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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (3999)	1/18/2008 4:25:29 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Different except that they both cover everyone. Which we don't. First of all, when are you going to recognize that universal coverage is not the only factor? Second, the French system isn't universal. That's a key way in which it like our own. Why are you parsing words? You saw the charts about the people who didn't get medical attention because they couldn't afford it. Me, parsing? "Some" means some. Everyone, indeed, has some access. EVERYONE has SOME access. At the very least, everyone can get treatment if he collapses on a busy, city street. I'm not parsing. To the contrary, you're flat ignoring the adjectives. They're there for a reason. They qualify nouns and shade meaning. You seem to need unadulterated absolutes. Is it binary thinking or hyperbole or what? It does your position no harm to recognize that everyone has some access. You don't need it to be absolutely zero. You can reasonably argue that the limited access is insufficient. It's not helpful to your argument to reject obviously valid qualifiers.