Why I Hate The Government, Specifically Universal Healthcare
1) My father is an officer in the Air Force. Most people, when they hear that, assume that he's fairly rich. He DOES have an important job-he babysits our nuclear arsenal and writes the security protocols-he even did some fairly important things I'm not even at liberty to talk about. What's he rewarded with? Sh1t for pay (he made more as a second lieutenant in real dollars than he now does as a major), declining benefits with declining coverage, and one of the crappiest pensions in the government. They pay f!cking POSTAL SERVICE workers better than him.
2) My mother is the wife of an officer of the Air Force. Consequently, when my dad joined, she was supposed to be entitled to comprehensive health coverage by base hospitals, as were me and my brother. We got coverage, kinda.
She has literally been at death's door at least three times to my memory, all because the government doctors are morons. The first was when the doctors refused to treat her kidney stones because "kidney stones don't group together that badly." She had 126 FVCKING KIDNEY STONES because when she first complained about it, she was put through the bureaucratic runaround!
The second time was when she had a major ear infection-they wouldn't treat her, wouldn't even give her an APPOINTMENT until she literally couldn't move the right side of her face and it was swollen black and blue. The only way she got treatment was when HHS mistook the symptoms for my dad beating her! And even then she wasn't treated properly; she had to endure macho colonel Army doctors who didn't give a damn about us because we were Air Force. Only when she went to a private doctor, spending what little extra money SHE had, did she get healed-and it was such a disgustingly easy fix, too. But another week and she would have died. What happened? The Army medical facility begged her not to tell their superiors about the incident. She did and asses got discharged (military term for "fired"), but still nothing happened REALLY.
Why? Because the third time she almost died, AT THAT SAME DAMN ARMY HOSPITAL, she went in to complain about this growth on her neck, and if she could schedule a doctor's appointment. A month later, the thing is huge and the doctor tells her "it's a wart, it'll go away." Two months after that, she can barely breathe, barely function when she goes in to see another military doctor about them MAYBE doing something about this growth on her neck, and they hemm and haw and say "Aren't you that b!tch that reported us to the Inspector General?" and tell her it'll go away. Finally, ONCE AGAIN, she pays out of her own money to see a private doctor, and they remove the thing and she was literally a few days from death. The growth was slowly wrapping itself around her windpipe, essentially slowly strangling her to death. A simple surgery removed it in an afternoon. She reported this to the Inspector General as well, and more asses got discharged over this.
After two incidents where the government hospitals are mortally inept TO THE SAME DAMN PERSON and get in trouble over it, you'd think that if nothing else they'd flag her account so all the workers would know not to screw her up, if for no other reason than to save their own damn asses. But NO, she's had trouble getting her medication from the pharmacy ever since, simply because she can't take the generic version (it doesn't work) and has to take the higher-priced one instead to keep her healthy. She complained once about it, and a general that had tried to cut in front of her at the Commissary greeted her and told her to go to Hell (generals are used to being treated like gods, to the point where defying them means they can deny you a healthy life, apparently). Another complaint to the IG, but a frustrated IG can't threaten a general so now she pays out her own damn money to get the meds she needs.
3) My brother almost died in a military hospital while the incompetent government doctors struggled to figure out what was wrong with him (they first declared that there WASN'T anything wrong with him even though he was in the ER with a million hoses coming out of his chest, that was cute). Because of their incompetence, he's got arthritis in every bone of his body for life, and he was deaf for the first five years of his existence.
4) My father, as an Air Force officer, gets like two hundred dollars worth of non-taxable income from the government every month as a "housing allowance." It's not only not enough to pay for housing, it's ALSO just enough to disqualify me for any FAFSA loans, grants, and every Nebraska state scholarship out there.
So listen up, you fvcking "government can solve everything" liberals. When you tell me that the government should have universal healthcare, what you're telling me is that you wish my mother and brother were both dead. When you tell me that the government should do more for college students, what you're telling me is that you don't want me to go to college. YOUR GODDAMN POLICIES HAVE REAL-LIFE CONSEQUENCES TO REAL-LIFE PEOPLE, AND THEY'RE NOT FOR THE BETTER. Stop thinking that you can solve everyone's problems and just focus on your own, we'll be better off without you or your incompetent, murdering government.
2) My mother is the wife of an officer of the Air Force. Consequently, when my dad joined, she was supposed to be entitled to comprehensive health coverage by base hospitals, as were me and my brother. We got coverage, kinda.
