更新时间:2008-01-21
小信. • 医疗内幕:A damn good film showing a fucking crap America
It's such a damn good film, that's the thing I heard most after I went out of the cinema. Surely it is, and Micheal Moore really has some guts there.
There is just so much there we are fully unaware of. The facts are just ugly, shocking and breath-taking.
The first thing I did after I came back to my room was to search for the World Countries Health Care Ranking and here it goes:
The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems.
Source: WHO World Health Report - See also Spreadsheet Details (731kb)
Rank Country
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
And there it is, America just above Slovenia at the 37th. Well, well, well...
I'm going to remember the ranking deeply cause you know what? It's going to help me decide where I'm going in couple of years time.
A bad health system is a disaster to all the citizens no matter how rich you are. People are human beings and people get sick. Everyone has been ill before no matter how trivial the illness may be. But we all know and understand how terrible we could feel even when we just have cold or fever. Humans are very fragile at the time of sickness. We need care. And no matter how successful you may be today, if you are sick, you can lose everything easily in a snap of fingure.Then everything is gone, you have nothing but illness.
You can never believe how helpless some people can be at some points of their lives. Being as part of the society means the care for each other. We all pay taxes as the benefits to everyone in the country as a whole. People do that because they want to feel they are being cared by somebody at the time needed. That's all it means. If that simple goal can't be achieved, why living in that fucking crap society?
Frankly, I know that situation in China may be even worse. But that is the country I grew up, and I strongly believe in one statement, that is "The western countries had their time and opportunies to develop, now It's the time for us who wanting to improve, you can't really compare them at the same level." But America can surely be compared with other western countries, and it is doing shit.
The American economy has been slowing down for a long time, its currency is going downhill faster and faster each day, I really see the day when 1RMB equals 1Dollar, I seriously do whereas I don't see 1RMB equals to 1Pound that soon. And the war in Irap is such a big big disaster. It seems to me that all the shining American dreams and the rocking time of Americans are gone, they are now nothing and yet they have nothing. Fuck Amrica..
Another thing that worries me so much is the scandals about insurance. One of my most possible major career path might be in there, and I'm so put off by all the dirt in there. And again, through newspapers and periodicals, scandals are everywhere in professional areas, Accounting, Banking,Law, Estates, Pensions, Actuarials....Even doctors in the films, very rewarding and respectful career, has a lot of dirty things in it. And now I'm thinking, you are most likely to be happy being a middle class, no matter where you are in the world. Seriously, people are most likely to be happy leading a normal, average, simple life. Anything above a professional level, things get dirty in every single field.
At this point of life, I'm really stuck here. I'm so scared, it seems like I can already foresee how difficult life can be, no because of financial problems but psychological and ethical problems I may face. It's about if you can sleep well at night baring in mind what you did in the daytime. And it made feel that I have already known that I will compromise at some point, and I will do things that not following my heart. That is so disappointing.
Not peaceful in mind anymore at this perticular moment. So much going on my mind and again and again, the same question came long, what is the fucking meaning of life? We desire, we struggle, we fight, then we get what we want... But does it matter in what way? Because that's how life went by, because that's what really matters - How? It's not about how much you can get, it's about how you get it! IS IT?
The world is so overwhelming, there is too much going on and we can't get the full taste of a tiny slide of it. Ultimately, what matters most is still ourselves, that's what I tell myself again and again. We watch these films, and we know what's going on at the corners of the world, we know about how misrable lives are for those people, we cry for them, and we forget and move on. And we learn how to protect ourselves better. At the end of the day, it is still yourself that you are concerning the most. That is bloody true fact.
There is just so much there we are fully unaware of. The facts are just ugly, shocking and breath-taking.
The first thing I did after I came back to my room was to search for the World Countries Health Care Ranking and here it goes:
The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems.
Source: WHO World Health Report - See also Spreadsheet Details (731kb)
Rank Country
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
And there it is, America just above Slovenia at the 37th. Well, well, well...
I'm going to remember the ranking deeply cause you know what? It's going to help me decide where I'm going in couple of years time.
A bad health system is a disaster to all the citizens no matter how rich you are. People are human beings and people get sick. Everyone has been ill before no matter how trivial the illness may be. But we all know and understand how terrible we could feel even when we just have cold or fever. Humans are very fragile at the time of sickness. We need care. And no matter how successful you may be today, if you are sick, you can lose everything easily in a snap of fingure.Then everything is gone, you have nothing but illness.
You can never believe how helpless some people can be at some points of their lives. Being as part of the society means the care for each other. We all pay taxes as the benefits to everyone in the country as a whole. People do that because they want to feel they are being cared by somebody at the time needed. That's all it means. If that simple goal can't be achieved, why living in that fucking crap society?
Frankly, I know that situation in China may be even worse. But that is the country I grew up, and I strongly believe in one statement, that is "The western countries had their time and opportunies to develop, now It's the time for us who wanting to improve, you can't really compare them at the same level." But America can surely be compared with other western countries, and it is doing shit.
The American economy has been slowing down for a long time, its currency is going downhill faster and faster each day, I really see the day when 1RMB equals 1Dollar, I seriously do whereas I don't see 1RMB equals to 1Pound that soon. And the war in Irap is such a big big disaster. It seems to me that all the shining American dreams and the rocking time of Americans are gone, they are now nothing and yet they have nothing. Fuck Amrica..
Another thing that worries me so much is the scandals about insurance. One of my most possible major career path might be in there, and I'm so put off by all the dirt in there. And again, through newspapers and periodicals, scandals are everywhere in professional areas, Accounting, Banking,Law, Estates, Pensions, Actuarials....Even doctors in the films, very rewarding and respectful career, has a lot of dirty things in it. And now I'm thinking, you are most likely to be happy being a middle class, no matter where you are in the world. Seriously, people are most likely to be happy leading a normal, average, simple life. Anything above a professional level, things get dirty in every single field.
At this point of life, I'm really stuck here. I'm so scared, it seems like I can already foresee how difficult life can be, no because of financial problems but psychological and ethical problems I may face. It's about if you can sleep well at night baring in mind what you did in the daytime. And it made feel that I have already known that I will compromise at some point, and I will do things that not following my heart. That is so disappointing.
Not peaceful in mind anymore at this perticular moment. So much going on my mind and again and again, the same question came long, what is the fucking meaning of life? We desire, we struggle, we fight, then we get what we want... But does it matter in what way? Because that's how life went by, because that's what really matters - How? It's not about how much you can get, it's about how you get it! IS IT?
The world is so overwhelming, there is too much going on and we can't get the full taste of a tiny slide of it. Ultimately, what matters most is still ourselves, that's what I tell myself again and again. We watch these films, and we know what's going on at the corners of the world, we know about how misrable lives are for those people, we cry for them, and we forget and move on. And we learn how to protect ourselves better. At the end of the day, it is still yourself that you are concerning the most. That is bloody true fact.
