Been awhile since I posted a journal but this warrants it.

I found out about Dragoneer's death last night, probably within an hour of him actually dying in retrospect.

My feelings on him are complicated. He's done some bad shit in the past, and I don't think he's a saint.

But for any harm he caused, he has also done a lot of good for people in the fandom. Maintaining this site helped me express myself a lot, and for that, I do owe him some gratitude.

And so, I found myself mourning his death. Yet another furry with influence in my life that was lost to medical complications. That's the... fourth time I believe this has happened now. And I'm sure that's a small number compared to many who've been here.

And then I read how he died.

I'm livid.

He had so much debt piled on him for a diagnosis that he never managed to receive.
He was jerked around and stalled by a system that values his money more than his life.

I've long been a proponent for universal healthcare in the USA. Hell, right or left, the majority of America wants it.
Dragoneer's story isn't the first, and it isn't even the last time this has happened.

That there's even people celebrating his death, victim blaming, and justifying a corrupt system just because it killed one person they hate is... unconscionable.
It can easily be them next, put on the chopping block for the sake of a rich fuck's wallet. And I would still mourn their loss because nobody deserves to die like he did.

The answer is clear to me. Universal health care for everyone. Any less than that is a failure to the country.