She has literally been at death's door at least three times to my memory, all because the government doctors are morons. The first was when the doctors refused to treat her kidney stones because "kidney stones don't group together that badly." She had 126 FVCKING KIDNEY STONES because when she first complained about it, she was put through the bureaucratic runaround!
The second time was when she had a major ear infection-they wouldn't treat her, wouldn't even give her an APPOINTMENT until she literally couldn't move the right side of her face and it was swollen black and blue. The only way she got treatment was when HHS mistook the symptoms for my dad beating her! And even then she wasn't treated properly; she had to endure macho colonel Army doctors who didn't give a damn about us because we were Air Force. Only when she went to a private doctor, spending what little extra money SHE had, did she get healed-and it was such a disgustingly easy fix, too. But another week and she would have died. What happened? The Army medical facility begged her not to tell their superiors about the incident. She did and asses got discharged (military term for "fired"), but still nothing happened REALLY.
Why? Because the third time she almost died, AT THAT SAME DAMN ARMY HOSPITAL, she went in to complain about this growth on her neck, and if she could schedule a doctor's appointment. A month later, the thing is huge and the doctor tells her "it's a wart, it'll go away." Two months after that, she can barely breathe, barely function when she goes in to see another military doctor about them MAYBE doing something about this growth on her neck, and they hemm and haw and say "Aren't you that b!tch that reported us to the Inspector General?" and tell her it'll go away. Finally, ONCE AGAIN, she pays out of her own money to see a private doctor, and they remove the thing and she was literally a few days from death. The growth was slowly wrapping itself around her windpipe, essentially slowly strangling her to death. A simple surgery removed it in an afternoon. She reported this to the Inspector General as well, and more asses got discharged over this.
After two incidents where the government hospitals are mortally inept TO THE SAME DAMN PERSON and get in trouble over it, you'd think that if nothing else they'd flag her account so all the workers would know not to screw her up, if for no other reason than to save their own damn asses. But NO, she's had trouble getting her medication from the pharmacy ever since, simply because she can't take the generic version (it doesn't work) and has to take the higher-priced one instead to keep her healthy. She complained once about it, and a general that had tried to cut in front of her at the Commissary greeted her and told her to go to Hell (generals are used to being treated like gods, to the point where defying them means they can deny you a healthy life, apparently). Another complaint to the IG, but a frustrated IG can't threaten a general so now she pays out her own damn money to get the meds she needs.
3) My brother almost died in a military hospital while the incompetent government doctors struggled to figure out what was wrong with him (they first declared that there WASN'T anything wrong with him even though he was in the ER with a million hoses coming out of his chest, that was cute). Because of their incompetence, he's got arthritis in every bone of his body for life, and he was deaf for the first five years of his existence.
4) My father, as an Air Force officer, gets like two hundred dollars worth of non-taxable income from the government every month as a "housing allowance." It's not only not enough to pay for housing, it's ALSO just enough to disqualify me for any FAFSA loans, grants, and every Nebraska state scholarship out there.
So listen up, you fvcking "government can solve everything" liberals. When you tell me that the government should have universal healthcare, what you're telling me is that you wish my mother and brother were both dead. When you tell me that the government should do more for college students, what you're telling me is that you don't want me to go to college. YOUR GODDAMN POLICIES HAVE REAL-LIFE CONSEQUENCES TO REAL-LIFE PEOPLE, AND THEY'RE NOT FOR THE BETTER. Stop thinking that you can solve everyone's problems and just focus on your own, we'll be better off without you or your incompetent, murdering government.
posted by Stuart Richards at 5:17 PM
STUART RICHARDS
3 Comments:
"So listen up, you fvcking "government can solve everything" liberals. When you tell me that the government should have universal healthcare, what you're telling me is that you wish my mother and brother were both dead."
And what your saying is that you wish every individual that was saved by government run hospitals, because they couldn't afford any other, were dead.
I neither agree, nor disagree with your point, but this argument wasn't rationale. You're appealing to emotion not reason.
Wow now I realize why universal health care is not so good. Great blog I learned a lot of good health coverage information.
Interesting read...I liked it and could see through a lot of the emotion.
I certainly do not deny you your experience...but I do believe there is a middle ground here. While I certailly do not believe in anyone being dependent on the government when humanly possible there are numerous exceptions that are fairly valid.
Again good read, and I will link you within the next few days.
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