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I have been there. I had NO medical insurance as a kid (my family was very lower middle class). My mom died of lupus and nothing about it was covered. She had a brain tumor at the start of the process in 1970, and my dad was still paying for the surgery while I was in highschool. It did, along with some poor decision making processes by my dad, end up in him declaring bankruptcy.
As a kid, we had one TV. One beat up car. Decent house we rented. I can only remember getting one birthday present my entire life as a kid. I had to have a job starting in HS to purchase anything I needed that wasn't food, including clothes. I had to pay for all college expenses that weren't covered by a scholarship I got.
You know what? I survived. I didn't have much of anything material. I have experienced death, not poverty, but a lack of meterial possessions, and most of that came from paying for my mom's health care.
So please, get off your pious high horse and quit making assumptions about me that I don't know what it's like.
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