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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (194273)	7/18/2012 1:19:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543611

It's all inter-related. You can't look at this in isolation. The feds feed the states, and when the state doesn't have enough money, the feds often step in. And when a state causes a disaster, the feds often step in. That's because we are a country- united, as it were, as in "the united states of America". Heck even the Europeans step in to help each other- and they aren't even united states.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (194273)	7/18/2012 1:23:34 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543611

Of course, but what does this have to do with the debt problems our country is staring at? Well, in spite of an expressed sentiment at the Republican debates, it is doubtful that the country is sufficiently craven to just let folks without health care die on the streets Pretty sure that as those TB patients seek, as they must, treatment from other sources, just as the healthcare costs of the country are inflated by uninsured persons seeking and getting emergency treatment, the costs will leak into the national budget in some way Just like corporations, Florida TB patients are people too...