Health Care Blues

Later this week, the Supreme Court of the United States will be deciding on whether 50 million Americans are worthy of health care coverage.  What do they really care?  They have lifetime jobs, with paid healthcare for themselves and their families - even if they retire, have  a pre-existing condition or need extra ordinary or long term care.  Even one of the justices has made 1.5 million dollars from opponents to health care reform. 

I don't know about you, but shouldn't we be entitled to basic health care?  I mean, if one wants to pay for additional coverage or for certain insurances, that should be their own option and by all means they should be able to do so.  But basic, non-bankrupting health care should be an option to ALL Americans, especially those too young for Medicare and not eligible for Medicaid.

Around Memorial Day, I hit my head on the refrigerator door.  There must have been a small lesion already existent on the subcutaneous cyst that is there, so bacteria entered and it became wildly infected.  It was incredibly painful, puss filled, and bleeding for several days.  Even the cyst itself erupted from within my scalp as I self medicated and lanced this wound.  It was ugly, and terribly scary and disconcerting to say the least. 

Luckily, since I have type 2 diabetes and shoot Byetta twice a day, I had a supply of sterilized needles to assist me in my self mutilation.  Instead of being able to go to the ER,  doctor or urgent care center, which would have cleared out my freelance and meager bank account, I screwed up my courage and took care of myself, despite the lack of local anesthetic, or medical skills.

It's not right.  Because I have a pre-existing condition, even though its well controlled, and because I am a woman of a certain age, I am unable to afford reasonable health care.  My choice is to have healthcare or a roof over my head.  I can't have both.  And yet, I am certain that the Supreme Court doesn't give a damn about me or the 50 million others like me.  All Roberts and his cronies care about is if their Republican overlords are happy.

I used to believe that the Court was the last bastion of safety for the American people, but since the millennium, it has proven itself time and again a shill for the right-wing agenda that is decimating this nation.  It is time for all of us to rise up and say enough.  We pay taxes and we outnumber the 1% that seems to be guiding the nation's agenda.  Our tax money is ours, and it should be spent on raising up all of our citizens.  I pray that the Court will understand this but with the ideologues such as Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts riding roughshod over the rest of the Justices, I feel I am a voice crying in the wilderness.