A good portion of the waste under the current systems could cover the cost of health care for even the poor.

Every state has a form of welfare, medicaid, veterans hospitals and tax supported clinics and hospitals (we already paid for these). These can be used as a base for care for the poor.

I cannot see paying the insurance companies to mismanage our health care in order to sell their stocks and pay themselves to limit and deny coverage when it is needed.

On the other hand people have to become more responsible by working towards keeping themselves and those that they are around and in charge of from spreading diseases, cold and flu.

Textile workers suffer a high rate of cancer. In areas where there are high concentrates of nitrates in the water tables the citizens have high rates of cancer. In Idaho farmers built hugh cow lots and dairies over the aquifers. This added to the burden that was already there from farmers that were applying extra fertilizers for their hay, corn and sugar beets crops.

A simple test from a pet store can tell you how high nitrate concentrates are in your water. If it is at a dangerous level for your aquarium it obviously is also a danger to you and your family.

Enviromentally sound practices don't go out of style. If open sewage systems are utilized throughout the country. It should be obvious that a few critters are going to spread whatever is in these systems (parasites and disease).

When farmers use burndown practices, the excess chemicals go into the water tables and the water ways that are nearby the land that they have flooded with chemicals. Geez when there are dead birds & fish in the little streams or rivers that have areas that have that film of oily scum on them after the farmer sprayed it is obvious they have been poisened. That water moves on down stream for the next town, next county, next state, next country to deal with. I bet they don't realize what went into the water before it got to their municipal system. Wait, all that previous municipality had to do was get a permit to release their waste into the water ways also.

It's much better to let larger cities collect grants and use taxpayer dollars to build more economy minded projects (arenas, high dollar perk projects, etc) than systems that would improve the enviroment. Let those towns dump a bit of waste, what the heck it goes downstream.

When I can smell chlorine in the water it is not something I desire to drink. It makes my tummy ache.

Mold, chemicals, airborne particles, bacteria and all of our polluted water throughout can't be good for the human body. Yet so many want to bitch about anothers personal choice to drink or smoke. All the while caring less about all of the other dangers that are faced in their unhealthy enviroments.

Large buildings lacking air quality controls are distributing those little germies through the ventilation systems in schools and offices throughout the country. It would be just to difficult to add a few filtration systems in the heating and air systems that already exists or are being built??