<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div>5% of Americans Made Up 50% of U.S. Healthcare Spending</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-americans-made-50-u-195410001.html">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-americans-made-50-u-195410001.html</a></div><div> </div><div>"By comparison, the bottom half paid an average $232 and made up about 3% of total costs." </div><div> </div><div>I figure if we are all paying for most the medical costs already in Social Security, medicaid, medicare, property tax exemptions, and higher <span id="misspell-1"><span>premiums</span></span> anyway, why not spring an extra 3% and cover the medical costs of everyone else? We would make that cost up easily in <span id="misspell-2"><span>preventing</span></span> illness. </div><div> </div><div>Why does it make more sense to Republican
Leadership to pay $1.75 trillion to have privatized health care and Medicare that only covers 55% of the people, when we can spend $1.5 trillion through a private payer federal government program and cover 99% of the people? There philosphy makes for bad math, bad politics, bad economics, and such <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>a bad job of loving they neighbor that it can be nothing but sinful. </div><div> </div><div>Donovan Arnold</div></div></body></html>