Baby Denied Health Care Coverage For Being "Too Fat"

This is an instance where the right thing to do is also the cost effective thing to do. It is far cheaper for a person to go get a check-up and start treating anything that comes up when it's early, rather than waiting until it gets too bad to suffer through, and the poor flood the emergency rooms and can't pay. The population of the country already pays for the health care of the poor because Hospitals get tax money to cover people who can't pay for their emergency care. The current system also has the added side effect of clogging those emergency rooms so that if you, and other rich people, actually have an emergency, they'll be forced to wait at the very doors of the hospital while the guy with diabetes gets his leg amputated because he couldn't afford to get the check up ten years ago that would have caught the diabetes and helped him combat it.

Setting aside the fact that polls of the nation show large support for healthcare reform, these television ratings are bogus.If you'll notice, there are some minor differences in the titles of the shows compared to what they're normally called. "A" Daily Show and The Colber"T" Repor"T". These names come from during the Writers Guild Strike, when Viacom forced these shows back on the air despite not having writers. In a show of solidarity, both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert changed the names to emphasize the fact that these are not the quality shows people should expect with their brilliant team of writers. Most of the shows were heavily ad-libbed, and while funny, they resorted to a fake feud with Conan O'Brien just to fill time on all three shows. Ratings would be quite noticeably down during this time. I'm not sure when a representative time would be, but an average over a year or two would probably be better, and I would pick a year without an election or a writer's strike on TDS, TCR {iand[/i] O'Reilly and compare apples to apples.I still think Fox is going to have higher ratings...but there are probably more than a few liberals who watch Fox for the reality show drama of it rather than because they actually agree with it.