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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is saying we shouldn't care for less fortunate folks. The question is, when you yourself are struggling to make ends meet and pay for health care, it is tough to be required to pay more to subsidie others. We live on one income. I have a chronic disease. Medication, specialists appointments really add up and insurance costs are higher every year. It's becoming a real hardship to afford medical care.

The middle class is not allowed to complain I guess. [/quote]
I'm the OP, and we are in the same boat. I really do think that once people get to a comfortable lifestyle, they don't understand how it feels when you have to "go without" (particularly medical care) while at the same time being required to help fund the very necessary care you yourself can't afford  to others. Like you said, nobody is suggesting we throw poor people in the street. But at what point is it unreasonable to ask middle class people to give up medical treatments they need to help provide those very same treatments to poorer people?

Also, what you say - facetiously - that the middle class isn't allowed to complain is part of this, and I've touched on it. There is a LOT of defense and sympathy for the lower class getting full medical care without so much as a $10 co-pay, and very little to those struggling in the middle class to pay exorbitant insurance premiums and medical bills. In fact, we are often criticized that we need to "do better for ourselves" - a comment that would be met with anger if it were ever suggested to the poorer people.

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