Although I could not stand it when he went up to the podium, because I knew without doubt that he was simply going to spew the talking points of the Bush Administration, but I find myself rather sadened by the death of Tony Snow. My heart goes out to his wife and children.
I think mostly it is that he was only 53, he was well-off and no doubt had the insurance to cover his medical expenses.
I begin to wonder if perhaps his death will get many American men to go out and get checked out. I would love to be able to do that myself, but since my wife lost her job, she lost her insurance, so we no longer have the ability to have check ups. Of course, I could get a check up, but it would be at my expense but since we barely have enough income to cover the few expenses we do have....
Perhaps Tony Snows death could be a sign? A sign that it is about time to call for a universal heath care plan? It is a foregone conclusion that it would be cheaper to have preventative medicine healthcare than having 50 million Americans holding off getting a check up until it is likely to late.
This drives up the cost of everything within our society. But the real trick will try and reconvince the many of our fellow citizens that paying a bit more in taxes to guarantee that they, their love ones and their fellow citizens will be able to see a doctor when ever they please who have been brainwashed into believing the rightwing talking point that taxes are bad and that any kind of 'society' type mind set will only lead to communism, facsism or worse.
After 240 years of American history, only a group led by rightwing idealogy and corporate money can possibly believe that garbage! Somehow I find myself weary of these same people being the ones that would try and lead us down that path.
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