Amazing thing!

So today in my english class we were talking about different types of definition arguements, and my teacher decided that Universal Healthcare was a great topic to use as an example. Being the typical teacher that most professors are he has a more liberal viewpoint of everything. He showed us a clip from YouTube about some antidepressant drugs that actually are being proven that they are more harmful to you than helpful. Like if you go on the drug, it is very addicting, and won't help forever, probably due to the fact that your body will change when you take drugs. anyway, they interviewed a woman who tried for 8 years to get off the drug in lots of different ways, but none of them ever helped.
they then talked about how there are studies proving that the drug will cause you to be more suicidal, depressed and violent. the clip was from fox news and my teacher just loves to try to put down the network. so he called this type of video more use of scare tactics than informing, which can be seen since it was only a 3 minute clip. all networks will use the amount of time they can get and since they only had so much time to fit in all this, they had to shove as much as they can into it. Anyway when we took a break in class some of us started talking about the debate on universal healthcare, and one person asked why it was so bad. i said that it doesn't work for all countries, like canada, whose people spend so much time on the waiting list that by the time they get to the doctors or the bed they are beyond help. i mean most of them will come down here for help if they need it.
one of the guys in the class spoke up and asked me if i had ever lived in a country that had universal health care, and no i haven't. he then told me of his dad and how he fell off the roof or something and got hurt bad, spent 2 weeks in the hospital and had to pay nothing for it. he said that the only thing he doesn't like about America is that the healthcare is so expensive. I said that it may work for other countries, but because of so many things here, it would not work. i didn't say this next part. Maybe if each state figured their own way of taking care of healthcare, maybe it would work, but forcing a whole country to do it at huge prices is crazy. not only would we be giving to people who aren't working at all and need to pick up the slack and find a job and put some effort into their own lives, or illeagle aliens who shouldn't even be here.
anyway after that last part the conversation died down real quick. after class i went out in the hall and sat down to wait for my friend Maria to get there since her next class was in the classroom i was just in, and that same guy came and apologized for jumping on me for that. We agreed that the people higher up in the government weren't looking out for the people they are supposed to be serving. we also agreed that it is okay to have your own opinion and it's okay to express it. Wow! i never would have expected a fellow student to come to me and apologizing for jumping on me for what i was saying! you know, there are some good people out there who may disagree with me, but we don't need to hate each other for having a different opinion!