the unwanted

When listening to people's reactions about health care reform, I tend to think that some people's reactions are just plain selfish and ignorant. Especially the part where people think they are too great to pay "for those who use the emergency room as a physicians office or gangsters, drug dealers, prostitutes who should just be left for dead blah blah" or believe that illegal immigrants are going to receive health care under the 'public option.'

Morons, the majority of these hecklers are probably the same people who believe that Obama was going to take away their guns. Erg

What makes me mad about these comments is that they are coming from the type of people who either never experienced being poor or did have that experience but have forgotten what it felt like to be poor.

I'm not saying that everyone who believes that the 'public option' is wrong hates poor people or that they tote guns.

The two points I want to make are these:

First, many of those who are uninsured work 2 or 3, sometimes 4 jobs and are barely making ends meat. With no extra time or money to spend on regular check ups or to schedule appointments, going to the hospital will always be a last resort. Some critics will say that a person could avoid the cost and time in an emergency room if one had regular check ups, however, the quality and provisions that is sustained by the type of hospital one straddling or at the poverty line could afford rarely has the necessary equipment to find or treat any major injuries.

Second, why is it that the minority is always to represent the majority? People like to talk about those they won't want to insure through this private option; illegal immigrants, prostitutes, drug dealers, gangsters, etc forget that the majority are often time full time working mothers, sick babies, sick children, sick adults who can't afford proper medical care, or the homeless (who are more likely the mentally ill or veterans). You know what type of people I don't want to finance? The Bernie Matloffs, the guys at Enron and everyone else who feeds on the suffering and financial instability of the world. Wait, aren't those people rich- as in so rich that they spend more money in a week that I would ever make in the span of my life time.

I just asking that people look and research before they air their opinions. Erk