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*cough* There's this nagging scratch in the back of my throat that's been bothering me for months, I think it's Strep. ironycoccus. Of course, I'm not going to the doctor because I don't have health insurance, and unless I'm knocked up or faking enrollment at the university, there are very few clinics in this area available to the uninsured. As a concerned twenty-something, I'm speaking out for my rights: my right to multiple partners, to Spring Break in a hotbed of water-born illnesses, and to engage in reckless amusements like base-jumping or Russian Roulette. How am I supposed to enjoy casual sex when I'm worrying about affording the DNC to treat my abnormal pap smear?
Being election season, several solutions are floating around, though you know you have no idea what any of them are. Neither do I, and I can still hardly decide if I'm a nationalized healthcare girl or a privatized insurance with pay-ins kind of girl, but here is a list of links of varying points of view to read over while you recover from treating yourself for genital warts with a match and a nail file.
Barack "Doc Hollywood" Obama's plan
Paging Dr. Feel Good McCain
Health Care for America Now.org, the hot new hippy girl in school (and rich, they're boasting a $40 million campaign budget)
The Huffington Post dishes
I Heart Guts, purveyors of fine, plush internal organs that are too cute to donate
American Cousin
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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I have two thoughts that come to mind when the discussion turns to socializing health care, although the thoughts are broadly applicable across many government policies:
1. "The government" doesn't have money to provide health care for you; only people who pay taxes to the government have money. Consequently, you are not getting free health care, you are merely making someone else pay for it, while staring down the barrel of a gun.
2. One rarely hears the phrase, "Gee, I enjoyed my experience with the National Health Service."
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