DiogenesDog
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__________________Healthcare IS available to all citizens. All you need to do is pay for it.
Exactly! And that leads to the question, "what if it can't be paid for"
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That leads to the answer "Get a job that offers it."
I am in a lot of places of business. I hear things. I know that the availability of healthcare is becoming less available to those who work. I have healthcare because my wife is a successful CFP and retail financial services investment person in a closely held company. My adopted daughter, who is 20, remains on our insurance because it is cheaper to keep her in school that to pay her premiums.
Just go get a job is not the answer. I would be able to get alone by by hook or by crook because I have access to a Veteran Administration HMO for which I pay a minuscule amount monthly.
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The President just recently quipped that healthcare is available to everyone in the country . . . "Just go to an emergency room." What!? Are they free. Did they fall thru a crack in space/time for the benefit of uninsured sick earthlings?
We have been fortunate in this country to have had a functioning public health service until just recent times. Noone (I like the Scots phrase) cares a wit about public health until some fast moving plague (generic sense) threatens the insured and uninsured alike. If this country comes to experience a catastrophic event of something like Katrina/\n, then the need for a seamless medical system will become quite evident in a very short time. It those who think for the moment and the next quarters dividends, that will be caught quite short when they are standing in line with "those poor people" to have their traumas tended. A major disaster will level the playing field pretty quickly.
A truly Christian Nation would not have to be concerned with such evil BS.
I believe that the divide here is not so much right and left but rather between the practical and the impractical. If we were to sort the sheep from the gaits here, I have enough experience to know what the relative divide would look like.
I believe that those with the jerkiest knees would be on one side and the thoughtful practicalist would be on the other.
Are there utilitarian amongst us. No, not Unitarians.
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