Most recently, pertaining to the health care system, President Obama introduced a new bill that gives uninsured and self-employed people a chance to purchase insurance through the state (Nolen and Jackson). However, it is not a national Health Care Bill like Truman’s or Clintons. On one side of the healthcare argument there are people who think that everyone should be required to pay higher taxes and other things in exchange for health care from the government (Appleby). “We can’t have as a nation 40 million people-or in my state, half a million- saying “I don’t have insurance and if I get sick I want someone else to pay” said former Massachusetts Governor Mit Romney. Romney thinks that everyone must buy health care and they will get good treatment because they’ve bought it from the government (Appleby). This is compared to having to buy car insurance in this article (Appleby). However, others against Romney’s view say that the government is the cause of problems like people being without health care in the first place (Universal Health Care: What’s the Debate About?). People who argue for no government intervention say that the government causes the problems in the first place (Weeks). Free Market Cure is dedicated to correctly diagnosing the problems with the U.S. health care system and promoting solutions which preserve and extend individual liberty. Our central premise is that many problems in our medical system are either caused or exacerbated by government intervention — and that a strong dose of Capitalism is the cure for what ails the U.S. health care system.” What people recognize in America as modern health care began in the 1920’s when doctors began to charge more for their services than people could pay easily. An administrator at Baylor University in Texas wanted to help those who couldn’t afford doctors, so he created Blue Cross, which spread to other parts of the country as a non-profit (Noah). The Blues/Blue Cross kept their costs low in exchange for tax breaks. In the 1940’s commercial insurers came in to the medical market. During the second world war private insurers began to come more into the medical market, businesses began to offer their workers health insurance, so private insurers did the same (Noah). By this time the U.S. government intervened in health care for the first time, by exempting businesses (including private ones) from income tax related to health care. During Truman’s presidency-after the Second World War, he proposed a national health care plan. It failed because his opponents said there was no need for national health care with the existence of Blue Cross. After this private insurers became larger in the medical market. Eventually the private insurers began to turn away patients who would have not been previously been turned away. The private insurers grew larger than the private insurers by the 1970’s, until Blue Cross begin doing the same thing as the private insurers to get money (Noah).

So new, so beautiful, so sudden. I saw her and that was all their was in life. I saw her beautiful face and her perfect body, and that was all I wanted. I wanted her, I wanted all of her, maybe just for today, but maybe I wanted her perhaps .............. forever. Yes forever seems right because that is how long I will love her. When I glanced into her eyes, I saw that I would love her forever, and my love would never die. But now, a tragic thought comes to my mind what if she does not love me, what if I am an afterthought to her. She
did look at me, but I couldn't tell if it was disgust or intimacy on her face. They called her to the kitchen now, so I'll go offer to help her, and this will be my chance to get my heart broken, or to find my love. "Tita I love you" I said. "Do you love me?" And then came the best word ever spoken to me. "Yes" she said. That was all I needed. I left that day triumphant. Now, I have waited a year and will ask today for what I want the most: Tita's hand in marriage. Of course, I will have to ask her mom first-though Tita told me not to I can't imagine why she would do that, I am honorable so I will do this. As soon as I got to Tita's family's ranch, I knew something was wrong. Her mom, Elena told me I could not marry Tita but instead her sister Rosaurau. From that statement I knew Elena was a fool, but if I wanted Tita my best shot at getting close to Tita would be to marry Rosaurau I accepted Elena's evil offer. I knew it gave Tita pain to see me with Rosaurau; I often saw her crying in the kitchen, it gave me an equal amount of pain. I had to find happiness in this terrible ordeal; I found that in Tita's cooking and her breast feeding of Roberto, her nephew. So, I was able to find some love, and a way around Elena's evil schemes.

