With 45,000,000 Americans uninsured, it's obvious that health care isn't considered to be a basic right in the U.S. (at present, it would seem that the Constitutional 'right to life' applies mainly to unborn fetuses). Americans for Health Care, a non-profit group, is trying to change that.
Readers, I encourage you to get busy and to join the universal-health-care movement. Show the politicos and greedheads that we won't stand for their complacent and callous attitudes regarding access to health care.
Incidentally, I'm presently without health care, because my coverage is in effect only when I'm teaching. Since I'm not teaching any summer courses at UIC, I lost my coverage. As a lecturer at UIC this past semester, Ira didn't have health-care coverage because she was 'merely' a part-time employee.
What shitty policies for an institution that purports to be committed to higher education, eh. But who expects academic institutions to actually put into practice the enlightened and humanistic values that the faculty (at least in the humanities) are expected to profess? And people wonder why the deconstruction of enlightenment rhetoric caught on with a fair number of academics in the past few decades...
Ira and I are in Sweden now, where we do enjoy state-provided health care. Consequently, I'm pleased to report that Ira was finally able to have a long-overdue tonsillectomy. She's back from the hospital, and I've been trying with some success to keep her as inactive as possible, since the doctors told her she needed to rest up for at least two weeks. Today, however, she took the train to Uppsala to take care of some bidness at the University and to pick up some books ordered via inter-library loan.
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