The Hatred Towards The Poor?
Loading ...Poverty violates every human rights there is.
If you are poor and seriously sick, going to a private hospital is not an option. Try going to a public hospital and if you’re lucky, they will give you the run around.
I happen to know how two patients in need of immediate medical attention, whose guardians were asked to sign a waiver, before turning them away for lack of available room. I heard one of the 2 patients died before reaching another hospital. The other patient was transferred to another public hospital, though admitted, the guardian was advised there is no guarantee the patient can be operated in the next 24 hours. The guardian has no other recourse but to transfer the patient again to another public hospital. Though at this time, the patient was attended to, the guardian, however, need to shelve $ 181.00 or Php 8,000.00 for the surgical procedure. Though doctor services and facilities are considerably cheap, you have to buy the medicines and paraphernalia needed for the medical procedures.
This is just a glimpse of what the poor has to go through just to survive life.
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I’ve said for years that the rich have been trying to rid the planet of the infestation of the poor and middle class. The sad part is, and one reason the economy is so bad, is because they are not smart enough to realize they are biting the hands that feed them.
Take a moderately priced furniture store, for example. The super rich don’t shop there, they want custom made furniture that cost $10,000 for a coffee table. And the poor don’t shop there either, its out of their price range. What keeps that business going is the middle class. Yet they destroy the middle class. It makes no sense.
I’ve been inside some public hospitals here in Cebu. There are just too many patients and not enough docs and facilities. You even have to quarrel nurses just to get their attention. But on the nurses side, they respond by saying that there are other patients who are in more serious conditions.
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@ Jon- there may not be the real feeling of hatred, but society may have develop callousness already of their fate
@ Tony- with the economic fluctuation, it’s a lot easier for the middle class to become poor than for them to become rich
@ Ceblogger- that’s the sad reality, the poor must hang on to dear life before they receive the attention they need.
A deeper irony there is that when you look at the nurses and even the doctors, many of them are poor too. When people speak of abuses by traffic/police officers, soldiers, or what not, one has to realize that the person involved is also a poor person. In mass media, however, it is the rich who are demonized as the abusive, exploitative and uncaring sector of the society.
So what dynamic dictates the action of a person? Is there really a disdain towards the poor?
Or are these generalizations grossly inaccurate?
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sad.. the dying will just have to die really - end of precious life.
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That’s a really sad situation, I can’t believe that in this civilized world these things still happen.
I remember reading an article once where they did an experiment and pulled together groups of well off people, and asked them to design a new government, as if they were starting over and would be born again - but they had no control on whether they would be born poor, rich, etc. In virtually all cases, they were most concerned about ensuring the people with the most serious challenges (born financially poor or disabled, for example) received the most assistance and were cared for.
I guess the lesson is that in an ideal world, people believe they would be that way - but right now, they aren’t brave enough to make those changes and care for those who need it.
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I do believe that there is a lot of hatred for the poor. Modern society classifies people by what they have, not who they are, and it really sucks.
Many people are taught from birth that poor people are beneath them, and they in turn teach their children the same values, setting off a vicious chain reaction of hatred.
However, there is an upside to being poor, as it builds character, and forces a person to find new ways to survive. Being poor also teaches humility, which is a valuable commodity. People who are catered to all their lives would have no idea how to survive if disaster struck, while most poor people would have the knowledge needed for survival.
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It may be hatred or not but this is just sad. :/
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It’s really sad that the poor are made to jump through hoops to get basic health care. The government needs to do more about this.
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I do not believe that there is such thing as hatred towards the poor but rather, it is a simple fact of the huge number of poor people overwhelming whatever capacity the government has to care for them.
Unfair, sure, but medicines do cost money, and doctors are humans too.
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