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Originally Posted by rahl
Well, if someone has food poisoning they won't be eating any food, and if they don't get treated they will likely dehydrate and die. If people have to choose between paying for their medical bills, because they can't get insurance, and paying the utilities I would think you'd want to fix the underlying problem so they can get back to payinf for said utilities.
Fixing healthcare would let people get healthy affordably and be able to buy groceries and pay utilities.
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That's a pretty contrived example which, since the occasional e.coli breakout makes the national news for a few days, probably happens a handful of times in a week, if that. If the admen on TV or the people who claim that the only decent meal kids get is school hot lunch are to believed, then hunger is a much larger problem than the number of cases of food poisoning in the US. It doesn't explain why access to health care is a fundamental right and access to sufficient food is not.