Friday, August 28, 2009

Class Warfare And Health Care

This is a very interesting article from a deep operative.

It reveals how Apple's Steve Jobs moved to Memphis in order to get a desperately needed liver transplant.

Now, my disclaimer in that I like Jobs, I don't see him as a vampire because he is a member of the elite.

The article describes the real Memphis where gangs have carved up sections of the city and the police keep out of these sections - like Baghdad. This is the reality of many US cities as we know.

Basically its an article on class warfare and discrimination as it relates to many things especially health care. Jobs got his transplant in Memphis but the day to day living reality of the poor is excruciating and they are providing the organs. It reminds me of the shanty town in Cape Town.

The Exiled: Memphis: Where Steve Jobs Goes To Eat His Fellow Americans
The sickly Jobs owned that house long enough for him to become a Tennessee resident where the waiting list for a liver transplant is 48 days compared to over 300 on average in the rest of the country. He needed that liver, and he needed it now; and there just aren’t enough organs available in the promised land of California where he made his billions. He had to cross over into the land of the desperate, delusional and impoverished – the South, a land so poor that it now gets manufacturing jobs that used to be outsourced to Mexico and the Pacific rim of Asia.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The rich are consuming us in one way or another. Remember the movie Soylent Green?

Jim Sande said...

Gruesome, makes me think I'm an organ farm for some billionaire.

Glynn Kalara said...

Actually, they've already created a process to grow some organs from your own stem cells. That's ok but you can just imagine what they cost. Your Ins. company won't pay for them that's for sure.