A Sad Day

It's a Sad Day for America!
An interesting and intelligent hoomin has passed on. Senator Edward Kennedy wanted every single American to have access to healthcare. In my humble opinion, that's a noble goal. Healthcare shouldn't be something that you buy; it should be a feline right - and a hoomin right. The sad thing is that silly, mentally challenged Repubicans and moneygrabbing Democrats don't want everyone to have healthcare. They claim that if the government gets involved in healthcare, America will become a socialist nation!
As if, all of a sudden, hoardes of Marxist cats will march down the streets, yowling about communism and taking away the rich people's moneys. Well, that's not what would happen. Spain and France have free healthcare for all, and everyone is most happy. The UK and Canada have national healthcare systems, and everyone is most happy, except about the fact that there's not enough doctors and the wait lists are too long.. but I, the magnificently wise Dr. Jones, will let you in on a little secret. Do you know why there aren't enough doctors and the wait lists are too long? It's because greedy little medical students leave those countries and move to the US, because they know that if they become doctors in the US, they'll make much more moneys.
It's a sad thing indeed. The hoomins lack the hoomanity to provide healthcare to those who need it most. The poor, who cannot afford healthcare, also cannot afford to go to the gym and eat healthy salads and buy vitamin supplements. As a result, the poor get sick. When the poor get sick, they spread epidemics and disease to the rich people, or they have heart attacks and end up in hospital costing the rich people money. Does that sound like an effective system? I think NOT! What's more, don't hoomins care about the offspring of the poor? You can blame poor hoomins for not getting an education, for spending their money on stupid things, for not working hard enough, for getting knocked up and having babies they couldn't afford - but you can't blame the babies. How dare the hoomin race ignore those babies and children? Will helping them really turn us all into raving commies? I think NOT!
The entire concept of "insurance" for health is retarded! Retarded, I tells you. Hoomins (and cats) get sick. It's unavoidable and it's part of being a living organism. We live in a world surrounded by germs, bacteria, viruses, and fungi; the sun gives us cancer, our fingers get chopped off at factories, when we get old we get pneumonia, some of us are born with heart conditions, our genes give us sickle cell disease and Huntington's, we get run over by drunk drivers, we get worms from other cats or from other kids at school. To put it simply, shit happens. It really does.
Therefore the idea of a healthcare system run by insurance companies hoping you WON'T get sick and doing everything they can to deny you your right to treatment when you actually DO get sick makes no sense at all. Just as hoomins should all have the right to free education, hoomins and animals should all have the right to free healthcare. This is the government's JOB. If not, then what is the government's job? What do Repubicans really believe the government is FOR? To delegate spending on wars? To monitor people's phone calls? To spend money on secret trips to Argentina?
I think perhaps it might make more sense for the government to concentrate on making people's lives a little better.