There is more to it than having health insurance. Unnatural Causes: Is inequality making us sick?

[Jamastiene]

A few video exerts from Unnatural Causes: Is inequality making us sick?

Louisville's Rubbertown Neighborhood Fights against Toxic Emissions
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=211

Wealth Equals Health
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=492

Growing Wealth Divide Is Bad for Health
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=219


America spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation and ranks the lowest of any other industrialized nation in life expectancy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_compared#Cross-country_comparisons


"The United States is alone among developed nations in not having a universal health care system."
http://cthealth.server101.com/the_case_for_universal_health_care_in_the_united_states.htm
http://www.iom.edu/?id=17848

There is more to it than just buying health insurance.

By leaving the poor in poverty and continuing to destroy the middle class, and exporting jobs with no safety net for the American people, we are going to continue to spend more on health care and continue to get less than acceptable results from the money spent on that health care.

There is way more to this problem that is not being addressed.

I highly recommend this documentary.

[varelse]

1. Yes, it is

but we don't matter anymore.

[silverweb]

2. Bookmarked for later.

Thanks! :hi:

[havocmom]

3. people who have to show up to work every day can't get healthcare

They become less valuable to employers if they miss work now and then to attend to their health.

We are disposable cogs. I realized that back in 1993.

[Jamastiene]

4. Kick

This is important. It explains a lot of extra factors behind the inequality in America.

[AdHocSolver]

5. The U.S. may not have universal HEALTH care, but it does have universal WEALTH care. n/t

[Jamastiene]

6. kick

[amborin]

7. K&R

[Jamastiene]

8. Kicking one last time.

It IS really a very informative documentary to watch whether you are for are against this HCR bill as it stands now.

[Hannah Bell]

9. yes, it is. & reducing it would do more for health than insurance.

economic inequality is the root evil.

[inna]

10. KR+20