the un-entertaining politically correctness of television

I'm angry.

I'm really really angry. I'm tired of tuning into a favorite show and being whisterpooped (yes that is a real word) with liberal propaganda. Case and point:

I turned my DVR to last weeks CSI:NY. Now normally this show offers up a story of someone committing a crime (usually a murder), and all the detectives hunt and peck until they find all the clues and it'd a grand old mystery. Not this episode though.

Of course, there was the usual murder, and confusion as to whodunit. But this episode had a twist. All the people who died were being targeted by a peeved old man who was dying of lung cancer and felt like he'd been forgotten and misplaced by healthcare workers when his private insurance cut him off. Now began the part of the show where they beat upon all private insurance companies and how horrible it is to have private insurance and how WONDERFUL national health care would be.

The peeved cancer patient brought up the father of the lead detective, who also died of lung cancer. However, this father was a veteran of the war, so obviously he was well taken care of throughout his painful end and he had everything he needed. Can you please note the sarcasm that is dripping from my fingers? The cancer patient proceeded to say that if he only had what Mac Taylor's father had, he'd be okay. Has anybody even checked the satisfaction of a patient of the VA lately? I've run into many patients in the hospital who have been treated at the VA and they've all told me that they will do whatever it takes to go to a non-government hospital. My father has been treated at a VA hospital because that's all he has available to him. They lose paperwork, forget about him, cancel his appointments without notifying him, and overall take months and months to achieve anything. If my father only have private insurance, he could easily take care of what ails him, receive treatment, and be well.

I have a friend who lives in Canada. She told me it took her FOUR months just to get an MRI scheduled. Thank God it wasn't for a life-threatening disease.

I recently met a man who immigrated to the US from France. France has nationalized health care. It's supposedly free to all citizens. Free if you consider the 49% of his paycheck taken out every month to pay for it. FORTY-NINE PERCENT....Can you live on only 51% of your check each month? I couldn't. And they say private health care is expensive....

I saw a hospital in Cuba when I was there in 2003. Michael Moore talks about how great Cubans have it when it comes to health care. This hospital had no screens on the windows and dirt floors. You were required to bring your own sheets and food to the hospital. The average Cuban made 5.00 a month, and de-worming medicine was 15.00 a month. So much for free health care.

I feel like I'm living in communist Russia, with propaganda being slung at me from every side. Pretty soon we'll find out someone got sick and we'll greet them saying "Prevyet Comrade! I visit you in beautiful hospital of our wonderful country. No worry about smell of pee from floor. It is normal."

I turned off the show without finishing it, because I knew what the ending would be.

What a bleak future.