Universal Health Care

Originally posted by no1marauder
No you are not. Individuals remain completely free to make decisions over their own body under universal health care. You are intent on denying those choices to millions who lack sufficient economic resources, however.

Tell that to those who depend on the VA for their health care.

Originally posted by whodey
Tell that to those who depend on the VA for their health care.

Why don't those freeloaders just get some private health care?

The U.S. is often touted as being the wealthiest nation on the planet yet its people enjoy a standard of living far below both Canadians and Western European countries. Republicans constantly complain that business in the U.S. is forced off shore by our high corporate taxes. If we are the richest country, why would essentials like higher education and health care be denied to all but those who are able to purchase them out of pocket? Third world countries are characterized by less healthy, less educated populations. Is that the direction the U.S. is moving towards? I think the vast numbers of rather uneducated U.S. citizens that tend to be the largest supporters of the GOP, buy the greatest number of lottery tickets and believe that if they bet on the GOP, they too will someday have just as much wealth as Trump.

Originally posted by Phranny
The U.S. is often touted as being the wealthiest nation on the planet [...]

...by Americans.

Originally posted by whodey
Tell that to those who depend on the VA for their health care.

Veterans are free to use private healthcare if they want to. In some cases the VA will even pay for it; 10% of the VA budget goes to private care already.http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-0525-veterans-private-20140525-story.html

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Isn't government force a characteristic of "right wing" governments?

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
...by Americans.

http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-richest-countries-in-the-world.html

I'll bet there are more American citizens who qualify as wealthy by some comparable measure, than there are citizens in the total population of many of the others on this list, and maybe more than all the rest of them put together.

Not that it's a good thing.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
[b
i already know you don't want to give healthcare to people who can't afford it.[/b]

Puerile.

...and still no word from Suzianne on this:

"And yet people like you would deny this to women, specifically."

What is it I'd like to deny women Suzianne, what do you speak of here.

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ADVERB

1.as far as one knows or can see:

Duchesses post is an indication of how much she knows and how far she can see.