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My Position on Health care

Health care is a basic human right. Everyone deserves it. Rich people, poor people. I don’t think it should be a privledge you can lose because you don’t save enough money or don’t plan.

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2 Responses to “My Position on Health care”

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    hans
    October 9th, 2007 02:39

    I agree. Like, totally!

    I feel, however, a little bummed when my friends in the UK say universal health care can substandardize the medical err… standards. According to them, rich folks pay more to go to private medical groups, while the under..err…privileged ones are subject to the lower standards.

    My argument agains them was a feeble “that shouldn’t justify the American way of locking people out of health care”, but they always seem to be amused by my lack of conviction.

    No career politicians have ever convinced me with a magic wand that would solve the “private vs. substandardization” dilemma. If anyone does, I’d vote across my party line. Just what could that be?

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    Stephen
    October 9th, 2007 13:23

    Hans, just because the NHS has problems does not mean there is a problem with national health as an idea. Secondly, rich people will always get things better, but the current situation in the US is that the poor get access only to emergency care, ie they get no health care. Third, are your UK friends proposing that the solution to a substandard NHS is to get rid of it? Because somehow I can’t imagine that no care is better than substandard care.

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