Am feeling remarkably rage-y today. I logged onto Facebook for the first time since the Health Care Reform vote on Sunday and was slapped in the face by a status/thing about Health Care Reform signalled the End of Days, along with a reference to the Mormon myth that a Mormon (obviously a good, republican) will save the US Constitution (no,
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I think I'll probably hit up testimony meeting on Sunday (I've missed the past two weeks) but plan to get my flounce on if people start spewing vitriol. I have, in the past, stood up in the middle of a testimony about the awesomeoness the Church's stance on Prop 8 and swanned out of the meeting, making sure that the doors slammed behind me. Sometimes it's fun to take your toys and go home.
Mormons. *eyes roll*
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I asked another good American friend (who is a surgeon) to give me some more details, and there's obviously a lot of misinformation going round. Thing is, the government took health care in it's hands over here for years. The system is far from being perfect, but most of what I need is covered, even if I have to pay a certain amount of money. And what some people don't seem to understand is that a government has to take things in its hands if private care doesn't work for those in real need - and in the US it definitely didn't.
Babykiller? There are laws against the govermental support of abortion, even I in Germany know that. Idiots.
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