CNN: Bill Clinton's Global Initiative addresses poverty and its effects

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Poverty and poor health are intertwined, experts say
August 30, 2006
By Sabriya Rice
CNN


Dr. Sanjay Gupta's conversation with former President Bill Clinton about poverty's impacts and potential solutions airs Saturday on CNN

Poverty in the United States increased 20 percent between 2000 and 2004, census numbers show. And although the trend stalled in 2005, researchers worry poverty will have profound effects on public health in this country.

Poverty and its effects are a chief issue for former President Bill Clinton's Global Initiative. Clinton is bringing together a non-partisan group of world leaders on September 20 in New York to try to match innovative problem-solving with resources.

"More possibility for growth and more possibility for prosperity for Americans is a very inexpensive thing to do, if you do it well," the former president said.

New research indicates that it's not just the poor who are getting poorer. An analysis of poverty rates and health published in the September issue of The American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that people living in extreme poverty tend to have more chronic illnesses, more frequent and severe disease complications and make greater demands on the health care system.

"When we talk about poverty, there is the tendency to feel it affects a small percentage of the population and the rest of us are doing better," said Steven Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of the study. But in this situation, he said, "we're all doing a little bit worse."...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/29/poverty.health/index.html

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1. Inexpensive?

"More possibility for growth and more possibility for prosperity for Americans is a very inexpensive thing to do, if you do it well," the former president said."

Let alone very?

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2. More and more Americans use emergency facilities as routine doctor care.

ANY kind of care will be cheaper than this.