tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post7457086040104974275..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: ANARCHIST SOCIAL WORKERSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-53004588098933222552009-10-15T16:39:03.803+01:002009-10-15T16:39:03.803+01:00welcome to my world.As you know my daughter has au...welcome to my world.As you know my daughter has autistic spectrum disorder among other things. I have spent every year of her 25 years fighting for something or other to do with her care. I don't regret a minute of it but how anyone who is frail or ill finds a voice without help is too horrendous to think about. Good luck and if I can help you have my email. I am a dab hand at how to scare the state into action.<br />*hug* <br />LxxTabitcahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-74693519264934635742009-10-15T12:53:42.597+01:002009-10-15T12:53:42.597+01:00At least you don't have what we have over here...At least you don't have what we have over here. You become a slave to the insurance companies, and you don't leave jobs that you hate because "they pay your insurance." You know why we have so few novelists, poets, and artists here? <br /><br />The education system certainly does try to make everyone a good industrial worker-- that is if there are industrial jobs around. Creative endeavors are put on the backbone, but once you get out of school, you fight to hold onto a job that has insurance, even if you hate it.<br /><br />It's too expensive to buy insurance on your own for most people, so virtually no one is brave enough to strike it out on their own. We are ultimately held hostage by having no national health care institutions. We have Medicare for those over 65, and we have Medicaid for the very poor. If you go to an emergency room with no insurance, you will be treated, but because that has to be paid for, it increases the cost for the whole system.<br /><br />But if you're just "middle class" or poor but make just too much money, you are in trouble. You will never leave a job you hate if has insurance. You just can't leave behind the peace of mind having insurance has. And thus, we're all back to being serfs, subinfeudating ourselves for the sake of security.<br /><br />Yes, the NHS has problems, but I would give anything to have something like it over here. Contrary to what conservatives over here say, the current health care reforms are nothing like Britain's NHS or Canada's single payer system.Retrievermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780519136583108632noreply@blogger.com