My Bestie, healthcare and a little bitching!

I love my dear Stacie. There is no one in the world like her. She is an amazing mother, friend and fighter. She has been battling this damn cancer for so long. Just when I start to think it is going to start going better it doesn't. I just wish I could take away her pain and she could enjoy her time with her boys. I am helpless, but I do what I can, but it's not enough. I would do anything for her and there is nothing I can do, so frustrating.

Cancer is so destructive that I can't even come up with an adjective that truly depicts the horrific devastation that it brings to peoples lives. There are so many theories on how cancer cells breed and spreads and each case is different. I just wish there was a better understand of this ghastly disease. With better understanding brings better treatment. I know what I'm saying is not a big secret. I am just frustrated and cancer is to blame. Well that and the appalling healthcare system that we have, not only in Nevada but in the US.

Universal Healthcare would definitely help our current uninsured rate, but would it necessarily "fix" the healthcare issue or just make new ones? It really infuriates me that so many large conglomerates are making enormous profits on the healthcare industry. They are dealing with PEOPLE, real people. They are profiting off of other peoples unfortunate state of health. For example, I hate to call out the company my sister works for, but it's a perfect example. HCA Healthcare is listed number 89 of the Fortune 500 companies in 2008, they made a profit of $874,000,000 in 2008. Wow, I don't know if your mouth is hanging open like mine, but that profit is made off of people that are sick or dying.

It is wonderful that we live in such a wealthy, generous country, but it is atrocious that we are in other countries trying to "fix" them, when we are definitely "broken". Hmmm...pot calling the kettle black?? Yes these countries are in need but are we needier than them and we just think we are above them? Or are we truly able to help them, when we are not whole either, should we first use our resources to fix our own faults before attempting to fix others?