boo life

it is a tuesday night, and every tuesday i come home from my fshs 550 class, 'the family,' and i walk into my apartment and i am in the crappiest mood.
we talk about really depressing subjects.
they are so depressing because they are very real, very grown-up issues, and if there is one thing i am not, it is a grown-up.
the last couple weeks we have talked about poverty, class status, how women are not going to get married (exaggeration), but tonight, tonight was the worst, we talked about minimum wage...kill me.
we watched two documentaries; the first was following two families who are living paycheck to paycheck with children and who are just trying to get through life.
they were two very different families. one family was full of hope and worked hard and never lost sight of their future or their children's, they definitely had their hard times, but they had such a positive outlook on life.
the second family had a hard marriage, the husband and wife never got to see each other and except for the mom and daughter, the relationships in that family were terrible, don't get me wrong they worked hard too, but they had such a negative outlook on life.
we then moved on from that oh so up lifting video to the reality tv show, '30 days' about living a month on minimum wage.
from the movie, 'super size me' this guy went from living off the royalties of that film and his other 30 day ventures to living of around $40 a day, and sometimes not even that.
i had a few issues about this episode, would you like to read them? good.
one, this guy had the right idea, showing the world what it is like to work long hours for crappy pay and no insurance, but this guy is going to go back to his life after 30 days and will he really change? at the end of the 30 days, him and his fiance (who did this experiment with him) both had to go to the hospital, it was over $1000 dollars in medical bills...when he goes home he will be able to pay those off, not someone of minimum wage pay, it would take them months, maybe years to pay that off.
two, he had to go to the hospital because the free clinic was over-flowing with people who do not have insurance, he interviewed a doctor at the hospital...what the viewers don't see won't hurt them right? i can bet a large sum of money, he had that doctor look at his wrist when they weren't on camera.
three, their rent. they found this cheap apartment of about $325 a month, but they had to pay a deposit, now, i know that happens in real life, but the guy said they could pay the deposit and rent off within a few months, they didn't have to right away...do i need to make this anymore clear! after those 30 days, they will have their credit cards back, their cash they left behind that they can use to pay those debts back.
did this 30 day trial of living off minimum wage, really affect this couple? i highly doubt it.
there are a few other things i didn't really like about the whole 30 day concept, but they aren't as important as the above reasons, so i will spare you.
so, that is what made me really crabby, but what also made me crabby was the thing the couple proved in the episode. america's health care sucks.
this is the one thing i think was great about the episode, they were willing to share their medical bill cost. just for walking into the hospital, the two combined it cost $851.66, or something like that, that cost wasn't even including why they were there and their medicine...crazy and ridiculous.