YES! It's also part of the "American has no class system but actually yeah we totally do" issue because this group is really stuck and I don't see them becoming unstuck in an easy way. There's so much distrust of authorities, so much taking matters into their own hands, so much distraction at home that keeps children from excelling at school...
...I was thinking about all this surrounding the healthcare debate too because here is a group of people that is constantly unemployed or in a job without good insurance so of course they don't really understand what good insurance could do for them. They distrust doctors, they try to pull through everything, which might work sometimes but when it doesn't and they finally are forced to see medical attention, the bills are so astronomical that they are put into debt for life even with minimal insurance coverage. They don't think to use the coverage that lets them get a check up or get that cold checked out because they were not raised that way and it becomes a cycle...it's such a huge cultural shift in a way of thinking.
Then again, if they don't have jobs that pay decent wages, the idea of giving anything to "Uncle Sam" to help cover healthcare probably sounds terrifying.
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Date: 2017-07-22 06:17 pm (UTC)...I was thinking about all this surrounding the healthcare debate too because here is a group of people that is constantly unemployed or in a job without good insurance so of course they don't really understand what good insurance could do for them. They distrust doctors, they try to pull through everything, which might work sometimes but when it doesn't and they finally are forced to see medical attention, the bills are so astronomical that they are put into debt for life even with minimal insurance coverage. They don't think to use the coverage that lets them get a check up or get that cold checked out because they were not raised that way and it becomes a cycle...it's such a huge cultural shift in a way of thinking.
Then again, if they don't have jobs that pay decent wages, the idea of giving anything to "Uncle Sam" to help cover healthcare probably sounds terrifying.