Another finding in the recently released statistics from the 2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) regards poverty in this country. People living in the poorest communities in the U.S. have a 19% higher per capita rate of inpatient hospitalization than those in all other communities, or 1,420 per 10,000 in the local population versus 1,189 per 10,000. There is undoubtedly a direct connection between hospitalization and living without basic needs...