Are ALL Americans Deserving of Health Care?

We Americans as a whole do not agree that EVERY American is deserving of healthcare.
Why? Many different reasons. It’s disheartening.

One of the main reasons being, we believe that if you don’t have it you simply are not working “hard enough”.

We are the only country and that works ourselves down to the ground.
It’s not about money. It’s not about budget. It’s simple. We simply do not believe every American should have access to healthcare. End of story.

It’s the same as education opportunity. We SAY that we believe everyone should have access to education. We even have public schools in place but, that doesn’t mean all schools are equal.

We cannot say a child raised in a home whose parents both attended ivy league universities has the same opportunities as a child raised on Martin Luther King blvd somewhere in the "United" States in an indigent community whose parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, uncles were/are living the fast life dealing drugs and maybe even part of gangs. These are two extremely different situations resulting in entirely different life opportunities.

How does a child in the second situation that may REALLY want to go to an ivy league university and has hopes and dreams of becoming the president of the united states one day ever make that a reality? It’s almost unheard of. Why? First, and most importantly, this child is fighting an uphill battle surrounded by people that simply don’t understand his/her hopes, dreams, and aspirations. No one believes in him or her. Everyone he/she is surrounded by is feeding his/her mind with comments such as: “they don’t care about us”, “they don’t want to help us” ect. He/she is attending schools where the teachers have given up on the kids and don’t see a bright future for these kids so they simply don’t care. It is VERY hard for this child to keep pushing through when all the odds are against them to make it to that ivy league college one day.

It’s not the color of their skin, it’s not that they are indigent, it’s not that he/she is not smart, its not that he/she is not hard working, its simply the opportunity is NOT the same.
The people who are born into wealth and ivy league graduate parents and go on and go to an ivy league college him/herself and then turn around and say to the girl/guy that grew up on Martin Luther King blvd that you aren’t deserving of healthcare because “you just didn’t work hard enough” or “you aren’t working hard enough” therefore you are not deserving is completely absurd.

 “Working hard enough” is completely subjective. The amount of work the ivy league child had to put in compared to the Martin Lurther King child would have to put in to achieve the same things as the Ivy league child are astronomical.

On that note, have you noticed that anytime there is a street named after Dr. Martin Luther King it just so happens to be “the ghetto” of that city or neighborhood? That is a whole discussion on it’s own. It always gets me. Did the street come first or the neighborhood population?

Very interesting.

I would love to hear your opinions. Please feel free to comment.

Until next time.

 -Norah