Healthcare for the poor

Hey, I can pay for my health insurance, so why should I give damn about the poor? Let them get their own! These sentences reflect a lack of understanding as to why the poor don't have their own insurance. People don't ask to be poor.Our democratic way supports poverty. I mean, someone has to be at the bottom of the ladder. But how low can we go? If you are born into poverty, you will likely feel the impact every day at home, with material limitations, emotional problems, and little or no motivation. You learn from your parents, and if they are around and were raised in the same dire straits, well, what are the expectations? School leaders, law enforcement and political leaders, those who don't live in such circumstances, criticize with ease, but do little to try to break the cycle. So the poor scrounge, scrape, steal, do anything to survive. Is it any wonder?
Who is to blame? The poor themselves? Walk in their shoes before you criticze them. If the cycle is not broken, with the help of those more fortunate.....but wait, it is easier to criticize them than to help them.
And so, they fill the emergency rooms, wait in endless lines for free this and that, and find themselves returning for more care, and more care........
It is so easy to criticize. To ignore. I find it unforgivable. Universal health care will be one giant step towards breaking the cycle. Every human being deserves decent medical care. Those who take political office carry the responsibility to make this country strong, and healthy. Those who ignore this call will not fix the problem. They are the problem.