Next Uprising has made it my (one man operation) goal to do a Skype interview with someone from Whole Washington a day this week. Why? Because this is a cause I am wholeheartedly behind. Our current system is NOT WORKING! I myself am a member of Teamsters Local 252, work a fulltime job, and supposedly have full medical coverage. I pay for medical insurance as does my employer. Yet, I have several medical conditions that my medical insurance fight with me every step of the way.
As the band Nevermore once said "The systems failing."
Forget about being some bleeding heart (which I proudly am). Let's do this for completely selfish reasons. When I go to eat somewhere, I don't want some sick person breathing, coughing, and handling my food with snot covered gloves. There is a pizza place that many call "Snot Pizza." The owner, founder, and namesake once complained (like the precious snowflake he is) that he would have to raise the price of his pie an entire dime! I call that the "No phlegm charge."
Seriously!? All I have to pay is a single dime to have healthy people prepare my food? That sounds like an amazing deal! Count me in!
Of course the response from people in serious denial is "But there is a rule that employees are not allowed to come to work sick." Right. If you think that's followed at all by people who can barely pay rent as it is, you are a total moron. You also claim that we shouldn't have gun laws because criminals don't follow laws, right? Yet you think a single mother on an extremely thin budget can afford to miss a day of work unpaid? Maybe even fired because of that? Really?
So I want those people to have sick leave, full medical coverage, and zero repercussions for using those resources.
How about we talk about those "homeless bums" (I was once homeless. I speak this way here only to make a point) sleeping on the street. I want them to be healthy enough to work. I want to reduce their excuses. Let's do that by making sure they have dependable, complete, and easy to access medical care.
Now of course the majority of the homeless are our brave veterans. We are told that they have medical coverage, yet so many are dying on the streets. Let me be very blunt for a second. If you don't understand why we need to do better for our veterans, you are a worthless cunt. You are below sewage scum to me. They risked the ultimate sacrifice and they are dying on our streets. We need better care and we need to make it more accessible to them. If you disagree, go kill yourself. Seriously. Sorry to be so brutal. I promise to use better language most of the time, but this is where I draw the line. It's completely inexcusable how we treat the most honorable among us.
I could go on and on listing perfectly selfish reasons why you should support Whole Washington, but let's not ignore the proverbial elephant in the room. You could also do it because you don't want to be a arrogant jerk with no compassion. You could just do it because you are sick of this country being behind other first world nations when it comes to medical care.
So it is because of this that we will start posting interviews with people from Whole Washington, medical staff that support Whole Washington, and friends of Whole Washington.