The Case for Real HealthCare Reform

Picture a pristine day. A local teenager goes to the hospital to visit a sick friend and has to wait in line at the front desk before he can find out which room the friend is in. He normally doesn't ease drop on other people's conversations, but this was different. Because the lady in front of him wasn't having a typical conversation, but was instead begging for her husband's life.
Sounds ridiculous, huh? It isn't all that uncommon. The woman in the hospital wasn't crying because her husband needed life saving surgery or had an untreatable disease. Rather, he was a diabetic, who like millions of us, had lost his job and taken whatever he could find in order to feed his family. He wasn't "wasting his money away on luxury items" or "drinking his paycheck away before he got to the bank.". He didn't qualify for health insurance at his new job and had trouble putting food on the table, so he did what many have to do and cut out medical expenses. Except, the expense he cut was the one keeping him alive, insulin. His wife, without his knowledge, had gone to the hospital to beg the administrators for a sample or two to get him through the next week. "He had trouble waking up these past two weeks, and almost didn't get up at all today..." she said through sobs. The overwhelmed clerk had her take a seat and called in someone to talk to her.
I don't know what happened to that family, and it really shouldn't matter. When citizens of the wealthiest nation on the planet are reduced to begging samples of life saving medication off of institutions because they couldn't afford to pay another institution to cover them for it, it is time for a change. Not this stupid excuse for a change that just puts more people at the mercy of the insurance giants. Not this stupid excuse of a change that makes people the slave of businesses. Not this stupid excuse of a change that forces people to pay companies thousands of dollars a year for the hope of being kept alive when they need that same company to come through. It is time that we demand more from our government. There will be people out there that rant and rave. They have health coverage and don't want anything to change. As one tea-party sympathizer put it to me, "Healthcare is a privilege for those who can afford it; not a right. Where in the bill of rights does it mention healthcare?". They were right, it doesn't mention healthcare as a right for all Americans. Of course, the Founding Fathers didn't imagine that a land of unlimited potential and prosperity would eventually force it's citizens to fight and claw with tyrannical systems to have the basic necessities. Things need to change. People need to rise up. Not through violence or screaming. It will be the quietest and most peaceful Revolution in the history of the world. As one voice, the poor, lonely, and dejected will rise up and take back America. We will finally say that it is time for the American public to be taken care of without question or hesitation. And when that day comes, the establishment will put their tails between their legs and run like hell. And not a single soul will miss them.