That attitude (that the poor do not deserve medical care) is the same kind of attitude that is creeping in here - where the govt has set the unemployment benefit so low as to be an actual handicap to finding work. And then they said that any mother of children over 8 must also receive only that because they should get out and get a job as well (instead of the seperate, far more generous supporting parent's pension). It's like they want to punish people for being out of work, and it makes me angry. How are they supposed to drag themselves out of poverty if they don't have the tools to do it?

But I'm trying to work out HOW these people deserve to be sick? How their kids deserve to be left with the debts for the (ultimately futile) cancer treatments (or whatever). I don't understand the logic of it.