Women and minorities hardest hit :-)
I swear I have seen this very statement before..... and I don't think it's deja vu! Leave it to the slimes.....
"Gap in X between rich and poor is widening, study shows."
Our BS news never changes. Way to go, MSM!
Easily fixed. Nuke the upper East side.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
I’m guessing it is really between citizens and illegal aliens.
How can this happen in a left wing state?
How can this happen under Hillary’s watch?
And will it happen nationally when she takes the White House?
Figures lie, and liars figure! Another piece of phony “journalism” by the NY Slimes.
As a lifelong NYer I can tell you this is a socio-economic, cultural and genetic problem, not a Health Insurance or Medical Care problem.
NYC has the finest Doctors in the world, and there are tens of thousands of them in every specialty. Almost all accept Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. We also have the finest private Hospitals in the world, as well as Municipal hospitals, and no one is ever turned away.
Walk around in almost all the neighborhoods in NY that are lower middle, middle middle, and upper class, and you notice one thing. Hardly anyone is overweight.
In my neighborhood, there are almost no people of any age who are overweight. Very few children are fat and that is one major element.
Another is cultural.
People don’t eat in fast food places, because there basically aren’t many...you really have to go looking for them.
People tend to go to doctors for regular check-ups and actually follow doctor’s orders. If they have a problem and are given a prescription, the take it religiously.
Compliance is a major issue is Hypertension and Diabetes, as is diet and exercise.
They are trying to set us up for Socialized Medicine...HillaryCare.
The chronic diseases like Hypertension and Diabetes will not go down. You cannot legislate compliance.
What will happen is we will will all have a lot less freedom of choice in Health Care and we will have a lot less money left over after the government takes it’s cut.
I'm not sure that genetic predisposition has a lot to do with it.
I suspect that the same people who make poor choices with respect to education, work ethic and other factors that impact income are the same people that make poor choices regarding diet, exercise and other behaviors that affect health.
Gubmint to the rescue!
We can begin to remove this gap by forcing all Americans into the same substandard single payer socialized medicine system.
I have no idea what this article means by "low income uninsured." Low income people are covered by Medicaid and through that program have access to some of the best health care in the world. Nobody is forcing these people to sit on their backsides getting fatter and fatter, which is the cause of most hypertension and DM2.
It has nothing to do with genetic predisposition. Their ancestors in Africa and Mexico weren't fat, diabetic, and hypertensive, and descendants who make it out of the inner city aren't that way either.
Anything about the high cost of living indoors in NYC?
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