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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (98831)5/8/2003 2:45:34 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
<< Bob
You've been the most watchful on the matter of
SARS....wonder what you think of the idea brought
forth by a LATimes reader who sent a letter to the
editiors on the matter.

What he wrote was that SARS points up a glaring
weakness in the USA.....and that SARS also points out
the danger of a bio-terror attack..........that is to
say: when you have a disease like SARS, whether it be
naturally introduced or used as a weapon, the nation
is put at risk because we have so many millions
uninsured citizens.......so many millions who cannot
afford private health care............consequently,
were SARS (or other epidemic) to reach these shores
you'd have bus boys going to work at restaurants if
their symptoms were not yet so severe as to send then
to bed----same with short order cooks----McDonald and
Burger King workers.....and kids going to school who
should be home excepting there is no one to care for
them nor money to pay for a doctor.......etc........

In short, SARS now represents the best argument ever
for universal/single-payer health insurance......such
insurance represents the best possible HOMELAND
DEFENSE against bio-terror and ought to be treated as
such.

Think I'll send this on to Dick Gephardt and see if he
speaks to the matter.

j

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"For every complex problem, there is a simple, easy to understand, incorrect answer." (Physiologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)>>
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