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Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' (theguardian.com)
Almost 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of debts accrued through healthcare expenses. From a report: A report, published by the World Health Organization and the World Bank this week, found the poorest and most vulnerable people are routinely forced to choose between healthcare and other necessities for their household, including food and education, subsisting on $1.90 a day. Researchers found that more than 122 million people around the world are forced to live on $3.10 a day, the benchmark for "moderate poverty," due to healthcare expenditure. Since 2000, this number has increased by 1.5% a year. A total of 800 million people spend more than 10% of their household budgets on "out-of-pocket" health expenses, defined as costs not covered by insurance. Almost 180 million people spend a quarter or more, a population increasing at a rate of almost 5% per year, with women among those worst affected.
Guess what happens to all those European oil and mining companies after the US soldiers pack up & go home?
Oh, everyone likes to ignore that Norway was drilling for oil in Iraq in 2004 before the blood had dried.
US imperialism is solely to the benefit of the capitalists who which to control the regions like in Syria which has nothing to do with liberating the people and everything to do with a gas pipeline that competes with Russia as Russia is funding their own with their ally Assad.
Now do you get why there is all this Russian xenophobia all of a sudden? Why we are arming Al Queda(the 9/11 guys) to overthrow Assad?
Its all bullshit