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I started this post with way too much information. It would have boggled your minds and possibly most of you would not have read it anyways after seeing the length of the post.
SO I erased it and started over.
Now I'm going to start this post with a simple question...
Are you ill?
No? That's great!
Yes? Then you will want to know more of what I have to share.
If you're not, then let me ask you this. Is anyone you love ill? Have you ever been sick enough to require surgery or long term medical care?
Have you or anyone you love ever been in medical debt?
Are you, or anyone you love, on a life long prescription for a medical condition?
Do you have medical insurance? If not, do you hope and pray that you never get sick?
These questions could go on and on.
Okay, well let me get to my point.... I just watched an extremely moving documentary. It left me confirmed about my suspicions and I urge you to watch it too.
I'm talking to all of you, but especially to people I love that I know can answer yes to one or more of the above questions. People like Cheri, who has diabetes and whose mother has cancer, and people like Lana, whose daughter is autistic. People like Kiki, who has had more experience in pain as a young woman in her early 20s, than she has had pain free and healthy. People like Amy, whose daughter's medical story is one that moved me so deeply because of the pain in her mother's eyes while recalling the details in summary to me. People like ffg, who deal with the constant pain from a disease like Lupus. People like me, people like you. People who have struggled to understand why a prescription for the flu for just one person costs $125, even though they have insurance. People like me, who are thousands of dollars in debt because we had the misfortune to get ill, or have a family member that fell ill. Like people who have a daughter with autoimmune disease. People like me, who had to have a hysterectomy, and my bigexil, who sawed off three of his fingers while crafting a beautiful princess bedroom for our little Lia (accidentally, of course). Like people who have two children that need a monthly prescription that costs $128 a piece.....and that's with an insurance policy that costs approximately $600 in premiums each month. They don't get the prescriptions because they can't afford them. This could go on and on.
I'm not trying to drum up a pity party. I'm just trying to make a point to all of my American friends who know what I'm talking about. I urge you all to watch a documentary that will tell you the truth about America's health system.
I love my country, don't get me wrong. I think what I love most about my country is that the people who live here can make things change....if we work together. Watch the documentary, then let me know what you think. I still have faith, but it's time to start taking care of each other again.
Go rent SICKO today. I checked it out from the library. Borrow it from a friend. However you can get it.... just get it and Watch It, please!
Much love to you all!!! Stay healthy!
SO I erased it and started over.
Now I'm going to start this post with a simple question...
Are you ill?
No? That's great!
Yes? Then you will want to know more of what I have to share.
If you're not, then let me ask you this. Is anyone you love ill? Have you ever been sick enough to require surgery or long term medical care?
Have you or anyone you love ever been in medical debt?
Are you, or anyone you love, on a life long prescription for a medical condition?
Do you have medical insurance? If not, do you hope and pray that you never get sick?
These questions could go on and on.
Okay, well let me get to my point.... I just watched an extremely moving documentary. It left me confirmed about my suspicions and I urge you to watch it too.
I'm talking to all of you, but especially to people I love that I know can answer yes to one or more of the above questions. People like Cheri, who has diabetes and whose mother has cancer, and people like Lana, whose daughter is autistic. People like Kiki, who has had more experience in pain as a young woman in her early 20s, than she has had pain free and healthy. People like Amy, whose daughter's medical story is one that moved me so deeply because of the pain in her mother's eyes while recalling the details in summary to me. People like ffg, who deal with the constant pain from a disease like Lupus. People like me, people like you. People who have struggled to understand why a prescription for the flu for just one person costs $125, even though they have insurance. People like me, who are thousands of dollars in debt because we had the misfortune to get ill, or have a family member that fell ill. Like people who have a daughter with autoimmune disease. People like me, who had to have a hysterectomy, and my bigexil, who sawed off three of his fingers while crafting a beautiful princess bedroom for our little Lia (accidentally, of course). Like people who have two children that need a monthly prescription that costs $128 a piece.....and that's with an insurance policy that costs approximately $600 in premiums each month. They don't get the prescriptions because they can't afford them. This could go on and on.
I'm not trying to drum up a pity party. I'm just trying to make a point to all of my American friends who know what I'm talking about. I urge you all to watch a documentary that will tell you the truth about America's health system.
I love my country, don't get me wrong. I think what I love most about my country is that the people who live here can make things change....if we work together. Watch the documentary, then let me know what you think. I still have faith, but it's time to start taking care of each other again.
Go rent SICKO today. I checked it out from the library. Borrow it from a friend. However you can get it.... just get it and Watch It, please!
Much love to you all!!! Stay healthy!