Why do we need national health care?
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pecuniumBecause a lack of insurance kills people
OXFORD — Friends say the Miami University graduate who died this week after reportedly suffering from swine flu delayed getting medical treatment because she did not have health insurance.
News of Kimberly Young’s death Wednesday, Sept. 23, came as a shock to those who knew the vibrant 22-year-old who was working at least two jobs in Oxford after graduating with a double major in December 2008.
Young became ill about two weeks ago, but didn’t seek care initially because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost, according to Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate.
Worried about the cost of one visit to the doctor.
That sort of worry kills a lot of people every year. How many? 45,000 deaths a year for lack of insurance.
That's more than drunk drivers. That's more than murders. That's more than both of those combined.
It would take 13 Sept. 11th events to equal one year's worth of those numbers.
Want to know something even better? The constitution we shoved down the throat of Iraq, requires healthcare for everyone.
Pretty good inn't? George Bush, and his neo-con cabal (the folks who believed the parades would last, even after the random raids and the abuductions started) insisted that First: Every citizen has the right to health care. The State shall maintain public health and provide the means of prevention and treatment by building different types of hospitals and health institutions.
Second: Individuals and entities have the right to build hospitals, clinics,or private health care centers under the supervision of the State, and this shall be regulated by law.
But here, in the wealthiest nation on the planet, with (we are assured) the "best healthcare in the world,"people die from the flu, because they can't afford to see the doctor.
OXFORD — Friends say the Miami University graduate who died this week after reportedly suffering from swine flu delayed getting medical treatment because she did not have health insurance.
News of Kimberly Young’s death Wednesday, Sept. 23, came as a shock to those who knew the vibrant 22-year-old who was working at least two jobs in Oxford after graduating with a double major in December 2008.
Young became ill about two weeks ago, but didn’t seek care initially because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost, according to Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate.
Worried about the cost of one visit to the doctor.
That sort of worry kills a lot of people every year. How many? 45,000 deaths a year for lack of insurance.
That's more than drunk drivers. That's more than murders. That's more than both of those combined.
It would take 13 Sept. 11th events to equal one year's worth of those numbers.
Want to know something even better? The constitution we shoved down the throat of Iraq, requires healthcare for everyone.
Pretty good inn't? George Bush, and his neo-con cabal (the folks who believed the parades would last, even after the random raids and the abuductions started) insisted that First: Every citizen has the right to health care. The State shall maintain public health and provide the means of prevention and treatment by building different types of hospitals and health institutions.
Second: Individuals and entities have the right to build hospitals, clinics,or private health care centers under the supervision of the State, and this shall be regulated by law.
But here, in the wealthiest nation on the planet, with (we are assured) the "best healthcare in the world,"people die from the flu, because they can't afford to see the doctor.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:59 am (UTC)