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<blockquote data-quote="beatupbrown" data-source="post: 244998" data-attributes="member: 4488"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">We have a health insurance crisis what part of that do some you folks not get?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Big arrow up its not the lower income its middles class.Bt making statements like that tells me you are not informed on the subject please research more watch more. </span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Published on Sunday, November 16, 2003 by the </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #0000ff">New York Times</span></span></span></u></em></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 18px">For Middle Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">by Stephanie Strom</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>The majority of the uninsured are neither poor by official standards nor unemployed. They are accountants like Mr. Thornton, employees of small businesses, civil servants, single working mothers and those working part time or on contract.</p><p>"Now it's hitting people who look like you and me, dress like you and me, drive nice cars and live in nice houses but can't afford $1,000 a month for health insurance for their families," said R. King Hillier, director of legislative relations for Harris County, which includes Houston.</p><p>Paying for health insurance is becoming a middle-class problem, and not just here. "After paying for health insurance, you take home less than minimum wage," says a poster in New York City subways sponsored by Working Today, a nonprofit agency that offers health insurance to independent contractors in New York. "Welcome to middle-class poverty." In Southern California, 70,000 supermarket workers have been on strike for five weeks over plans to cut their health benefits.</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Big arrow up its not the lower income its middles class.Bt making statements like that tells me you are not informed on the subject please research more watch more .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beatupbrown, post: 244998, member: 4488"] [SIZE=2]We have a health insurance crisis what part of that do some you folks not get? Big arrow up its not the lower income its middles class.Bt making statements like that tells me you are not informed on the subject please research more watch more. [/SIZE] [I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Published on Sunday, November 16, 2003 by the [/SIZE][/FONT][U][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]New York Times[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/I] [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5]For Middle Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]by Stephanie Strom[/SIZE][/FONT][/B] The majority of the uninsured are neither poor by official standards nor unemployed. They are accountants like Mr. Thornton, employees of small businesses, civil servants, single working mothers and those working part time or on contract. "Now it's hitting people who look like you and me, dress like you and me, drive nice cars and live in nice houses but can't afford $1,000 a month for health insurance for their families," said R. King Hillier, director of legislative relations for Harris County, which includes Houston. Paying for health insurance is becoming a middle-class problem, and not just here. "After paying for health insurance, you take home less than minimum wage," says a poster in New York City subways sponsored by Working Today, a nonprofit agency that offers health insurance to independent contractors in New York. "Welcome to middle-class poverty." In Southern California, 70,000 supermarket workers have been on strike for five weeks over plans to cut their health benefits. [SIZE=2]Big arrow up its not the lower income its middles class.Bt making statements like that tells me you are not informed on the subject please research more watch more . [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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