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Originally Posted by Debbie D
When I worked as a server a couple of years ago, one of my steady customers said to his wife, "Why do people think they deserve health care?" I thought to myself, "Buddy, you are one layoff away from finding out."
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amen.
medical issues now comprise the majority of bankruptcy causes in the US.
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As much as I love my country, I am ashamed of the greed and lack of compassion that our gov't has for it's sick.
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it's not the gov't per se, it's the intersection of *money* and power, coming from corporate lobbyists, who spend massively to convince congresscritters to vote against what the vast majority of Americans want.
Repeated national and state polls have shown that between 60 and 75% of Americans would like a universal health care system (see The Harris Poll #78, October 20, 2005)
http://cthealth.server101.com/the_ca...ted_states.htm
did you know that Big Pharma has more lobbyists than there are members of Congress?
yep, corporate profits are job #1 for these greedy suckers...
The Other Drug War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists
http://www.citizen.org/congress/camp...es.cfm?ID=6537
The Case for Universal Healthcare:
http://cthealth.server101.com/the_ca...ted_states.htm