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Mike Stark: Deriliction of Representation. Unreal Video.
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Kaiser and the rest of the usual suspects. With all that corporate cash floating around, I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing.
I came up with two simple questions:
1) How many people from your state (district) have been forced into bankruptcy by medical expenses?
2) How many of your constituents are uninsured?
I asked Steve King, Joe Wilson, Darryl Issa, Virginia Foxx and Senator Jim ...
Steve King’s response to question on uninsured Americans: People ‘want freedom’
Iowa Independent —
... residents of urban areas and, therefore, often spend larger portions of their income on health care.
Among all farm-operator households, according to the study, 14 percent of all members did not have health insurance during 2007, and that lack of insurance coverage was higher (20 percent for non-elderly and 6 percent for elderly populations) for members of households in which farming was the primary occupation of the operator.
More of Stark’s series can be found on his website.
