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

To: Road Walker who wrote (10412)	10/14/2009 12:27:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Health benefit costs are a major part of that argument, but not the only part. Another important issue for the income of the poor, is that many of these figures exclude government benefits. So ignoring an important source of income for the very poor, gets used to justify increasing that source of income, and then if there is an increase it doesn't get measured either so the poor's situation looks just as bad. Maybe worse if you consider that higher benefits might create extra dependency on the benefits, so the income they produce themselves may go down.