Health Care...
So, I watched two movies recently: The Business of Being Born and Sicko.
Sicko, i think, despite being made by a controversial man, is a pretty accurate representation of the Health care system here. My mom recently came home from my brother's Japan's orientation and told me that she met a Czech women who was completely against socialized health care.
Now, first of all, she's from the Czech republic, not England or Canada, so not a place with an extremely highly regarded system, and she immediately said that all humans were greedy scum (okay, kinda true) but that she hated having to wait for healthcare because it was available to everybody.
So, after moving to the US, her first move is to marry a rich American doctor. Now, of course, she's just gotten right into our health care system without ever living here without it or on a lesser system. She immediately despised other systems and my mom is suddenly agreeing with her. Fuck that. I'm thinking that, socialized is still better than nothing, and someone who has lived from socialized to really wonderful doesn't know about the in-between, and if she'd had to live normally, she might not be so unhappy with socialized. Would you rather wait a few months for a hip replacement, or have no replacement and thousands in doctor's visits bills that it took to tell you that your insurance wouldn't cover it?
After that, during a convention to choose students who will be good examples of America for international travel, I guess she proceeded to rag on the Australians. Australians? I still have no idea what brought it up. Having lived there for a bit, she called their health care system the devil. She called them ignorant fools who lived among the world's most deadly animals and are no better than the convicts that they all, yes, all of them, came from. Then something about how they were all lazy bastards.
Call me a mean bitch, but I don't think she or her child should be allowed to be representations of American culture.
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Then there's The Business of Being Born. It's a wonderful film dedicated to the birth process and the American obsession with the C-section.
For those playing the home game, what technologically advanced culture has the highest infant mortality rate and highest rate of maternal death?
Bingo, the good ol' USA.
Why?
Survey says: Our healthcare system! This wonderful system dedicated to greed has pushed the c-section onto American women like the only option left. This leads to a massive decline in natural birth.
Let me put it this way: Labor is a natural process of the female human body, not only does it promote proper functioning in the infants before birth, but the body needs it as the end result. Hospitals are notorious for taking babies away from mothers for hours sometimes after delivery. The baby is supposed to be nursed after delivery, as the mother's milk at that time contains crucial nutrients. The milk is wasted, the baby is unfed and angry. Don't kid yourself, the hospital doesn't feed the baby, they poke it with needles and slap cold ink on its hands and feet. They ignore it as a human, it's a number, and it's taking up space in a hospital bed. They don't allow the babies to be cuddled and loved right after birth, as they should be.
The hospitals have told women that they don't know about birth, the tv shows are full of women screaming like fools and banshees and cursing out their husbands. Women don't know about birth? Don't know about birth? Fuck them.
I've seen all the tv shows of hospital births, and I've seen the videos of natural birth. Surprisingly, it seems to be the drugs that are causing the pain and confusion. Women in centers, with midwives, at home or in water, they don't seem to scream as much, if at all.
I think that we forget how much instinct truly lies in our bodies. The female body is constantly judged by men and they know nothing about it. Men get to decide about women's rights to choose, women's health care, and yet not one of them, on their best day, can understand even one bit, how it feels to be in the female body.
I've come to a decision. When I have kids, I'm not getting drugs and I'm going to a women's center. I don' t want to see the hospital unless there is something truly wrong. I'm going to feed them breast milk, because its what they should be fed, formula doesn't cut it.
I hate to say it, but I think to some extent, some women are getting lazy with kids. They give them formula because they're too busy to breast feed, though it saves a ton of money and is specifically designed to help the baby' s immune system. My mother worked full time and she still had time for me.
The drugs, the scheduled c-sections? Laziness, and weakness. There is something about the whole process that screams to be natural, and that's because it is supposed to be. It's not religious or anything like that really, it's just something that's part of being a woman.
Sometimes something isn't worth it unless you have to go through something to get it. Shouldn't bringing another human life into this world be that something?
If you're a woman, watch "The Business of Being Born" and consider it. It's about time we left the hospitals unless absolutely necessary for birth. Why don't we stay where we are comfortable? Why do we accept some random doctor's advisory, especially a male doctor, who doesn't care about what we want?
