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Reader Post | By Charles Aulds
Should more Americans care what happens to others? What do you think?
I immigrated to Canada, from a Deep South US state, in 2005, along with my wife and my 14 year old daughter. I was 48 years old, and I now have long personal experiences with the medical system in both Canada and the US.
I would never suggest to anyone that better medical care or facilities or equipment or professionals is available anywhere in the world than what is available in the US. The problem, in the US, is that access to that medical care is increasingly rationed based on ability to pay for it, and a growing number of Americans are finding themselves forced to forgo necessary care for financial reasons.
I was one of the lucky ones, too … I had a lot of career success; I wrote a best-selling technical (Linux) book in 2000 … but after my wife’s colon cancer experience (which gave us those famous “pre-existing conditions”) and my being caught in a corporate “downsizing”, I understood that it would not take much of an emergency to put us in a very bad situation. I could not ignore how many Americans suffered from no fault of their own … and I changed my attitudes dramatically.
The best measure of the greatness of a nation (in my opinion) is in how it treats its citizens who are the weakest, most vulnerable, the elderly, the infirm, the handicapped.
The US is losing something that is a lot more important than their economic and military dominance of the planet … Americans are losing their claim (in the eyes of the entire world) to being a people of compassion.
Is it worth it? I don’t think so. I think it’s yet another in a growing series of very bad choices.
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Indeed, most Americans are probably in very good shape. As long as they choose not to care about those who are not as fortunate, most Americans have no reason to hope for change. Ignore the “have-nots”—it’s the American Way.
But “most” is the problem. “Most” excludes millions of Americans. So the divide is really between those who think that those millions of Americans don’t count (those who ignore the “have-nots”) … and those who think those Americans do matter..
I think they matter … because the measure of the greatness or goodness of a society is always reflected in how well it treats its most vulnerable; its infirm, its weak and elderly. Its poor.
Americans are trying to determine whether they will be great and good … or sell their souls to the highest bidder. America is in the process of making that choice, whether people are aware of it or not. And the choice is profound, because it will set the country on a course that may prove impossible to reverse.
That’s why the opponents of a universal healthcare system have resorted to a campaign of lies and fear rhetoric. They do not use fact or reason, or offer alternative solutions. Because they have already made their choices, and an honest, open, fair-minded debate is not in their best interest. And science is their enemy.
What do you believe? Do you even know anymore?
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Charles Aulds
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