Is It True That Poor People Have Heart Disease?

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The american medical association has changed its guidance for doctors about how to talk to patients. Instead of referring to low income people, they recommend that you say: 'People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies' I mean, n like shooting fish inthere. There there are other examples i understood. By the way, just to be clear, i have studied the influence of those forces for decades,. The mechanisms by which being poor is harmful to your health.

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