Information Station about health...

Here are some quick facts that I noted from books, TV news, or the Internet:.

1. Every day, 14,000 people lose their health insurance in the United States.
2. Eight million children in America, along with 12.5 million women of reproductive age, have no health insurance.
3. Before Medicare, 40 percent of senior citizens didn't have health insurance coverage. (Medicare and Social Security are socialized programs and benefit a lot of Americans. Another socialized program, by the way, is the U.S. military which benefits a lot of soldiers, veterans, and their families.)
4. Each year, 40,000 people die of breast cancer. It is the highest cause of cancer deaths for women.
5. One in nine Americans are using food stamps. (July 2009)
6. Eighteen percent of U.S. children under 18 years of age live in poverty.
7. The United States ranks 29th out of the 30 industrial nations for infant mortality.
8. The United States ranks 24th out of 30 industrial nations for life expectancy.

So, why are those ignorant people at the health care reform town meetings screaming about leaving U.S. health care to the free markets, which actually means leaving it to the "costly" determination of the private insurance companies?