Frustration

I'm pretty frustrated right now, and I don't think that it's going to change until the election is over. After that Frontline video in my class last week, the teacher asked us to write up a little paragraph answering the question, "Does everyone in the U.S. have a right to health care?" My answer was yes. When we got to class today the teacher wanted to discuss what everyone thought. I was so frustrated and annoyed with some of the responses from my fellow classmates/future nurses. There was talk of "illegal aliens" and "why should I pay for them", and "why should prisoners get expensive chemo-therapy", and "if someone can't work to pay for it themselves, then why should I?" I was so frustrated and if I hadn't been so exhausted (I'm super sick right now) I might have put my two cents in and probably gotten even more upset.

The fact that these future nurses were saying "No" to the question, was totally ridiculous. I would say at least half of the patients we treat every day have little to no health care, or certainly will not be able to pay their medical bills. Does that mean they don't DESERVE to be treated? Give me a freakin break! Why even go to work? Why become a nurse, when half the people don't DESERVE to be treated?! I was so disappointed to hear my fellow classmates say that not everyone deserves health care. Not only are they going to be nurses in a few short months, but those particular classmates proclaim to be Christian. I'm sure most of you know the scripture from Matthew 25:40 ".....Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

This is something I wish I had been able to quote today to some of those idiots in my class. How could anyone going in to the health care profession not want EVERYONE IN THE WORLD to get the health care they need? Maybe I'm not expressing myself very well right now, I'm sick and frustrated (as I've already mentioned) and tired, and not a very good writer, but I'm voting Democrat. I think the war is horrible and wrong, the fence they're building between the U.S. and Mexico is a waste of money, and I want reformed education and health care, and a resolution to the mortgage crisis. I do not want someone who believes in abstinence only education and has a pregnant teenage daughter, in control....that's just stupid. For those of you that are politically minded, sorry, I realize that immigration is a separate issue from health care. I'm just upset by the discussion in class today. I feel that we are all children of God and wish, at the very least, that Nurses treated everyone that way.