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Health Care Is A Right Not a Privilege!
Let's be clear. Our health care system is disintegrating. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. At a time when 60 million people, including many with insurance, do not have access to a medical home, more than 18,000 Americans die every year from preventable illnesses because they do not get to the doctor when they should. This is six times the number who died at the tragedy of 9/11 - but this occurs every year.
In the midst of this horrendous lack of coverage, the U.S. spends far more per capita on health care than any other nation - and health care costs continue to soar. At $2.4 trillion dollars, and 18 percent of our GDP, the skyrocketing cost of health care in this country is unsustainable both from a personal and macro-economic perspective.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege
Pure unsupportable garbage.
Something is a right if it is granted under the authority of the governing body.
All you've done ehre is whine about why you think the government should take over the health care system.
It is sloppy and ignorant to use this kind of argument in support of a right.