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The Health of All
Instead of getting preventive care or treating problems when they are manageable, families are forced to wait until their loved ones are so sick that something must be done.
Doctors and nurses see many children in emergency rooms with serious illnesses that could have been contained if their parents had affordable insurance.
It's not unusual to see seniors who have stopped taking lifesaving medication because the cost is simply too high.
�Gary Payinda and Luisa Blue/LATimes/Common Dreams 11.01.03

Ω{Aside from the essential moral issue (society provides health care versus society stands back and watches while Darwinian struggle decides who's fit) the immediate dilemma, as presented by the local press, is: the desperately fighting-to-survive corporations are being buried in escalating health insurance costs, and so must strip expenses in order to remain healthy and viable themselves.
They do this with essentials like gas too. The logic seems to be, transportation costs increase, consequently the price of doing business goes up, therefore wages can't.
Even though the wage earners, as mini-corporations, have seen their own transportation costs increase at least as much if not more.
Not only are corporations seen as individual legal entities, with the constitutional protections provided to American citizens, they're increasingly being seen as individuals who are more valuable than the rest of us.
It's like this government debt stuff, there's a taboo in the middle of it, you're not supposed to talk about exactly who the money is owed to. It's just debt. Sacred. End of story.
So the current argument is, or seems to be, that the health of the corporations is more important than the health of their employees.}