EUROPE CONSIDERS AMERICA'S HEALTHCARE AS OF THIRD WORLD

Gianluca D'Agostino
Why Europeans sees America's healthcare as barbarian third world system and people like Bill O'Reilly likes it this way? The images of the Inglewood forum of last August still vivid in European citizens.

Daniela Roveda is a journalist writing for Il sole 24 ore the italian employers federation paper. August 13 2009 she wrote a story about the Remote area medical, a non profit medical association that provides free medical care to people in remote areas around the world Remote Area Medical(RAM) organized a free healthcare session in Los Angeles in August 11 at the Inglewood forum where the medical staff have met with 14,561 patient encounters Matt Hendrickson, a doctor working forRAM told the italian journalist:"I have worked in the worst world areas and I never thought one day I would have provide assistance right here in the United States."This is not Douala or Mumbai, this is Los Angeles where an estimated 6 million people are out of the healthcare coverage" 6 million American fellow citizens

When the Inglewood forum pictures have been shown to European tv and newspapers Europeans just have felt like shocked. .

Daniela Roveda defined what she saw on August 11 at the Inglewood forum as "a sad circus"

How could it be possible that the United States,the richest country in the world, leaves its fellows citizens in the same conditions of third world countries?

This is not only possible but there are people who also support and encourage this barbarian situation, like Fox aryan news scientists Bill O'Reilly and his young emulator genius Sean Hannity. These people love this healthcare system, they say we are for a reform but let's not the rich citizens to pay for it. Well ok according to these two scientists Who should pay it otherwise? Another question is why United States is giving away all the third world development aids that every year affects the 1% of the GDP while these funds should be used to treat its own citizens? Another questions might be: why famous Hollywood stars instead of going to exotic countries like Malawi or Sierra Leone and Tanzania, they don´t go to the Inglewood forum? Mistery. Angelina Jolie is UNICEF and UNHCR Good will ambassador, but her good will is only expressed abroad not towards her fellow citizens who are in the same need. Charity begins in Rome says the proverb.

In all European civilized countries there is socialist healthcare payed by richer citizens for the poorer side of the population. Some who call themselves American patriots, like Bill O'Reily foreinstance don't recognize the concept of egalitarianism and are happy to keep their fellow American citizens as needy third world country citizens who needs the cares of international charities to provide them for healthcare. I would love to ask Mr. O´Reilly what he thinks of the pictures of the Ingelwood Forum remote area medical


Maybe Mr. O'Reilly is a proud patriot who is proud that America comes off to the world as a third world country because he does not want his big mac to cost 20% more. Let's talk of yesterday's O'Reilly factor, when Mr. O'Reilly going against tax raising mentioned the obscene raise of 10% of state income taxes witheld from California workers paychecks, blaming President Obama government for this socialist theft. Although Mr. O'Reilly forgot to tell his viewers a little detail that California state taxes have bumped up because of his republican friend, California Governor Schwarzenegger, who is republican by the way not a dangerous socialist democrat.

The O'Reilly factor, then went totally bizarre, when a transgender weighed into his show talking about gay marriage referendum in the state of Maine. The transgender, who wore a weird car manufacturer sign on his necklace made some explicit sexual hint to the fox news anchor who told him:"I don't want talking I want you! "I don't think television should be used for such disgusting personal bizarre sexual intercourse, I think Mr. O'Reilly should keep this aweful stuff as his private business.

The bizarre show went on when Mr.O'Reilly invited another sexual expert to talk about body language to examine The House speaker Ms. Pelosi. For the second time Mr. O'Reilly express a special sexual interest for Ms. Pelosi, even if he´s not clearly corresponded as she´s not interested at all.

Although his audience is anything but interested. It's just very disgusting. This man wants to keep American fellow citizens out of the healthcare universal assistance because he does not want to pay his big mac 20 cents more, while the civilized part of the Western world, (read Europe)is just shocked and disgusted by the shameful show they saw in Los Angeles last summer, where 14.000 American fellow citizenshad to search for a treatment by international charities, like in third world country cities like Mumbai or Douala. Sleep well Mr. American Patriot.
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Gianluca D'Agostino

Gianluca D'Agostino is a journalist who worked for major news organizations like CNN and Associated Press. He holds a Ph.D in theory of Information and Communication.
His research focus on the relationship between narratives and marketing in film and television. He was a researcher at Stanford and Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley.