@happy:

Wow, ghosts of welfare queens in Cadillacs. I won’t argue that the middle-class isn’t mired in debt of their own making, but it’s still true that, regardless of debt, people in the middle or upper middle-class can’t afford to get sick or in an accident. Even those with health insurance are screwed when it comes to reattaching digits or paying for extended chemo – you’re dead meat if it’s a “pre-existing” condition.

The average income of the top 1% increased in 2006 by more than the median income of the United States. They earn 440 times more than the median. That sort of wealth, spent or unspent, is an obscenity when people in the middle class are forced to choose which of their severed digits they’d like to reattach or if they’ll get the treatment that will save their lives or the prosthetic limbs that will provide a normal life.

No nation as rich as the United States should be without universal healthcare. Until then, all wealth is greed.