certain program would have helped them out when they needed it, had it existed at that time. But because it didn't, and ergo did not help them out, they're going to vote against it because they don't want anyone receiving any help they didn't get.
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Yeah... I don't get it. It's like when someone asked me if I was still going to donate money to Planned Parenthood and NARAL after I got fixed. I looked at them with my head all sideways and said, "Well, yeah, why wouldn't I?"
"You're sterile now, so you don't need those services anymore, and you don't have to worry about getting an abortion."
What the hell?
No, really. What. The. Hell? I don't just give money to causes and research that will benefit me. I do admit to a touch of that, since most of my medical research charity goes to breast cancer research, seeing as I have a family history of it. But I also donate to AIDS research when I can, Animal Welfare groups, the Literacy Council (and I assure you I CAN read), and a charity that provides lunches and snacks for kids at a local low-income daycamp. And, no, I don't have kids.
I really don't get people sometimes.
Maybe I should start donating to research on stroke treatments and heart attacks, since people seemed determined to trigger both in me on a daily basis.
It's like people I've met who tip like crap because when they worked in food service, people didn't tip them well, so they aren't going to tip their servers well. Well, I guess some people's dharma could be to be an asshole or serve as a bad example to everyone else.
I had more to say on this matter, but it would really just be repeating the same things over and over and over again. Health care for everyone would help everyone. Being able to see a doctor affodably at regular hours would unclog ERs, which would save lives. People would be able to see doctors for conditions BEFORE they get life threatening, which would save money and lives. I'm betting it would also go a long way towards shutting down epidemics of bacterial infections, if people could go get the antibiotics to take care of something in a few days instead of having to ride out the full infection cycle.
I just don't understand how people don't see that health care for everyone, really is health care fore EVERYONE. Whether you can afford to see a private doc or not.
Mickey Schulz is a guest author for the California NOW blog; her opinions are not necessarily those of California NOW. Copyright Mickey Schulz, with permission granted to California NOW for use on this site.
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