What Freedom?
It's hard for me to get back into the swing of things, electronicalwise, after having been disconnected from the online world for so long. I just moved, and I'm even contemplating not having the broadband reconnected. My life has just seemed so much quieter.
Now that I've had a couple of weeks to settle back into my daily life, I feel much less indignant about the fact that I don't live in England...I always come back with a heavy-hearted "I can't believe I live here and not there" kind of feeling.
Though I'm not naive enough to think that life is perfect in Europe, things seem more civilized over there. For example, I can't help feeling cheated when I recall my English friend telling me about an extended trip she'd like to take next year, and how if she couldn't get the time off from her job, she'd just quit and find a new job when she got back.
I could, of course, do that too, but I would lose my health insurance. How does this make me free? If we had universal health care, would that mean the terrorists win?
Now that I've had a couple of weeks to settle back into my daily life, I feel much less indignant about the fact that I don't live in England...I always come back with a heavy-hearted "I can't believe I live here and not there" kind of feeling.
Though I'm not naive enough to think that life is perfect in Europe, things seem more civilized over there. For example, I can't help feeling cheated when I recall my English friend telling me about an extended trip she'd like to take next year, and how if she couldn't get the time off from her job, she'd just quit and find a new job when she got back.
I could, of course, do that too, but I would lose my health insurance. How does this make me free? If we had universal health care, would that mean the terrorists win?
posted by Christine Borne at 7:13 PM
2 Comments:
You have the freedom to buy whatever health insurance policy you want.
1. You can come lead an invasion of Melbourne with me and establish a new "ethnic community": Little Cleveland.
2. Why not pursue your doctoral interests in England? Such would conclude quicker there due to a different structure most often for doctoral programs. Before I inquired about Australia I was looking into five different doctoral programs in the UK (mostly in Wales, though).
3. "Internet Quiet" might be helpful the way NEXGENLIB-L has been so hyperactive lately.
4. Although we may not have universal health care in the US we do not have as much the waiting time present in Canada or the UK. My boss the minister is also a local hospital trustee who is trying some innovative things out (especially since he himself cannot get health insurance!).
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