Monday, April 7, 2014

Good Is Smaller Than Bad

Watched a thing on 60 minutes last night about The Health Wagon, which is a health provider outreach organization in southwest Virginia that provides free health care to this rural population.

Like any meaningful endeavor, this organization fights for every dime of financial support it can get, operates on a thin budget and just barely gets by.

Two women travel around in a beat up Winnebago type thing, stopping in rural towns to offer health care to the poor. Specifically, the people who fall into the cracks created by short sighted states who refused to expand their Medicare programs to make health care available to people who cannot afford the  Affordable Care Act.

I know there is irony in that statement, but I am not in the mood to dig into it right now. Perhaps I'll conduct my very own expose on the evil President Obama's evil health care law at some point in time.

Right now I'm focusing on good humans vs bad humans.

The Health Wagon pulls into town and people line up to get check ups and medication. These people are dirt poor and unhealthy. The area has a 9% unemployment rate. Many are out of work and barely surviving. Insurance payments are the last thing on their minds.

They get free check ups, free medication, and if they need follow-up treatment this program somehow negotiates with local hospitals to make it happen.

When they pull into town, maybe twenty people show up. This organization is chipping away at a mountain of misery using only an ice pick.

What pisses me off is that finding financing to run this thing is an enormous struggle. If they had adequate funding, extravagant funding, they could be making a huge difference in the world.

On the flip side you have our corrupt Supreme Court justices opening huge loopholes in the law that allow grotesquely rich fat cats to buy our government.

The Koch brothers gleefully rubbing their hands together in anticipation of how they will financially rig all future elections to further their own interests and those of the kindergarten level intellectuals who make up the leadership of the republican party.

I am willing to bet these two moron brothers have not given half a second's thought to throwing some of their cash at The Health Wagon program. They probably don't even know it exists.

Sheldon Adelson, another pompous billionaire, recently held try outs for potential republican presidential candidates. These spineless puppets rushed to an event Adelson put together so they could kiss his ass and beg for financial support.

An absolutely disgusting display of how perverted our political process has become.

I doubt Sheldon Adelson gives much thought to The Health Wagon program.

This program is worthwhile and humanitarian. There are thousands more like it in the world trying to make all kinds of differences in all kinds of difficult situations.

If you take the cumulative positive effect these programs are creating and stack that up against the evil being done to the world by the overstuffed overrich, you would not even be able to see it.

Bill Gates is out there fighting the good fight but he is in the minority, and probably shunned as a lunatic by the Billionaire Boys Club.

Feels like the soul of humanity is fighting a losing battle.

The Bad: One woman interviewed on 60 Minutes had been diagnosed with lung cancer that spread to her brain. The disease was discovered as a result of check ups provided by the Health Wagon. She died before this program aired. Maybe she would still be alive today had she received adequate medical care on a timely basis.

Rich billionaires don't care about the death of someone like that. They don't care about millions of deaths of people like that.

The Good: The Health Wagon program recently raised enough money to buy a new Winnebago type thing.

The scales have been tipped to favor the moneyed and powered elite. It has always been that way but it is infinitely worse now than ever before. Just research the disparity between executive pay and worker pay and how huge the gulf has become.

This entire planet is suffering from a terminal disease called greed.

A disease that is much bigger than any attempt to balance it out with morality.

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