Oh agony, oh path why do you haunt me?  Why does everyone hate me?  I am the king’s son and should be treated as such.  My father’s first wife, Sassouma, thinks me to be a fool.  She thinks that I came from fools because my face is only my mother’s and Sassouma thinks my mother is a fool.  This pains me because all around me I see folly and see children inferior to me.  They think because they can walk and because they use their tongues to relay their thoughts that they are better than me.  But they are fools speaking foolishly all the time.  Fools, they are all the same, young or old, kings, wives or not kings’ wives.  Sassouma is just as much a fool as the children.  But she should not be so foolish.  She has been on the earth longer than the children.  She uses her tongue to lash harmful words at my mother, Soglon Kedjou, with insults also directed at me.  She says, “Why does your son not walk yet Soglon?”  He is seven years of age and should have walked long ago.  Well, a slow son takes after his mother she says.  But she can not see that while she speaks before analyzing what she’s about to say.  I speak very little and analyze everything about the world and therefore I do not speak unless I feel it is needed.  That is why I know these words can only be the words of one like Sassouma who is an evil snake with no vision.  Evil because she wishes only to hurt my mother and I but foolish to prey on someone such as myself and my family.  Though she is an evil snake and a fool like the other children my mom makes me play with who are not evil but just foolish.   My pain comes from this source, their spring of hatred, of rejection.  They do both to me without cause and I long to be accepted by them.  For years, when my mom went to get a baobab leaf, I heard this insult from Sassouma:  “I have plenty leaves, because my son, unlike yours, can walk and got these for me.”  My mom came home sobbing and I resolved to go and walk. But I would need an iron rod to stand on, and then I would walk and grasp the baboob tree. I crawled to the tree and stood up on the iron rod, my knees began to shake until I got used to walking.  I then walked to the tree and uprooted it. Now Sassouma and the children’s spring of rejection and hatred would run dry.  They will have only respect for me now.  I now know what I am and what I shall be.  I am the “Lion” fierce and powerful.  I have awakened and my people will fear me, Sassouma most of all.

This article is representative of Prometheus. I think that he and Kanye West are similar in that they both defied the person over seeing what they were doing. Prometheus defied Zeus by having compassion on humans and giving them fire, this resulted in him being tortured for many years. Though not as extreme, the same thing happened to Kanye West when he stated his opinion while talking about Hurricane Katrina,that the U.S. government is not set up to help those who are poor and/or black. Also he said that the President of the United States at that time did not care about what happened to black and poor people. Kanye made a direct comment against those in power, like the president and the government when he knew that he would face heavy criticism for saying what he thought was right. In this way Kanye West and Prometheus are similar.

Why does she leave me,
This is the question I asked when rejected

But now it seems oh so foolish to ask.
She was not perfectand passed me by because of this.
She was like every other woman I knew.
Sheput her own interest above mine.
She had mud over her eye similar to a swine.
She could not see my perfect art was more important than her,
so I had to lether go.
My sculptors were carved in stone showing loneliness but also my love.
My love, those I’ve knowns love and the love of gods above.
I sculpted picturesof life itself, or what I thought that life should be. Sometimes man withoutwomen alone and weary but sometimes the two together in sheer beauty.
Life wasthis way, because some find love while others don’t.
This is what she hadwanted me to give up, this was her terrible fee,
My sculptures of life andbeauty
Who could be so cruel?
Who could think I would consider them above mydivine gift?
Did she think me a fool?
Surely though, I was not and I could not agreewith these women’s demand,
I paid a price for my sacrifice of not gettingmarried, loneliness was it,
but I thought that loneliness was a price fair, sostay lonely I dared.
I wanted a woman who would have her own feelings but lovemy sculptures above all else, and consider them what they were, wealth.
So with my divine gift for sculpting stone I began to sculpt a womanwith human features and perfection,
she would have this, even if she could nothave bones.
Finally, my creation was done, I stood looking at its beauty,stunned.
It was the most beautiful of all my creations and I fell in love. Shewas perfect and had no blemish like the other women.
I wanted her to be real somuch that I prayed to the gods above.
I wanted her to be like me, and love me,I wanted her to feel.
I wanted her to see me and love me.
My wish was grantedand together we live on this earth in happiness still.