How can you protect healthcare and expand basic coverage for millions of women? Well, first off, if you live in the US you’re not in the 99%. Comparatively maybe you’re in the 99% within the US, but simply living here puts you at least in the top 5% in the world. Yes, that does ignore some very poor areas in the US where there’s more resemblance to Haiti, but when we compare to the world, we’re doing OK.
But we can do better. The point of OWS is the blatant disregard of unbridled capitalism. Capitalism isn’t wrong, but there’s unfortunately no maximum threshold to greed. 100 million is literally not enough if you can have 200 million.
What does that mean for healthcare?
There’s still a struggle for healthcare and healthcare for the least among us, usually poor women and children. How do we protect what’s already there and then expand what towards what we need? Basic health is unavailable to many women in this country, yet the issue on budget committees is more about how to cut entitlement programs rather than defence or increasing taxation.
The solution? It’s not simple. It has to do with voting, obviously. But not just voting for new politicians clear across the board, but voting with our dollars as well (what little you may have). Power is with the corporations and not the people. They in turn feed off of our dollars.
What would happen if we valued different things as a nation as a whole. That women’s health care and children’s health care were priorities rather than burdens? What would we individually need to change with regards to our perspectives?
Is it really feasible to be on the pursuit of the AMerican Dream even if it means only 1% of us achieve it? I think there’s a change happening in our country. It may have publicly started with with OWS, but it ultimately begins and end with you and me. What are we going to change with ourselves first and then our communities and then beyond?