Health Care and the "Take Care of Our Own" Reach-Around Rhetoric.

The topic of health care, somehow or another, rarely comes up when I speak of issues that keep common Americans down. I try my best to do this unwillingly, but the overall necessity to identify the inherent hypocrisy laden in the counter-arguments needs addressed now more than ever. In recent discussions with both right- and left-wing friends of mine, the general consensus behind the vehement objections stems from two faulty issues that quite literally cancel each other out: paying for the health care with taxes and the age-old political pat-on-the-back that we as Americans give ourselves when discussion foreign policy, "help our own and then help others." Aside from the rhetorical red, white, and blue nonsense that takes the form of united help on any front, the importance within this article, albeit short and to the point, aims at identifying the impossibility strung in America's dehumanizing rhetoric that further exposes the inconsistencies within the counter-arguments that one would expect when discussing, say, the genocide in Darfur, and not the well-being of the citizens on "our soil."

I often find trouble even considering one's country as "their soil," since, for the most part, anything that waves an American flag around in the remembering winds of our forefathers usually accompanies imperialism, genocide (the hush-hush kind), and, at the very least, colonialism. But, to prevent further digression, the topic at hand, "helping our own and then helping others," seems to, in one way or another, have lost its muster through the recent proposal of a universal health care system in the United States. If, by chance, the arduous process of helping "our own" comes in any better form than an all-expenses-paid hospital visit, I challenge someone to tell me what that process may be. Some may lean in the general direction of "faith," or, as I like to call it, the realm of make believe, but even that institution receives billions upon billions of dollars in charitable donations per year all on account of an invisible being that "morally guides our lives" and the respectable "member" of the Catholic priest into the the alter boy's "holy ground." I speak on behalf of the Catholics as a recovered addict from the world of make believe, but I also believe the same aforementioned sodomy reference could be made across the spectrum of religion--Catholics just make it that much easier. So, to wrap that point up tighter than a prophylactic on a bishop's staff, if billions of dollars continually pour into a system of nonsensical oppression, why not put that money into a cause that actually shuns the sodomizing of little boys and, who knows, truly cares for people through medicinal purposes to potentially lead a healthy and fulfilling life? I can only pray to God that this will happen one day, but then I remember how useless my two dollars and speaking to the sky is. God always did have a soft spot for the morally bankrupt but fiscally and humanistically stingy. I bet God's health care plan is bitchin'.

You see? I'm still able to continue on with this article even after denouncing the patriarchy that is organized religion. Could I say the same if I were bleeding out internally with no insurance at the free clinic? Possibly, since they more than likely have a decent WiFi connection, but as free clinics usually remain understaffed and poorly funded due to the private sector's need to separate classes based on affordability of insurance, waiting for that dial-up connection may well be the last act I do on this Earth. Maybe that's what it is after all! Maybe Americans don't want to pay for health care for each and every citizen, regardless of social class, ethnicity, sexual preference, or age, because they know that they won't be able to update their Twitter status every thirteen seconds with Harry the Happy-Because-He-Has-Health care Hobo and Herbert the HIV-Positive-And-Still-Happy-To-Be-Homosexual Homosexual eating up their free WiFi connection and Jello cups! I knew the underlying mystery would present itself sooner or later, and to think that we, as the greatest nation in the world, didn't have to call in Scooby and the Gang makes me proud to be an American. I may not know that I'm free, but at least I know that my free WiFi connection that comes with my enormous hospital bill comes Hobo and Homo risk free. God, you really did bless America with stupidity, didn't you?

To end this rant without too many more offensive and nostalgic references--Scooby Doo, not the sodomy--I implore each person to look beyond the elitist rhetoric that keeps the poor uninsured and the rich on Twitter in their cozy hospital suites. Look past the rhetoric of the morons that promote "helping our own first" and see that these poor souls, more than likely at church praying right now, come from a corrupted system that cares little for anyone outside of the top 1% club that we all will never receive invitations to. You pay to have you streets patrolled by police, your fires put out by fireman, and your sick and dying hauled off by the EMTs in cases of dire emergency--until they get to the hospital, of course, where they become escorted off the premises by either the police force you pay for or, with a bit of luck, on a gurney in a body bag. So, therefore, for the love of the two or more dollars you spend per week to speak to God or Papa Smurf, start caring for each and every human on this planet. I can jump on board with the traditional rhetoric of "help our own and then help others," but in order to do so, we need to be damn-well-sure that "our own" can actively function to make a difference in the world. Be a human being and not a mindless machine. Smash it all. And, yes, God is a capitalist.