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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2011-11-13 07:15 am

The wonders of American healthcare

http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2011/11/07/tragic-tale#.Tr9pD3MebCt.facebook
As it happens, this is the very same kind of accident my brother had. Thanks to that terrible, loathsome, socialistic "socialized medicine" that we cowardly weak-minded souls have in Italy, his physical situation is far better than Mr. Mantlo's, and his mental situation is beyond comparison - he is the active and effective leader of a nationwide disabled movement. Right now, I am in the mood to cause serious disability to anyone who has the nerve to say anything for the American health care system - just so you can taste it in its full glory.

I never even liked Bill Mantlo as a writer. But that has nothing to do with treating a human being like this, just because you don't have the nerve to shoot him like a horse with a broken leg - which is obviously what everyone is aching to do.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
I am still thinking of Dave Cockrum, who was partly responsible for creating characters (the character designs of the X-Men, in particular) worth billions, having to beg in public at the end of his life. That is how a man who worked and made things and left behind more than he found is treated.