This has been an interesting week of highs and lows. Less than an hour after finishing two fantastic performances of a multimedia program for 3-5 year old children, I sliced my head on a low-hanging duct and spent the rest of the day at urgent care, getting 7 staples in my scalp.
I was lucky to receive great care–starting with help from colleagues who were with me at the time of the accident (my employee sat with me in the waiting room at the doctor’s office), progressing to the free healthy snacks at the urgent care office and a bowl full of birth control pills in a rainbow of bright colors like Skittles. Wait, what? Obama forced me to use contraception?!?No, there was no pushing of Seasonale nor forceable rape with an ultrasound machine nor vasectomies disguised as Tetanus shots. But I couldn’t believe the gall of the doctor’s office in offering me a laptop while I sat and waited. Or the beautiful coed nurses they employ who took good care of me. Who do they think I am, the 1%?? How dare you bring me a bottle of Gatorade when I began feeling flushed. Is this what evil socialist healthcare is like in Canada and Sweden? How vulgar!
On the real though, I couldn’t help but think of the approximately 50 million Americans without health care. While I guess I’ve worked hard to “earn” the “privilege” of not having to worry whether I can afford good care, I’m not sure that health care in 21st century America should be an earnable privilege. What happened to the unalienable rights described in our Constitution:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Furthermore, while I realize that I walked into an urgent care center on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago (not Tamassee, Georgia), the health care system seems to be doing OK if they are giving away food and broadband internet.
Is anybody with me here?
two dope boys in a Cadillac 
This was a good read, health & fitness is important to have in your life for sure.