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David, I'm so glad to have found your blog and another glimpse into the world of a thinking, feeling, responsive poz man addressing the things that matter to us. Keep it up, my friend. Mark S. King Blogger for www.TheBody.com
Sadly, my little POZ blog buddy a lot of what he says is true - it isn't pretty but neither was Barbara Bush but she was still first lady...so re-read what he says from the vantage point of that we have become a society where nothing matters, and when the shit hits the fan someone will take care of us. Well, guess what? Not true at all. We all make choices and deal with those consequences somewhere down the line. Just look at me. Since the beginning of the epidemic I have been working as an AIDS clinician for free or in low paying jobs for decades. Well, it is now time for me to consider my own health and explore disability...guess what? Since I have "paid in" to the system so little over the years to do the work I wanted to do I will never be able to go out on HIV disability even though I am fucking circling the drain. The big HOWEVER here is that we in the US still consider health care a luxury item and not a human right. So while the jerk head is just that he is also right to point out to the young not to take health and benefits for granted like I did. His point was made harshly but it has a ring of truth to it. Now let me go swallow some pain pills before I see my afternoon of patients that are doing a hell of lot better than I am for whatever reasons.
There is so much wrong with there even being a BCBSA. Do not doubt for a second that the health insurance industry has all politicians of all stripes in their pockets.
Your blog makes me think of the likely overused Churchill quote [to paraphrase,] “Democracy is the worst form of government…except for all others that have been created.” Perhaps it’s true. Or not, I don’t really know for sure. But I do know we have some really huge problems. And I’m not just talking about the current problems with the economy or gas prices, etc. There really is a balance of justice problem in our society today. I mean, it is huge. I suspect Serota is just being who he is supposed to be. That is, a product Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman. Profit has to be the priority which abets the market which abets society. But it always seemed obvious to me that these theories where short sided. They forgot about you. And me. And values. Values which we as a society choose to guide us. And when values are lost or thrown aside, we enter the grotesque. Serota’s statement (and yes, even his picture) are grotesque to me too. But maybe we really are entering a new era. I think many of us have laid unreasonable expectations at the feet of our new president. But, I don’t think it unreasonable to consider that maybe we’ve entered a new era. Put whatever name on it but I’m thinking and hoping the end of the Reagan era is really upon us and we as a society truly begin to hold the Lay’s, the Madoff’s more accountable than those guilty of a drug possession and we tell the Serota’s to just f*#% off!
Couldn't agree with you more. To think of all the human loss in the name of greed and profit. Shameful.
Jerry Robbins
Insurance in the USA isn't going to change for a long time. Their are ways just as the insurance companies use that we the sick that are over the doughnut hole category can do with a trust fund with a good lawyer. If you you don't believe me call one now and see. You can get a trust fund for your over the amount diqualification area of money you make. Then you can beat the system they forced on us. THINK ABOUT IT GUY"S AND GAL"S
February 4, 2009