RK> MS> I could rephrase it:
RK> MS> "I give up. Those of you are well-heeled and have _cars_ and
RK> are
RK> MS> provided for just don't give a damn about your fellow man".
RK> MS> After all, most Americans have cars, just like most Americans
RK> have
RK> MS> some form of health insurance...does that mean the middle class
RK> owes
RK> MS> the rest both cars and health insurance?
RK>
RK> Just what "form of health insurance" do most Americans have? Charity
RK> at
RK> emergency rooms?
No.
With even Pres. Hillary claiming only 37,000,000 are uninsured in a
population of around 6+ times as many, even she's admitting most are insured!
The old are insured by Medicare, the poorest by Medicaid. The middle
class are insured mainly by workplace-based insurance.
And don't ridicule ER charity as a form of de facto insurance. It
insures _access_ to health care for millions of working-class people, mostly
in that 37,000,000 "uninsured". It is so significant as a form of
"insurance" that Greensboro's premier hospital has set up an outpatient
clinic to keep the people involved from taking up valuable time from true
emergency patients.
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