This issues ties directly to the poverty rate in the United States. How can you go to see a doctor when you are focused on keeping a roof over your head or food in your stomach? We will only get sicker and our mortality decrease along with our quality of life. A certain party and group of people fought health care reform tooth and nail. We got reform and it will help but it is a distant cousin of what we hoped for and what was originally proposed and presented. Until health care is addressed this country will not recover from this economic graveyard as quickly as we all hoped. Remember those persons who prevented health care reform from taking place with th vision we all had. Remember the obstructionists and the party of “NO” that has as of yet not presented a practical plan to help the poorest of the poor in this nation.  Remember the persons who support policies that keep the rich richer and the healthy healthier. Remember those things when you VOTE!

Number of uninsured Americans hits record high – Health – Health care – msnbc.com.