so i'm visiting customer accounts with the person showing me the ropes and we go to this great little family run restaurant. its in a business district. A very tiny little asian woman greets us as we enter the door. She is one of the warmest people I have ever met. She is standing next to a very sick looking woman.

The rep I'm with introduces me to the sick woman, its the owner's sister. They came to this country about 10 years ago for a better life. They opened this great little place about 5 years ago. The donate all extra food to the homeless and they do so much more to help everyone in the community.

Its not a fancy or expensive place. they get by. So anyway, the sick woman more than just a little sick. She needs a kidney transplant. She had an incident last week where she collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital.

Like most independent restaurant owners starting out, she has no health insurance. For one night spent in the hospital they charged her $10,000. When she asked to be put on the transplant list to get a donor, They asked if she had insurance. when she answered no they would not even put her on the waiting list. Apparently it seems, that if you don't have health insurance in this country its ok to let a person die unecessarily.

This has just been getting to me all day. Many friends of mine, boyfriend included, do not have health insurance and I've seen how ugly just a simple infection can get because you can't afford drugs at $100 a pill to treat it. But when someone desperately needs help and they do so much for other people it just doesn't seem fair that they are not even given the opportunity to get the medical help they need. The whole family would have to scrape things together but its not like they are asking for a handout, they would pay for the transplant....but they aren't even being given the chance to because they don't have insurance. i just can't understand it....does anyone else see this as ridiculous? oh well...thats my rant for the day.