For those that missed it last summer the action flick Elysium centered around an orbital community that had these medical wonder beds that could cure even horrible cancers in just seconds. The place was just filled with them with at least one medical bed in each home being mostly unused along with hundreds of others just waiting in cargo transports. A medical technology that could heal all the people back on Earth but was being deliberately hoarded because the people on Elysium viewed the people back on Earth as a gutter class. Not really human even.
The film came on TV tonight and while watching it again it suddenly occurred to me the politics that would be involved in such a situation. The residents of Elysium with their perverse desires to deprive sick and injured people of a technology they had in overabundance is just like what we see today with the those that do everything in their power to deprive America citizens of health care.
It makes sense now. They would deprive those they think are "takers" of medical treatment even if it was instantaneous and readily available.
If Stanford Medical Center somehow were to invent something akin to an Elysium medical bed you could bet that Republicans would somehow invent a law that prevent it from from being used on anyone they don't feel is a proper "citizen."
My god, how I have grown to hate and loathe them.
The film came on TV tonight and while watching it again it suddenly occurred to me the politics that would be involved in such a situation. The residents of Elysium with their perverse desires to deprive sick and injured people of a technology they had in overabundance is just like what we see today with the those that do everything in their power to deprive America citizens of health care.
It makes sense now. They would deprive those they think are "takers" of medical treatment even if it was instantaneous and readily available.
If Stanford Medical Center somehow were to invent something akin to an Elysium medical bed you could bet that Republicans would somehow invent a law that prevent it from from being used on anyone they don't feel is a proper "citizen."
My god, how I have grown to hate and loathe them.
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