However, this interested me: Health care in Cuba
Now here's a counter: Interesting...
What about in the UK?
[Current exchange from XE.com]
| Live rates at 2009.03.05 14:45:09 UTC | ||
100,000.00 GBP | = | 141,075.07 USD |
| United Kingdom Pounds | United States Dollars | |
| 1 GBP = 1.41075 USD | 1 USD = 0.708842 GBP | |
How about bills?
Weird right?
There is a whole other form of world that though I knew facts about it, I never really thought about it as an actual concept.
Here's the thing. I've actually wanted to move to London for a while now, but am to scared shitless too do it. Anyhow, I've been trying to wrap my mind around this "other world". Now here's my question, though it might be a silly one. Is it possible to have a society that functions well and actually cares about the people too? For example, having a national healthcare system but can still have a competitive market? I suppose not, because how would the pricing go? How would the money work itself out. My problem with this is that I prefer that everyone have an opportunity to live, no matter what. I think London has it right. I don't know about Cuba, they have other major restrictions that I am not OK with.
My professor told that because of privatization it makes owning a business is a lot tougher. I think, at the moment, living is a lot tougher. I believe that America has become so obsessed with making money that we are forgetting the most important aspects of life. In America, cheating, stealing, or taking advantage of someone is now so common that it is UNcommon to actually do the right/moral thing. It's a shame. I am tired of continually feeling like I have to keep looking over my shoulder and not being willing to take opportunities because I don't want to become a victim of a scam or involved in a scam without realizing it. I fail to see the opportunity that America once stood for. I'm NOT saying that in other countries they have a utopia, I'm just saying that there are different strokes for different folks, and for me I would like to live in a society that promotes LIVING not just living if you have enough money.
America is an individualistic society, and now because we are so focused on money, we have lost sight of what the "individual" is. Thus, losing sight of the idea of our nation. I think our system needs to prove that it's better.