Look at the statistics, obviously something's wrong here in this country.
Sicko, i think, despite being made by a controversial man, is a pretty accurate representation of the Health care system here. My mom recently came home from my brother's Japan's orientation and told me that she met a Czech women who was completely against socialized health care.
Now, first of all, she's from the Czech republic, not England or Canada, so not a place with an extremely highly regarded system, and she immediately said that all humans were greedy scum (okay, kinda true) but that she hated having to wait for healthcare because it was available to everybody.
So, after moving to the US, her first move is to marry a rich American doctor. Now, of course, she's just gotten right into our health care system without ever living here without it or on a lesser system. She immediately despised other systems and my mom is suddenly agreeing with her. Fuck that. I'm thinking that, socialized is still better than nothing, and someone who has lived from socialized to really wonderful doesn't know about the in-between, and if she'd had to live normally, she might not be so unhappy with socialized. Would you rather wait a few months for a hip replacement, or have no replacement and thousands in doctor's visits bills that it took to tell you that your insurance wouldn't cover it?
After that, during a convention to choose students who will be good examples of America for international travel, I guess she proceeded to rag on the Australians. Australians? I still have no idea what brought it up. Having lived there for a bit, she called their health care system the devil. She called them ignorant fools who lived among the world's most deadly animals and are no better than the convicts that they all, yes, all of them, came from. Then something about how they were all lazy bastards.
Call me a mean bitch, but I don't think she or her child should be allowed to be representations of American culture.
*****************************************************************************************************************
Then there's The Business of Being Born. It's a wonderful film dedicated to the birth process and the American obsession with the C-section.
For those playing the home game, what technologically advanced culture has the highest infant mortality rate and highest rate of maternal death?
Bingo, the good ol' USA.
Why?
Survey says: Our healthcare system! This wonderful system dedicated to greed has pushed the c-section onto American women like the only option left. This leads to a massive decline in natural birth.
Let me put it this way: Labor is a natural process of the female human body, not only does it promote proper functioning in the infants before birth, but the body needs it as the end result. Hospitals are notorious for taking babies away from mothers for hours sometimes after delivery. The baby is supposed to be nursed after delivery, as the mother's milk at that time contains crucial nutrients. The milk is wasted, the baby is unfed and angry. Don't kid yourself, the hospital doesn't feed the baby, they poke it with needles and slap cold ink on its hands and feet. They ignore it as a human, it's a number, and it's taking up space in a hospital bed. They don't allow the babies to be cuddled and loved right after birth, as they should be.
The hospitals have told women that they don't know about birth, the tv shows are full of women screaming like fools and banshees and cursing out their husbands. Women don't know about birth? Don't know about birth? Fuck them.
I've seen all the tv shows of hospital births, and I've seen the videos of natural birth. Surprisingly, it seems to be the drugs that are causing the pain and confusion. Women in centers, with midwives, at home or in water, they don't seem to scream as much, if at all.
I think that we forget how much instinct truly lies in our bodies. The female body is constantly judged by men and they know nothing about it. Men get to decide about women's rights to choose, women's health care, and yet not one of them, on their best day, can understand even one bit, how it feels to be in the female body.
I've come to a decision. When I have kids, I'm not getting drugs and I'm going to a women's center. I don' t want to see the hospital unless there is something truly wrong. I'm going to feed them breast milk, because its what they should be fed, formula doesn't cut it.
I hate to say it, but I think to some extent, some women are getting lazy with kids. They give them formula because they're too busy to breast feed, though it saves a ton of money and is specifically designed to help the baby' s immune system. My mother worked full time and she still had time for me.
The drugs, the scheduled c-sections? Laziness, and weakness. There is something about the whole process that screams to be natural, and that's because it is supposed to be. It's not religious or anything like that really, it's just something that's part of being a woman.
Sometimes something isn't worth it unless you have to go through something to get it. Shouldn't bringing another human life into this world be that something?
If you're a woman, watch "The Business of Being Born" and consider it. It's about time we left the hospitals unless absolutely necessary for birth. Why don't we stay where we are comfortable? Why do we accept some random doctor's advisory, especially a male doctor, who doesn't care about what we want?
Look at the statistics, obviously something's wrong here in this country.