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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since healthcare must be performed by others and has to be paid for, how is it a right?  If it is a right, what does that look like?  Free neighborhood clinics or cancer treatment at MD Anderson?  [/quote]

Rights are whatever a country chooses to extend to its citizens. But your issues have nothing to do with rights or costs. Your issues are with your version of morality and justice. Why should your insurance premiums cover little Suzie? If only she looked both ways when she got off the school bus she wouldn't have been hit by that car. Or if only Bill had given up red meat years earlier, he wouldn't have had that heart attack? Why should I contribute two pennies to cover that? [b]Or what about Ann? Her parents knew there was a history of breast cancer in that family. They never should have had children to begin with. You don't want your penny to cover Ann's parents poor decisions. They never should have reproduced.[/b] Ann needs to die. And so on and so forth.

But you absolutely insist every American pays 100s of thousands, even millions, for your diseases and injuries, because you did everything right. Your family has no history of anything. You never touched a hamburger. You've never had a beer. You exercise twice a day. And you are very serious about your yoga practice and your vegetarian diet. Right?

We are a nation of 340 million people with a $28 trillion GDP. We can easily afford universal health care like every other developed country on Earth. Think of all the jobs that were never created because people are too scared to start companies and lose their corporate health insurance. Think how cheap health care would be if everyone could see a primary doctor and get on a statin before presenting at the ER with a heart attack. But Republicans believe only those with corporate jobs and a freakishly healthy family tree should have access to health care.

If you believe in publicly supported fire and police departments, not to mention schools and roads, I don't see how in principle you can be against health insurance for everyone. But as always with Republicans, the cruelty is the point.   
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so you believe in eugenics?

How about this...the 22 year old otherwise perfectly healthy person who gets Leukemia (no know cause, it just happens) - so they get treated and now have a pre-existing condition. Should they never be able to gain health insurance again? Or since the treatment cost over a million dollars, they have used up their benefits so they are SOL for the rest of their lives? Because Pre-ACA, that was the situation. And for every situation like that, there are a million others that are similar.[/quote]

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