US Income, Poverty and Health: FindThe Facts Yourself

If you prefer facts to rhetoric:

The world's industrial development, wealth and health: where do we stand? A brief informative video illustrates changes over the last 200 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

http://www.nih.gov/

http://www.macfound.org/atf/cf/{B0386CE3-8B29-4162-8098-E466FB856794}/HCD_NET_Status_Health.pdf

http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf

For more, Google "US income poverty and health".   Read, think and then communicate with your Congressperson who needs input from constituents rather than more campaign support from lobbyists.