The Title of This Post is That Upturned Hand With the Thumb Rubbing the Index and Middle Fingers Gesture Indicating Money

I got another visit from a tongue ugly very soon after my first was removed, so I get to have another tongue surgery in September. I scheduled this second surgery back in July, and I am so thankful I don't live in Canada, England, France, or any other industrialized nation with socialized medicine (but I repeat myself).

July to September.

In case you forgot, this is a tongue ugly.


With my private insurance I get to walk right into a hospital, demand any surgery I want without any fear of rationing or waiting. Boy, could you imagine how horrible it would be if our health care were run by some government corporation like the Postal Service? Sure you could get the life-saving or preventative care you needed, but you might have to wait for it. Sheesh, what a nightmare that would be.

MY PRESIDENT wants to save us from this nightmare. He specifically wants to save children from this nightmare. He's fighting to make sure states don't expand the public health care that does exist to cover more and more children. Thank him so much. So so much.

This is a good thing to do. It must be. If MY PRESIDENT- the one who said Jesus was the most influential person in his life- has chosen this issue there must be something holy and right at its core. Or not. It might be something that is completely unrelated to who he is as a follower of Jesus Christ.

Someone who isn't sanctified by the Holy Spirit might not see this. A secular humanist, for example, might think something like public health care is a good and fundamental thing we provide for each other. Perhaps they might see it as something akin to education or police and fire protection. They might say that it should be one of the most basic things a people who call themselves good would do. They might take their cursory knowledge of Jesus and compare it to what they see Christians doing in the world and experience some dissonance. (Publicly provided healthcare for children, you're against that- really?) They might say this is why Christians seem like an often silly, sometimes scary, bunch. Pffttt, God has chosen the foolish things of the world and all that.

What they fail to see is that, as a Christian, I can only be concerned with my holiness. Jesus is for me. He's my personal savior. Maybe somewhere down the line, just as it is in capitalism, when I do what's best for me there's some marginal good done for you, but even that's beyond the scope of my concern. I'm really just interested in getting to heaven. If you'd like to know more about that, we might have something to talk about. In the meantime, get yourself some health insurance.

Maybe MY PRESIDENT sees denying healthcare to an expanding group of children is important to who he is as a disciple of Jesus. Or maybe he's just very mature in his faith and realizes some worldly thing like that has no bearing on his spiritual relationship with Jesus. That's between him and God, and it doesn't really matter in the big picture. The big picture being whether you're going to heaven or hell.

ed.- I figure to be more helpful I could at least put a link to the Children's Health Insurance Program in California. It's called Healthy Families. If'n you have young 'uns you should sign up for it.