I borrowed the title from a part of a line of dialogue from an edited version of a TV show on a Showtime sampler. I don't watch much TV. I could get into all the reasons why, but the Reader's Digest version is that I find most of the shows shallow, self-serving, and mean-spirited. I have enough of this kind of thing in my real life. It seems masochistic to me to watch it for entertainment.
Make me good, God. The thing that sticks with me about this request is that it puts the entire responsibility on someone/something other than me. And while I could use the leg up, if this is truly what I want, I have to do some of it on my own. I have to want to be good. If not good, then at least better than I am currently. Make me good, God.
It's not coming easy with this whole health care insurance debacle. I'm not feeling all that forgiving. The fact of the matter is that I see the insurance companies as gluttonous vultures. No more, no less.
(Photo Source)
An interesting and telling photo, no? The photographer was Kevin Carter. The photo was published in the New York Times and described as "a metaphor for Africa's despair." Carter won a Pulitzer for it in 1994.
What some aren't aware of is that Carter committed suicide not two months after winning the Pulitzer. A freelance photographer troubled by much in his personal life, a portion of his suicide note allegedly read:
"I'm haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain . . . of starving or wounded children . . ."
The weight of everything, it seems, consumed him. Heartbreaking.
That said, I wonder if the for-profit health care insurance company executives feel remorse or regret at all as they happily dance across the backs of the sick and dying when their profits soar at the end of the market day? But then, they do owe their investors now don't they?
It's sad that none of them paid much mind to this deplorable video when it made the news.
To all who ridiculously say "After all, you just go to an emergency room." This is what emergency room care looks like when one doesn't have health care insurance.
Make me good, God.*
(Our own mindoca asked that I link to Google Group Netroots for Healthcare. I really hope this helps. Please, give it a look and consider joining. You can find her action diary here.)©