We have the most advanced medicine in the world, yet at any given moment there are members of our society that have limited or no access to medical treatment. When one reads about the health care in the United States we are lead to believe that there is equal access to the most advanced treatment available. That is true, if you have insurance or if you have the funds to private pay. If not you can expect a long wait in a county hospital that is required to serve the indigent. When a patient is finally examined it is usually by a physician that has limited access to the designer medications and advanced procedures available at private hospitals. Poor people cannot afford insurance and therefore do not avail themselves of preventative medicine. As a result they seek treatment when their condition worsens and often use the emergency room fo

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