Why is it that innovators die poor--while imitators succeed beyond all measure?
But, I really would hate to think that these answers would be left to the free-market where the rich get to live longer because they can afford a heart bypass operation that works over 95% of the time while the poor are left to die because they cannot afford the identical, life-saving surgery.
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Vastly more die in many poor countries from the non-existence or inadequacy of sewerage systems.
But even with all the advances of the 20th century the fact remains - poor people are ill more often and die sooner.
In India, children who are born into poor homes are seven times more likely to die than those born into rich households.
Obama consistently frames the issue as this is what he is for, while his political opponents are in favor of letting the poor starve, or those without health insurance die for lack of medical care.
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"I may be poor, but I don't want to die for 20, 000 rupiah, " says Dahlan, who scorned the offer.
Shortly after that, the poor kid was dragged off to a performance of "Die Fledermaus" by his parents, who must have been on more comfortable terms with comic opera than with child psychology.
Household accidents were also disproportionately more likely to affect the poor with children with unemployed parents 37 times more likely to die in a fire than children in professional families.
Yet 2m children under the age of five die every year in India alone, mostly thanks to poor nutrition or bad drinking water.
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