Queen Messy's Blog

The first thing to be said before I forget it, was that Dad, me, and Mommy were the only three people in the theatre. Hrm. That sucks. Though it was kinda cool cause we could laugh and curse and shout all we wanted to. But it sucks because if the place looses more than 120 000 kr a year they're shutting it down.

On to the more serious stuff... GO SEE THAT MOVIE!!

It is... SICK... the way the insurance companies can do whatever they want... I mean, it is absolutely horrible for the people who don't have medical insurance, (you can't get it if you have had like.. close to ANY sickness EVER in your life) but even the ones who do don't get the help they need! There was this one woman... She had medical insurance with this company KAISER I think it was. Her three year old daughter got a high fever and she drove to the nearest hospital. Now that hospital didn't have the right agreement with her insurance company and refused to treat her little girl. She stayed and begged them but to no avail, in the end she was thrown out because she was causing disturbance. So she drove to the next nearest hospital and when she got there the girl's heart had stopped beating, and the people there tries to start it again for 30 minutes but they didn't manage, she died.

Because the hospital closest to where the woman lived didn't have an agreement for that insurance company.

The insurance company employee who turns down the most people, e.g denies them money for treatment which can save their lives, and by doing so kills them, the people who turn down the most people and save the company the most money, they get a bonus. Is they save A REAL LOT, like half a million dollars (e.g. it's really serious and there is no way on earth the patient is gonna be able to finance it alternatively ever) they get promoted and their salary like quadruples or something. "Good medical judgement".

There are so many more stories. But go see the movie. Or youtube it, or maybe he wrote a book. I don't know. But really. It makes you appreciate so much how much we have here. Take for example my family. My mother has said for as long as I can remember: We'd be in lifelong debt the whole lot of us, if we'd lived in the US. Now I realize we would not have gotten treated at all, because they would have known we didn't have that money to pay for it. We've spent quite a lot of government funds over the years... Chronologically:

I was a c-section.
Then I was in an incubator for two or three months.
Dad got cancer...
Solveig tripped and cut the roof of her mouth so there was a big triangle of skin hanging down from it
Daniel squeezed his hand in the car door
Oh. I had asthma. Daniel does a little, too
Dad summersaulted in his tractor and broke his leg really really badly
Daniel cut his forehead when he banged it on the metal banister when I opened the door and he was behind it (sorry....)
All mom did was stretch a muscle in her arm
Daniel has autism. hrm. counts halfway...
I tried grabbing a frog, instead I grabbed a piece of glass and got taped.
Dad's snake thing.... the antidote alone cost forty seven thousand kroners, they say...


So basically, if we lived in the US, we'd all be pretty much dead, except for Mom. No, she'd be dead to, she had pre-acclamptia and could gave gotten 90-or something- % lethal acclamptia if they didn't get me out when they did.

So I'm very very very glad we live in Norway. Thank you all the other tax payers here who care so much about us! I like this place.


They really have to do something with the system over there in America... All that the insurance companies care about is making money. And it is killing people. Money.... the root of all evil... Why can't they see how well it works in France? In Canada? In Cuba? In the UK, where the doctors get payed more the more people's lives they improve! (Remember how the doctors working for the insurance companies got payed more the more more people they denied treatment?)

Why can't they LEARN???


Money... POWER of money... lobbying... money=power. Insurance companies have the money. They have the power. All these people need is ONE person who wan't to fix things and who won't be stopped by the lobbyists. In Canada they had one, many years ago. Tommy Douglas was his name. He changed everything. The US needs one person who's rich enough to not want more. or poor enough to not care, or crazy enough to focus on what is important. Isn't there ONE single politician who can stand up to people? Yeah sure, 50 would work better and faster but we need ONE. COME ON? HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

I am SO glad I live in this country.... And I don't really feel like going to college in America.... Maybe Canada