If the poor are poor to begin with and then poor afterwards what is the difference? you cannot get blood out of a turnip. I agree the poor will always be with us. Unfortunately as I said I am a realist and you said it there is no common ground and that is truth, some would lie to you with false hope some out of ignorant bliss.but far from reality nevertheless. I have considered selling my business and going to work for the feds as thier plan is best. I worked for the U.S. Forest Service briefly shortly out of school.
mom'sfolly :
The poor simply cannot afford heath care or insurance. Period.
Let me spin a scenario for you, one that is actually true. My brother-in-law got cancer, a rabid growing, soft-tissue sarcoma. The nearest oncologist was 700 air miles away, the nearest one who had ever treated his type of cancer was closer to 1000 miles away. His first treatment was surgery, 1000 miles from home. He came home, had a clean scan in September, and by December he had a tumor 2.5 cm in diameter. The treatment, directed by his 1000 mile distant oncologist, was chemo, followed by radiation treatment. Oops, radiation treatment has to be done in a cancer treatment facility...so off 1000 miles from home, for six weeks. Then more surgery and radiation at the surgery site. He had health insurance and survived. If he hadn't worked for the government, and had the same job in private industry, he would not have had health insurance, but he would have been paid much more. He would not have been paid enough to pay for his treatment. He would have died in 6-7 months, in pain, for a treatable disease.
No one in this country, except the extremely wealthy, can afford to pay out of pocket for a catastrophic illness, a car accident or a premature baby. This is a fact. Nor can you plan never to have any of this happen to you. Life doesn't happen that way. So yes, the working poor go into bankruptcy, go into debt they can never get out of, default on payments or they don't get treated.
I think our world views are so different there is no common ground. Your opinion is that if you can't afford it you don't deserve it, and I feel that people shouldn't be faced with the option of bankruptcy or death.
The poor simply cannot afford heath care or insurance. Period.
Let me spin a scenario for you, one that is actually true. My brother-in-law got cancer, a rabid growing, soft-tissue sarcoma. The nearest oncologist was 700 air miles away, the nearest one who had ever treated his type of cancer was closer to 1000 miles away. His first treatment was surgery, 1000 miles from home. He came home, had a clean scan in September, and by December he had a tumor 2.5 cm in diameter. The treatment, directed by his 1000 mile distant oncologist, was chemo, followed by radiation treatment. Oops, radiation treatment has to be done in a cancer treatment facility...so off 1000 miles from home, for six weeks. Then more surgery and radiation at the surgery site. He had health insurance and survived. If he hadn't worked for the government, and had the same job in private industry, he would not have had health insurance, but he would have been paid much more. He would not have been paid enough to pay for his treatment. He would have died in 6-7 months, in pain, for a treatable disease.
No one in this country, except the extremely wealthy, can afford to pay out of pocket for a catastrophic illness, a car accident or a premature baby. This is a fact. Nor can you plan never to have any of this happen to you. Life doesn't happen that way. So yes, the working poor go into bankruptcy, go into debt they can never get out of, default on payments or they don't get treated.
I think our world views are so different there is no common ground. Your opinion is that if you can't afford it you don't deserve it, and I feel that people shouldn't be faced with the option of bankruptcy or death.
