"I would love nothing more to see a sample survey of people who do not have health insurance, and the things they buy instead."

Well here ya go. I have no health insurance. I buy food and pay my rent with all the extra money I have from not buying insurance. I then get hookers every night with all my saved insurance money, and do drugs until dawn. You act as if there would be some great expenditure on foolishness from a poor guy that can't pay for insurance. I run a small biz of my own, and guess what, I can't afford it. I went to the doc once last year, cost me 300 bucks. Makes no sense to pay 400 a month for that. Now if I was already paying taxes for foolish things like wars, and world wide welfare, why would wasting a little of that so I can get covered for major medical expenses from those taxes I pay be such a bad thing? What is socialist about that, but not socialist when banks are taken over by governments? No one is saying you have to have government help with your insurance, but it would be nice to have if it was needed. Lets see, I need a little help with my health insurance, and they need help because of bad biz decisions, but I would be a bad guy socialist for wanting help to stay alive when I have to pay taxes to keep fat cats fat? Something is fundimentally wrong with the idea that it is ok to bail out greedy bankers but not ok to help the poor if they are sick. I would be willing to bet these same bail out fans call themselves christians too. Are you a fan of this bail out?

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