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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (4825)	2/22/2008 11:47:07 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

"I know there are destitute people but below the poverty line doesn't mean destitution." For some people it does. Some people can be nearly destitute at almost any income level. But when some of the people on this subject write about the inequity of our society they seem to see the boggy man of destitution in all of the 13 million or so with no access to paid medical care or insurance, plus the 32 or so million who made what appears to them to be a stupid choice. I appears to me that they perceive at 200% of poverty people can't hardly survive. "I grew up poor." I never experienced poverty as a child. It was not until I went to college that I lived in poverty. Sacrifice and acting out of necessity made me stronger.