I hate to write about this so close to the conclusion of the 2007 Mets debacle, but tonight as Cathleen and I sat in the livingroom, preparing to watch an episode of The Wire (Season One), Eliza was yapping away in her crib in joyful defiance of her absolute fatigue. Cathleen turned to me and asked if I understood what Eliza was saying. I listened carefully, and I heard my 20-month-old daughter chanting "Let's Go Mets" from her crib.
Max, bless his innocent soul, has taught Eliza how to cheer "Let's Go Mets." They also like to cheer "Let's Go Cyclones" together (which I've heard them do). I feel like a totally shallow cad, but I cannot quite explain the depth of the warmth that I feel when I think about Max teaching Eliza this cheer.
The circle is complete. The curse, bestowed upon me by my father, has now successfully enveloped both my children, and with much less effort than I thought would be required.
Everything that you always wanted me to blog about, but were afraid to ask.
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2 comments:
I really don't have much to add to the blog on this entry, but I just wanted to support Rick's blog.
I will take this opportunity to respond to Rick's comments he made to me about the SCHIP veto. I am in no way a Bush fan. However, the SCHIP bill had so many poision pills attached to it that had nothing to do with childrens healthcare, and would have been devisating to many physicians, myself included. I think all the current and future discussion on health care seem to ignore any doctor's concern. What non-medical people sometimes fail to realize is that we are on the verge of a mass exodus of MD's who will no longer accept medicare as payment. We can haave all the government coverage and single payors, etc...but if no doctors participate, what good is it. If we are not careful, we will have a split between 'private' doctors that you pay cash to see, and the 'government' docs who will take the 'national heathcare plan.' As with all other industries, this will mean we will be forced to find docs who will work for pennies....thus we will see a greater influx of foreign docs (just like the current VA medical system), while all the US trained docs will swicth to cash only practice. Additionally, there will be fewer US grads who are willing to go into medicine, since it will not be worth the investment in time and money. I used to think this was impossible, but if medicare keeps cutting reimbursement, this scenario is a real possibility.
Anyway, sorry about the Mets. I gave up on baseball a while ago. Football is the thing down here in the South, but I don't get into that too much either. I am just a stick-in-the-mud cynic. Bah-humbug. Anyway, the truth is...the Yankees are more fun to root for anyway! (sorry Rick)
There are something like 47 million uninsured Americans, and almost 9 million uninsured children out there. 9 million kids who do not have regular access to healthcare, who are not receiving regular checkups, preventive care, early intervention. 9 million kids who have to ride out ailments and hope that they don't get bad enough to warrant an emergency room visit. 9 million. That is incredibly fucked up. Some day we will enact a national healthcare policy, and in another decade or so after that we will look back on this day and age where we thought it was OK to let 9 million kids go uninsured and we're going to remember it as the dark ages.
If someone told you that we need to stop publicly-funding the education system because all of the good teachers were opting to teach in the private schools, they would lock you up.
I'll take my chances with what national healthcare will do to the medical profession, and if problems develop within the medical profession, then I'll address them as they arise (how to better incentivize, etc.). But that is a crappy reason, methinks, to keep 9 million kids from having access to the medical care that my kids receive.
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