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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rarebird who wrote (51634)3/4/2008 4:08:19 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 540934
 
The government is not responsible to provide a healthy retirement income for those who can easily do so for themselves if they just assume fiscal responsibility and budget their money. However, healthcare is an entirely different story.

There are a lot of qualifiers in there. I'd appreciate some clarification.

Re retirement, should I infer, then that the government is or should be responsible for providing a healthy retirement income for those who can't do so for themselves?

Someone who is poor or middle income deserves the same amount of respect for their life (as a rich person) if they need an operation or medication to survive.

Should I infer that you're just talking about life-saving operations and medication but not routine medical care?

Should I infer that the government should provide health care for everyone of low or middle income but not the well off?

Universal Healthcare is not a privilege but a value that affirms human life as its highest principle.

Or universally, for everyone?

And back to your first point about responsibility for providing for oneself, what about those who are responsible enough to provide for their retirement but not responsible enough to take care of their health? Do you see them owed health care because of their health irresponsibility but not owed retirement income since they were financially responsible?
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