Secondly, I’m with you on the “heading for the hills” syndrome. Someone told me the other day that “we can say goodbye to medical innovation and advancement” with a national health care system. But, idealist that I am, I find it hard to believe that research scientists and doctors got into the game primarily to make money. Perhaps as part of the reform plan we could provide for tuition reimbursement, as massive loans seem to be a major contributor to med school grads deciding to bypass family practice (which sorely needs them) to pursue careers in more lucrative specialized fields.

::snork::

I think, too, I’m going to take a break from politics. Between Angelo (which gave me nightmares) and the winger INSANITY, I’m exhausted.

Then I moved away from her and attended some rightwing, ultra-conservative churches. And my family lived in poverty– but those churches didn’t offer the help the Catholic church did. They came to our house to tell my mother that she was a sinner and that she was going to hell. My grandmother taught me that people didn’t help other people to get something from them and the proselytizing was certainly a heavy-handed way of getting something from someone in need. I’ll never forget that.

Don’t know why I felt compelled to tell you that, but I think it kind of fits in the scheme of what Christianity calls for Christians to do for their brothers and sisters and what the rightwing isn’t doing. They say that God will provide and if these people were true believers then God wouldn’t forsake them (my sister tried that with me). My own belief is that God gives you opportunities to do good for your family, your community and for yourself. Which leads me to a whole other part of an explanation about how it is people are suffering and God’s opportunities, but I’ll skip that part for now.

I think that Americans are being given the opportunity (again) to help each other and to make our country stronger. And some people are ignoring that opportunity. I can’t really understand it more than their ignorance blinds them to their duty as good neighbors (and good Christians).

Unless, of course, they did submit the paperwork but are hoping your daughter will pay them first. I don’t trust anyone (because of the ambulance thing and a dentist thing which I should write about) to not do something like that. She should call the Crime Victims Board to make sure it wasn’t submitted. Check up on them. Somebody’s not doing their job right (and quite possibly committing fraud). I’m sorry your girl has to go through that.

But hey! We have the bestest system in the whole of the universe, right? *sigh*