[andyt]

stokes wrote:

Now if we do things the American way, hopefully those poor poor people start dying in droves so they are no longer a drain on those of us who are lucky enough to have health insurance....not that I think it is right.

Well as you see in the US, they insist on breeding, so there are always more. Plus with the way their economy has been going, newly poor people are created every day. Some were created by having health coverage while well, but once they got sick and couldn't work, they lost it. Or the co-pays they had to make bankrupted them.

[herbie]

But the poor have freedom of choice. They could live in a cardboard box under the overpass, eat at soup kitchens and use their no minimum wage earnings to pay for partial coverage.

[BeaverFever]

Quote:

Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance

(Reuters) - Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/17/us-usa-healthcare-deaths-idUSTRE58G6W520090917

I'll put that against your isolated anecdotes any day.

Game Over, Bart.