#this is just things thatbive thought about for a very long time and i believe this responce was ablong time coming

[princeanxious]

ovo I am just a tiny american, still learning about all these things, so I'm not 100% educated on this, but I'd like to spring to the defense of thode that are completely unaware of this issue, and speak alongside those who are at least partially educated and on my side about this?

So like, I can't speak for everybody, that would be stupid on my part, but like honestly? It's weird to me how I see this and realize that there's people out there still thinking that american people actually know about this issue. Those people talking badly or sarcastically about the subject of universal health care are at least one of two people that I could only guess, they are either someone who would be threatened(money wise, job wise, belief wise) by the change of it all, or they are someone who is lead to believe that universal healthy is actually worse, whether there was truth used in those beliefs or not.

I know more people who are down for, and would benefit so much more for universal health care in the US than I have ever be aware of previously. You can read anywhere on this site, America's spread of info amongst the public media is fucked up and full of lies. The whole universal healthcare topic seems to be no different. And it's honestly no wonder why we're called stupid Americans all the time, a lot of the time, we really don't know anything about whats going on. I'll tell you right now, among my generation in highschool, at least the populace at my highschool, more and more kids are frustrated and terrified of becoming an adult for many reasons and some of those reasons include these things, because we aren't sure how we're going to change it, but we want change. Because we see that it's bad.

We see the lies our parents have been fed by the government, and then leading that ignorance down to us, and hate that it's up to us to show them the evidence. There's such a visible divide to us, the younger generations and those seemingly far away, unknown higher-ups in control of all these major coperations, the government, the health system, everything. They do not teach us these things broadly in school, and I can assure you that I don't think anyone would have commonly known about how big our military budget is if we didn't have social media to connect with other countries and compare what spending averages were. If it was as obvious to everyone here in America as it is to the fewer here online, I could only hope that people would come to realize our tax money is feeding into the military of the 'mediator of the world' so much so that I believe we could half the amount we spend on it and we'd still be well off, and maybe then we'd have some managable health care by then and you know what? As an American kid, hearing something like that? That sounds awful. And largely fucking unfair.

But we're kids, right? We're grouped in with the rest of em, because it's totally like we don't realize the corruption of everyone enriched with power trying their damnedest to keep that power, because god forbid they all do their moral job as a human being and help people. God forbid their precious image gets ruined.

And the scariest part of all this to me, as an american teen? Is that we dont only have college to look forward to on the horizon(something now seemingly permantly linked with inevitable 10+ year long debt to the average, already struggling student, might I add), but we are still dealing with school currently on our timelines, and let alone having the pressures of our parents and our societal expectations already weighing down on us for when we graduate and what we are planning to be, just like everywhere else in the world, and now it's starting to become startlingly visible to us, this younger generation, with all the lies and other things being unearthed, and no matter how much it's denied we already know the truth, and believed it for far longer than we believed the lies theyve attempted to feed to us. We are starting to become(if not already are) very aware that our country is in shambles and those clinging to the top are trying so desperately to keep it from us. The cover is slipping, so now we are confronted by this new realization.

Where do we even begin?

Because we know it's got to be us to fix this, we're out of time, and tired of waiting for the change to come to us. We know it's not magic despite desperately wishing it was. Someone has to step up soon, and the longer we put it off, the worse it's gonna get, and the longer we will take to progesterone as a society. A seeming divide between the people who want to help and realize the wrongs of our societies doings, and the people who want to be greedy and refuse to change their ways because it risks all that they've built up on and doesn't match up with their views, I guess.

So, I ask that, maybe, concider that there are people here, kids and teens at least, that see these messed up things, know these awful things happen, but don't have a damn clue on how to even begin to change that. But they still want to.

I can't imagine the hell of spending every waking moment of my adult life trying to avoid even the slightest of injuries, not out of the fear of being injured, but out of the fear that said injury or sickness could easily be the end of your financial stability, if you even ever had it. But people here do it every day, because they don't know better. They don't know the lies they are fed. And it seems there aren't enough that do know, to make a meaningful difference, yet.

Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps I'm only wishing for this to be true and it's all in my head. I wouldn't know, not fully, I'm just a teen after all, I don't have enough social experience to know the whole populace, and I never will. But I'd like to think that maybe, I'm not the only one here scared out of their mind, wondering why we can't have it a little better when it's literally just a decision to be made, a decision that immediately gets intercepted by power/money hungry humans who hate change every time we try and bring something up that endangers them.

This post responce kinda got away from me, but I honestly felt like this needed to be said. And I'll restate this, I'm standing for those who may not know this and why, and for those I believe to be on my side about this. But the key words are 'may' and 'believe,' because I cannot be sure about that, so don't hold my word to represent a large sum of people. I'm just a tiny american, afraid of the big world, and I refuse to be grouped in as part of this country if that means I'll be assumed to be willingly stupid or ignorant, too.

I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?