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For me, photography is a form of creative expression & I usually don't like to interject politics into it, but occasionally I will & today is one of those days.
Yesterday, there were rallies cross the U.S. in opposition to Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) & my wife & I attended the one in Medford, Oregon where we live. Medford is small city, so the crowd of several hundred energized folks who attended was quite large for us. We heard many people tell stories about how Obamacare has enabled them to get the medical care they needed without causing them to go bankrupt.
It may seem strange (& barbaric) to those of you who live in other civilized countries, where universal health care is the norm, that one of the richest countries in the world seems to be okay with allowing it's people to get sick & die for lack of funds. I personally have good medical insurance & can afford good medical care, but I am definitely not okay with allowing my fellow citizens to do without it. Obamacare definitely has serious flaws & needs to be fixed (ideally with a single payer system eventually), but we need to make it better, not gut it the way Republicans are poised to do...
Comments (7)
kgb224
Superb capture my friend. God bless.
durleybeachbum
So scary
Faemike55
Until the ACA, I lived, as it were, without any medical insurance. (14 years). It was a blessing for me.
anahata.c
I was so wound up in my own rant yesterday (on Trump), I neglected to comment on all that you eloquently wrote: You wrote urgently and eloquently, and very fairly, and I appreciated everything you said. Not only about Trump (who you correctly called a man-child), but about health care in America. And you acknowledged that, yes, Obamacare is still insufficient---I too hoped for a single payer system, and so wished Obama had started with that, so if he had to compromise at least he'd be starting from the very top...But you also acknowledged how many people have been helped because of Obamacare: Mike, above, is a stunning example. He recently had eye surgery, and I had no idea that he faced no insurance for that long. Very fortunately, he had his surgery after Obamacare was the law.
And I also agreed with a comment you left to someone, that Clinton was a flawed candidate, yes; but she was still a very good one, and the common notion that there was "no choice" last year is just not true. I was a Sanders supporter, but I moved to Clinton without question, and I mean without question. I didn't like a number of things about her, but I backed her not as a 'concession', but as a genuine choice, which it sounds like you did as well, whoever you might have wanted from the start. (I was backing Clinton before Sanders entered.)
And I know that a lot of Trump supporters were torn to the core. I know many (even here in Chicago, "Obama country" as people call it). And a number of them voted for Obama. I understand how frustrated many were, and genuinely pained, and how they felt the Democrats had moved too far away from them. I just think that they picked the wrong solution. We often have to choose (I'm sure you know as well as I or anyone else) between two far-from-perfect choices. Clinton was just better, to my way of thinking.
You wrote eloquently and captured the intensity of these gatherings in your shots, and of course the power of the image in the final shot; and I appreciate it. I know you don't get political here; but you do it with great integrity and thought; and you got genuine responses from your fans, which I read in their entirety---I really did. I kept coming back here to see what they said. I'm grateful you allowed the dialogue. (I thought of saying something in my gallery, but I'd probably write too much---Jackie Gleason's line, "I have a bigggggggggg mouth"---and I didn't have the energy for it anyway, due to personal matters that were going on at the time. I'm grateful you did. If you get active in this, it shows your commitment, which I also appreciate. I wish Obama had been more of a leader, in the sense of addressing things with more passion: He's a magnificent speaker, but there were so many times he could have 'led' by explaining more, emoting more, getting in front of issues more...the ACA premiums: He needed to be forceful in telling the country that premiums would have gone up for ANY plan, and that maybe the ACA premiums went up less. He let so much happen with a kind of professorial coolness. (I was a graduate student at U. of Chicago, so I knew the kind of reserved manner of several profs in academia.) But he's a deep soul and has more integrity than most national politicians; and he did a lot in a bad time, with great opposition. Thanks for your words, and lets hope that Trump's worst is opposed; and that his best comes forward. He's got the capacity for that, and I hope we see it.
beachsidelegs
This world is going down the pan :( Unless you are worth millions who cares???......:(
sossy
You are right! All human should have mandated health insurance like we in europe! I have a friend in pennsylvania and she is very ill and cannot pay the medications, docs and hospitals! Top capture ☺
SteveJaiden
Health care is definitely a human right, but not everyone takes it seriously. I read something very familiar to this post on the site where I got to know about pricerx as well. It was interesting to know about both of the things.