Stuff and Rambling

The US health and education system pretty much disgusts me. And when you compare it to our own you realize how lucky we are.

If you can't pay for medical bills, you don't have access to healthcare. This is pretty much the impression I get from the US health system. How is that fair? In Australia, if you need healthcare you get it. After you receive the healthcare you'll get asked about payment but you'll never be denied it because you can't pay for it. Here, you can get healthcare cards so you don't even need to pay anything to see the doctor. I think that's pretty amazing.

And it's fair. Why should people who are born into circumstances out of their control be denied essential services like that?

I have a friend who is one of the smartest, brightest person I know. And I was talking to her about college plans, whinging about how much I hate uni and she just said to me, "At least you get to go to uni. I might not even afford it." It broke my heart. She is so deserving of getting to choose any uni in the world to go to. I know she's bright and talented enough. It seems so unjust that she should be denied that opportunity because she doesn't have enough money to pay for it.

Sometimes I feel like Australia is actually the land of opportunity, not the US where the poor are denied services that might allow them to escape poverty.

Why does Australia have a system where you don't have to pay uni fees up front? You can wait until you're working after you've graduated and pay it back in installments. We don't realize how lucky we are to have these policies which allow us to have all of these doors open for us.

You can be poor and still go to school, get good healthcare, go to uni. Do whatever you want.

I am so thankful to live here.

I used to want to live there but I changed my mind. I wouldn't want to live in a place where money is everything, everyone is fake and phony. No wonder Holden Caulfield went fucking batshit crazy. I would hate to live there too.

J