![]() show me an actual person who cannot get treated for a condition in this country. Then say you need to fix healthcare
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![]() If these people didnt get treated by someone they are not in the US or didnt show up at the available public access clinics or emergency rooms
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![]() Besides which, medical care that leads to bankruptcy is a negative outcome.
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Drew |
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![]() besides I have health insurance and am ineligible for a transplant so whats yer point? Not everyone that needs one can get one unless it involves india and bathtubs filled with ice
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![]() If so, you need to start reading different news sites.
http://kristof.blogs...lth-care/?apage=7 My Sunday column looks at health care reform through the prism of Nikki White, a young woman from Tennessee. She became too sick with Lupus to work  and then lost her health insurance, and then died because of lack of medical care. We may know intellectually that 18,000 Americans die each year because they donÂt have insurance, but to confront one such person is still heartbreaking. And I just canÂt believe that we will let this opportunity for health reform slip through our fingers, so that Americans like Nikki continue to die needlessly every 30 minutes. More on Nikki here: http://www.post-gaze...339/743713-84.stm HTH. Cheers, Scott. |
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You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.
But technology never seems to advance...