When You're Poor, You Wait...

When you're poor, you wait. You wait for a job. You wait for a ride. And most importantly, you wait for medical attention.

Of course, rich people gotta wait to see the doctor as well, but their waits are never as long as a poor person's wait.

And if you don't have insurance, you definitely have to wait a long time. You wait if you're hungry. You wait if you have to take medication. You wait if you're hypoglycemic and about to pass out because you don't dare go get a sandwich while you're waiting for your name to be called.

You just plain wait.

Of course, someday the US might have socialized medicine and things will be different. For starters, the waits will be longer...