Reply #70: Universal health care is a national security issue.

[reprobate]

If you take a look at many inner city areas, and even rural areas where people can't afford health care, you'll see an epidemic just waiting to happen.

Especially in this country, where there are little or no safety nets, it would be very easy for some virus or bacterial disease to take a foothold in the poor areas, infecting huge numbers of people before anyone is even aware of it. And with no treatment it would easily spread to the not so poor areas, infecting the rest of us before anything could be done.

But maybe that's what the repugs want. Kill off the poor and you don't have to worry about health insurance or public education.