On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Bruce Bostwick<lihan161...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Beyond proposals, though, there is a very strong argument to be made that > it's inhumane to simply leave people to die if they can't find insurance > coverage to pay for medical care that costs hundreds of times what they > could afford on their own. And what are you, personally, doing about it? Are you living in the cheapest apartment you can find, with no computer or TV or automobile, so that you can give more money and save several more people from dying? If you take money from me, you are leaving people to die: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/whitepaper.pdf | A child born in Niger today is 40 times more likely to die before | her fifth birthday than a child born in the United Kingdom. A | 15-year-old boy in Swaziland has only an 18% chance of celebrating | his 60th birthday; if he had been fortunate enough to have been born | in Switzerland, he would have a 91% chance. A young woman in Uganda | is 300 times more likely to die in childbirth than her sister in the | United States. The impact of poor health on economic growth and | political stability in Sub-Saharan Africa has been devastating; two | African heads of state have predicted that their countries will cease to | exist if HIV/AIDS is not brought under control. More than 300 million | people—nearly half the population—live on less than US$1 a day. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
