Why We Suffer

I am not sure exactly how to state this. My best friend just informed me that she is soon to be headed for maggot food. A recent measure in SF granted her the right to get health insurance through the city's program. Her first blood work in a long time indicated advanced lymphoma. She has been a musician all her life and as a musician never received unemployment or other things. She will never get a cent of her SSI she paid the last 37 years.
I guess what I want to say beyond my shock is that the dialogue over medical insurance is such an injustice in a country with such wealth and creativity we must defer to the greedy and the ignorant who think because they have what they need every one else can just wait until the people who own most of everything are ready to give back what they stole from us.
If you ask them they are an oppressed minority.They do not want you to know how their ancestors raped and pillaged and then hid behind religion and class barriers until through the complicity of the schools, the church, and the state masked the true nature of their wealth. Name names? Morgan, Stanley, Sutter,Bush etc.
The very same people stealing from another generation of Americans.
She never apologized for the truth she held as true. That we are here to take care of each other not to ignore the injustices of poverty war and capitalism. I will miss her dearly not merely because she died prematurely, a crime in itself, but because what she believed in universal health care as defined in SF would signal her death.
We will not know how we are to die for the most part.Only that we will surely die.
This fact is danced around by creating families who carry our genetics onward as we evolve as humans. The awareness of the fragility of life though shocking at times is necessary to live life fully. I am fully aware now that my best friend of ten years will soon be leaving her body and going on with music and friendships as her only legacy. I am grateful to be a part of this. I am not grateful for a system that ignores our obligation to care for all our citizens not just wealthy ones with good corporate or government jobs or those old enough or young enough to qualify for what should be a right. As should be housing education and medical care. We call ourselves "the greatest country on earth" how can the neglect of 50 million people be "great"? In the bardo we all wait for a new paradigm where the last vestiges of the agricultural/evangelical movement are stomped into a bitter gruel to be fed to our pigs.