It's time for the weekly "another brilliant study" post:
An analysis of poverty rates and health published in the September issue of The American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that people living in extreme poverty tend to have more chronic illnesses, more frequent and severe disease complications and make greater demands on the health care system.
I haven't read any related studies. I wonder if it's possible that the extremely poor also eat worse, have lousy shelter and must settle for basic cable.
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While I agree that people living in extreme poverty (provisionally speaking) DO suffer from chronic illnesses (lead poison from either eating window sill chips OR flying bullets comes to mind), they also DO suffer from more frequent and severe diseases (diabetes from being SO damn overweight on a "crunch N Munch and orange drink" diet, thanks to the WIC and welfare programs that feed a lot of LA-ZY people.
And lets not forget the ATHEROSCLEROSIS from all the RIBS, pork rinds, and "Hot Fries" being ingested hourly!
THAT ALONE makes an extraordinanry demand on ANY health care system.
So YES...they DO "eat worse". They also live in southside HOVELS that sell for a mere $7500.00 (and at THOSE prices, you SURE ain't getting anything close to nominally habitable).
And yes, they DO all have basic cable OR satellite (to go with that SIXTY INCH big screen TV that was delivered from RENT-A-CENTER.
Interestingly enough...they pay a LOT less for ALL of this than YOU might pay for JUST cable...
Who says there's NO buying power here? Not I.
B.G.
BG, right again. How many times have we been behind someone at the grocery store who has their grocery cart full of ribs, frozen pizza, sweets and an array of other fattening, unhealthy food then pay for it all with welfare? If they really want to help the poor they need to place more restrictions of how they help them. Very strict on what food they can buy. No steaks or ribs or frozen food. If they didn't have all of that food to sit around and eat maybe they would do something to improve their lives.