Yeah, probably it's not the most original blog entry of the comunity, but I still wanna bring it up for the gazilionth time: the healthcare reform, you all know is the most dreadfull subject to be spoken about right now. It divides republicans specially, but also democrats, and suddenly everybody starts googleing it and trying to get as much information (true or fake) about it, not to decide their position, not by the inocent curiosity or moral standard of being informed. Nah. To be able to throw a big "Now here you got! Fuck you yeah!" to the oposite side. What the hell are we doing? What do we get? We're not even doing anything to solve it out or help in any way, we're just fighting over some immaginary cup to win God knows what.
So, you see, this is my point: I'm portuguese, am 16 years old and know very little about how the american health care works. I just know it is a private healthcare controled by ensurance companies who don't really give a crap about their clients and only want to get the biggest amount of money they can reach their hand to without loosing much money. That leads to situations like when someone finds out that has cancer and still doesn't have a health ensurance, it becomes extremely hard for him/her to find an ensurance companie that is willing to spend $700 or more a month to save their costumer's life. I know that many people in America don't want to have a health ensurance because they just don't have money to afford it and even if they did, it would still be risky to fully trust in it, as the insurance company could get ridd of the costumer as soon as it realised it was being too dispendious. I don't know if it's because I live in Europe, but I find just impossible to believe that american citizens have pulled this off for decades without a single change, or a will to change. I cant' understand how republicans (like Palin), BEING AMERICAN CITIZENS, can stand in the way of a considerable rising on people's quality of life... it just seems unreal to me. I stoped complaining about Portuguese healthcare system when I heard about the american one. It's crazy.
With all this blah blah blah, I meant to reach this: America needs a change. And I thing that everybody, and I mean everybody, even republicans and conservative people all over America have realized it deep inside, although their old-fashioned and surpassed vision of things still moves them towards nowhere. Politics is about mind-control. It is, and no one can say it isn't because it is. Everywhere. It's about sending a message to people that they know they want to hear, that can make people say without a blink "That's the guy". That was the master reason for Obama's victory; people feel a change inside their hearts and strike to reach it. But republicans keep on filling people's head with bullshit and completely turn reality into whatever it's better to distort the message, and we all see it everyday. In order to be a real change, there must be a real effort to join and start working in a plan to rebuild the world we live in, and everybody can help. It's a question of hope. That's where Obama is definately right.
