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Originally Posted by swa(y)
no, i know a little about the welfare. i lived with a single mom that made someething like 3 bux an hour (mid 80s before there was a min. wage).
i know what its like to not have a whole lot.
on the other hand, i also know whats its like to have too much.
my whole thing is, in america its not nearly as difficult to turn whatever given situation around as it is in other places.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK...even people in SEVERE debt in america still tend to have money to throw around. i think all the useless shit even some poor people in america buy is more of an issue that americans going hungry. if you are literally starving to death in america, yr not trying hard enough.
someone will give you a fuckin quarter....
and yes...rob...the health care system is really fucked up here. i agree, like seen in many european contries it should be free.
but shit, least we still have the emergency room. they gotta accept ya no matter what. i wont lie, i dont have health insuarance. havent had it in over five years (since i graduated). my job offers it but id rather not have the extra money taken out of my check.
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yeah we got emergency rooms all right, like Martin Luther King Jr here in LA. it receives the most gun shot victims anually (which says something about the town I live in) in America, and is also one of the most frequent ER for the uninsured. two weeks ago it was national news how they let the poor woman die on waiting room floor. this is nothing new for MLK. people die there waiting for care all the time. so the state wants to shut it down. but the poor in Los Angeles have no where else to turn to for literal emergencies but MLK, and so there is uproar over the prospect of it closing by August. The people are rightfully asking where is it they are supposed to go instead? see the trouble is that they, in the most developed nation on earth, have to result to near third world standards, and though they may not have to walk 15 miles to the only doctor like in rural Africa or South America, they still risk their very lives going to the ER. it is the reality of going to the hospital for the poor, and the hospital is somewhere you usually go only when you ABSOLUTELY have too, to begin with!