Heya! Generalizations and personal experiences are necessary for any quick and easily understandable point to be made. I'm not going to write a dissertation on

Heya! Generalizations and personal experiences are necessary for any quick and easily understandable point to be made. I'm not going to write a dissertation on the intricacies of anti-nationalized healthcare beliefs. Tying into personal experience. When I paid for my mom's knee surgery which left her wheelchair-bound for 2 months afterward, I had many proudly conservative family members ask me why I would do that. The knee surgery was to help with damage done from obesity (which she had beat before the surgery and is now at a healthy weight). I was told that I was rewarding her "bad" behavior. That she needed to suffer the consequences of her actions. That her health is not my responsibility. All of those statements reflect my earlier statement of American individualism and our belief that these issues are moral failings, rather than societal failings. This individualism runs so deep in our society that a son is chastised for helping his mother.