I got the unlucky opportunity to experience the feeling of unemployment for 1 month after graduation, and let me reiterate to myself, it wasn't great. The crux of its dreadfulness was not having health care. For my whole life, into my invincible college years, I never gave health care an afterthought. I never got sick, didn't visit a doctor otherwise, and always had my parent's arms to fall back on. However, once I was officially off my parent's lifesaver, I finally understood why Obama and most Dems are fanatically pushing an overhaul of our current health care system to include millions of living, breathing Americans who are unemployed/insured.
It is despicably easy for us (those with health care) to settle with the status quo and erase from our minds the suffering of the uninsured. The pain of fathoming a life of sudden death, cornered between literal survival and the artificiality of monetary survival, is heart-breaking. Albeit, I feel little remorse for the deserving handful of lazy, fat, smoking, self-induced, disease-prone bums. The majority, however, are innocent from their nurtured environments, ignorant or incapable of self-preservation and self-promotion. As pawns of the rat race, pushed by the same universal ideals to care for one self and loved ones, it is disconcerting to see corporate greed overcome basic human rights.
I hope our politicians will act with virtue.
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