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mysuzuki2

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1. I saw this many, many times when I worked for Social Security.
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 02:56 PM
Jul 2012

I talked to a number of people over the years who had no access to basic healthcare such as high blood pressure pills or insulin who would develop serious heath problems ssuch as heart attack or stroke. For the lack of a few hundred dollars a year for routine office visits and medication, the taxpayers were then on the hook for thousends of dollars worth of hospital charges and a lifetime of disability payments. The phrase "penny wise and pound foolish" does not begin to describe the absurdity of this kind of system.

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