These are people who have paid thousands of dollars for health care which they never received in return.
These are also people who have nothing else to loose.
"These are people who have paid thousands of dollars for health care which they never received in return."
I was gonna mention that too, but refrained since the lost future SS benefits overrides whatever the state pays to those w/o insurance.
There is no excuse by states/cities to put an additional $3.00 of taxes to each pack of cigarettes. For a two-pack-a-day smoker this amounts to almost $2,200 per year per person, or about $30,000 for a ten-year period, if you take into account future tax levies and imputed lost interest. Multiply that for a husband and wife smokers and you can drive a family into bankruptcy.