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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (110511)	1/11/2008 7:17:37 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

That's o.k., because we still lead the world in medical bankruptcies. The rightwingers have done a slime job on the Harvard Medical School study that says that 50% of all personal bankruptcies in the US were caused by high medical costs. However, close to 100% of all bankruptcies have high medical costs as a contributing factor. Perhaps Greenspan set up the real estate bubble so it could make medical bankruptcies look like a lower percentage. One wingnut was adamant that it wasn't medical costs that caused a lot of these problems, but the fact that sick people lose their jobs while they are sick. I was happy he gave us another reason to embrace socialism. <VBG> BTW, I still love capitalism. Capitalism for what isn't important, socialism for what is.