getting down and dirty

I've had it with trying to be polite.... about America's Health DON'T CARE SYSTEM!

Two especial pet peeves:

VISITING NURSES who come once a week to monitor an aged person's condition,
and are just full of all sorts of helpful hints---no matter that they are ultimately unrealistic
and impractical....

visiting nurses who aren't there to help at four in the morning when the patient who just
happens to be a beloved family member is anxious or needs to pee (or, more likely, both)

NURSES AIDS who come to offer their services at inconvenient hours..... I mean if I've been up at four or five in the morning OR at four, five, and six, and seven helping a family member, then I'm not going to be very awake after four hours of sleep, am I?

A SYSTEM WHICH OFFERS STRICTLY LIMITED CARE AND INSISTS UPON PROOF THAT YOU NEED HELP, even when it is obvious you do..... As if it would be some terrible crime if a frail, ill old person got "too much" attention--Oh, that would be such a terrible thing! Better spend the money to kill civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Sudan, or Palestine. Better pay the gambling debts of America's ruling class! Now that's what's really important!

all in all
a SYSTEM that is DON'T care, no matter how concerned and reasonable seeming, and friendly the nurses and nurses aids may seem (or even be) during the exteremely limited hours that they are actually present...

Most civilized parts of the world figured out that children need care, beyond what parents are able to provide. And certain institutions exist in order to help--institutions which are universal, and not only available to the privileged. (And while in practice inequality is everywhere, in principle, there is recognition that education should be universal.) In the United States, that level of civilization has not yet been reached when it comes to caring for the elderly. So uncivilized, bellicose, and puritanical a society.....