Healthcare isn't a business, it's peoples lives

[SamuelRSmith]

Kasz216 said:

SamuelRSmith said:

@Kasz You have people like that in the US, too. Just because you don't know about it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Poverty levels, I believe, are roughly the same in both the US and the UK.

Watch this if you want to know just how badly some Americans have to live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD65UKgB6hU

It's a stream of a BBC documentary (you can't watch it on the BBC site because you're outside of the UK).

The poverty levels are the same... but that's not the same as quality of life.

Poverty as the way your talking about is "relative poverty" which is ranked within a country.  If you have a more socialistic way of spreading the wealth... your going to score higher on a "poverty" ranking.  The fact that the US and UK are so close more highlights the differences.

Also these people live well better then what Nintendomination was talking about.  Due to things such as food banks as mentioend.  The video is pretty sensationalistic honestly. 

For example... that house... lots of tracks of land have sold for a dollar even before the economic criss.

The Gini coeefcient barely rose under bush... at all.  Which is the distribution of wealth.

George W. Bush was the best president in regards to keeping the gap between the rich and poor down since WW2.

Like seriously... this is just a poorly done documentry.

 

Well, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to take the documentary over you on this one. What's more, that statistics I'm looking at also reflect relative poverty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_Kingdom).

This documentary is talking about thousands upon thousands of Americans, NintendoMan is just one Brit.