"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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Add to that the fact that lack of access to quality health care
is in itself a major cause of poverty. In addition, paying for a
single health issue has caused many formerly solvent individuals
and families to slip below the poverty level.

William Sommerwerck wrote:

A _major_ cause? I don't think so.

Maybe we are just playing semantics with the word "major", but
I would respectfully suggest you look up the number of people in
the last 10 to 15 years that have been 'rightsized', 'downsized' or
otherwise lost their job and benefits. It is in the *millions*. Do you
think that is "major"?

I don't know the statistics, other than that it is not uncommon.

The original statement was (see above) "a major cause of poverty". It is
unquestionably _not_ a major cause of poverty.

But if you restate it as "a major cause of people falling into poverty"
(which is something different), I would not disagree.

Everyone should receive the medical treatment they need -- this is one
mark
of a "civilized" society, that places value on each individual. How this
should be achieved is the question.



Health care has become big business and having a great health care system is
not on their agenda. It's all about the bottom line. Lets face it, nobody
knows more about health care than the leading Cos that run it and believe
me, if they wanted to set up or even provide advice to this country on what
sort of system would work for everybody, they could. But it doesn't make
them as much money so they won't help. My wife has worked in the medical
field her whole life. She currently works for the Mayo Clinic here in MN.
There's so much over charging in this industry and it breaks the back of
many Ins programs that we all use. Greed, Greed, Greed! is what is killing
America. Everything has become so maxed out it can't work. Gas, Housing,
Medical, Ins, Phones, Milk etc... Their sucking the life out of us and the
American dream. We only have so much money and they've pilfered every
savings we ever had in any form from Social Security to help for our vets
and elderly. How long are we going to let big business and our government
rape the American people. It's time to stand up before it all collapses, if
it hasn't already!


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