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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (518768)10/7/2009 11:06:45 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1585525
 
Most of these factors are squarely a byproduct of our distributed and class related health care system...which, as I have said before , works for people who can afford it, but leaves the poor to low quality and crisis care...this also clearly addresses the issue of prevention education...the south being in lead on poor diet, smoking, obesity.

I included this from the WHO remarks out of an interest in completeness knowing it would be the one you would zero in on because it is the only that offers a modicum of support for your claim. The reality is this is not a major factor, it is one of several and any one of the others (e.g., smoking) is a far more serious problem overall.

I can't say anything about native Americans because I do not know what their arrangements for health care are and don't pretend to. But I can tell you that poor rural blacks [and whites] in the poor state I live in are eligible to receive excellent health care if they choose it. They can have a van, equipped with wheel chair lifts if necessary, pick them up at their front door, government paid; it will deliver them to the doctor or hospital of their choice, wait on them, deliver them back home. Their physician and hospital visits are covered 100% and no remainder can be billed to the patient by law. Their children receive free, frequent well-child visits until the age of 18.
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