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To: geode00 who wrote (262588)	4/24/2008 4:50:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I remember what I said, and you never addressed that point. Apparently you didn't understand it. No matter what form of health care system you have, the poor are likely to overall do worse than the wealthy. That means poverty effects health care issues. But poverty is not primarily a result of health care issues. If the problem is the poverty rate, than the poverty rate is the issue, not health care, or health insurance. And the poverty rate, as officially measured, is higher in the US than in the wealthier European countries. OTOH that fact gives a distorted image of poverty in the US. The bottom 10% in the US does about as well as the bottom 10% in Europe (although maybe the bottom 1% does worse). The comparisons of poverty rates in different countries do no compare the wealth or income of poor people in different countries against each other, instead they effectively compare the income of the poor in country A, to the income of the non-poor in country A, and then compare the income of the poor in country B, to the income of the non-poor in country B. To put things another way greater inequality in the US will result in a larger poverty rate, even though the poorer people in the US, are not poorer than the poorer people in Europe.