Political Observations: September 2004 Archives

Hi *waves*. It's 4:45 in the morning and guess where I'm going. Have you gueesed? Well you're wrong. I'm actually going to the county clinic so I can keep from getting sued by the county over medical costs.

They call it health issurance, but it's not really health inssurance as much as letting them know that I have no money therefore I cannot afford to pay for even the most basic of medical care. It's quite depressing really, but I have to do it in order to get my zoloft and progesterone, which I need in order to live.

Yeah, it should be pretty fun. Standing out in the early morning twilight with the rest of the poor people, waiting for the clinic to open at 8:00am in hopes of getting one of those little pieces of paper with a number on it saying we can see the county worker today. Then it's another 3 hour wait until our number is called. Often they take you into one of those depressing rooms and ask you to pull out your ever monuting county medical bill (mine is up to about $300 now), so that they can take pity on you and give you a 6 month wavier to get discounted medical care.

If only we had socialized heathcare in this country. You'd think that everyone having a very basic need ( such as healthcare) without worry would be important, but it's not. Why, do you ask? Because in this country we worship one thing... MONEY. Fuck everything else. If you can't make money off it, it's not worthy of your time. And even if you do have health issurance, unless you're rich or have a kick ass job that actually cares if their employees live or die, you get a shitty plan that makes you take out a second mortage on your house, and you have to deal with doctors that get paid bonuses not to treat you, as well as companies who'd rather wait out your illness until you die from it than treat you for it, or better yet, use preventive medicine so you don't get it. You see, waiting you out is much cheaper than actually helping you get better.

Yes, my lack of zoloft is starting to catch up with me... as you can tell. I'm just disgusted with the world right now. There's so much injustice. There are more things wrong then there are right and that's sad. I guess it's just human nature. We live to kill each other.