HW#26 - Looking back & forward in unit

1.) What really goes on behind closed doors of health care
2.) How differently the health care is in America, Canada, and Europe. America seems the most money hungry of them all.
3.)Just cause you have health care doesn't mean you always benefit from everything.
4.)I learned from the perpective of love one dying and how it was different to how i saw views of illness and dying.

The first movie we saw about how the health care was really intriguing. I didn't really know about the health care situation till actually seeing what other people go through and how it all started. I thought it was very interesting how the doctors in Europe just automatically did their job without getting paid upfront as they do in America and just simply help the ill people because it's their job not just for the money. In America people are just so money hungry and greedy not caring about anybody else and their problem which is the problem.

Another source that was very helpful was when the lady came in to talk about her husband who had pasted away. It settled well with me because you were able to hear the story of how he started off to his last breathe which was interesting. She talked about talking to a Buddha and doing different techniques to not try and save him but keeping those positive thoughts. Not a lot of people i know go to visit buddhas but talk to a priest or say prayers most often. It was something different i never heard before.

In the book that i read, My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid, I learned that not everybody is going to be there for you even if you are sick and everybody won't love you just cause your family. Where Jamaica grew up and where her brother was living if you got AIDS you were automatically forgotten as if you had died already. I thought that that was pretty harsh and just selfish on their part. Also the author didn't really know how she felt about her brother's death. One day she wouldn't know if she loved him and the next day, she didn't know how to feel. I found it very confusing but also that not everybody thinks the same way we should typically feel or say.