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

To: Lane3 who wrote (10880)	10/29/2009 6:20:29 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't consider anyone on Medicaid "underserved." Yet twelve million of them claim they have no health insurance. They probably show up at mobs claiming to have no access to healthcare. I had in mind the folks who are uninsurable or too poor to afford insurance but don't qualify for free Medicaid. Lets look at their blackberry and flat screen TV and then try again to convince me that they can't afford it. I was listening to talk radio yesterday and the host was reading from a story about a doctor. She provides free cancer care to deserving patients. She finances it through a cosmetic surgery practice. In interviewing a cosmetic surgery patient she learned there was a high risk of breast cancer. The doctor advised her to get a mammogram. She couldn't afford it but did pay cash for cosmetic surgery. A year later she still hadn't had the mammogram but did own the latest blackberry and paid cash for botox treatment. She would be one of those who doesn't have access to healthcare. And yes, I do realize that anecdotes are just that and not proof for larger populations. This does not change the fact that many of the largest flatscreen TVs are in some of the poorest neighborhoods.