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Right to Adequate & Affordable, Pt.1 – Health or economy; how about both?

Technical or not, it doesn’t take Einstein to see that health insurance and the economy are tied together. Without the means, a family can’t afford health insurance. Without health insurance, the average American can’t afford necessary health care.

With the turmoil the Bush legacy has left us, we need to understand that things will get even worse if voters don’t get involved to stop it. We don’t need ‘nicer’ health insurance. We don’t need ‘cheaper’ health insurance. We don’t need kindly CEO’s giving back to us.

•  30 million Americans can’t afford health insurance because they’ve on the edge of poverty.
•  25 million more have health insurance, but it’s so inadequate that they can’t afford food and shelter and are heading toward bankruptcy.
•  15 million more have chronic health conditions and can’t get health insurance because they’re either denied or can’t afford the astronomical premium rates underwritten to them.
•  That’s 70 million Americans just from last year. Figures are certainly higher today and the only hope for the rest of us is active involvement.

Must we only learn through personal devastation? How important are gun laws, immigration and golden parachutes to us when we’re denied necessary medical operations and being bankrupted from medical bills? If you think you’re ‘lucky’, then you should quit that ugly low-paying job (if you’re ‘lucky’ enough to have one at all) and try living off the lottery. With an administration caught up in greed and apathy, don’t expect Washington to care about you. You don’t deserve adequate and affordable health insurance any more than you deserve a new Lexus. There’s only one hope. American voters must examine the Presidential candidates’ proposals and demand acceptable change. ‘Trickle-down’ economics can never work; don’t believe the greedy are willing to share. That would be an oxymoron.

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