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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (40027)	9/10/2005 1:49:23 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 90947

I understand that. And being specific always mirrors the truth better that broad generalizations. Actually--I'm not taking sides, either. Priority diagnostics are done quite quickly here in Canada. Waiting to see your urologist for the results of tests that were unremarkable might take a month or two. But serious findings are dealt with on a serious basis. The last thing wanted in public health care is to encourage neurotics to use it over and over again because it gets them out of the house. What is important is the principle that the right to health is closely related to the right to life. If we truly value one another, then well-being ought perhaps to be considered a commonality of mutual compassion. Hell--it is a fact of life that there are haves and have-nots. The haves already have circumstance and fortune and birth on their side. It is little enough to ask that a people covenant to ease pain and suffering in the citizenship. In the long run it creates a more humane society and it militates against the urge to care for ones sick child by turning to crime. We remember the "crime" of Jean Val Jean. How much did it cost the State to hunt him down over a 25 cent loaf of bread that could have been given him?