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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3637)1/7/2008 1:36:44 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
<<<If we were talking about a national health care system of the catastrophic variety, I wouldn't be objecting so strongly.>>>

The conservatives in Britain are not debating whether or not to have a national (universal) health care system. Everybody there agree that that is a good thing. They are debating on how to make it more effective.

We have not reach that level yet and there is no reason for people here to try to stop us from getting there.

<<<There are many things that Conservatives would want to improve about the NHS. But, I believe that Conservatives should never attack an institution which so many of our fellow countrymen and women look to as one of the great achievements of our past it's an institution which embodies, in its very bricks and mortar, in its people, in its services, something which is great about Britain.

That something is equity, the founding value of the NHS: the spirit of fairness for all, of dignity in age and in pain and weakness the idea of our equality as human beings and the equal right of everyone to care and comfort when they are born, when they are ill, and when they are dying.

A system which strives for equal access to healthcare is not a dream of socialism. It is not a hideous Marxist intrusion into the pure beauty of the free market.

It is an institution I acknowledge and respect as a Conservative - and for that matter, an institution I am happy and proud to use as a father. >>>
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