It has even created a new network of medical clinics that provide easy access to medical treatment at affordable prices at an efficient pace for such routine treatments as strep throat cultures, physicals for jobs or athletics, flu shots, and other procedures that enable people to pay a reasonable rate for timely care, which would not be given to them in a system of national coverage, and which would cost them more at a doctor's office that accepted their insurance (if they have insurance) because of the extra bureaucracy and paperwork necessary to validate insurance coverage ("Wal-Mart Medical Clinics," 2006, Healthcare NBIC). The example of Wal-Mart illustrates how the marketplace is infinitely more responsive to the needs of the public out of its own self-interests. Necessity is the mother of invention and also the kind of personal initiative that pulls people out of desperate circumstances. Less government regulation would enable the poor to have more of their income to save and spend, and the pressures of...

Also, merely because a politician is elected to serve does not mean that he or she is an expert upon the culture of poverty, social work, or health care -- thus why look to government to provide solutions to these woes?
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