Blog 6 "The Woman who died in the Waiting Room" CATW Practice 2

The Health System in the United States

            It is well known that the health system in the United States has many failures and is in decadence. A woman died in the waiting room of a Brooklyn hospital. According to the passage taken from “The Woman who Died in the waiting Room”, where Jeneen Interlandi stated how this unfortunate case happened and how she agonies sitting in a chair for twenty minutes being watched for few members of the staff of the institution who did nothing to help the poor woman. I do not feel any surprise in front of this case, I am sure this is happening every day in many clinics and hospital of this big Country.

            I almost died when I was delivering my baby in the Elmhurst Hospital of Queens, NY, where I had been checked for the last 5 months before my due date, therefore they knew that I was a high risk pregnant woman and that I needed to get a proper treatment and care. But instead they left me by myself in a room for the whole night while I was bleeding and painful without a nurse or doctor who could give the order that a C-section was needed. They kept me in that room until the next day. A friend of mine came to the hospital and alarmed them after she saw my situation. She told them that I was not an illegal person, that my husband was in the USA Army and that this issue could finish in the close of the hospital, if I die or my baby. So they immediately took me to the surgery room and did the C-Section to me.

            In the article I read says that the illegals and poor are the most affected and it is true. I went to the Elmhurst Hospital because many people there speak Spanish and, then I was not able to speak English. At the beginner of my pregnancy I went to the Manhattan Physician Center where I was supposed to go with my insurance and the difference was enormous. It was so clean and no too crowded, obviously due to the fact that not many people can have access to this services, therefore, the majority have to go where is “free” or accessible for them. But it this fear or equal?

            On February 2^nd, 2009 I could have died if my friend wouldn’t come and claimed the proper care for me. That is how I learned that in this country you must fight for be professional and learn English because if we were informed and able to speak English, I would be treated in a good health institution where I luckily would have the possibility of going, and I still wonder what is the danger and risk of the people who never could go to a good health service institution, what will be their destiny?

            The services of health in the United States needs to be fixed to the point that everybody can have equality in the service, because without a good health no one  could be hardworking and productive and at the end the country will lost its wealthy and power.   

Post 5 "An Education in Citizenship" (Edited)

Lately in the United States higher education tuition cost has been the subject of many debates and issues in the Senate and the Camera of representatives. Recently a bill was passed by vote in the state of Illinois which would reduce this cost for students who live into this state, according to an article published in the "New York Post" titled "An Education in Citizenship".  This bill leaves out all the students who do not live there. The other side thinks that this vote is unreasonable and shouldn't be. I think the right of education must be fear and equal for all the students who live into this nation, regardless their immigration status.

          In my opinion, this bill encourages the division in the right of education mostly when students have gotten an elementary and high school education without questioning regarding their immigration status. It is like to give the initialization and later leave them by themselves. A friend of mine from my country the Dominican Republic who came here at the age of 6 years old, learned English as a first language and also she adopted American culture while she was joining an English high school where she got a very good grades, enough to get an scholarship to go to any high standard colleges in the United States, but her legal status stuck her.

 Politicians all the times, are looking for keep their seats, they do not really care about what is good for  people, they just want be seen like they are doing right, trying to segment their jurisdiction where live people who are able to vote for them in the future, so they can keep their positions and power.   

         It is urgent to do laws all over the United States, which allowed all the rights to all the people who want to do the right thing by getting an education and make this country bigger and powerful.

       As Anais (my friend) there are many good students and hardworking people who get unfairly stuck by their immigration status. They are excluded of their rights therefore they could not develop their potential at all.

       Lastly I want to say that people must keep fighting for the equality of rights for students all over the world, because, I think, this is a worldwide issue. An education is the only way people can live a better and constructive life and this world can improve.

Blog 4 "An Education in Citizenship"

           Lately in the United States highter education rate has been the subject of many debates and issues in the Senate and the Camera of representatives. Recently a bill was passed by vote in the state of Illinois wich would reduce the rate of tuition for students who live into this state, according to an article published in the "New York Post" titled "An Education in Citizenship".  This bill leave out all the students who do not live there. The other side thinks that this vote is unreasonable and shouldn't be. I think the right of education must be fear and equal for all the students who live into this nation, regarless their immigration status.

          I think that the objetive of the bill of benefit students in Illinois have different objetive because only include this state. Politicians all the time are looking for being favorated by  people who will be able to vote for them in the future, then they can keep their position and power.

          The representive want the students learn about citizenship, but they mostly have been raise here in the United States and must know more than any other american citizen who work in a factory because the students passed already their hight school here and must know the complete history of the United States.

         In my oppinion, laws urge to be done all over the United States, which give all the rights and privilege to all the people who want to do the right thing by getting an education and make this country bigger and powerful.

        I know the case of a friend from my country who was living illegally in this country since she was 6 years old. She learned english as a first language because she used to live in Vineland, New Jersey, where the population is mostly white - american, therefore she learned american culture and  went to an English hight school where she got a very good grades enough to get an scholarship to go to any college in the United States, but her legal status stuck her, after a while she went to the labor market, which was also prevented by law, for this reason she got deported to the Dominican Republic, her native country. Her crime: try to succeed in this country where she did not decide to come.

       As Anais case, the name of my friend, there are many good students and hardworking people who get unfairly stock by their immigration status. They are prevent to develop all their protential by law.

       In conclusion, I encourage people keep fighting for the equality of rights for students all over the world, because, I think, this is a world wide Issue. An education is the only way people can live a better and construtive life and this world can become different.