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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3714)1/10/2008 8:12:02 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (3) of 42652
 
<<<I first went to register to vote at 21, it was as a Socialist. Having seen the failures of that through the history I've lived and having earned a living in part by studying the effects of too much employment security and egalitarianism in the public sector, I know how deleterious they can be and can anticipate how applying them to health care in our country might turn out. I am willing to look at counter arguments but I haven't seen any.>>>

Yes, the world is complex. If we were only offered binary choices, decisions would be easier to come by. Somehow you and others on this thread seem to think that providing universal access to healthcare for all Americans would lead to "socialism".

But, as David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader of Great Britain, has so eloquently framed it:

"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. "

Rather, it is about "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."

It seems to me like this is such pure and simple logic spoken by someone with very strong credentials in the advocacy of the free market.

What am I missing?

How can you disagree with this position?

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