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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (371124)	2/17/2008 2:31:21 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573102

>I see you are learning from the CJ school of "nuance." No... you said "bragging." There is no bragging going on. I said there's no bragging going on. That's not nuance. That's truth. >By narrowing the praise of Cuba's socialism to their "free" health care, you can avoid having to address the societal costs associated with it. But it's not exactly praising Cuba's socialism... it's saying that if even the nations that we consider pretty sucky, like Cuba, which have socialized medical insurance systems, are as good or better than we are in health care (and no one's saying they're better for anything else), then there might be something to socialized health insurance. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (371124)	2/17/2008 2:42:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573102

By narrowing the praise of Cuba's socialism to their "free" health care, you can avoid having to address the societal costs associated with it. To Ten and Steve, Why are you even arguing this subject? Those of you who oppose universal health care are in a minority position. The requirement for health insurance needs to be greater than even the requirement for car insurance. And because its expensive we need the gov't to pay for it.....at least in part. That will mean ending one or both wars to free up the money; doing so should also help to lengthen the American population's life span. A win win situation. And the point isn't that Cuba is better than us; the point is that a country as poor as Cuba has it while a country as rich as we are is too cheap to do its duty.