Dear America,

Congratulations in taking a step towards delivering a standard of health care to your citizens that is, even still, below the bare minimum in the rest of the developed world.

I know you’re celebrating that the bill was passed but you all should take a minute to be ashamed this happened so late. To the rest of the world, this will only point out the deficiencies in the system you’ve been living with for decades. It will be like when McDonalds came out with that campaign, advertising their McNuggets “now with all white meat!” and everyone thought “Jeez, what have you been doing all this time?”.

Don’t even get me started on the 212 Americans who voted not to extend the basic human right of healthcare to their uninsured fellow citizens. If one of those people is representing you in Washington, I’d think about sending a strongly worded note.

Condescendingly,

Alice