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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (62103)	8/30/2007 12:44:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

85% of US citizens are covered by health insurance. healthpolicy.ucla.edu Of those not covered. 40% are Latinos. The report DOES NOT say how many of those are US citizens or even legal immigrants. Mexico has national health insurance. Let me assure you that if you enter Mexico even legally, you WILL NOT be covered by its national plan; you pay for any health care you need. 40% of immigrants who have no coverage make more than $60K/year (see table 2). ajph.org Also the US has more accidental and violent deaths than many countries further up on the list. I have absolutely no doubt that nations that rely primarily on horse and donkey power for transportation have lower road accident death rates. Those who wish to argue n favor of that situation may do so. Death rates due to car accidents at 80 mph have nothing to do with quality of health care. Violent deaths? Well, there is that little 2nd Amendment thing. Ray Nagin, mayor of NO, after Katrina, instead of having his police catch and jail the bad guys, ordered all citizens to turn in their guns. The NO police used their time to go around and collect them. We know what happened. The law-abiding citizens turned theirs in; the criminals didn't. NO now has the highest violent crime rate of any city in the developed world.