Dental, Mental, Optical

[filkertom]

I needed to snarl this morning, on why "health care" is divided up into four classes, three of which are apparently much lesser than the others for no apparent reason. You can check it out on Daily Kos.

Comments

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Nah, the herd that thinks mental illness is possession or sinful is a subgroup of the greater herd of idiots. There are a whole lot of people who don't have the least clue about how mental health works, but who are oh so confident that it's all a sham.

[kengr]

Not a "shsam". But they *honestly* think that you can overcome depression or a host of other things just be trying harder.

The same goes for just about any other condition that isn't as obvious as broken bone or a major wound.

Near as I can figure it's a twisted form of things like the "Protestant work ethic" and the "bad things happen because people deserve it". All come from the same set of mistaken assumptions about how the world works.

[ldyerzsie.livejournal.com]

My father is a convert to antidepressants since the episode where they put him on them for depression--a series of health issues interferred with work and it made him depressed--and his bad back and shoulder got better. According to him it is nothing to be ashamed of if you "need a little boost."

And alchoholism and bipolar issues run on my mother's side of the family.

"Trying harder" doesn't always work. Sometimes you need a little extra help.

[stormgren.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I'd forgotten about the Scientologists.